Random crap with Uno.

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https://plus.google.com/photos/+BruceCarrick/albums/6077219635195374209

Student recreating Charr. 

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NOW you know you've arrived.

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This is what happens when a pig decomposes underwater
http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=13254.msg61312#msg61312

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Still cleaning up, and it looks like this weekend will be shot, needing to work. 

Once I get the house in order, though, I'm going full bore on to the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come.  There's an outside possibility I could even get it in the annual christmas tree jubilee and auction it off for a cause.  The very thought of such a thing amongst all the evil happy trees just makes me giddy, but it's rather unlikely I'd finish in time. 

So, its really down to do I want to keep it, or sell it? 

What I know I want out of the thing:

I want it to be the center piece on a display, at least with a Scrooge tombstone, and for it to be the sole source of light.  Yes, the very thought of the GoCF lighting anything is rather unorthodox. 
I want it done in my chimera styling, making it much more ragged than traditional versions as well.  Tattered ends of the robe the only thing touching the ground.
Mostly just the torso floating, using the tattered bits of robe to conceal the supports.   
Built from ground up for 4 season outdoor display. 
Blue lights.  First chimera with blue lighting. 
Fiber fix.  This will be a very thurough test of the product's strengths. 
Quite possibly NOT built with monster mud...thinking on alternatives better suited to year round weather. 

Right now, plan is to have this powered by 2 lights: 

1 blue CFL in the chest, completely hidden, will illuminate the ground below the ghost, and in so doing, sillouhette the shape.  MIGHT let some shine up into the empty hood. 

The second will be a spotlight hidden (blue led spot from Spirit after halloween clearance) in the sleeve of the outstretched hand to illuminate the tombstone (and ideally also cast the shadow of the hand on the stone and/or wall of the house). 

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I'm still not sold on the whole pumpkin on a head type costumes, but this fooled a lot of people thinking it was a real pumpkin, so I guess it was at least effective in that sense.  Hated every second of being strapped (literally) into this thing.  Claustrophobia inducing terror, and turned out I couldn't even get a straw up through the mouth area to drink like I thought I would. 



The family picture, minus one, my middle son skipped out on us this year for a party.



Opening at 6 PM...this is what's waiting at 6 PM.



Our neighbors, I'm responsible for that knight.  "The ones in the store weren't REAL" 



Tribute pumpkins, cancer ribbon for my wife's mom who's had breast cancer metastasize to her brain, and one for her dad who died on the 13th. 






Out front with my scythe.

[Geo]

The family picture, minus one, my middle son skipped out on us this year for a party.

Someone on the pic doesn't like dressing up?

Opening at 6 PM...this is what's waiting at 6 PM.

How warm was it? I see a young girl without sleeves at the head of the waiting line?

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Unseasonably warm.  60's or so at sunset.  High of 40 on November 1. 

The boss doesn't dress up, never has.

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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/video/devils-carnival-alleluia-trailer-746732

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calling it now, clowns/carnivals/etc will be VERY big sellers next Halloween

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Using as a notepad, feel free to ignore


1 jar sauce
2 can tom
1 cott
1.5 sausage
2 onion
2 garlic
1 cup broth

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So...

A couple trick or treaters mentioned they thought I was recreating Mr Jones this year. 

Well, this is more significant than they could have imagined.  See, Mr Jones recently hit netflix.  Well, Pumpkinrot created all the props for the movie.  He's generally considered one of the best at what we do.  And, while we have certain similarities in styles, we are also each unique. 

So, I'm watching it tonight.

Mr Jones makes scarecrows and totems. 

The Scarecrows are pure "Pumpkinrot" style.  However, a lot of the smaller totems drift very clearly in the "Unorthodox" style.  And the movie focuses on that aspect more, skimming over some of the more impressive builds.

I swear a version of this was in the movie, along with most the rest of 2011's pieces, which are what I pulled back out this year after they'd been rotting in behind the shed.   



So, the trick or treaters had it backwards...

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The city's scarecrow contest winners....

I can't let this stand unchecked...

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'Happy' still rules over 'creepy'?

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There wasn't even a 'creepy' entry. 

Time to show these people how to make a SCAREcrow. 

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Daughter heading up to a neighbor's house.  He started doing this a couple years after we moved in.  Easy startle scare 101, everyone KNOWS it's coming and it still gets them.  (I wouldn't advise it at the top of stairs, but that's me.)