Friday, August 14, 2009

Trilogy of Terror (1st Installment)

From 1975, a true TV classic, just in time to get you in the mood for Halloween!

Trilogy of Terror (2nd Installment)

Trilogy of Terror (3rd Installment)

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Coming This October, Just In Time For Halloween: "Out of this World: Extraordinary Costumes from Film and Television"


October 3, 2009 through January 10, 2010, at the California Museum, Sacramento, CA

This exhibition of costumes from Star Wars, Blade Runner, The Terminator, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica - and many more of the most popular films and television shows of all time - shows how costumes play a crucial role in defining characters for visual storytelling in media.

The exhibition examines how costume design incorporates color, style, scale, materials, historical traditions and cultural cues to help performers and audiences engage with the characters being portrayed. It offers museum visitors new ways of seeing characters as defined by their costumes.

Costume highlights include:

* Hat worn by Margaret Hamilton as the Wicked Witch of the West in the film The Wizard of Oz (1939)
* Indiana Jones’s whip from the film Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
* Leather jacket worn by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the film The Terminator (1984)
* Embroidered robe worn by actor Joe Turkel as Eldon Tyrell, creator of the replicants, in Blade Runner (1982)
* Darth Vader cape, helmet, and lightsaber from Star Wars (1977) and The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
* Tunic and sash worn by William Shatner as Captain Kirk in Star Trek (1967)

The traveling exhibition was organized by the Experience Music Project | Science Fiction Museum.

Saturday, August 8, 2009

A Ghostly Movie About Sacramento's Cholera Epedemic of 1850

Welcome to the first ever PumpkinSeed online

Nearly twenty years ago, I decided to create a Halloween-themed publication and I called it "The Pumpkin Seed." I asked all my friends to contribute to it; they could submit articles, stories, pictures and drawings, recipes, poems, etc.

No one would see what anyone else had contributed until it was all put together, printed, and then mailed out. It proved to be a pretty fun thing to do throughout the Halloween season.

Now, twenty years later, what better way is there to put all this web 2.0 technology to use than to create an online version of The Pumpkin Seed, now for everyone to enjoy. Feel free to contribute your own creativity! And now, you can even submit songs, videos, and so much more...

So go for it! Be creative... And have a Happy Halloween!