Creature Double Feature

This would be a dream come true for me.
The New Beverly Cinema in LA is going to be showing Trick 'r Treat and Halloween III on the same nights at the end of October.

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Distance

Image by garmonique.


Which reminded me of this song by Marconi Union.

Magic

My brother and I often ended up in magic shops. They're like antique shops really, lots of little things that no one would ever purchase. Quiet and dusty. Squeaky wooden floors. Light bulbs humming. And always a fossil of a store clerk - clearly an old magician just waiting for the door to open. Customers make great audiences - captive audiences.

They would flip through tired old card tricks, tell some stories, and then leave you alone to wander around the store. We'd always end up at the gag gifts. Fake barf, garlic gum sticks, cigarette loads, and a bunch of other pranks that you'd buy with family members in mind as your targets.

We discovered prosthetic noses and ears there. And spirit gum to hold them on. Fake burns in powder form. Tubes and bottles of fake blood. And professional scar stuff.

I don't know if there are many magic shops around anymore. I really don't know how they even paid the rent back then. But I guess it's one of those labor-of-love things. The cool things usually are.



Image by zannajune.

Extreme

The Davis Graveyard is going to be a part of something really cool.
Read below:

SALEM, Ore. - Parents, students, staff and alumni at the Oregon School for the Deaf are busting with excitement after finding out that Extreme Makeover Home Edition will be giving them some much needed help.

Ty Pennington and his group of designers, along with hundreds of local volunteers, will redo the school's haunted house, which is their major annual fundraiser.

The 12,000 square foot basement where the 'Nightmare Factory' is held every year has become unsafe and the Extreme Makeover Home Edition team will have one week to do their magic.


Saw this on Chris' blog this morning. Really excited for them.
What an incredible thing to be a part of.

Read more about it here.

and here:
Frog on the Pumpkin blog.

The Pumpkin Electric

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1905 Halloween Bash

I actually like the sound of this. From the book Bright Ideas for Entertaining published in 1905, the author recommends some pretty neat ideas:

The light should be supplied only by Jack-o-lanterns hung here and there about the kitchen, with candles in the dining-room. The decorations need not be expensive to be charming, no matter how large the room. Large vases of chrysanthemums and ferns and umbrella stands of fluffy grasses will be desirable; but if these cannot be readily obtained, quantities of gayly tinted autumn leaves will be quite as appropriate. Festoons of nuts, bunches of wheat or oats, and strings of cranberries may also help to brighten the wall decorations. The nuts and cranberries will be useful in many odd arrangements for ornamenting the refreshment table.

Have mirrors everywhere; big mirrors, medium-sized mirrors, and little, wee mirrors, all reflecting and multiplying countless candles that burn in candlesticks of every description(most novel are those made from long-necked gourds and tiny squashes).

The dining table should be draped in pale green crepe paper, the lights above being shrouded in gorgeous orange. Pumpkins of various sizes should be scooped and scraped to a hollow shell and lined with waxed paper and filled with good things to eat, should be placed in the centre of the table. Lighted candles and quaint oriental lanterns will add greatly to the decorations.



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Breakfast

Image by Menno van Gorp.

Dead Wringer

I was checking in on artist Arnaud de Vallois' blog to see his latest works and saw this amazing scarecrow piece which he dedicated to yours truly.
Man, that's just way cool.


Thanks SO much!

Arnaud de Vallois blog.

Unnatural Surroundings

A few shots of SEEDS at his current location.







Click here for his photoshoot pics.

2010 Scarecrow: SEEDS

We set up the new scarecrow today for the competition.
About as Traditional as I could get.
Voting takes place over the next couple of weeks starting tomorrow.

Not crazy about the location, since it's a part of the Village that doesn't get a lot of foot traffic, though foot traffic never helped me in the past.

Click below for pics from a photoshoot we did yesterday in a giant field of pumpkins and gourds. Hope you dig.


All the wonderful instant photographs are by Bean.

Now Playing: Black Pyramid

By Aun. On Cyclic Law Records.

Click below for some really long samples:

Ruins

We drove by this farm today and to our horror that beautiful old barn had been totally demolished. I'm hoping someone had foolishly oiled Tin Man's rusted joints and he woke up with an axe to grind, and took down the barn in a metallic rage. Though I doubt it.

Goodbye, perfect shooting location.

High Voltage Laser Containment System

Image by goofcitygoof.

Fall Music

Movement V by Vangelis.

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Moss And Mist

Image by Galleria De Magnifique.

Dark

Image by createsima.

Cranky

Image by djarard.

Smiling All Night

Image by AlysonNebulosa.

Pumpkin Witchery

Pumpkin Hollow

Pumpkin Day

Surely the happiest of days.


Image by kelbug.

Peter Vincent.

Vegas magician. Vampire Killer.


Yeah, that's Dr. Who's David Tennant as Peter Vincent in the new Fright Night remake.

Good Lord, deliver us.

Though I have a feeling at some point we'll see the real Peter Vincent underneath that Chris Angel facade. My favorite moment in the original film is when Roddy McDowall's Mr. Vincent is being asked for help from Charlie, who reminds him he's the great Peter Vincent. Peter Vincent confesses "That's a character in a movie! That's not even my real name. I'm terrified."

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Soul Catcher

Jerry from MyScaryHalloween.com created a Soul Catcher jar based off of the Soul Jars I featured a while back.

He has a beautiful yard haunt and a wonderful site and blog, and now a new sub-site featuring Village 101.

Click below to see a how-to on his Soul Catcher prop:

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And click here for:

The Wicked October blog

and

Village 101

Post-It Notes

The art of John Kenn (on post-it notes).

The Don Kenn Gallery.

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Thanks, Strublay, this guy's amazing.

Halloween At High Noon

Exhumed. The Hits.

A greatest hits album featuring favorites from all the Halloween at High Noon releases.
Such an amazing alternative to all those Halloween mixes that pop up this time of year. This stuff is original and fun. And $6.99 is a crazy low price.

Click the album cover to listen to samples:


And click here to listen to tracks from their first release.

And click here for the second album (I think Bean and I must play this one a few times every month).

Nix Besser

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Big thanks to Stacy for sending me info about this drink.
I worship their Root beverage, so this is a top priority for me.
MUST....FIND...