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| Halloween's biggest fan is artist / filmmaker Tim Burton! |
ART for
HALLOWEEN
Costume Ideas:
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| This Armored All Terrain Star Wars POOCH costume went viral on the Web. |
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| Actual Star Wars Armored All Terrain Transports (art from wikipedia) |
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| Glow-stick people |
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| Bathing Beauties in Balloon Bubbles |
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| Fun with Paper Mache (formed over a balloon with acrylic paint) |
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| This guy enjoyed making dioramas in elementary school! |
Last minute costume idea!
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| HOW TO FACE PAINT! Create a black & white skull face for a fast Halloween costume. Just add a long sleeve black hoodie and black pants. |
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| Graftobian Costumes Skull Makeup Kit $20.99 at www.drugstore.com |
TIM BURTON
The Dark Knight of Art & Film!
If there ever was an artist who loved Halloween as a child and then never grew up, it is Tim Burton. He has become the "Edgy Disney" of Gothic and German Expressionistic aesthetics. His focus is on dark fables, fairy tales and fantasies. Last year MoMA NY featured his artworks and films in a one-man exhibition. Most of us know Burton for his stop-motion animated films (claymation) like Nightmare Before Christmas and his other fantasy feature films.
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| Tim Burton at his exhibition. |
So many characters in his films look as though the character stuck their finger into a light socket - as you can see, that wild hair is very much like Burton's own hairdo!
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| Tim Burton's Official Website - http://www.timburton.com |
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| Exhibition Catatlog |
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| Exhibition entrance at MoMA. |
Tim Burton's "Halloween Flavored" Films:
• Beetlejuice (1988)
• Edward Scissorhands (1990)
• Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
• Edward Scissorhands (1990)
• Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
• Mars Attacks! (1996)
• Sleepy Hollow (1999)
• Corpse Bride (2005)
• Sleepy Hollow (1999)
• Corpse Bride (2005)
• Sweeney Todd:
The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
Other Films:
• Batman (1989)
• Ed Wood (1994)
• Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985)
• Batman Returns (1992)
• Planet of the Apes (2001)
• Big Fish (2003)
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
• Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Early Short Films:
• Vincent (1982) about Vincent Price
• Frankenweenie (1984)
Music Video:
• Bones for The Killers (2006)
Graphic Book:
• The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy
and Other Stories (1997)
3-D Collectibles:
• Tim Burton’s Tragic Toys for Girls and Boys (2003)
Have your own party!
Consider renting some movies and have your own party. See the POSTSCRIPT section at the end.
HALLOWEEN
FOOD
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| Gummy body parts made to look like Sushi from Candy Warehouse. |
SPOOKI SUSHI
for your party!
for your party!
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Halloween Party WINE!
SPANISH DEMON TEMPRANILLO $10
Label "Art" fits the name!
Mixed reviews for taste:
1) "Delicious"
2) "Tastes Like Hell"
Made 100% of the grape variety Tempranillo coming from 25 year old family-owned vineyards, which belong to the family San Pedro, located close to Laguardia, a Medieval village in the heart of Rioja Alavesa, Spain.
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| German Riesling in Cat shaped bottles. |
BLACK CAT RIESLING $12
Mosalland 2007 Riesling, Mosel-Saar-Ruwer, Cat Bottles 750ml
Bottles are fun and filled with a good quality German Riesling. Bottles are available in Black & Red. (For other occasions also available in White, Blue, Green, and Pink cat shaped bottles.)
Cost Plus World Market
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THE VELVET DEVIL MERLOT $12
PURE VELVET! Taste comments: Milk chocolate, wild blackberry, baking spice, rose oil... beautifully perfumed velvet in a glass...!
Charles Smith Wines
35 South Spokane St
Walla Walla, WA
509-526-5267
http://www.charlessmithwines.com
Until later,
Jack
ARTSnFOOD All rights reserved. Concept & Original Text © copyright 2011 Jack A. Atkinson under all International intellectual property and copyright laws. Images are © copyright individual artists, fabricators, respective owners or assignees.
POSTSCRIPT
Films relating to Tim Burton.
Pee-wee’s Big Adventure. 1985.
With his first feature, Burton established himself as a director with a unique personal style. Pee-wee embarks on a cross country search for his missing bicycle, a scenario that allows Burton to indulge in whimsical set pieces and extravagant sight gags. Like the elaborate Rube Goldberg–esque contraption (a familiar Burton motif) that facilitates Pee-wee’s morning routine, the simple plot unfolds in visually complex ways, culminating in a zany ride through the Warner Bros. back lot. 90 min.
Beetlejuice. 1988.
