This is Halloween

Halloween is upon us, most adult-type folk have already done their celebrations over the past couple of days, and as a result we get wonderful internet nonsensery before the occasion actually occurs.

(via Fashionably Geek)

Quick aside, as a child I always thought it was the ‘State Puft Marshmallow Man’, which given that the name is printed on the hat marks me as a particularly unclever child. Though I’d like to think it had something to do with the Red White and Blue colouring of the beast. Man kids are dumb, amiright?

Halloween is much more of a thing back on the other side of the pond, North America, and over there the costuming of houses and parties is almost as big a deal as that of people. From cotton spread super-thin for spiderwebs to renting a fog machine and throwing a stuffed mascot suit of a dog off the roof tethered to a dynamic climbing rope to scare the little costumed urchins begging for sugar-based sustenance. And yes, if you are wondering, that oddly detailed example come from your authors checkered past. However, if you think you’ve done a good job decorating, think again. I present an animatronic zombie. Sorry, a remote-controlled animatronic zombie.

(via Hackaday)

I defy you to watch this in full screen, preferably in silence in the dark but not everyone is that emo, and not be creeped out by it.

Let’s wrap things up with some good new fashioned super-high speed photography. Of pumpkins. Being smashed. Because really that’s why 1000fps cameras were created, slow-mo destruction. Which incidentally is a great name for a prog-rock band.

(via nerdist)

This is Halloween: Costumes, props, kids,  pumpkins, and all kinds of fun.*

 

*Yes I know the whole candy side of things is unrepresented, as is the standard approach to female costuming that I’m sure is being overblogged about at Jezebel and other such sites. Don’t get me wrong, I’m as pro-feminism as the next guy, I just can’t be bothered to beat the undead, yet startlingly sensual, dead horse of  ”Sexy ____”ing on the 31st.