Performance art costumes
Avid cosplayers and cosmakers, a type of performance art in which participants don and make costumes and accessories to represent a specific character, show off their creations. Their characters of choice are the Transformers and the Star Wars characters.
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Jose Luis Mendez Luna, 38, and his wife Jessica Legorreta, 29, pose wearing their Optimus Prime and RC Transformer costumes at their home in a working class neighborhood in Mexico City, Wednesday, June 8, 2011. Luna whose daytime job is a plumber, is, along with his wife, both avid cosplayer and cosmakers, a type of performance art in which participants don and make costumes and accessories to represent a specific character. Their characters of choice are the Transformers and the Star Wars characters.
Christian Palma Associated Press
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Jose Luis Mendez Luna, 38, right, and his wife Jessica Legorreta, 29, pose after wearing their Optimus Prime and RC Transformer costumes at their home in a working class neighborhood in Mexico City, Wednesday, June 8, 2011. Luna whose daytime job is a plumber, is, along with his wife, both avid cosplayer and cosmakers, a type of performance art in which participants don and make costumes and accessories to represent a specific character. Their characters of choice are the Transformers and the Star Wars characters. The character at left is known as "Bumblebee".
Christian Palma Associated Press
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Jose Luis Mendez Luna, 38, poses wearing his Optimus Prime Transformer costume at home in a working class neighborhood in Mexico City, Wednesday, June 8, 2011. Luna whose daytime job is a plumber, is, along with his wife, both avid cosplayer and cosmakers, a type of performance art in which participants don and make costumes and accessories to represent a specific character. Their characters of choice are the Transformers and the Star Wars characters.
Christian Palma Associated Press
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Jose Luis Mendez Luna, 38, right, and his wife Jessica Legorreta, 29, second left, pose wearing their Optimus Prime and RC Transformer costumes at their home in a working class neighborhood in Mexico City, Wednesday June 8, 2011. Luna whose daytime job is a plumber, is, along with his wife, both avid cosplayer and cosmakers, a type of performance art in which participants don and make costumes and accessories to represent a specific character. Their characters of choice are the Transformers and the Star Wars characters. The other two Transformers costumes are being worn by mannequins. The character at left is known as "Bumblebee" and the one second right is "Skids".
Christian Palma Associated Press
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Jose Luis Mendez Luna, 38, gets help from his wife, Jessica Legorreta, 29, as he prepares to dress as Darth Vader at his home in a working class neighborhood in Mexico City, Wednesday, June 8, 2011. Luna whose daytime job is a plumber, is, along with his wife, an avid cosplayer and cosmaker, a type of performance art in which participants don and make costumes and accessories to represent a specific character. Their characters of choice are the Transformers and the Star Wars characters.
Christian Palma Associated Press
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Jose Luis Mendez Luna, 38, and his wife Jessica Legorreta, 29, pose with their Optimus Prime and RC Transformer costumes in their dining room at a working class neighborhood in Mexico City, Wednesday,June 8, 2011. Luna whose daytime job is a plumber, is, along with his wife, an avid cosplayer and cosmaker, a type of performance art in which participants don and make costumes and accessories to represent a specific character. Their characters of choice are the Transformers and the Star Wars characters.
Christian Palma Associated Press
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Jessica Legorreta, 29, poses wearing her self-made RC Transformer motorcycle costume at her home in a working class neighborhood in Mexico City, Wednesday, June 8, 2011. Legorreta whose daytime job is an industrial designer, is, along with her husband, an avid cosplayer and cosmaker, a type of performance art in which participants don and make costumes and accessories to represent a specific character. Their characters of choice are the Transformers and the Star Wars characters.
Christian Palma Associated Press
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