Look, I'm famous!

And by "famous" I mean "of the dozen or so people who read this obscure NJ-based website, I feel certain that at least one of them took the time to read the article about my Halloween display."

(Read it for yourself here.)

Cupcake costumes

This shirt is sold out, but maybe you can steal their cupcake design ideas for your own Halloween baked goods.

Birds of Despair

You can always trust birds of despair to tell it like it is. This woodcut print is sold out, but BigHeadedRobot has five or six other varieties still available in his Etsy shop.

Eye disease

Morbid Anatomy published these shots after finding them in a 1905 book entitled "Manual Of The Diseases Of The Eye". I can't decide on whether these pupils look diseased, or like novelty contact lenses Either way, I like them. The people with those eye diseases should consider themselves lucky. People pay a lot of money to have pupils that look like that.



(Via Boing Boing)

Gross Band-Aids

Scabs Bandages are awesome! "The world's grossest bandages. Disgust your parents. Gross out your friends with bandages that will make everyone go 'EEEWW!'."

(Via Boing Boing)

Dead desk accessories

Suck.uk produces a wonderful assortment of pen holders (Dead Fred), light pulls (Hanging Harry), coasters (Splat Stan), bookmarks (Dead Mark) and stress balls (Stress Paul). Dark humor at its best (or should I say "dark humour" since it's an English company).





(Via Who Killed Bambi)

LEGO anatomy

No wonder my LEGO figures always bled when I popped their tiny heads off. Whoops!



(Via vi.sualize.us)

Organs are cute!

Who says organs have to be slimey and gross? These plush organs are downright adorable!

Relax your eyes

Can you see the skull in this Stereogram? (Quick story... When these images first became popular they sold posters of them at our local mall. People would stand in front of them forever trying to see the mermaid, baseball glove, or whatever. They would move forward, backward, and sometimes even rock in place. I had no idea that there were 3D images hidden in the designs though so I couldn't figure out why people were so enamored with these ugly prints. For all I knew, people shopping at the mall had horrendous taste in art.)

Neighbors mistake dead body for Halloween decoration

Whoops! "A 75-year-old dead man sat decomposing on his Marina del Rey balcony for days because neighbors thought the body was part of a Halloween display and didn’t call police."

(Originally reported in the LA Times. Found via Boing Boing.)

Creepy dolls

If you really want to warp your kid, get them one of these dolls. (Additional images can be found here. And if you're interested in making a purchase but don't speak Russian, e-mail them at info@boontart.ru)

Bonni Reid

"Dead of Night" by Bonnie Reid.

Spooky games

Timewarp Toys
lists an impressive assortment of spooky games & toys. (The spooky stuff starts about halfway down the page.)

Socially conscious yet sexy

There should be more socially-conscious yet sexy Halloween costumes. Thank you, Love Train, for showing me the error of my ways.

Cemetery weddings

Cemeteries are becoming increasingly popular places to take wedding portraits. And sometimes, people are even opting to exchange vows amongst the tombstones.

Skull cakes

The fine folks at Skulls and Bacon collected this assortment of skull-shaped cake images. Delicious!

(Via ffffound)

Halloween Smurfs

I had no idea they made so many Halloween-themed Smurfs. Man, I sure do miss those little blue guys.

Shrunken head magic

If you're looking to add a magical touch to your Halloween festivities, check this out. It's a virtually self-working magic trick that uses vintage postcards featuring images of shrunken heads. What could be more Halloween-appropriate than that?

Trick 'R Treat

This is a great still from the movie Trick 'R Treat. Maybe I should add 60+ jack-o'-lanterns to my display this year. Looks pretty cool.

An evil tree grows in Pennsylvania

I saw this tree while driving through Pennsylvania this weekend. It's a real tree (still rooted to the ground) that has been hollowed out and carved. They even had some lights set up inside to make the face glow at night.

Black Kites???

Despite reading the following description of "Black Kites, 1997" a dozen times, I still have no idea what they're talking about. "A human skull formed the departure point for this contribution by Gabriel Orozco. In deliberate, highly concentrated work, the artist has covered the skull with a network of narrow lines. Orozco calls this unusual skull-topography a drawing in the third dimension« whose process of emergence has been carefully documented in photographs. In coming to terms with the sculptural structures of the skull, Orozco succeeds in imbuing its original iconography with a fresh, poetically abstract quality giving rise to a new object that can obviously comply with several possible definitions of sculpture. On the one hand, it satisfies the abstract aesthetic aspirations of a modern Western concept, on the other it transports ritual and cult features that link it with traditions cherished even in Europe, especially in Catholic countries: bleaching the skeletons of the death decorating them, and then putting them on display in specially erected charnel houses."

(Oh, wait. Now I get it. It loosely translates to "skulls are cool".)

Monster mugshots

More artwork by Andrew Bannecker.

Scooby-Doo Mystery Mansion

It looks like this playset was only available in the UK. It includes a revolving bookcase, sticky spiders web, haunted suit of armor, working trap doors, and many many more spooky features. I want one!

Ouch! My head fell off.

The world's cheeriest skull

by Andrew Bannecker