Born at Midnight on Devil’s night from a mother with a jack-o-lantern painted on her belly and with an obstetrician wearing werewolf feet, it’s easier to understand my favorite holiday. I’ve always had a love for a specific variety of Halloween aesthetic. More spooky or eerie, never gory or gross, and ideally more refined. Here’s a collection of some of my work related specifically to the Halloween tradition.

As part of the 2004 Halloween weekend at Crobar nightclub, The VIP suite was overtaken by angry jack-o-lanterns and featured this silly film loop.

In 2001, Disneyland introduced the Nightmare Before Christmas elaborate holiday overlay to their Haunted Mansion attraction. In the section normally featuring the beloved bust statues singing “Grim Grinning Ghosts“, they are replaced with singing, animated jack-o-lanterns covering them. In 2009 I first replicated this effect in my courtyard for Halloween. I think that viewing this sort of high-end special effect in an every day environment is extra surprising and entertaining.

This is an effect borrowed from Disney’s Haunted Mansion and originally replicated by me in 2002 with a Bust of Beethoven and David lip-syncing to the Beastie Boys “you gotta fight for your right to party”. Here is my 2012 version utilizing new technology and a brand new content.  Many thanks to Jay Fechtman for reprising his role. I love the results! Twice as fun in person!

Originated for an installation at Crobar nightclub, I’ve obtained a lot of mileage out of complete and component aspects of this effect.  Part of it’s effectiveness is the black light effect on the green frame, which creates a glow that is replicated by the specially processed video, which makes the video of the face appear less like video. I have also had a great deal of fun using the face content with portable pico projectors, making the eerie face appear in museums, theme parks blowing the minds of many perplexed people.