Author Archives: Aryon
Windy With A Chance of Umbrellas
Today was way wet and windy. Perfect conditions for umbrellas to be used, broken and then thrown around the city. A quick tour of Market Street East of City Hall turned up over 12 discarded umbrellas. Perfect for Natural Disaster …
Disaster Dance Drawing
Keith Warren Greiman has been a Mummer with NERD Island since the beginning. He is making us a fancy poster (not shown above or on the home page) that you can purchase to support our brigade. It will have rainbows …
Ghillie! Yowie! Ghillie!
I love ghillie suits. We made one for the VNYB Post Apocalyptic Performance. We never got to march with it because the person who won it at the Space 1026 Art Auction never showed up to be a mummer. There …
Printing & Painting
Last meeting we starting altering our sewn wench dresses through screen printing. We are going to be adding multiple layers of different patterns and multiple colors. We are looking for patterns from members in the Natural Disaster style. These could …
The Santa Mummer Parade
Olivia and I rode the Septa Santa Express from the Berk’s Stop to the Gallery Mall. When we arrived Santa asked if we wanted to be part of the parade. We paraded for a bit but mostly played paparazzi and …
Macy’s Madness
Macy’s Parade was the usual pop shlock xmas blitz BUT in the middle was this color guard performance (wait for the long load time above). There was a marching band in the performance somewhere as well. We need to start …
Sun Glove Love
Recently had the pleasure of working with VNYB Alumni, Club Lifestyler Lifer and glove maker Dave Laverdure. Dave has been making gloves under the name PIMP, Party In My Pocket for a few years now. I bought a couple of …
Hurricane Spinning
Mummer Olivia Hopkins practices her Hurricane Spins for our NERD Island colorguard. Things we learned: Olivia paints a mean weather pattern. PVC pipe is a bad choice for flags. We need to practice outdoors.
Too Much Riding On That
Watching this video gave me chills. I’ve seen Sufjan perform before during the Seven Swans and Illinois tours. For Seven Swans he managed to hush the First Unitarian Church basement crowd performing in the same wings he is wearing in …
Support our Mummer Friends
I got my start in mumming four years ago when Sonja Trauss and I started the Vaudevillains New Year’s Brigade. I had a studio at Space 1026 at the time and we used my shared studio space, to my studio …