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Zoom-themed Halloween costume is scary good

Zoom-themed Halloween costume is scary good
INTO THE WATER IN NEW YORK. ALYX: WE ALL HAVE BECOME EXPER , WHETHER WE WANTED TO OR NOT, IN VIDEO CONFERENCE CALL HOW ABOUT THIS? SEE WHAT THAT IS? IOWA DAD GREG DIETZENBACH MADE THIS ZOOM-THEMED HALLOWEEN COSTUME FOR HIS DAUGHTER THEY SAY THEY LOVE TO COME UP WITH CREATIVE COSTUMES EVERY HALLOWEEN. IN THE AGE OF THE PANDEMIC, WE’RE SURE THIS ONE WILL GO VIRAL. THIS IS
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Zoom-themed Halloween costume is scary good
In the age of conference calls, what better way to honor our virtual get-togethers than with a Halloween costume? Iowa dad Greg Dietzenbach made a Zoom-themed Halloween costume for his daughter, featuring a hole for the person wearing it and squares of characters. The father and daughter say the like to come up with creative costumes each year.Dietzenbach, a creative director at an advertising and marketing agency, has a reputation in his community for creating unique and hilarious Halloween costumes for his son and daughter every year."My kids challenge me every year to make a unique costume. Building a 'Transformers' sock robot for my son almost broke my brain... another year (my daughter) went as our neighbors' doors. So, this year I wanted to make it a lot simpler."With the help of his fancy work tools including a large format printer, Dietzenbach recreated the infamous Zoom interface.With a total of nine participants, seven of those include photos of Ada transformed into the Invisible Man, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, Wolf Man, Frankenstein, Dracula, Mummy and Blair Witch. The eighth participant is a real-life Ada poking her masked face through a cutout.Dietzenbach recreated the Zoom interface we have become familiar with and added some subtly spooky changes — replacing "End Meeting for All" with "End Life" and "Share Screen" with "Share Scream" and of course — "666 Participants.""The best part of this costume creation was the photo shoot I had with my daughter," Dietzenbach said of the seven monsters/meeting attendees his daughter transformed into. "We were laughing the whole time as we tried to make all the monster faces."The ninth participant is an "empty" square that reads "Next Victim." This space will be filled by the onlooker when they come close enough, thanks to an iPad with a front-facing camera taped to the back of the foam board.CNN contributed to this report.

In the age of conference calls, what better way to honor our virtual get-togethers than with a Halloween costume?

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Iowa dad Greg Dietzenbach made a Zoom-themed Halloween costume for his daughter, featuring a hole for the person wearing it and squares of characters.

The father and daughter say the like to come up with creative costumes each year.

Dietzenbach, a creative director at an advertising and marketing agency, has a reputation in his community for creating unique and hilarious Halloween costumes for his son and daughter every year.

"My kids challenge me every year to make a unique costume. Building a 'Transformers' sock robot for my son almost broke my brain... another year (my daughter) went as our neighbors' doors. So, this year I wanted to make it a lot simpler."

With the help of his fancy work tools including a large format printer, Dietzenbach recreated the infamous Zoom interface.

With a total of nine participants, seven of those include photos of Ada transformed into the Invisible Man, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, Wolf Man, Frankenstein, Dracula, Mummy and Blair Witch. The eighth participant is a real-life Ada poking her masked face through a cutout.

Dietzenbach recreated the Zoom interface we have become familiar with and added some subtly spooky changes — replacing "End Meeting for All" with "End Life" and "Share Screen" with "Share Scream" and of course — "666 Participants."

"The best part of this costume creation was the photo shoot I had with my daughter," Dietzenbach said of the seven monsters/meeting attendees his daughter transformed into. "We were laughing the whole time as we tried to make all the monster faces."

The ninth participant is an "empty" square that reads "Next Victim." This space will be filled by the onlooker when they come close enough, thanks to an iPad with a front-facing camera taped to the back of the foam board.

CNN contributed to this report.