Just for Fun - John Darrow's Costume
Dec. 1985
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In 1985 my brother John, a recent graduate of the School of Mechanical Engineering at Cal State San Luis Obispo, quickly landed a job with IBM. Eventually, Halloween 1985 rolled around, and, as is often the case, co-workers would wear a costume to work.
John tells the story of seeing similar costumes in concept as the one he made in a Disney parade, and wanted to make such a costume for himself... one where his own legs looked like the legs of the creature, with artificial legs representing his own as a rider on the creature.
He also recalls having trouble getting his costume into his car, and wondering how it would be received at the famously conservative IBM work environment.
It was well-received.
John Darrow is the inventor of the term "phoon" as it applies to a specific "running man" pose seen in photos worldwide, and often submitted to his enormous image gallery at www.phoons.com. John is also the younger brother of Dave the Painting Guy.