Friday, July 16, 2010

Found it!

Sorry I've been absent lately.

I have been trying to get some video for everyone -- it's footage from decades ago at Gram's house and it's really cool -- but I've wasted two days trying to convert the .vob files to any other type that will work with my video editor and is compatible with Blogger's uploading scheme.

After much hair pulling, I've decided to let it go for now. It's probably a matter of uninstalling/reinstalling something or other and rebooting a trillion times, and I'm not in the mood now!

BUT on a much, much happier (and constructive!) note, I've found a very elegant and exciting (to me anyway!) answer to my 'what's the main theme for this year's display?' question.

See, the past decade's been pretty easy as far as coming up with a theme -- most of the time, I'd already been aware of things like upcoming anniversaries of my favorite films, the Haunted Mansion, blockbuster movies, and so on.

But so far this year there wasn't anything like that especially looming on the dim, misty Hallowe'en horizon, and other than my odd little robo-skeleto-mad-doctor head, I hadn't made anything new yet. A little strange for me, and it was getting worrisome.

But last night, a dream insinuated itself into my slumberous oblivion, and as if it had been inked by the very same quill he did himself use to scrawl his masterpieces, a vision came to me... let me put it so:


Once, upon a summer's evening
While I labored, nearly weeping
Over many a corrupted codec bit of editing bore;
From out my scalp my hair was falling
With all the un- and reinstalling
Suddenly, I felt a calling --
A calling to my pillow...  *snore!*

Into my slumber, at first dreamless,
There came a sudden vision seamless --
Tombs and skulls and reddened Death and long-lost-loves in tow;
And in this dream, my house and gard'
Became a poet's dark boneyard --
My theme this year will be the Bard of Horror:

E. A. POE!
(Bill Murray should've portrayed him when he was the right age!)

It was an incredible dream, where among the usual props and decorations, there stood a pendulum, and a recently un-bricked wall behind which slumped a dead woman and a living black cat; tearing from her coffin a sickly woman buried prematurely; and nearly hiding along a far wall, under a red lantern light, a scarlet-robed figure of Death "untenanted of any tangible form."

I woke up just about jumping out of bed. 

No special reason for the theme, I suppose, except that Edgar Allan Poe rocks and other than the well-known daguerreotype portrait here in the Gallery (over there to your left, give it a click!) I've never really tributed him before.

Maybe Uncle Forry will recite The Raven, or maybe the Great Pumpkin will do it. Or maybe... oh! that's an even better idea than either of those... this is going to be great!


Lost Lenores and Berenices,
Ravens, cats and other species
Haunting, stalking, brooding from the quill of their creator.
I can't wait to start the task
-- "Can you do it?"
--  Need you ask?
I promise pictures, and maybe (maybe!) video to come later!

I was trying to fit 'nevermore' in there somewhere but... my brain hurts now!

Glad I've found my theme. Now the work play begins.


DDSPoe!

5 comments:

  1. Agreed! Poe is the Bard. What a fantastic theme. I carved a very cool Nevermore monument years ago, still put it up front in my display, one of my favorite pieces.

    So looking foward to your creations!

    Cheers!

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  2. A Poe theme sounds Amazing, Genius ! Can't wait to see what you come up with!

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  3. I hope not to disappoint! I'm ordering a few materials and things I don't already have on hand (which isn't very much; we are haunters after all!) and am designing and thinking all kinds of things... this one really has my blood going today, haha! I'm sure you know the feeling! Oh, and welcome to the S&P, Auburn-haired-artist! You get your libations free tonight, cheers and DDSP!

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  4. THIS IS A FANTASTIC IDEA!!!!!!!!
    cella approves.
    ps - this is cella, haha.
    too bad i live across the country and cant come see it in person.

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  5. CELLA! SO glad you found your way to our little pub! Yeah, we're half a country apart but that's why the S&P is here -- all of us can gather here every so often, and certainly it allows you to see my Hallowe'en stuff even if you can't be there in person... sit down, relax, and have a little somethin'-somethin'. We can while away the time as we plot World Domination.

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