This weekend I’ll be helping to make Halloween costumes for the kids. My preferred medium, for the last six years or so, has been cutting, glueing and painting upholstery foam. You can make just about anything with it. The kids love to design everything – from their costumes to the pumpkins we carve. Halloween’s a great opportunity for rampant free expression and culturally condoned eccentricity.
Last weekend we put up all the Halloween decorations. The kids love this stuff, very fun. Yesterday we saw The Corpse Bride and The Were-Rabbit all in the same day at the same theater – two stop-motion feature-length movies. I don’t know if that’s a first in motion picture history. And then coming to work this morning it was terrible to learn about the fire at Aardman, where the Were-Rabbit movie was made.
Somewhere in Culver City, California…
Sunday afternoon sitting on our porch. After I started this I suddenly realized it has a lot in common with my Purple Gate watercolor, even though several years and miles separate them.
He’s looking up information having to do with Legend of Kay, the new PlayStation game he’s crazy about. We try to limit how much he plays – usually weekends only, and after chores; but one thing I do like is that he draws a lot of the stuff in the game, characters, etc. Notice the sheets of paper behind him. His drawings of General Grievous and Briarios he taped up, like a mini-gallery of scary cyborgs.
This is one of our favorite lunch places.
Anthony Zierhut 
