The spirit of the Great Pumpkin is compelling you to dance, do you dare heed the call?
No mask or unitard is needed to please this Pumpkin Lord, only a willingness to boogie with total abandon and a sugary sweet sense of humor.
--via Tastefully Offensive
Epic level gamer girlfriend and culinary artist Anna the Red created this healthy Costume Quest inspired dish for her boyfriend, and her dedication to creating food that is not only fun to look at but tasty to eat has made her legendary!
Here's how she made this video game themed dish:
One of the twins, Reynold, has a blue robot costume on, but as I said in my blog before, it's almost impossible to create blue from a natural ingredient, so I had to change it to green. I first made the base of his costume with turkey, then microwaved a leaf of lettuce, trimmed it to fit the turkey and put it on. For the chest plate I sliced a broccoli stem, cut out cheese with a straw and put it on the chest plate.
Photo: designerd/Instructables
Photo: peterthehun/Instructables
Retro toy fans prepare to get square this Halloween with these two Rubik's Cube inspired DIY costumes!
One turns you into a total blockhead, the other makes your body become one with the bricks, and they're both very colorful and really fun.
Click the link below each photo and you'll discover the secret of cubic costuming, the Rubik's way.
Anthony Bourdain has been on some crazy adventures during his time as host of the Travel Channel show No Reservations, but when he and his Russian friend Zamir follow in the footsteps of Frankenstein things go from crazy to absolutely bananas!
Will these two travelling buddies survive their trip to Romania? View on, fearless watcher, and find out who makes it out alive...
--via Travel Channel
There's nothing outrightly wrong with bagged costumes, especially if you're pressed for time and money -but there's no denying that some of them are really bad, some are really slutty and a few are a terrible cross between the two. io9 has a great look at the good, the bad and the trampy of the bagged costumes out this year.
Neil Fraser made this Portal Pumpkin to guard his home for Halloween 2010. You can peek inside at the mechanism that made it move and scare the living daylights out of trick-or-treaters.
Perched precariously on its three legs, the turret automatically pans left and right and pitches up and down searching for targets. Inside is a small motor and a system of gears and cams to drive the gun mounts.
He said it was like building a ship in a bottle- "A wet, slimy bottle." Link -via reddit
This year you can become the household known throughout the neighborhood as the "ones who give out the good candy", and these Halloween themed papercraft candy dispensers might be able to help.
There's a sweet little mummy, a vampire with an empty head ready to fill with sugar, and a square-headed Frankenstein monster that just wants a hug- and a bunch of candy!
They're all free to download at the link below, so print on Halloweenies and show those neighbors what's what.
It seems that everyone was young once, even that wrinkle faced monster Freddy Kreuger and the rattiest of all vampires Count Orlok.
Monsters are born cute and cuddly, and somewhere along the way they get all possessive and psychotic and people die.
Illustrator Pat Hammann has given us a rare glimpse of some of the all time worst baddies as itty bitty babies, and they're so cute you'll die from all the adorableness they exude!
Link --via Geek Tyrant
Mogwai themed artwork never goes out of style, because the little guy's just so darn cute yet mischievous that seeing a Mogwai face makes everyone smile.
They're like the smaller yet deadlier version of the Ewoks, so it's no wonder pumpkin artist Trevor Grove decided to create this awesome Mogwai carving, complete with big, furry ears and that signature bratty smile.
Link --via Obvious Winner
Here's a holiday special edition beer from Newcastle that'll have you howling at the moon, or into the mouthpiece of your phone as you drunk dial your ex.
It's Newcastle's Werewolf Blood Red Ale, and it's sure to be a popular choice on Halloween night for lone wolves and wolf packs alike.
Warning: please discontinue use of product if you start growing hair in strange places...
Sometimes us bloggers get free movie screeners, but often those movies are so bad they aren't even worth writing about. Juan of the Dead is not one of these movies. Zeon and I just watched it and agreed that you guys should definitely know more about it, so here is the trailer.
It really was a great parody of zombie films with a touch of social commentary on the Cuban government by its citizens. The comedy wasn't over the top, nor were the politics, but the gore sure was, which made it all the more enjoyable for horror fans. Of course, if you don't like zombie films, you won't like it -but if you don't like zombie films, why are you reading a Halloween blog?
What if your ever changing Halloween experience could be mapped out like say a Google Map, changing as you grow older and more jaded? Maybe we could avoid losing our interest in the sweetest of all holidays by reading ahead and steering clear of the bumps in the road...
(some of the text may be considered NSFW)
<incoming transmission> An orange skinned squash shaped like a Starcraft Zerg Overlord was seen taking over the kitchen of a gamer named Ian Fisher...The pumpkin is tentacled, accompanied by a slimy Creep and considered extremely dangerous...permission to squash on sight...<end of transmission>
Baked Devil's Brains in Blood Sauce sounds like a delicious meal to serve up when your in-laws are in town, or whenever you want your guests to go home hungry.
However, the all-vegetarian ingredients that make up the "brain" are actually quite edible, and healthy!
The difference between men's and women's costumes is pretty much self explanatory when you see it side-by-side- the men's costumes have fake muscles sewn in, the women's do not...
Actually, there's another main difference between men's and women's costumes, which can be summed up rather succinctly- it takes a lot more fabric to make men's costumes!
