{"id":1802,"date":"2010-11-07T07:36:40","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T12:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=1802"},"modified":"2019-11-25T16:40:46","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T21:40:46","slug":"the-seeburg-diner-table-jukebox-remote-halloween-costume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2010\/11\/07\/the-seeburg-diner-table-jukebox-remote-halloween-costume\/","title":{"rendered":"The Seeburg Diner Table Jukebox Remote Halloween Costume"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m not sure where the idea came from, but hopefully Tina will clear that up in a comment to this post. Maybe she had vending machines on the brain and eventually wended her way to jukeboxes. The idea emerged; some internet research was done and plans were sketched up. One of the first orders of business was to have our son provide us with his ten favorite songs.<\/p>\n

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As you can see, he has fairly retro tastes. I guess it’s the curse of having us as parents, and no, we don’t live in a bomb shelter. Our boy picked the A-sides, and Tina researched the B-sides.<\/p>\n

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Tina did the layout for the song list in Illustrator as well as the other jukebox graphics.<\/p>\n

Then it was off to the art supply store.\"\"<\/a> Cardboard, acetate, illustration board, glue and a few other things were purchased. These used to be the staple items of the illustration field, but now our work is mostly digital ( I can’t remember the last time I used illustration board, for instance.) We were surprised at how expensive some of these things had become.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Cardboard was cut. Silver paper applied. Print-outs mounted to board. Measuring, cutting and a lot of looking around for the old compass and the universal adapter I thought I had for it. What looked like a pile of cardboard and junk started to take form. The excitement was building!<\/p>\n

We had a hidden light mounted in the costume so once again we had a another costume that lit up which was always a hit, but we needed something else. A jukebox should have music!<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>I put the playlist on a Sansa Shaker,<\/a> my favorite MP3 player, and attached it to a battery powered speaker for a little more oomph. <\/em>These were placed in a box and hot glued to the inside of the bottom of the costume. Presto!<\/strong><\/em> Working jukebox! You can see some finished photos of the costume here<\/strong><\/a> or take a look at this brief video of the suit in action:
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