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I like to scatter my sound effects all over my haunted yard. When you walk through my yard, you can hear things making noise from all different directions, instead of just 2 speakers bhind a bush.
I used to do this using those answering machine loop tapes. I'd pick the longest tape I could find (usually about 2 minutes) and space out some sound effects over the tape. A wolf howl here. A witches cackle there. Then I would hook up a second-hand 'walkman' and some battery operated speakers, and scatter them around the yard.
The tapes have been replaced by CD's, and are soon to be replaced with cheap MP3 players. But one thing has always been my intention - to build enclosures for these things, so I don't have to deal with the tangle of wires.
Looks like someone else has already thought of this:
Perhaps you can find a use for this at your haunt!
Check it out here: http://sentientwave.blogspot.com/2007/08/ipod-cool-creative-diy-speaker.html
Tags: Sound Effects MP3
Take a look at this collection, titled "City of Shadows" from Russian artist Alexey Titarenko.
This time-lapse photography turns regular masses of people into ghostly figures.
It makes me wonder what we might be able to do with the mass of trick-or-treaters that shuffle up our sidewalks every October 31st!
The link to his work is here: http://www.alexeytitarenko.com/port_cityshadows.html
Tags: Photography Timelapse Shadows
I'm in a contrarian mood today, so I’m gonna say something that is probably gonna annoy a lot of people. What’s with the mass-posting of guestbook comments? I’m pretty sure that the original intent of an entry in a person’s guest book was supposed to be something along the lines of “Hey! I came across your page and it was awesome!” . Or something like “Cool pictures in your gallery dude!”. You know; some personal message that applies to ME. Instead, it has de-evolved into basically “guestbook spam”. Most of what I get is impersonal comments with HUGE picture files that were sent me plus several dozen “friends” of the sender. Comments with impersonal statements like “Have a great weekend” or “Happy 4th of July”. You know, I’m not getting a real warm and fuzzy feeling from this electronic equivalent of junk mail. Starting today, I’m deleting this kind of spam. I don’t need the load times of my Hauntspace page to increase because of this stuff. In return, for my HauntSpace friends, I agree to view your blogs and pages and galleries, and post relevant comments. Something else: If I add you as a new friend, it will be because I find something truly interesting on your page, not just because you sent me a friend request. If you don’t have anything interesting: no gallery, blog, or profile information on your page (Hint to perdidoman) why would I want to be your friend? Just to add you to the list? What’s the point? What is this, some kind of contest to see how many ‘friends’ we can amass? Also, using HauntSpace to advertise your haunt, WITHOUT bothering to create any content actually on your HauntSpace page, is NOT going to endear me to you (hint to perdidoman again). In short, let’s make our content count, folks. Everything else is just noise.
Tags: Comments Spam
Imagine being able to insert your own image into other people's photos of your haunt! Put a ghost or deathmask on a tombstone!
The "Image Fulgurator" (I have no idea what the name means - it's German I think) is a clever way of inserting such images which will only show up on photos, but cannot be seen by the naked eye. It works best at night when flash pictures are taken, which means that it is perfect for haunted attractions!
Essentially, the Fulgurator uses a slave flash as a light source for a mini projector. A slave flash will activate when it senses the flash from a flash photograph. In this case, the slave flash will project an image onto a surface, and do it so fast that the human eye cannot see it.
But it will show up on the photo!
The inventor cleverly uses a film-style camera and film negative as the projector and slide. But you can use any projection equipment if you can replace the light source with a camera flash.
Check it out here: http://www.datenform.de/blog/2008/06/image-fulgurator.html
The video on this site takes a maddeningly long time to get to the payoff - skip forward to about the 2:08 point. Here a tourist notices that the picture he took has an additional image that he cannot see in real life.
Tags: Photo Ghost FX
Check out AlexCF, who makes 'historical' artifacts from a history that never was.
His latest creation is a lycanthropy research case. It includes werewolf specimens, shown here:
The backstory for this case of oddities is wonderful reading. Here is an excerpt:
"July, 1812 - An english gentleman and his wife are traveling through eastern Europe, visiting relatives and stopping off at various tourist spots. They check in at a local inn for the evening, and the gentleman steps out to find some food and drink. on his return, he finds his beloved dead, mutilated and half eaten. The perpetrator has entered and left through the open window, and there is little evidence apart from the terrible claw and teeth marks in the flesh of the dead woman. Beside himself with grief, the gentleman vows to hunt down and kill the thing that committed this awful crime."
Check his latest blog entry at http://alexcf.com/blog/
Tags: Lycanthropy Art Werewolf Werewolves
Here's an article from msnbc.com about absinthe: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24371992/
Essentially, the article explains that the mind altering effects of absinthe were due to it's extremely high alcohol content; about 140 proof.
Given all the stupid things I did in my youth while under the influence of light beer, is it any wonder that quaffing large amounts of 140-proof liquor made 19th-centery artists a little...off?
So, for those who want to imitate Johnny Depp in "From Hell", drink up (just please don't light that sugar cube on fire...who likes the taste of burnt sugar?)!
Tags: Absinthe Thujone
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