A recently deceased small-town couple are required to haunt their own house for 125 years, but when they are unable to frighten the insufferable urbanites who move in, they hire a “bio-exorcist” to reclaim their home. The director’s cynical version of hell as a bureaucratic waiting room is leavened by such sophomorically gruesome delights as shrunken heads and flattened
corpses, creating an atmosphere that shuttles between the world-weary attitudes of adulthood and the unbridled imaginative possibilities of youth. 92 min.
Batman. 1989.
Eschewing the campiness of the popular 1960s TV show, Burton’s cerebral, witty take on the Caped Crusader reinvigorated the Batman franchise. Burton, along with production designer Anton Furst, applied his eye for inventive set design to psychologically darker material than in his previous films to create an iconically twisted, phantasmagorical Gotham City. 126 min.
Vincent. 1982. Screenplay by Tim Burton, Voice of Vincent Price.
In this stop-motion animated short, a bored suburban boy imagines a world worthy of Edgar Allan Poe. 6 min.
Edward Scissorhands. 1990.
Arguably Burton’s most personal film, Edward Scissorhands delves into one of his most recurrent themes: disconnection from the world at large and the search for true identity. Incapable of directly touching others with his razor-sharp fingers, Edward is the physical manifestation of spiritual isolation. When a kind Avon lady discovers him and introduces him to suburbia, his ability to shape things—hedges, hair, ice—into wondrous sculptures engenders a brief welcome. But his
acceptance is short-lived in this parable of teenage angst and alienation. 105 min.
Batman Returns. 1992.
The sequel surpasses the original as Burton plumbs deeper into the Dark Knight’s psyche. The complex villains Catwoman (a mousy secretary who unleashes her inner ferocity) and the Penguin (who embraces his penchant for chaos while secretly craving the acceptance he never received from his parents) contribute surprising emotional depth to the comic-book setting. 126 min.
Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas. 1993.
With its ghoulish imagery and manic-depressive antihero, The Nightmare Before Christmas straddles the line between grim children’s fable and gentle horror story. Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town, has grown weary of his crown. Obsessed with his recent discovery of this thing called “Christmas,”
he attempts to shake off his malaise by usurping the mantle of “Sandy Claws” instead. 76 min.
Frankenweenie. 1984.
Transporting Mary Shelley’s classic tale to Southern California, Burton imagines Frankenstein’s monster in the form of a reanimated family pet. 29 min.
Ed Wood. 1994.
In this offbeat biopic, Burton depicts the titular “World’s Worst Director” with equal amounts of mockery and sympathy. Although unquestionably portrayed as a filmmaker who relied more on gumption than talent, Burton’s Ed Wood is also an earnest man with an absolute belief in his vision and craft. Armed with pure optimism in the face of abject humiliation and rejection, he is Burton’s nod to unwavering artistic integrity. 127 min.
Mars Attacks! 1996.
Aliens (of the green, bulbous-brained, bug-eyed variety) come to Earth, and they do not come in peace. Burton’s hilarious homage to—and parody of—1950s sci-fi B-movies features an ensemble of A-list actors who gamely inhabit outrageous characters. 106 min.
Sleepy Hollow. 1999.
Burton’s film transforms Irving’s folktale into a supernatural whodunit, and the original meek schoolteacher, Ichabod Crane, into a priggish New York City constable who is sent up the Hudson River to investigate a series of bizarre murders. The film’s macabre humor melds perfectly with the “stylized naturalism” of Burton’s sumptuous production. 105 min.
Planet of the Apes. 2001.
Burton’s adaptation of Boulle’s novel about humans in an ape-dominated world features one of his main character archetypes. Astronaut Leo Davidson crash lands on a foreign planet and finds himself a misunderstood outcast among the native humans and their simian masters. 119 min.
Big Fish. 2003.
On his deathbed, Edward Bloom retells his life through exaggerated tall tales. This lifelong habit of subjective recollection alienates him from his son Will, who longs to know his “real” father. Burton’s adaptation shifts the focus toward the elder Bloom, a character who fits the mold of Burton’s archetypical flawed and imperfect, yet revered, father. 125 min.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. 2005.
Simultaneously one of Burton’s funniest and most poignant films, this perfect union of the sensibilities of Burton and Dahl is filled with unapologetic whimsy, a delight in gruesome humor, and the enduring appeal of the fancies and freedoms of childhood. 115 min.
Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride. 2005.
For his second feature-length stop-motion film, Burton transformed a nineteenth-century European folktale about a man caught between two women—one breathing, one not so much— into a musical filled with exquisitely crafted characters who prove that what appears frightening is often just misunderstood. 76 min.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. 2007.
