Processing script makes Mona’s eyes move
Bitartist has written and posted a Processing script that causes the eyes of an onscreen portrait to follow your face as you move past a camera. Primo haunted house material. Thanks man!
Halloween
Nightmare Lego
If you are clinging to Lego as the last uncorrupted innocence of your childhood, look away! This is creepy stuff, and at any other time of the year would be totally inappropriate content. Ain’t Halloween great?
A skeleton is electrocuted on Mark Csele’s porch
Our 2008 display, pictured here, featured a skeleton in an electric chair. When a kid approaches the porch the system triggers and the skeleton rises out of the chair accompanied by fog, a strobe light, and loud sounds of an electrical arc. The front window featured a rear-projection video of a large tesla coil operating with large arcs streaming everywhere to complete the ‘mad scientist’ appearance….The electric chair has a light rope for the “wires” connecting the skeleton to the chair. Upon triggering fog is released by a fog machine behind the chair, illuminated by eerie green light and a strobe light.
Handmade Cthulhu mask
Artist Jennifer Harrison of Masks by Jen hand-tools and -paints leather to make this and other amazing custom masks.
Flashback: Ultimate Fog Chiller
With our Halloween Contest well under way, I just had to choose a quick and dirty flashback from our Halloween issue, which came out in August of 2007. Bump up the creepiness in a hurry with some thick fog to get the mood set just right. Here’s the how-to: Ultimate Fog Chiller Build the chiller […]
Crochet Nunchaku Pattern
Shala at Don’t Eat the Paste has a pattern to make these crochet nunchakus. Great as a toy or dress up accent for ninjas on Halloween.
Haunted Mansion Embroidery
Halloween is around the corner, and it’s never to early to start thinking about spooky decor. I like seasonal art that isn’t overly obivous, and this is Halloween, without being TOO Halloween. Haunted Mansion by Giddie Girlie on Etsy never has to come down!