Pokeball December! Gotta Catch 'Em All!!

Another weekend another awesome rave! This one a little different from the last with a lot of familiar faces! This event took place in a spot that I don't think has a name, you wouldn't even recognize it as a party going on if you were just walking by the place. It was a bit smaller compared to a warehouse, you actually had to walk up two flights of stairs to get into the spot. Once upstairs the party was raging! There were probably around 500 people at the height of the party, but it felt like a lot more due to the size.

Set List By: Reptar Photography

EpicCloud Strife By: Live Photography: Griffin Dolan

Exclusive Mixtape for Theft by Kid Royale
DJ Candy Kid - Rave Master (live) by DJCandyKid
 
You had two rooms, the main room and one behind it. This was actually a twelve hour party! So in that time you had 24 DJs spinning some dubstep, trance, and a whole lot of hardstyle. I'm not too much a fan of hardstyle, but it got pretty crazy at some points. To add to the atmosphere you had a kandi making table (that pretty much became a couch by the middle of the party), face painting by Pixel and his crew, Kevin Carpet, and a whole lot of lasers/projectors/lights illuminating both rooms. Aside from the two rooms there was also a rooftop you could go out onto to get some fresh air or a smoke. It was freezing outside, but that didn't stop many people from going out there to hang out.

Girl Dancing on Kevin Carpet By: Sam Freund

Good Vibes! By:

Taylor Seven-Divine Flash

Pixel Painting By:

Live Photography: Griffin Dolan

Making Some Kandi By: Reptar Photography

For me, this was an awesome party to glove at. I met some sick glovers from 666 Lights, Liquid Emotions, and of course Emazinglights. This was a Pokemon themed party (duh), so I got into my blue suit and dressed up like Poliwhirl! At one point of the night, I was in the second room where the DJ was dropped some sick dubstep mixed with rap. I was giving one kid a show and three more gathered around to enjoy the lights. When the beat dropped it was almost as if my hands were moving the party and everyone started jumping, the vibes in the room were so tight everything was flowing!

Light shows!! By: Reptar Photography

Yours Truly (PAUS3) By: Reptar Photography

Mystic Girl Gloving By: Sam Freund

All the People Enjoying the Lights By: Sam Freund

Also at the party was a good friend and extremely talented glover SupaNova. I had the opportunity to watch him give a personal show to this one girl like I've never seen before. He incorporated her whole body into it, using her hands as tools to expand his show. Without sounding too corny, it was like watching his hands make love to hers. I've never seen anything like this, I was blown away by how in sync he was with the music and the connection he was having with the show. If you ever catch SupaNova at an event, you need to say hi and watch him do his thing, it's something else.

SupaNova By:

Taylor Seven-Divine Flash

I gloved for hours on end, gave a kid his first show ever, did a couple doubles with SupaNova, and learned some new moves from the other glovers there. Practice really pays off, and being able to do it live is a totally different experience from practicing in front of a mirror.


PICTURES:

The Pros:

Taylor Seven-Divine Flash: Set ONE//TWO

Live Photography: Griffin Dolan: Pictures

Reptar Photography: Pictures 
Sam Freund: Set ONE//TWO

Others:

Photos 1
Photos 2

Hello Again, To All My Friends By: Sam Freund

Coming soon to Electric Ghost Punk will be a few interviews!! A DJ, a fellow glover, and party animal veteran Kevin Carpet! Stay tuned, there's so much more to come!

Putting Together Your Glove Set

For many who want to get into gloving, the first question generally is, where do I get my lights? People who are sponsored by different sites will guide you to those sites claiming they are the best, and may even give you a code that will give you a 5% discount (or other stuff, like 2 free lights when you enter wishpaus3 on EMazinglights.com) on your order. Now, those sites could be very good, but my suggestion is to do some research. I bought my set from Emazinglights.com. They have very affordable "economy" glove sets. So after shipping and taxes, I bought the Bubblegum set for just over $30. That's a pretty good price, however, it is a very simple set.

Simple isn't bad though. After all, you need to start somewhere and it's good to get to know your gloves and the style you want to grow into. The simplicity runs in the type of light and case. Starting with the case: Edots are similar to a light switch on the wall. They are the smallest of the cases, and are a good starter set. Simple to open and change the battery, you only need a butter knife, or a nail clipper. Many people would complain that the on and off is a switch and not a button. It's true that a button makes for cools effects, but for the sake of saving a few dollars and in the interest of experience, Edots do the trick quite nicely.

Now onto lights. To power one led take 2 CR1616 batteries. The simplest LEDs (Light-emitting Diode) are solid ons. They stay one color while they are on, and there are a ton of color to choose from. There are several different types of LED bulbs too, between strobes, ribbons, fades, dashes...there are an endless amount of combinations to be made. The Bubblegum set came with three different solid colors for each hand, 1 green, 2 blues, 2 purple/lavenders.

After my first day of getting the gloves, I was forced into changing the set, because one of the purple/lavender lights came not working. I have a lot of friends into gloving, so I was lucky enough to hook myself up with two slow faders, and they were Dots, a slightly bigger version of the Edots. The set was beautiful with a lot of life in them, but I wanted to have the broken light replaces.

Emazing has a fantastic return policy, and not only did they replace the light for me, they also offered to compensate me for shipping with something of equal value. I said forget the solid colors, I want ribbons!! I got the ribbons in and my gloves completely changed. The only thing was they only sent one of the LEDs in the casing. I had to pull apart the extra purple I had (luckily) and learn how to put together the light myself. It's not difficult at all, and Emazing has tutorials on their website. I even put my own together!

My set has evolved once again. Now that you have a little tiny morsel of getting into lighting, the next step is practicing. Always, with or without gloves. Hell, learn the finger motions before you even get the gloves, the lights only make it look cooler. Learn slowly, and then speed up, and if you can make it look cool with solids, they will look so baller with the specialty lights, just save the money and do your research.



That's all for today kids. Enjoy the videos!!