The Posse

After my first week of being back at school, I came home for the weekend to spend some time with my good friend Nick Flynn who will be leaving very soon on his mission. Nick is the last of 6 close guy friends to leave. The 6 guys, Pace, Jace, Soup, Joey, Josh, and Nick all called themselves the Posse. These 6 guys were my best friends throughout my senior year of high school and now they are almost all gone. Since Nick is the last to leave, he was sad that his best friends wouldn't be there. So, being the clever guy that Nick is, he came up with a way to make sure they were there.

For a while now Nick has had an idea of making cardboard cutouts of the other 5 guys to place strategically throughout the room during sacrament for his farewell. Now of course this idea was shot down by his bishop but that didn't stop the idea of at least making the cutouts.

Saturday night came around (last night) and we decided we better put the plan into action since his farewell was the next today (today). We went to Zurchers and picked out 3 different cardboard cutouts: John Wayne, Zac Efron, and the Jonas brothers. After getting very weird looks from the workers, we purchased them and set off to start the process. It took us a long time to find good enough pictures of close up faces but we found some in the end. We blew them up and cropped the head out so they looked like floating heads on the computer screen. We had a few problems with printing the pictures out so we left that part till the very end. We grabbed a bunch of ties and tied them around all the cutouts and then I made name tags with white out on black paper. After all that, we finally were able to print out the pictures and tape them onto the cutouts faces. We had to cut the cardboard to fit the new face, which we called their "haircut" and once we did, our project was complete. We had our 5 good friends staring back at us and it was a great sight. We were very proud of ourselves because they all worked out so perfectly.

Floating Head

Before

Name tags

Jonas Brothers= Soup, Josh, & Jace

Zac Efron= Joey

John Wayne= Pace

Getting "haircuts"

After

The finished project on display in the entry way of Nick's house :)