My Pretty Little Zombie

I realize that it's January and zombies are a subject usually left for October, but I think it's time to face it: zombies are awesome and should be talked about many times throughout the year.

Which is why I've decided to post a zombified picture of Lindsay that I made several months ago. I had just finished the television show Dead Set, which provided the inspiration for the eyes.

And the gif is here because I recently discovered that I could use photoshop to create animated gifs, something I've been wanting to do since I was 14. Shame that nobody uses animated gifs anymore. *sigh*

The One Where Jeffrey Doesn't Actually Talk about Europe... OR How He Never Actually Wrote His Novel...

So, last year, Lindsay and I had the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to tour Europe with the Humanities department. (You can read all about it here.) Oh, wait, I never actually blogged about it. And I'm not really going to now, but I recently acquired a Wacom Bamboo tablet, and I was really bored, so here's the fruits of boredom and not a lot of drawing talent.

Here's some of Lindsay celebrating Marie Antoinette's B-day.

And if you're wondering where on earth Lindsay acquired a pointy-party hat, they have convenient vending machines right in the subway!

 This cat gets has Napoleon riding his back, because he's the lord of the Bastille. (That's a thing, right?)

Ok, people. Who does baby Jesus look like?

Afro-Tom Hanks-baby Jesus anyone?

Oh, and here's one of Zombies. If you don't know why, you haven't been reading very carefully...

National Novel Writing Month

Or NaNoWriMo for short. You'll notice I currently have an awesome little badge with a ship up and to the right, which links back to NaNoWriMo.org, which is the website that sponsors the event.
Go there if you want more info, but November is the month to write a 50,000 word novel!
All you have to do is sign up and then by the end of November, if you've written a 50,000 word novel, you get a certificate emailed to you!

Maybe, not the coolest incentive in the history of the world, but I've never actually written something just for fun (at least in my adult life) and this is the perfect opportunity. I'm crossing my fingers and I'll do my best not to flake out, so here I go! (And I'll have you just guess what my novel will be about.) Anyone? Anyone? Zombie Apocalypse. That's right.

All Hallow's Eve Part Deux

So it should be fairly obvious that I like Halloween and Zombies. I honestly don't blog all that often, but a fair number of past posts have been related to this holiday, and I'm planning on posting more throughout this month of October. I guess it all depends on how lazy I get. For sure, I'm going to have to do a post about my new Zombie Barbie dolls, but that's for another day. Today, I'm going to post a zombified picture of myself. I'm sure you can probably see it if you're reading this, but I'll give a warning anyway. It's a bit... graphic. Not too bad, but my wife certainly didn't enjoy looking at it. Last year for Halloween, I posted a zombified version of this same picture, but by all accounts, it was a lot more tame. I look like someone that's been dead for maybe a day or so in last year's. For this year, I would think maybe four-days-in-a-hot-room kind of corpse, though I didn't want to bother with bloating. Also, I enjoyed this project a lot, so I'll probably work on it some more, or maybe try my hand at another picture. I'd love to do something with some advanced decay, maybe muscles and bones sticking out... I guess we'll see... Oh, you might have to click on the picture so you can see more detail.

Haunted House

So this semester I'm taking visual media class, and our current project involves working on Photoshop.

I'm becoming quite fond of the program.

I suppose I should mention the assignment included making a montage of two or more pictures. This picture is made up of seven, but I only remember where I got one of them.

It's Zombie Barbie!

Alright, so this was not a Jeffrey original, I stole the idea from here.

However, that does not alter the rockin'ness of it one whit!
After a $1 awkwardish trip to DI, I was in business! The skull, (which you can't really see too well in the pics) is made of Sculpey, and the rest of the zombie ensemble was a result of various paints and my handy-dandy leatherman tool.
My only fear is that she will somehow animate and lumber after my brain while I'm asleep...

All Hallows Eve

So, for whatever reason, this year, I've decided that I'm hugely into Halloween.
For the past month, I've been raving about Halloween and Halloween-related-generally-scary-stuff! (Just ask Lindsay how much she's heard about Zombies in the past month...)
I've been especially interested in Zombies (hence my Gimp'd photo) and have been engaged in several Zombie related activities, such as baking zombie shaped, green-frostinged, sugar cookies (see how they like us eating them for a change!) I read (ok, audio-booked) a book called World War Z, which takes place in a post-zombie-apocalyptic world and is basically a series of accounts of survivors. It was rr'l rr'l good. Hmmmm, what else? Oh, I'm addicted to cinemassacre.com's Monster Madness Movie Review. *Note* The previous link is NOT for the faint of heart, nor for the easily offended... You have been warned. Anyways, James Rolfe (aka'd as the Angry Video Game Nerd) Reviews an old horror movie for every day of October, starting at the beginning of movies in general and working his way through the decades. LOVE IT! He's done it since 2007 and has reviewed something like 46 Horror Movies and 30 Godzilla movies in the course of the last three years. It's my new favorite thing. Of course, I can't really watch any of these scary movies given that I truly enjoy being able to sleep at night and don't want to do anything to jeopardize that (that is until I have my beautiful wife to protect me in bed! Less than 40 days! CRAZY!!!)
But yeah. Halloween is great. Oh, a bit a trivia, we've all heard the "All Hallows Eve" bit and how that's where Halloween is derived from, but where did the holiday come from? Well November 1 is All Hallows Day or All Saints Day, a day to celebrate all Saints, known and unknown. So the night before was All Hallows Eve... and that somehow got translated into the creepy non-Saint related Holiday of today. Crazy.

Anyways, I'm lovin' Halloween!