Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

The Workshop Of Dreams

Amazing prop work from Orlando-based Stelter Creative.


The Pumpkin And The Disco Ball

I had heard about the pumpkin prank but was never aware of the disco ball.

Excerpt from wikipedia:

On October 8, 1997 a pumpkin appeared atop the spire of McGraw Tower. Because of the danger involved in retrieving it, administrators decided to leave it until it rotted and fell off. However, the pumpkin rapidly dried out in the cold air and remained on the tower until it was removed with a crane on March 13, 1998 (it was planned that Provost Don M. Randel would remove it, but in a practice run the crane basket was blown by a gust of wind and knocked the pumpkin off). Some people had claimed that a real pumpkin could not stay up that long without rotting and that it must be artificial. However, subsequent morphological, chemical, and DNA analysis by both faculty members and undergraduates confirmed that it was indeed a pumpkin.
In April of 2005, a disco ball was attached to the top of the tower. A crane was hired to remove the offending orb in an operation which cost the university approximately $20,000.



More information.

Halloween Donuts



Black Owl

The art of Kazuya Akimoto.




Kazuya-Akimoto.com



Molly

Getting cozy on a corpse.



Some nice yard haunt photos in this set.

The Tillson Cemetery

A beautiful yard haunt in Romeo, Michigan.




The Tillson Cemetery

Article in the Romeo Observer.

Railroad Car



Flickr source.

Gecarcinus Quadratus

Mr. Beep totally needs to know about the Halloween Crab.


More information.

Beep

Man, this is just awesome. Digging that Mr. Beep hangs around with a crab.


Raven-Haired

The art of Eelus.



Monday, July 7, 2008

Colorful



Waterside Antiques

I LOVE stores like this.


I'd have to be carried out in a stretcher.

WatersideAntiques.com


Building A Giant Pumpkin

Massive Pumpkin how-to from the Fright Gallery.


Instructions.

Their Hazelwood Manor display.

Halloween Robot

The art of Jennifer Schmitt.



AzureGrackle.com

Halloween Storefronts



(Wish these beautiful shots weren't so small.)


Flickr source.

Old Bones


Unknown photographer

Pointy



Bat



Unknown photographer.

Nine Eyes and Giant Fangs

The art of Griselda Sastrawinata.


Her blog.

Stavkirke

Medieval wooden Stave Churches.