How-To: Foam Costume
Here’s an awesome guide to making a monster/demon costume from foam. This one is Sammael from Hellboy. With a costume that detailed, you better start soon if you’re going to have it done by Halloween!
Halloween
Brain Cupcakes
Mmmmmm… braaaiiinnsss. A cupcake fit for a zombie dinner party, by Pamela Frantz. It’s red velvet cake with vanilla cream cheese frosting and a chocolate brain (made from one of these molds). Via Street Anatomy.
Baby Link Oufit
I don’t have any kids, but my niece and nephew better watch out for this upcoming Halloween, lest I make one of them a baby Link costume. Via Geekologie.
Future death machine nose art
I’m pretty sure this TrueType font designed in 1998 by the now-apparently-defunct “Dragon’s Den Type Foundry” was intended for players of Games Workshop’s Warhammer: 40K tabletop wargame. But c’mon, seriously: what project wouldn’t be improved by a little faux-fascist heraldry? Perhaps a flying skull transfixed by a dagger and with lightning shooting from its eyes? […]
How-To: Crochet Eyeball
There’s plenty of time before Halloween to whip up a whole bowl full of these crochet eyeballs!
Super skull roundupalooza
Skulls! Who doesn’t love ’em? Well, me, for one, and probably a bunch of other folks who don’t care to be constantly reminded of mortality. We seem to be in the minority, however, with most deriving some kind of weird existential thrill, or deep Buddhist-y zen calm, from staring deep into the empty, black sockets […]
Meat Dress
I’m impressed by the technical skill involved in Jia Jam’s Meatwad costume (from Aqua Teen Hunger Force). Yes, it’s real meat; she had an ATHF birthday party and writes: I chose salami because it’s thin, keeps in one piece, and is quite cheap, and bacon because it looks very, um, meaty. I considered somehow vacuum-sealing […]