This is a video demonstration of Italian artist Amedeo Capelli’s ‘Macabra Orchestra’, a little wooden skeleton orchestra with movements powered by a hand-crank and delivered via a series of wires, hooks, and string. Would I pay to see a live performance? Absolutely. My girlfriend was just complaining I could use
With Halloween only 10 days away (and Christmas already in full swing at most retailers), this is a video of engineer Fabricio H. Franzoli’s quartet of Tesla coils performing the Halloween standard ‘Spooky Scary Skeletons’. Should he have called it ‘Shocky Sparky Skeletons’ instead? Yes, and I should have been
This is a video of father Justin Flom making a Halloween costume for his daughter that makes it look like she’s carrying her own head on a platter. The effect is great, and it doesn’t appear the costume requires that much work provided you have all the necessary parts. You
This is a short video of the Charlie Brown costume that recent mother Theresa (not Teresa) made for her young son, complete with drawn on eyebrows and hair curl. I knew it wasn’t the real Charlie Brown immediately though because the real Charlie is old enough to talk and try
These are the dashboard warning light pumpkin carvings executed by juggler and entertainer Scott Howard. I like how the check engine blinks. Scott says these are the “scariest pumpkins ever,” but as someone who’s been driving around with their dashboard lit up like a Christmas tree for well over 12,000
This is a drive-by of a home in Corona, California that goes as hard as possible on Halloween decorations, and particularly the inflatables. There also appear to be a couple bounce houses in their driveway at the end. If you can fill it with air, they’re into it, and $10
This is a video from artist Rudy Willingham, who carved and photographed 80 pumpkins so that they perform Michael Jackson’s Thriller dance when viewed as a stop motion video. That’s cool. Am I going to project this onto a bedsheet in my front yard as my only Halloween decoration this
These are several photos and videos of the Halloween display created by some homeowners in East Aurora, New York, featuring a giant spider on a boom that appears to crawl down a 3-story web to the yard below. For reference, I have several pumpkins, a hay bale, and some dried