26 October 2011

Thats Different.





Slowly over the years Halloween has become more widely celebrated here in Australia. Its just another evening for me and in truth, unless I see the kids trick or treating I wouldnt even recall that it was Halloween. 

I saw these pictures online and thought how awesome they were. 

So .. this Halloween, if you normally have a Jack o'Lantern why not aspire to create something similar to this.... good luck.

9 comments:

  1. awesome art to be seen online..I have sooo enjoyed the food network and their Halloween Cooking Challenges...just amazing

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  2. Hi Heather. Cant say that I have seen the Halloween Cooking Challenges.. perhaps they may have some segments on line ( Youtube?) I will check them out at some stage.

    A few years ago I came accross a site which showed some very realistic cosmetic art that could be made with flour and food colour.. burns, scars and wounds.. they looked SO real but I thought great for adults.. not so great ..more like terrifying for the kids. If I can find it I will dig it up and post the link here.. I dont think I created a blog of it at the time cause I was too busy.

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  3. lol..ok..will look out for it...

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  4. We've already got our small, traditional-looking jack-o-lantern -- the first we have made in years, and only becaise the ten-year-old wanted it!

    In Jamaica, before we came here, October 31 was just another day. In my house, it still is, mostly...well aside from the fact that it's my birthday, but that's neither here nor there!

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  5. ive been seeing pumpkin carvings from friends in usa, they do some amazing stuff. I priced a large carving pumpkin in Coles last Sunday, it would have cost $25, had second thoughts lol

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  6. Does the A in USA stand for Australia? It's getting that way isn't it?!

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  7. Finding it annoying that Australians think its only an American tradition, and not accepting its Celtic... even the newspapers get it wrong.

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  8. Yes but the Celts used Turnips, not pumpkins - as far as I recall...

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  9. While there is a belief that Halloween is Celtic, there were a number of celtic groups and the celebration of Samhain is probably mostly Irish although Welsh and Scottish folklore reference it. The association with the dead and supernatural occurances is a Christian phenomena with no reference to it in pre-Christian Celtic lore. In fact Halloween may have closer links to the Roman festival of the dead (Parentalia) than the Celtic Samhain.

    Even the term Halloween is not particularly historical dating back to about the sixteenth century. Pumpkins weren't used until the nineteenth century and that is a uniquely American concept.

    "Trick or treating" or "guising" dates back to the middle ages and was most commonly done at Christmas, when the poor would dress up and go door to door begging for food or coins.

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