LED eyelashes
This LED eyelash getup by Soomi Park is pretty neat, and uses a set of headphones to house the tilt sensor and other electronics. A little spirit gum goes a long way for affixing things to your face!
Halloween
The Steel Yard’s Iron Pour fires up in Providence on 10/30
Watch the Iron Guild fire up their furnaces for the 4th annual molten metal spectacular. In the past they’ve brought us fiery hearts, zombie kings, and glowing skulls. This year…pumpkin casting and a giant flaming Jack-O-Lantern!
How-To: Make electric candles for Halloween
Dave Gugel, of Davenport FL, knows a thing or two about outdoor Halloween decorating. He does a wee bit of it each year (see above pic). Here, he offers a how-to on turning some PVC pipe, dribbles of hot glue, and flicker lights into some pretty convincing outdoor pillar candles. Halloween Decorations: How to Make […]
How-To: Papier-mâché gargoyle
Or is it “carton-pierre?” Anyway, it wins. “Ghostess” Deanna did a great job documenting the process of building “Goliath,” who is based on the eponymous character from Disney’s Gargoyles cartoon. Hard to believe he started out as glue, craft paper, and PVC pipe.
Animatronic zombie
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Animatronic zombie
Its creator calls this a “groundbreaker” zombie, and since he obviously knows way more about Halloween gadgetry than I do, I should probably bow to his usage. But I have to say I feel like “groundbreaker” should be reserved for props that actually, you know, appear to break out of the ground.
Semantics aside, this animatronic zombie is so well done I was tempted, for a moment, to believe it was a fake–like, a person in a costume half-buried in a hole. Found it in this thread at Haunt Forum. Well done, Dr. Morbius!
Flashback: Surprise Top Hat
Ten days and counting until Halloween! This week’s flashback is another tasty morsel from Make: Halloween Special Edition, which hit newsstands back in August 2006. In this project, Dug North shows us how to make a mechanical automata-infused top hat using a bicycle brake lever, cable, and the monster of your choosing. If you’re like […]
Firecracker Press Poster Masks
I’ve been a fan of Firecracker Press ever since I was introduced to them at the 2006 Renegade Craft Fair in Chicago. Based in St. Louis, Missouri, they “use computer design software to conceive ideas but still carve woodblocks and print by hand to produce event posters, business cards, party invitations, advertising and more.” Pictured […]
