{"id":961,"date":"2010-10-29T23:42:21","date_gmt":"2010-10-30T03:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www3.arts.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=961"},"modified":"2010-10-29T23:43:22","modified_gmt":"2010-10-30T03:43:22","slug":"961","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2010\/10\/29\/961\/","title":{"rendered":"Homemade Creativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 307px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Homemade Iron Man from Target commercial\" src=\"http:\/\/i1239.photobucket.com\/albums\/ff508\/monkeyangel1900\/Picture1.png?t=1288406843\" alt=\"Homemade Iron Man Costume from Target Commercial\" width=\"297\" height=\"353\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Homemade Iron Man Costume from Target Commercial<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. \u00c2\u00a0At what other time of year can you see a hippie, a whack-a-mole, and the jolly green giant proudly walking down the street together? \u00c2\u00a0I love seeing the clever costume ideas people come up with at Halloween, and all of my favorites have been homemade.<\/p>\n<p>In Target&#8217;s Iron Man costume Halloween commercial, which can be watched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0ASE_mRXXH8\">here<\/a>, we&#8217;re shown a kid in an Iron Man costume his mom made. \u00c2\u00a0The premise is that the costume is much less cool than the store-bought version. \u00c2\u00a0As much as I love Target, I just don&#8217;t &#8220;get&#8221; this ad; I thought the kid&#8217;s homemade costume was awesome! \u00c2\u00a0Sure, the push light on his shirt fell off part way through the commercial, but with a little ingenuity, that could easily be fixed. \u00c2\u00a0The homemade costume may not have been the most accurate representation of Iron Man ever, but it was cute, clever, and 100% unique.<\/p>\n<p>I just don&#8217;t think you can beat a homemade costume. \u00c2\u00a0Not only does making your own costume force you to be creative in bringing a costume idea into reality, but it also gives you so much more freedom in deciding what you want to be for Halloween. \u00c2\u00a0Anyone can walk into the store and pick up the latest witch&#8217;s hat, but when is the last time you saw a whack-a-mole costume hanging on the supermarkets&#8217; shelves. \u00c2\u00a0Most costumes are fun, but homemade, super-creative costumes will always be the best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. \u00c2\u00a0At what other time of year can you see a hippie, a whack-a-mole, and the jolly green giant proudly walking down the street together? \u00c2\u00a0I love seeing the clever costume ideas people come up with at Halloween, and all of my favorites have been homemade. In Target&#8217;s Iron [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":982,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions\/982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}