Kostume Kult Horned Ball Saturday April 13, 2013

Unicorns, Vikings, Goats, Brass section of the Philharmonic.. What do all of these things have in common? They all have HORNS of course! 

As all of us here on the East Coast wait patiently for Spring and the shorter skirts that come with it, there is one sign of Spring that comes before all others and that is the Kostume Kult spring romp Horned Ball. This year the horns are hornier than ever as the theme is Return to Skull Island. Oooh! Aaaahh!
Time travel with us back to a prehistoric land of primitive beats and gargantuan beasts. The venue is amazing and as per usual Kostume Kult will not disappoint with the decor.

Welcome to the Jungle:

3LD Art & Technology Center
80 Greenwich Street (at Rector street)
Downtown Manhattan, NYC MAP

What to wear:
That gorilla suit that is collecting dust in the hall closet cause it just never seems appropriate, skulls, dinosaurs, sexy fur, etc. Whatever you wear, dress to impress cause they dont call us Kostume Kult for nothing!

See below for the run down on the details:

Consider buying a ticket now cause rumor around the first tickets sold out in record time. You do not want to be outside looking in on the hottest costume party this side of the prehistoric era. 

Buy TICKETS!

- $25 Presale (lower tiers sold out)
- $40 at door (if available)
- $50 KK Contributor (presale tier including a chilled bottle of champagne and big thanks for supporting the cause)

RSVP

 Volunteer

Music Details:

DJs spinning electro/progressive house and breaks in two rooms including:
- Milk (Kostume Kult, OneLegUp)
- 2Melo (Cumba Mela/Bombeat)
- Barney Iller (Vitamin B/Mischief/Rubulad)
- Douggie Style (DISORIENT)
- Boris "Burning Elf" (Kostume Kult, TOAD)
- Been Jammin' (Entwined)
- DK (Kostume Kult, TOAD)
- B3AR (Digital Native NJ)
- Orange Krush (Entwined)
- Casey Skodnek (The People's Caravan)

Contribute Art

Kostume Kult & Disorient present Black and Light Ball 7 on May 12, 2012

Kostume Kult and Disorient present:BLACK & LIGHT BALL VII~ Electric Culture ~

It's spring time which can only mean one thing... time for Kostume Kult and Disorient's annual black-lit spring formal. With a prime sound location in Manhattan, DISTRICT 36 the Microbiology theme will really shine. Express your formal single celled organism self with ultraviolet costumes and glowing face paint. Luminescent creatures take to the dance floor all night!

Johnny Letrik looking fly at last years event.

Everyone who's anyone looks forward to the Black and Light Ball as Kostume Kult and Disorient's spring formal party. Its like our prom! But EVERY year! Photos from 2011 can be found on New York Metro Mix.

Saturday Night, May 12th, 9pm to 5am
DISTRICT 36 29 West 36th Street
Between 5th & 6th Aves

RSVP

TICKETS
Tier 1: $25 (very limited)
Tier 2: $30
Tier 3: $35
Door (in costume): $40
Door (in street clothes): $50
Drink Specials all night
21+

DRESS: A faux-upscale event with an annual theme, this year we encourage electronics and microorganisms--glowing, throbbing, or flagellating. A black light party in a primordial soup can or creative, neon black tie where all effort is appreciated and imaginations are free to be wild...

DJs on two floors spinning electrifying music to make you dance all night:
Arrow Chrome (Disorient : NYC)
Boris Burning Elf (Kostume Kult / Toad : Queens)
Davidson Ospina (Ospina Digital / PEX / Bubbles & Bass : Philly)
DK (Kostume Kult / Toad : NYC)
EZ Almighty (Space Pirates / Disorient : Philly)
Friar Tuck (Disorient : Brooklyn)
Sequoia (Disorient / Mischief : DC)
And more TBA soon!

While looking for costume supplies the other day I came across some items which would be perfect for the black light setting at Black and Light Ball 2012. Check out this neon fringe! Looks like the microscopic feelers or hairs on an amoeba. They also had huge fat pipe cleaners and cyberlocks in tons of colors.

If this looks like something you need for your black light reactive Black and Light Ball Microbiology costume go to:
East Coast Trimming Corp. 
142 West 38t Street 
between Broadway and 7th Aves
They are very helpful and friendly!


BLACK & LIGHT BALL is a fundraiser for Kostume Kult and Disorient, both 100% volunteer-run art collectives. Proceeds go entirely towards creating our Burning Man theme camps and public art projects.

BLACK & LIGHT BALL VI: Galactic Society May 6, 2011

Kostume Kult and Disorient have done is again! If you are looking for the ultimate NYC dance party next weekend, you can stop your quest now and start working on your outfit as...

Disorient & Kostume Kult present: BLACK & LIGHT BALL VI: Galactic Society




Space Babes! Galactic Hotties! Naked Martians! Oh my!!


Mars 2112
1633 Broadway
New York, NY
Friday May 6, 2011 9pm
TICKETS

What does one wear to such an out-of-this-world event you say?
Futuristic Formalwear, Interstellar Chic, Sci-fi, Egyptian, Mayan, Atlantean, Aliens, Angels, Gods/Goddesses...or anything bright white/UV-reactive.



Personally I love Barbarella as a Space Babe or LeeLoo from The Fifth Element. Here's a list of 10 sexy space babes from Metromix for inspiration.

Handy tips:

*Yellow highlighter when drawn on the skin is black light reactive but doesn't show much in normal light.

*Ben Nye sells black light reactive face paint at Ricky's stores in NYC.

*Detergent painted on cloth will glow under a black light

*Drink Gin/Vodka & tonic, it glows!

*When all else fails, wear white!


