Last weekend was the 2009 Philly Zombie Prom, of which I help organize and DJ. My partners in crime are legendary DJ Robert Drake (WXPN‘s Land of the Lost and Kids Corner) and bartender extraordinaire Melissa Torre (Tattood Mom and Sugar Mom), and the event takes place at the historical Trocadero Theatre. Along with the bands Live Not on Evil and The Young Werewolves, Henry David ringin in Halloween, and the crowning of the Zombie Prom King and Queen, it’s a pretty big opening to the Halloween season here in Philly. How big you may ask. How about over 900 zombies worth of big? Yeah, pretty sweet. Below are the few shots I was able to take. You can find a bunch more here, here, here, and here.
I’m a big fan of Edgar Allen Poe, which I’m sure you would have guessed easily. So it comes as no surprise then that I was happy to find out that the Harry Ransom Center of the University of Texas now houses a rather large digital archive of manuscripts and letters created by Edger Allen Poe. Named The Edgar Allan Poe Digital Collection (shocker, I know), it was launched to accompany the 2009 Poe Bicentennial exhibition, “From Out That Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Edgar Allan Poe,” and includes the manuscripts of “The Domain of Arnheim,” “The Spectacles,” and some of Poe’s most famous poems, letters written by and to Poe, books belonging to Poe (including the author’s annotated copies of the Tales and Poems and Eureka), sheet music for songs based on Poe’s works, and various portraits of Poe. The Koester Collection was acquired by the Center in 1966.
Most of the collection from the exhibit once belonged to William H. Koester (1888-1964), who lived in Baltimore and began collecting Poe items in the 1930s.
So I was Googling various nonsense to see what would come up via Google images whilst I read my morning emails and sipped my thinking juice (aka: coffee). Eventually I found this gem of a picture;
Behold! The Vaderatrix! Alluring yet frightening! Disturbing yet awesome! I mean come on, she (or he ’cause one never knows) even has the life-support doohickey and the utility belt. All that’s missing is the whip and a bottle of Astroglide. Once again this proves that geeks are some of the kinkiest freaks on this green rock.
I’m sure this picture has already made the rounds but hell, how can I not share something like this? I have no idea where the original photo comes from, so if you know let me know, but from the looks of it the shot was probably taken at a convention. Shocker I know.
Certainly puts a new twist to the famous Star Wars quote “And now, your highness, we will discuss the location of your hidden rebel base… “
So this past weekend I attended the National Haunters Convention, which took place at the Valley Forge Convention Center right outside of Philly. It’s a mix of a Haunted Attraction trade show and Halloween enthusiast show and included a tour of a local haunt named the Bates Motel and Haunted Hayride. There was a lot going on for me including running a class. A fun time was had by all.
And ’cause I’m a glutton for punishment, Sunday was the 4th annual Philly Zombie Crawl on South Street. My guess, and it’s just that, is that we had some 400 zombies wandering around South Street from bar to bar. All in all it was pretty successful. Being that I’m one of the organizer monkeys there was a lot going on for me. A fun time was had by all.
Sooo… Instead of going through all of the details of both events you can peruse all of the photographs I took this past weekend. Think of it as a gruesome picture book instead of me being a lazy bum.
Click the above shot to see the whole set of photos from the National Haunters Con.
Click the above shot to see the whole set of photos from the Philly Zombie Crawl.
Fellow blogger, geek and really good friend of mine Hugh Casey has a fantastic site for those who have a fine appreciation of sexy geeks. PrettyGeek.net features various photographs of geeks in nerdtastic outfits ranging from the infamous Princes Leia slave girl bikini to pirates. If it’s a part of geek culture it’s probably going to make its way onto this blog. There’s nothing naughty about this site and is all around work safe, which for some I guess is a bit of a let-down. But hey, naked geeks isn’t what PrettyGeek.net is about. It is in fact all about showing the masses that geeks aren’t all a bunch of unwashed, unkempt, uncouth, socially inept freaks that live in their parent’s basement. Many can be pretty damned swank -and- frigging hot.
I have no idea what the context of this photo is, but I just can’t stop laughing at it non the less. It looks like the monkey on the left is yelling “I said sit the hell down or I’m gonna beat the honky out of you!”
Photographer bre pettis took a trip to the Technisches museum in Vienna. There he took a series of photographs of the “30 Ways to Die of Electrocution” exhibition. Now you’ll know at least 30 means of shocking yourself to death. And knowing is half the battle…
Keith Loutit is a wizard in tilt-shift and time-laps photography. Above is his newest video “Meal Heart” which documents a monster truck event in Australia.
And no, you’re not looking at miniatures. It’s an actual event with real people, cars, trucks and one flaming truckosaurus.
Last weekend was the 2009 Philly Zombie Prom, of which I help organize and DJ. My partners in crime are legendary DJ Robert Drake (WXPN‘s Land of the Lost and Kids Corner) and bartender extraordinaire Melissa Torre (Tattood Mom and Sugar Mom), and the event takes place at the historical Trocadero Theatre. Along with the bands Live Not on Evil and The Young Werewolves, Henry David ringin in Halloween, and the crowning of the Zombie Prom King and Queen, it’s a pretty big opening to the Halloween season here in Philly. How big you may ask. How about over 900 zombies worth of big? Yeah, pretty sweet. Below are the few shots I was able to take. You can find a bunch more here, here, here, and here.
I’m a big fan of Edgar Allen Poe, which I’m sure you would have guessed easily. So it comes as no surprise then that I was happy to find out that the Harry Ransom Center of the University of Texas now houses a rather large digital archive of manuscripts and letters created by Edger Allen Poe. Named 