Burton’s version of a romantic comedy, his film adaptation of Sondheim’s tale of tonsorial terror is replete with the filmmaker’s recurrent visual and thematic motifs. The musical numbers allow for fantastic set pieces that alternate between light and dark, revelatory and horrific, and the twisted narrative sets comedy amid the grotesque. 116 min.
OTHER FILMS
The Omega Man. 1971.
When asked to choose the one film he would bring to a deserted island, Tim Burton playfully recalled this story of the last man on earth. The only human not transformed by a viral epidemic into a light-sensitive creature of the night, Dr. Robert Neville (Heston) walks a razor-thin line between losing his mind and becoming mankind’s savior. 98 min.
Jason and the Argonauts. 1963.
In search of the mythical Golden Fleece, Jason and the crew of the Argo face such perils as a living 100–foot statue, bat-winged harpies, and the seven-headed Hydra—all brought to life by exalted special-effects master Ray Harryhausen, one of Tim Burton’s childhood idols. “The stop- motion animation and the kind of reality and scale of it...was really amazing,” says Burton of the film, “[Harryhausen was able to] imbue his monsters with more emotion than most of the actors in those movies.” 104 min.
Mad Monster Party. 1967.
This Rankin/Bass stop-motion-animated musical features a campy cavalcade of classic horror characters, including Dracula, the Mummy, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, as they plot to gain control of Baron von Frankenstein’s secret weapon during a monster convention. The film’s pun- filled humor shares a kinship with the tone of Tim Burton’s 1980–1986 cartoon drawings. 95 min.
Frankenstein. 1931.
This classic Universal horror film, featuring the work of renowned make-up artist Jack Pierce, made an indelible imprint on the young Tim Burton. Frankenstein showcases Karloff as a sympathetic monster whose principal sin is his existence, a theme that resonates throughout many of Burton’s works. 71 min.
Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari). 1920.
In one of the landmark films of German Expressionism, a movement that greatly influenced Tim Burton’s visual style, the somnambulist Cesare commits murder under the control of the sinister Dr. Caligari. The theme of the reluctant villain plays a significant role in Burton’s films, in which characters like Catwoman and Sweeney Todd are made into monsters by the wickedness of others. Silent, with piano accompaniment. 71 min.
Murders in the Rue Morgue. 1932.
After the success of Dracula (1931), Universal cast Lugosi in this murder mystery, loosely based on Poe’s tale. With roots in Parisian Grand Guignol and hints of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, this film was also an influence on the B-movie director (and Tim Burton subject) Ed Wood, who paid homage to the film in his own Bride of the Monster. Ames plays a variation on Dupin, Poe’s seminal literary detective, who gave rise to the tropes and structure of the classic whodunit—a tradition very much embodied in the Ichabod Crane of Burton’s Sleepy Hollow. 61 min.
Dracula. 1931.
This classic adaptation of Stoker’s oft-filmed novel—and the film that kick-started Lugosi’s career
and Universal’s horror franchise—relies on tried-and-true horror tactics such as chiaroscuro, fog,
and dramatic reveals to conjure atmosphere and tension. 75 min.
The Raven. 1935.
A horror classic based on a story by the genre’s maestro and starring some of its heavy hitters, The Raven also borrows some torturous delights from another Poe masterpiece, “The Pit and the Pendulum,” and features prominently in Burton’s Vincent (1982). 61 min.
Plan 9 from Outer Space. 1959.
Aliens attempt to take over Earth by bringing Southern Californian corpses to life. One of Hollywood’s most legendary cinematic fiascos, Plan 9 was famously proclaimed the worst movie ever made, and it helped elevate Ed Wood to infamy as the “World’s Worst Director.” 79 min.
Glen or Glenda. 1953.
“Glen did wear the dress to the Halloween party. He even took first prize. Then one day, it wasn’t Halloween any longer.” This unintentionally hilarious, quasi-autobiographical faux docu-drama preached for social change and the acceptance of transvestitism. Despite its seemingly random overuse of superimposition and stock footage, plodding dialogue, stilted line readings, and a superfluously-cast Lugosi as an omnipotent puppet master, the film’s true delight lies in its utter earnestness. 65 min.
Bride of the Monster. 1955.
Well-known for the production crew’s unauthorized borrowing of a studio prop octopus for its role as the titular monster, this entertainingly inept film features Lugosi—in a dignified performance conjuring up Dracula magnetism—as an evil scientist who plots to create superhumans using an atomic machine. 69 min.
Pit and the Pendulum. 1961.
Vincent Price, Tim Burton’s childhood idol and professional muse, stars in this psychologically and viscerally terrifying tale of torture, in which the (Spanish Inquisitorial) sins of the father are revisited upon the son. 80 min.
The Mummy’s Hand. 1940.
