MODS Please don't delete this. I believe it will start some cool conversations. Or at least don't lock or delete it until after halloween.
Well guys, Halloween is but a few days a way and I haven't posted in a week or two. And I have a reason. I've been prepping for Halloween. That's right! It takes me almost three weeks to get ready...
First I had to design my costume. I went down to the thrift shop and bought a suit which was immidiatly ripped and tattered to look like I had been burried for years. I also bloodied up the white undershirt to be gruesome. Then I got a mask that is creepy and even feels cold and clammy.
On Halloween I help my grandfather out with his haunted yard display. It is full of scares and anamotronics he created out of old machines. I hide and scare people with my friend. I also bought some stuff to improve the look of his house like caution tape, strobe lights, made a Halloween music CD, and bought a skeleton. I will also, be throwing flash paper at people and using a head drop.
Let me walk you through the yard verbally...
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First, you approach the driveway where there is a sign lit up warning younger kids about the danger within. as they walk up the driveway they see a white van parked at an odd angle in the center covered with caution tape. As you get closer a strobe light fires up IN the car and you see a Skeleton holding a Bud Light can. (Our way to spread the message "Don't Drink And Drive") As you look at the skeleton and laugh fog becins to creep out from yunder the car. Then I lunge at you and scare people to death. ( I was behind the van with the strobe and fog controls.. wait is that exposure?)
After this you continue to walk over to a coffin where a scarecrow lies down with an ax. When you come near a bird says "Beware the end is near." And the lights in the scarecrows eyes fire up. It sits up and moans, then goes back.(This is an anamatronic my grandfather made out of a washing machine engine.)
You continue to an old well where there is a sign about how if you look carefully you can see Satan in it.. You look and it is dark. suddenly there is a lud laugh and the face of the devil is illuminated in red in the well. It spits compressed are at you with a loud bang. ( This is made out of Wood, a Mask, lights, a motion censor, an air compressor, a tube, an Amp, a CD... It gets everyone.)
Finally you go to the door where there is a scarecrow of Freddy Krueger. It has to be a real scarecrow. It has leaves that fell from trees, the hands are distorted like no humans, and it is even damp from the dew and rain. WRONG! It pops up and scares you! (It is my friend who has willingly dampened his clothes, put leaves on him, and has double joited fingers to make weird shapes under his gloves.)
My grandfather opens the door and tells you a story about a woman who he loved and how she left him because she couldn't stand how he treated her. When she left he asked if he could have one little thing to remeber her by. then he says "I took her hand!!!" He then shows a hand nailed to a board that's fingers twith and grope at your neck. (made out of a rubber hand, a board, a lever for my grandfather to pull, and guitar strings attached to the fingers underneat to pull the fingers.) He then gives you the candy and you think it's over...
Wrong again... they didn't realise that I had snuck up behind them while they were listening to the story. When they turn around I leap at them again and they run... And we laugh... Then we FEAST ON HUMAN FLESH!
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Anyone else doijng something like this?
Dylan P.
Well guys, Halloween is but a few days a way and I haven't posted in a week or two. And I have a reason. I've been prepping for Halloween. That's right! It takes me almost three weeks to get ready...
First I had to design my costume. I went down to the thrift shop and bought a suit which was immidiatly ripped and tattered to look like I had been burried for years. I also bloodied up the white undershirt to be gruesome. Then I got a mask that is creepy and even feels cold and clammy.
On Halloween I help my grandfather out with his haunted yard display. It is full of scares and anamotronics he created out of old machines. I hide and scare people with my friend. I also bought some stuff to improve the look of his house like caution tape, strobe lights, made a Halloween music CD, and bought a skeleton. I will also, be throwing flash paper at people and using a head drop.
Let me walk you through the yard verbally...
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First, you approach the driveway where there is a sign lit up warning younger kids about the danger within. as they walk up the driveway they see a white van parked at an odd angle in the center covered with caution tape. As you get closer a strobe light fires up IN the car and you see a Skeleton holding a Bud Light can. (Our way to spread the message "Don't Drink And Drive") As you look at the skeleton and laugh fog becins to creep out from yunder the car. Then I lunge at you and scare people to death. ( I was behind the van with the strobe and fog controls.. wait is that exposure?)
After this you continue to walk over to a coffin where a scarecrow lies down with an ax. When you come near a bird says "Beware the end is near." And the lights in the scarecrows eyes fire up. It sits up and moans, then goes back.(This is an anamatronic my grandfather made out of a washing machine engine.)
You continue to an old well where there is a sign about how if you look carefully you can see Satan in it.. You look and it is dark. suddenly there is a lud laugh and the face of the devil is illuminated in red in the well. It spits compressed are at you with a loud bang. ( This is made out of Wood, a Mask, lights, a motion censor, an air compressor, a tube, an Amp, a CD... It gets everyone.)
Finally you go to the door where there is a scarecrow of Freddy Krueger. It has to be a real scarecrow. It has leaves that fell from trees, the hands are distorted like no humans, and it is even damp from the dew and rain. WRONG! It pops up and scares you! (It is my friend who has willingly dampened his clothes, put leaves on him, and has double joited fingers to make weird shapes under his gloves.)
My grandfather opens the door and tells you a story about a woman who he loved and how she left him because she couldn't stand how he treated her. When she left he asked if he could have one little thing to remeber her by. then he says "I took her hand!!!" He then shows a hand nailed to a board that's fingers twith and grope at your neck. (made out of a rubber hand, a board, a lever for my grandfather to pull, and guitar strings attached to the fingers underneat to pull the fingers.) He then gives you the candy and you think it's over...
Wrong again... they didn't realise that I had snuck up behind them while they were listening to the story. When they turn around I leap at them again and they run... And we laugh... Then we FEAST ON HUMAN FLESH!
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Anyone else doijng something like this?
Dylan P.