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Tag Archives: halloween
Building a Blog You Can Walk Into
I’m working under the gun, as usual, and I have to put together a 20 minute presentation for the “Ooh Blogging is a Place on Earth” presentation I’ll be delivering in Dublin next week at ILTA’s 25th anniversary EdTech conference. … Continue reading
Deconstructing Halloween
I spent an hour yesterday afternoon dismantling the Halloween diorama. This is the first one I’ve been pretty surgical about, not too many emotions. Leading up to it there was a two week burst of work, then the Halloween Haunted … Continue reading
Halloween Diorama Wrap-up
It’s been over a month since the Halloween diorama went live, and I’m ready to take it down this week as preparations for a Christmas diorama begin in earnest. That makes this the shortest-lived of the three dioramas thus far. … Continue reading
Halloween Haunted Arcade
It’s been a crazy month, and now it’s time to race to the finish line trying to get the bava.studio’s Halloween Haunted Arcade up and running by Friday the 31st, just in time for Halloween. The diorama has come in … Continue reading
Halloween Diorama
It’s literally gonna be a Halloween (1978) diorama, in particular the scene when Michael Meyers briefly appears from behind the hedge. The bav-o-rama has had the Grady sisters of The Shining fame gracing its presence for the last 4 months, … Continue reading
The Rabbit in Red Lounge
I am a fan of Sean Hartter’s design blog, it is always nice to catch up on all his pop culture revamps. I particularly liked the design of the “The Rabbit in Red Lounge” matches which is an obscure reference … Continue reading
Summer of Love: Bava’s Twitch of the Death Nerve
I recently saw the above movie poster for Mario Bava’s Twitch of the Death Nerve (1971), and I just love the whole sense of occasion created by the hysteria: “The first motion picture to require a face-to-face warning!” The exaggeration … Continue reading
“Hey, Nancy, no running in the hallways”
Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) remains one of the great films of the slasher genre, I actually taught it back in the Summer of 2000 as part of a discussion of recent Horror film cycles. Not only does it pick … Continue reading
A Four-Pack of Carpenter
Update: There’s a great article on this very retrospective by Benjamin Strong on the Moving Image Source titled “Morning in America.” He positions this retrospective as genre readings of the Reagan 80s, yes, that’s it! As if you need any … Continue reading
Classic horror movies on the Atari 2600
I have been using emulation to give my twelve-year old neighbor the people’s history of classic video games and home consoles (much more on both the emulation and the history shortly). While preparing these rigorous classes, I came across a … Continue reading