In this horror comedy, archeologists uncover the tomb of an Egyptian princess only to find it accompanied by a deadly protector. Despite being produced at Universal—and featuring footage of Boris Karloff—The Mummy’s Hand was not a direct sequel to Karl Freund’s The Mummy (1932); the film set out to create its own franchise showcasing the mummy Kharis. 67 min.
The Creature from the Black Lagoon. 1954.
Remarkable for its cinematography, this archetypal Universal monster movie pits the iconic half-man / half-fish creature against voyagers on the Amazon. 79 min.
The Mummy’s Tomb. 1942.
This sequel to The Mummy’s Hand finds the undead Kharis terrorizing the remaining members of an Egyptian archaeological expedition in America. 60 min.
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth. 1970.
This Hammer Films action-adventure love story, set in a fantastical prehistory in which cavemen coexist with dinosaurs, is remarkable for Jim Danforth’s stop-motion special effects. Tim Burton recalls standing in line for this film as a child, and it inspired his own amateur stop-motion short film The Island of Dr. Agor (1971). 96 min.
Revenge of the Creature. 1955.
The Creature from the Black Lagoon finds love in this sequel, which transports the horror from the Amazon to Florida. 82 min.
The Towering Inferno. 1974.
Based on the novels The Tower by Richard Martin Stern, and The Glass Inferno by Thomas N. Scortia, the world’s tallest building catches fire on opening night, placing its occupants in mortal peril. With a cavalcade of stars and stunning special effects, over-the-top disaster spectacles such as The Towering Inferno were satirized by Burton in Mars Attacks!. 165 min.
Nosferatu. 1922.
Based on the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker, a significant German Expressionist film, this adaptation is distinguished by Schreck’s magnificently eerie and ghoulish performance and Murnau’s inventive treatment of Stoker’s material. Silent,
with piano accompaniment. 81 min.
The Swarm. 1978.
This Irwin Allen disaster movie unleashes killer bees on an A-list cast. A sincere thriller marred by unintentional campiness, a pitfall of the genre, Burton plays up films like The Swarm to comedic effect in Mars Attacks!. 116 min.
Earthquake. 1974.
Another disaster epic bloated with stars, a popular genre in the 1970s, Earthquake examines several personal stories during the course of a Los Angeles seismic event. Although character- focused, the main appeal of the film lies with the monster quake and its destruction. 123 min.
The Brain from Planet Arous. 1957.
An alien brain takes over the body of a nuclear scientist with plans of world domination. This 1950s sci-fi/horror mainstay features the masterful work of monster make-up artist Jack Pierce. 71 min.
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad. 1949.
Based on The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame, and
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving - narrated by Bing Crosby.
The work of Disney’s core animators during its golden age (the famous “Nine Old Men,” a term coined by Walt Disney himself) and with visual effects by Ub Iwerks, The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad is one of the seminal and influential films of the studio’s animation department. Burton, who started his career as a Disney animator during the end days of this golden age, was clearly inspired by this film’s priggish, nervous Ichabod Crane in his own Sleepy Hollow adaptation. 68 min.
Scream Blacula Scream. 1973.
At the neighborhood movie theater, Burton spent much of his childhood watching films such as this blaxploitation horror film, and sequel to Blacula (1972), which finds the titular black prince of shadows awakened by voodoo powers to stalk the earth once again. 96 min.
The Brain that Wouldn’t Die. 1962.
This gory horror film finds a mad scientist attempting to attach his fiancée's severed, but living, head to a functional body. Severed heads appear as a common motif in Burton’s works, and his predilection may have been informed by a childhood influenced by films such as The Brain that Wouldn’t Die. 82 min.
Tex Avery cartoons
The humor and characters in Tex Avery cartoons find resonance and compatriots in Beetlejuice, Batman, and Mars Attacks!.
Invaders from Mars. 1953.
Aliens suck victims underground and reprogram their brains to do their bidding in this 1950s sci-fi classic. Invaders from Mars is remarkable for its portrayal of a child as the main protagonist and hero against alien-modified adults, and reflects the conflict between childhood and adulthood, a theme often seen in Burton’s works. 78 min.
20 Million Miles to Earth. 1957.
In this science-fiction fantasy, with monster effects by Ray Harryhausen, an American spaceship returning from Venus crash lands on Earth and releases a creature that wreaks havoc yet simultaneously elicits sympathy as it just wants to be left alone. "Ray Harryhausen really is a master. His work—his animation was so beautiful. The creature in 20 Million Miles to Earth—I love that creature" (Burton). 82 min.
(Sources: wikipedia, MoMA Press Department, Annual New York City Village Halloween Parade website, Marilyn Manson music video, Tim Burton's Officail Website)
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