This photo made me laugh. I LOVE it.
Lights, cobwebs, and giant spiders. Perfect.
KaskaFamilyFarm.com
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Is There ANYTHING Better Than Halloween?
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Halloween Molds
More Halloween items to covet.
Took me a minute to see the pumpkinless face in this photo.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Witch Pin-up
A Halloween classic from Andrew Bawidamann.
Once again, blown away by this guy's vision.
(He was kind enough to email me this latest piece - and I'm totally bragging about it).
Architectural Lanterns
Found these neat lanterns and thought they'd make excellent Halloween decorations.
In a dark front window, or next to tombstones, or sitting among some jack o'lanterns...
AcaciaCatalog.com
Zombie Monkey
A really great prop featured appropriately in a Halloween Tiki display - a creepy zombie monkey.
Monday, June 23, 2008
Annabelle
During my childhood, I had a great friend who was WAY ahead of his time. Not only in his demeanor and disposition, but in his access to all things cool and wonderful. He was the first to have cable television, the first to own a VCR. He owned books on the paranormal. His parents let him watch horror movies and stay up way late. Most importantly, he loved Halloween. He was the same age as me, so these things made him something of a Legend in my eyes.
He owned a creepy book on ghosts and hauntings. One photograph in the book was particularly scary, and one I'd always tell myself I wouldn't look at, but always found myself flipping to find it.
Here it is.
"The disturbance began in the home when the girls discovered a piece of chocolate candy mysteriously left on the stereo in the living room."
More info here.
"all this hum and all this awful noise..."
Another beautiful piece from artist Daniel Danger:
TinyMediaEmpire.com
[More] Bradbury and Halloween
Found a wonderful Ray Bradbury blog with some great bits of information about my favorite author.
One of great interest is the trailer for a radio production of THE HALLOWEEN TREE.
Click to listen to the audio.
Bradbury Media Blog.
The Art of Mike Hoffman
The classy and classic works of artist Mike Hoffman. I've admired this man's work for years.
(An illuminated monster head wall hanging)
A Hoffman Gallery site
Hoffman's Monster-University.com
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Green Devil: Day One
A jar, a bottle of Everclear, a bottle of Vodka, and a pouch of absinthe herbs.
And five days in a dark place (shaking occasionally)...
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Green Devil
Today my brother gave me an Absinthe Brewing Kit from the Green Devil company. Pretty excited about giving it a try. I'm thinking I'll give updates on how it's progressing (the stuff has to brew for a while).
GreenDevil.com
Ugly Jacko
Found this guy years ago at the same place where this photo was taken.
I'm looking forward to taking photos of Halloween decoration displays in a bunch of stores this year (like in this earlier post).
Friday, June 20, 2008
Growing Up Star Wars
Great Flickr photo pool of what it was like growing up with STAR WARS. Many of the pics naturally focus on Halloween.
C3P0 is simpy terrifying in this photograph.
Thanks, Dave, for the great link.
Flickr source.
Nightmares
I watched GOING TO PIECES: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE SLASHER FILM last night. A pretty enjoyable study of the evolution of the genre. Wes Craven was one of many directors interviewed.
When asked about the origins of A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, Wes Craven at first replies, “It came to me in a dream.” Then with a laugh, he adds, “No, it was a series of articles in the LA TIMES, three small articles about men from South East Asia, who were from immigrant families and who had died in the middle of nightmares—and the paper never correlated them, never said, ‘Hey, we’ve had another story like this.’ The third one was the son of a physician. He was about twenty-one; I’ve subsequently found out this is a phenomenon in Laos, Cambodia. Everybody in his family said almost exactly these lines: ‘You must sleep.’ He said, ‘No, you don’t understand; I’ve had nightmares before—this is different.’ He was given sleeping pills and told to take them and supposedly did, but he stayed up. I forget what the total days he stayed up was, but it was a phenomenal amount—something like six, seven days. Finally, he was watching television with the family, fell asleep on the couch, and everybody said, ‘Thank god.’ They literally carried him upstairs to bed; he was completely exhausted. Everybody went to bed, thinking it was all over. In the middle of the night, they heard screams and crashing. They ran into the room, and by the time they got to him he was dead. They had an autopsy performed, and there was no heart attack; he just had died for unexplained reasons. They found in his closet a Mr. Coffee maker, full of hot coffee that he had used to keep awake, and they also found all his sleeping pills that they thought he had taken; he had spit them back out and hidden them. It struck me as such an incredibly dramatic story that I was intrigued by it for a year, at least, before I finally thought I should write something about this kind of situation.”
Source.
Draw a Witch
Another fun contest at PenelopeIllustration.com.
This one's from 2005.
The Contest.
Penelope's site.
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