Sunday, July 6, 2008
Saturday, July 5, 2008
Green Lights
The right lighting can be its own prop. And it doesn't hurt to have a beautiful facade to illuminate.
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Image source.
Friday, July 4, 2008
Metropolis
Took a road trip to see artist Mike Egan's beautiful work at the Metropolis Gallery in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Mike was there for the first day of his month-long show. It was great to meet him and see his amazing artwork in person.
Metropolis Gallery.
Mike Egan's site.
The paintings from the show.
Zombie Fest
A zombie-themed festival where George Romero's DAWN OF THE DEAD was filmed - the Monroeville Mall in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
More information.
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Halloween Car
Some really nice artwork on this Subaru. The hood is particularly impressive.
More pics here.
Butternut Jack O'Lanterns
Love the technique of converting butternut squashes into little pointy jack o'lanterns.
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Halloween Neiman Marcus Style
For the Halloween decorator with discriminating tastes - a $300 44-inch skeleton.
NeimanMarcus.com
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Dead Man Running
A great article on the debate between the fast-moving or slow-moving zombie. I'm a fan of both, but prefer my zombie on the slow side. For me, it's more believable for something dead and rotting to be incapable of anything above a foot-scraping crawl. Freshly-dead zombies wouldn't be as slow as their rotting counterparts, but I'm thinking the lack of blood pumping through their bodies would still make it difficult to run or move about quickly. And I like the idea of mobs of slow-moving Dead eventually catching up to me, regardless of how well I hide or barricade myself in.
Here's the article.
Burning Autumn Leaves
A beautiful photograph from 1940.
Some amazing color photos in this set:
Flickr source.
Muppet Disasters
Hilarious article on the hazards of being a muppet for Halloween.
An excerpt regarding Cookie Monster:
"Pupils are too big, you've got Special-Ed Cookie. Pupils are too small, you've got Cookie of the Living Dead. This problem is easily avoided with adequate eyeball preparation. If possible, focus group your costume before use. If your user testing shows that children are hesitant to approach, then you need to readjust the eyes."
The Muppet Fan Halloween Parade.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Tastes Like Bread
Thailand artist and baker Kittiwat Unarrom makes edible body parts.
Wish this guy worked in the United States. My mother would be getting a head delivered to her front door for her non-sewing skills and the great devil costume fiasco.
More information here.
Devil Costume
This cool photo reminded me of a costume contest that was held in my grade school when I was probably in first or second grade. I was The Devil. Not some cool homemade sewn costume like a lot of the kids were sporting, but rather a cheap store-bought variety: a plastic mask and a vinyl outfit - the "shirt" displaying an image of the Devil himself. That part of those costumes I never understood. Why not make the outfit simply be the body/costume of the Devil? Meanwhile it was more like Lucifer was wearing a t-shirt sporting an image of himself. Same goes for Batman costumes - it was never his chest plate/armor back then. It was always Batman wearing a costume with an image of Batman on it. Makes no sense.
So there I was in a parade wearing my Old Scratch costume carrying a cool plastic trident. I KNEW I was going to win first place. I have no idea what made me so convinced I'd be winning the prize for best costume (probably the Devil). The teacher walked slowly by the rows of children studying the costumes, pretending to make it a hard decision. Then she approached me. ME. I remember being nervous and panicked at the prospect of winning (shy kid). Then she reached out and touched the shoulder of the kid next to me - wearing a homemade hand-sewn dinosaur costume, you know the one - big long tail, spikes running down the back, a face hole where the pointed toothy mouth should be... his mother made it.
Typical. And apparently impossible to forget.
Flickr source.
So Many Albums
I have a lot of these, but MAN is my collection lacking compared to this beautiful mountain of Halloween albums.
Click the link to see the total collection:
Nightmare City Halloween Album Covers
Absinthe Completed
Finished the absinthe last night and now have a deep green and earthy concentrated mixture of the bitter drink to be diluted with cold water and sugar. Here's a pic of the first prepared glass of my Green Devil absinthe, featured with my new Wysocki print that just arrived yesterday.
Green Devil Absinthe
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