After you are dressed to GLOW, dance to Space Jams played by the following:
Zach Moore (Space Cowboys, The Deep End | SF)
Arrow Chrome (Disorient | NYC)
The Bass (Disorient | NYC)
Boris Burning Elf (Kostume Kult | Queens)
Captain Shaggy2K (Disorient, Space Pirates | Philly)
Elixir (Disorient, Space Pirates | Philly)
Horus (Disorient | NYC)
Orion Keyser (Disorient | NYC)
Reda Briki (Disorient, Love That Fever | NYC)
Subsector (Disorient, Space Pirates | Brooklyn, Philly)



You too can enjoy the final frontier if you buy your tickets here and buy them now because the first tier tickets are already sold out!

More info on who is throwing this crazy shindig:
BLACK & LIGHT BALL is a fundraiser for Kostume Kult and Disorient, both 100% volunteer-run art collectives. Proceeds go entirely towards creating our Burning Man theme camps and public art projects.

Kostume Kult is a costume art, theme event and media collective involved in public festivals, underground art parties and street theater events.

Disorient manifests sculpture, light, sound, video, mobile, wearable, and other art installations, including the Geodesic Temple at Warsaw, Playa del Fuego, Figment, Upstate NY, and the Black Rock Desert.

Get out on the dance floor, mingle, then maybe later in the evening boldly go where no man (or many men) have gone before.


So buy your Multipass today and we'll see you in SPAAAAAaaAAAAACE!






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Horned Ball 7 Recap Photos and Herds of Sexy Unicorn!

Oh what a night...
First huge props go to the Kostume Kult Horned Ball decorating crew. Campfires and torch chandeliers made of fans, fabric and light dimly lit the 2 floors of the venue transforming Santo's Party House into a Nordic Viking Paradise including ice cave dance floor! It was really an amazing effort that resulted in the best produced Horned Ball I have been to yet.

But first, it was an eventful evening before I even arrived downtown. I dressed at my apartment in Queens and called a car service. The driver didn't seem to notice my strange attire and was way more concerned with his GPS then actually driving, resulting in us hitting a curb and nearly driving over the sidewalk before we got 2 blocks from my place. The following part of the story I am not proud of. My bad driver was listening to the GPS instead of my directions thus taking us around in circles and not closer to the highway. Frustrated and running late I have to admit I yelled at him a little. However once we are on the BQE I thought we were good to go. How wrong I was. Suddenly we are spinning around out of control in the middle of the highway while cars swerve and angrily beep at us! We spin, hit the guardrail and come to a stop facing the wrong way in traffic. Turns out he realized we are in the wrong lane at the very last possible second and cut someone off so severely they hit the back of our car sending us into a tail spin. Cop just happened to be 100 feet behind us, stops traffic, asks if I am OK. Then notices I'm dressed as a UNICORN!

Cop: "So where you headed tonight?"
Me: "A Costume party."
Cop: "It's April you know"
Me: "Yes sir, I am aware."

I thought for sure he was going to search me for drugs. But clearly he has been on the NYPD for a while and was fairly unfazed by the whole thing. Drivers exchange info. Traffic resumes. My driver is too scared to pull out into traffic, I have to talk him through the rest of our trip. Come to find out its his first week driving in NYC and now he's been scared to badly he doesn't think he wants to do it anymore. Good lord, get me out of this car! I gave him some money, wished him luck and told him to go slow on his way home. Thank goodness nobody was hurt.

Arriving early at the party was nice, got to take in the decorations, meet some people and watch the body painters in action. I was supposed to be a Kostume Kult greeter, but there wasn't much organization going on and no good place to greet so I did my best to be social and put the good word of KK out there. Perhaps next time I will bring my megaphone and mega greet people. The Gong show was crazy and funny and there are a lot of talented vikings out there. Who knew?

On to my costume, Sexy Unicorn Part 2! I was a Sexy Unicorn for Horned Ball 5, but it was a pretty half baked attempt. This time was way better and I met a lot of fellow Unicorns. Thinking we should join together and go for runs in a herd or more likely just prance. I'm pretty sure thats what Unicorns like to do. My Unicorn horn was the inspiration for the whole costume. It was actually a Christmas ornament I found and stuck into a piece of styrofoam that I wired and hot glued to a headband. I basically secured it will 2 sticks of hot glue and prayers. Obviously not being used to an extra foot of height, I bonked my horn on doorways and decorations and even a few people. Oops sorry. It lasted the whole night though! Didn't even leave it in the cab on the way home.

More importantly I would like to point out my red and white striped spandex body suit! YES!! Total cost: $10. I'm very proud of this successful piece of rogue sewing. I basically cut, draped on my own body and trial and error sewed it together till it fit. The stripes are so damn awesome! The wig is the same one I wore to the Alt. Oscar Party. Did you notice the black belt? Hello fanny pack! Haha Hey I can't have a purse taking away from this look. I should've taken better close up pictures but the night always seems to fly by! Next time I will set aside an hour before for the photo shoot. I wore 2 pairs of eyelashes to the party which was a challenge! I put the bottom ones on first, let them fully dry and then did the top. It looked very cool but restricted my peripheral vision quite a bit. It also make my eyes tired quickly I will wear smaller ones on the bottom next time.

I ended up going home early-ish due to over serving myself and being fairly unable to walk in my heels after a while. While they were the hottest of shoes, my already poor dancing skills suffered and my middle right toe has been numb since the party. The bodysuit suffered some dirt stains due to a spill or two, oh boy! I have to look up how to wash spandex cause I definitely want to wear this again. It was a 9 in the comfort level, but a -2 in the easy-to-go-to-the-bathroom category.







Anyway everyone looked amazing. Check out some more photos on Metro Mix and Time Out NY.