Cat Smith of San Gato Photography does nature pictures, event and pets – oh, horror too. Our lovely lady nurse here counts as horror. I like her take on life, in a blog post she wrote; The response to my first batch of monster portraits has been overwhelming! Now I’m more motivated than ever to […]
Archives for October 2012
Review of Quarry’s Ex
With the 50th anniversary of the James Bond franchise under way there’s a good chance you might be looking for some similar cloak-and-daggers fiction. If that is the case you could consider picking up for yourself a copy of Quarry’s Ex. The protagonist of Quarry’s Ex, however, is not a government secret agent but rather […]
Famous Last Words Friday: I Know An Illusion…
This Famous Last Words Friday! Last week we had death before dishonor and this week we have the art of illusion spotting. Don’t be fooled. It’s probably an illusion. Check out the old school famous last words section in the GameWyrd archives. < Previous stripFamous Last WordsNext strip >
The 12 Masks of Halloween: #8 Alien
There’s bound to be at least one person out on Halloween who tries to dress as a Predator. Why not edge things up ever so slightly – a battle scared Alien. The highlight of this mask might well be the extra mouth is has. That’s a feature which is both accurate and rare. [Buy it] […]
The Green Ruby Pumpkin of Halloween horror
This rather awesome Halloween short story is a project by Miguel Ortega and Tran Ma. They’re both visual effect artists. The entire project was made in the living room. No? You can see the making of here and its fantastic (even if they have a green screen in their living room).
Freaky tea cups of spooky death and terror
You can pick up these creepy cups from Spoon Sisters. They take your scary Monday morning and turn it into something else entirely – an uberscare. Let’s not talk about microwave safe, though we could, let’s talk mainly about giving your mum a huge scare when she pops around. It’s hard to ignore that spider.
Little Shop of Horrors – in bone
Remember Audrey II from the Little Shop of Horrors? He was one demanding plant. Dangerous too. It’s a good thing that Audrey II won’t come back to life as a dangerous skeletal monster this Halloween… oh. Wait… This fantastic, real bone, creation was put together by Forgotten Boneyard who sell dark and weird creatures on […]
An introduction to Indie+
What is Indie+? It is an online convention and hangout for gamers. It’s made possible by Google+ Events and Google’s rather awesome Hangouts (also part of Google+). Hangouts, if you’re not familiar with them, are super easy to use video chats that support many people at once. They represent a virtual table as much as […]
The 12 Masks of Halloween: #7 Master Chief
With the launch of Halo 4 huge on many gamer geek’s radar – making a Master Chief of yourself this Halloween has some cred. This mask rocks the Halo 3 style, though, just for that historic look. I know, technically, isn’t a mask as it’s a helmet but, it’s too cool to get all fussy […]
The haunted pumpkin garden
Every year the New York Botanical Garden does something special for Halloween. This year Ray Villafane didn’t just create a lifesize pumpkin zombie – he created an entire haunted pumpkin garden. The garden is open to the public and you can carve with Ray, put on your own shows in the Pumpkin Puppet Theater and […]
