Vintage Halloween Photos
Flickr has a great group for vintage Halloween artwork and photos:
Vintage Halloween Photos
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 29, 2006 in Hobbies and Collections
Flickr has a great group for vintage Halloween artwork and photos: NYC’s Village Halloween Parade
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 28, 2006 in Hobbies and Collections
If you’re a fanboy near NYC this is the Halloween event to check out: New York’s Village Halloween Parade “This year marks the 33rd Annual New York’s Village Halloween Parade. Started by a Greenwich Village mask maker and puppeteer in 1973, the Parade began as a walk from house to house in his neighborhood for his children and their friends.” Pocket Wookie
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 28, 2006 in Hobbies and Collections, Star Wars
Pocket Wookie likes the ladies and has more fun than you: Joy World
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 27, 2006 in Videogames
A very odd fantasy themed game from Korea in which you have to kill a lobster: Science & Society Picture Library
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 27, 2006 in Hobbies and Collections
This is an amazing collection of photos to explore: The Science & Society Picture Library “SSPL represents over a million images from the Science Museum, the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television and the National Railway Museum. With over 50,000 images digitised, and dedicated staff available to help you research others, you are sure to find the right image. Our collections include 4000 personalities, the Daily Herald and Manchester Daily Express archives, and the work of Julia Margaret Cameron, William Henry Fox Talbot and Tony Ray-Jones.” Below: A great photo of H.G. Wells. The First Monster Musical
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 26, 2006 in Horror
Because incredible is the word for this 1964 film: The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living “The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies (sometimes “!!?” is appended to the title) is a 1964 monster film written and directed by Ray Dennis Steckler. Steckler also starred in the film, billed under the pseudonym “Cash Flagg”. In this film, three friends visit a carnival and stumble into a cult of occultists and disfigured monsters. Produced on a $38,000 budget, much of it takes place at The Pike amusement park in Long Beach, California, which resembles Brooklyn’s Coney Island. The film was billed as the first “monster musical” (beating The Horror of Party Beach by a mere month in release date).” Star Wars 30th Birthday: May 25, 2007
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 26, 2006 in Star Wars
There’s a move to celebrate May 25th next year as “The Universal Day of the Jedi” to celebrate the 30th birthday of Star Wars. What’s even cooler yet is there is a big Star Wars convention being planned to mark the day: Star Wars Celebration IV in Los Angeles To Mark 30th Anniversary of Saga “To celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Star Wars, Lucasfilm Ltd. and Gen Con LLC will throw the largest party ever for fans of the saga, taking over the entire Los Angeles Convention Center in May 2007 for five days filled with live entertainment, celebrities from all six movies, special film and video presentations, an exhibit of movie props and costumes, exclusive merchandise sold at a 24-hour-a-day store, pop culture tributes, immersive events, costume contests, and scores of additional activities. Star Wars Celebration IV will fill the L.A. Convention Center from Thursday, May 24 to Monday, May 28, 2007. Admission to the first day of the event will be for worldwide members of the Official Star Wars Fan Club, many of whom will help plan and run special programming themselves. The convention will be open to the general public from Friday through Monday, Memorial Day.” Below (left to right): Lucas makes the cover of Time magazine in 1983, Lucas directing the first Star Wars, and an 8 track tape from the 70s! Rashomon on Google Video
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 25, 2006 in Cinema
It’s great to see a Kurosawa classic on the small screen: This film is Akira Kurosawa’s adaptation of Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s short story dealing with the subjectivy of eyewitness evidence in the solving of a crime. In July 2006, a Japanese court euled that all Japanese films produced before 1953, including this one, are part of the Public Domain. South Park Flash Game
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 25, 2006 in Videogames
Straight from the second season of South Park, someone has lit a giant snake firework and now it’s wrecking havoc. It’s up to YOU to save the town… or, alternatively, to take out townspeople yourself… or both: Sesame Street: First 5 Seasons on DVD
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 25, 2006 in Animation
Cosplay Wig Tips
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 25, 2006 in Hobbies and Collections
Caution! Only cosplay professionals should put glue products near their hair: DIY Game Design
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 24, 2006 in Videogames
If you’ve always dreamed about getting into real game design, here’s your chance! Enterbrain has created a program that allow you to roll your own RPG game, and it’s pretty low cost (only $65 or so): RPG Maker XP Be a Ghostbuster for Halloween
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 24, 2006 in Hobbies and Collections
A great howto guide, I love the level of detail put into the costume: Be a Ghostbuster for Halloween! “I thought this would be a great idea for Halloween (I love Halloween!) so in my usual over the top fashion I went, well – over the top. A buddy of mine wanted to do it as well. We tried to get his roommate into it too so we could have a third Ghostbuster but he didn’t think we’d be able to do it. He was wrong. 🙂 I made two complete packs, suits, belts and goggles in just over two weeks working mostly nights and weekends. I also made a ghost trap and pedal- it clips onto the belt just like in the movie. The guns come off the packs and the packs light up, as does the trap. I made two lighting circuits for each pack using a simple homemade 555 timer circuit, a few LED’s and 9v batteries. The trap weighs around six or seven pounds and the packs weigh about twenty- five pounds.” A Pumpkin Computer
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 23, 2006 in Hobbies and Collections, Tech
Sure any fanboy can go into a store and buy an Apple computer, but it takes a bit of DIY to create a pumpkin computer: Ed Wood on the Walk of Fame
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 22, 2006 in Cinema
There’s now a new movement to give Ed Wood a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: How to help Ed Wood, Jr. join the pantheon of stars Cylon Jack-O-Lantern
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 21, 2006 in Hobbies and Collections
It’s a pumpkin! It’s a Jack-o-lantern! It’s an electronics project! It’s… a Cylon! A trick-or-treat for Battlestar Galactica fanboys: Over 700 Marvel Comic Superheroes
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 21, 2006 in Comic Books
This directory has over 700 entries for Marvel Comic Superheroes: The Film Crew
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 21, 2006 in Cinema, Television
If you loved Mystery Science Theater 3000 you’ll like this: “Fans of Mystery Science Theater 3000 rejoice! Three of MST3K’s writer/characters — Mike Nelson, Bill Corbett, and Kevin Murphy — have started a new venture: The Film Crew. The Film Crew has been entrusted with a very important mission: providing commentary tracks for every movie that doesn’t have one. Typically, they’ve chosen to start at the bottom of the barrel, and now you get to vote on which B-movie will get the Film Crew treatment on DVD first.” Pacman Undies
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 20, 2006 in Hobbies and Collections
Because deep-down-inside every fanboy wants Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde on their undies: Nintendo Pacman – Usual Suspects …and of course you can use this pair to impress and/or scare off potential dates: At the Mountains of Madness
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 20, 2006 in Pulp Fiction
“Pan’s Labyrinth” and “Hellboy” Director Guillermo del Toro says one of his future projects will be to bring horror master H.P. Lovecraft’s classic tale of existential Antarctic dread, “At the Mountains of Madness”, to the screen: Stargate Lego
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 20, 2006 in Hobbies and Collections
This is amazing, it even has motors in it: “This rotating Stargate is 19 inches tall with light-up chevrons. An RCX drives a treadmill, which spins the inner ring randomly for x seconds, then reverses direction, seven times. Won best medium space award and best brick mod at BrickFest 2005.” |
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