Creepy Flower Encrusted Skeletons

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"Trick 'r Treat Back to School" Behind the Scenes

GREAT short film by Michael Dougherty - a behind the scenes look at the making of his "Back to School" film.

Sam Is Going Back To School

Happy "Back to School" month. Once they clear out the back to school supplies, they will replace it all with Halloween. Yay!

Haunted House Film for NBC/Universal is looking for Home-Haunters!

Attention Home Haunters!  NBC Universal is looking for home haunts for their upcoming documentary.  Head on over to Magic Stone Productions and fill out an online submission form!

And so it begins... Halloween 2011

Traveled to Stats Floral in Pasadena yesterday.  They begin setting up their GREAT Halloween displays in early August. 



Stats Floral Supply



Watusi A Go-Go!

I've been working with vector images all day today and remembered the packaging for the "Halloween a Go-Go" decorations from the 1950s.   I redrew a representation of the old packaging and decided to make t-shirts out of them.  I just had to...  the packaging is too funny.  "Swingin' Watusi Action"?  Groovy!  And at the same time I had to redraw a favorite old Trick or Treat bag image, further colorizing the image and making the two black cats "glow"

Definitely got a badly needed Halloween fix by drawing these...  Only a couple of months and Halloween will start to appear in stores!

To see the newer old fashioned designs on Zazzle - click HERE

The Monolith

This was an unexpected - and spooky - find far up in the hills above Burbank. It's a very old abandoned Boy Scout camp. The monolithic chimney of it's main house is all that remains, looking much like a scene from 2001 A Space Odyssey.  It was built well to be able to withstand so many earthquakes and brush fires.   But now, except for the sounds of wind through the brush, it's silent up here, one would never know you were in Los Angeles.  I like that about LA, there are many, many hidden treasures here.

After taking this last photo, there was a loud commotion on the level below me.  All I could see were branches of bushes moving violently, it may have been a mountain lion attacking something.  Or the ghost of an old boy scout...