Random crap with Uno.

[Unorthodox]

Wondering how long the diet of fruit and caffeine is sustainable...

[Buster's Uncle]

Problem with the server - the hosting service claims it's fixed now.


Beautiful work as always.

[Buster's Uncle]

NASA Pumpkin Carver Creates Curiosity Space-O'-Lantern
By Clara Moskowitz | SPACE.com – 2 hrs 19 mins ago.. .

 
For this year's "space-o'-lantern," veteran pumpkin carver and NASA employee Liz Warren honored what may be the biggest space event of the year: the Curiosity Mars rover.
 
Curiosity landed on Mars in August, and for Halloween this year Warren carved a silhouette of the rover on a pumpkin. Warren has a longstanding tradition of carving space-themed pumpkins, which have usually honored space shuttle and International Space Station missions in the past.
 
"I carved a Curiosity design this year because in August of this year, that mission truly captured the imagination of the world in bold NASA fashion," Warren told SPACE.com. "They dared a mighty thing and they succeeded."
 
Warren, an employee at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, says Halloween is her favorite holiday, and has used the occasion to carve likenesses of space mission patches onto gourds in recent years. [Gallery: Warren's Space-y Halloween Pumpkins]
 
"The idea to carve a Curiosity pumpkin actually came from an astronaut familiar with my previous space-o'-lanterns," Warren said. "It's breaking a little with my tradition of featuring human spaceflight, but NASA's missions are broad and so I feel good about broadening the topic of my pumpkins."
 
Curiosity is a $2.5 billion car-size rover that's beginning a two-year exploration of Mars' Gale Crater. The rover's nail-biting landing this summer, which went off without a hitch, captivated the public and marked a major success for NASA. One element of Curiosity fever centered on charismatic NASA flight controller Bobak Ferdowsi, whose stars-and-stripes Mohawk hairdo garnered overnight fame.
 
"Bobak Ferdowsi is going to be in Houston late next week and I think it would be fun to give him the pumpkin!" Warren said.

 For any other would-be space-o'-lantern carvers, Warren has outlined some tips:
 • Find a simple image of your pattern online. For her Curiosity pumpkin, Warren found a Curiosity photo from NASA's website. "Importantly, the design included the entire rover and the rover was all in the same perspective plane," she said.
• Set the image so it appears in black-and-white, high contrast, to help clarify the major features of the design to "help you decide what parts of the pumpkin to remove and what parts to keep. It is important to plan ahead before you start cutting!"
• Print out the image on paper and cut out the white portions of the design.
• Lay this template on the pumpkin and use a pen to trace along the cutouts. "For this Curiosity design, I actually didn't cut all the way through the pumpkin," Warren said. "I used tools to scrape away the skin to allow light to shine through from within. Sometimes, you have to scrape away a lot of the interior wall of the pumpkin to allow light to shine through.
• Ultimately, have fun: "Be patient, be flexible (sometimes you have to change your plans as you go), and have fun creating your Space-O'-Lantern!"

http://news.yahoo.com/nasa-pumpkin-carver-creates-curiosity-space-o-lantern-190510149.html

SO - a secretary or cleaning lady, or they would have mentioned what she does at NASA.  Lame, even by feature journalism standards.

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Carving party 2012.







Taking a walk to make sure some were getting to the graveyard...


It was at this point I got sidetracked by a couple young artists coming to ask me loads of questions on sculpting, so my pics of the party part kinda got put on hold, will raid my wife's camera later.

Impressive talent this year. 


Told you I was fixing the candle thing...



Ok, string camera sucks...time to break out bertha...

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The front is featuring the Chimera this year...and he deserves it.





Some joker shoved a light in Fred's mouth...probably will do the ribs tomorrow as well.



Heading to the back.





UNFORTUNATELY, the party still going meant too much light pollution from the house and firepit to get proper shots of the back...we'll get some tomorrow.

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The pumpkin(s) on the right here was the project of 3 teenagers for 2 hours. 

[Buster's Uncle]

No kiddin' about some impressive talent this year.

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School sent home a "no blood" rule yesterday, so there will be some changes for tonight.  Alec's first "real" makeup.  Not bad for an hour. 

[Buster's Uncle]

Not bad at all.

Very kind of the school to give you so much advance notice.

[Unorthodox]

We're eliminating the nose and expanding the mouth tonight, but that's not really something you send a kid to school with and expect them to be able to eat lunch. 

And, yes, there will be blood. 

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http://youtu.be/wgL9jC5Ba6E

[Unorthodox]

Best comment from the book this year:  Better than the Catacombs and Nightmare on 13th.  (2 of the local professional haunts)

[Buster's Uncle]

Eh, you already knew that.

Nice vid.  How did you get that tarted up with sound fx so quickly?  Or was it shot last night?

I wish I could have seen it for myself.

[Unorthodox]

Yeah, that was shot at the end of the night last night.  That's our soundtrack. 

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ah, the annual entry into the photo contest I have no chance in hell of winning...