2003

This was the year I decided to decorate my front yard for Halloween. I wanted "Spooky" (Atmosphere) and not "Horror" (Blood, Gore, and Guts, and veins in my teeth"), so I had to pick and choose my displays. My first shot was the

Flying Crank Ghost

This is sort of an automated, life size marionette. It came out quite nicely and I floated it in front of my garage door. It actually stopped traffic in the street and I got lots of people coming over just to look at it.

I've included two wmv files to give an idea of what this thing looked like. Unfortunately, the video didn't pick up the glow caused by simple reflection of the black light off the white, non-glowing, garage door. That glow added an other-worldly look to the whole thing. I ran the FCG for about 3 hours without a hitch.

I plan on creating for 2004 a wall crypt (a la New Orleans) as a backdrop and have already constructed a Cemetery Fence to go around it.