My Neglected Blog OR Baby's First Christmas

Greetings all! Remember me? :-)
Well, I should have known this would happen.
As much of a Halloween nut as I am January through November, once Thanksgiving dinner is over I tend to go into hardcore Christmas mode. Plus, it's V's first Christmas and she's approaching 5 months so she is really becoming a trip to be around!
Anyway, I know I'll be useless to Halloween until after Christmas so I wanted to stop by and wish everyone Happy Holidays. A thanks to the ever vigilant Pumpkinrot for keeping me in daily doses of Halloween goodness and a HAPPY BIRTHDAY shoutout to SpookyBlue!

If you want some sickeningly sweet Christmas/Baby stuff visit me at my other place.
Cheers!

It's A Great Pumpkin Christmas

Pumpkinhead scarecrow watches over the Christmas tree decorating.

R.I.P. Uncle Forry

Seriously bummed. Uncle Forry gone.

Just wished the guy a happy birthday. I know he was 92, but hell, almost all the good people are dead. I heard Ray Bradbury on Dennis Miller last week. Not sounding too good either.

Ahh well.

Slainte FJA.

Not Dead

Just extremely busy.
Some rough character sketches for a project my brother and I are tossing around.
More later...hopefully.
Sketches here.

Remnants

One of my brothers lives in middle-of-nowhere West Virginia. On our way to his house for V's first Thanksgiving we passed this lonely soul, still keeping watch.

Full Moon Industries

I'm late on this, but things have been nuts lately. Go check out Full Moon Industries for some sweet Halloween pics and general creepiness.
I particularly like the Psycrow, but what you should pay attention to is the lighting and the photography. Lighting is so important and so difficult to nail. I love good creeepy atmospheric lighting. I would like to see someone do an entire haunt with no props at all. just lighting and shadow.
Also, the pics, and there are far too few at the moment, are very grainy and slightly washed out. I really hope it was by design because it's brilliant. At a time when everything visual reaches for the hyper-detailed and overly saturated (still trying to figure why I "need" HD), a grainy, slightly out of focus image can be deliciously unnerving. Much like Bean's polaroids.
Some very cool oddities there as well. Check them out.



NOW!

I Want This on Top of My House 365

The incredible props at ScareFactory.