This video is a "lights on" walk-thru of DryRot Gulch. Just to show the props. Tour starts with The Sentinel. This was, of course, inspired by Master Pumpkinrot. You can't tell form the pictures or video, but the left arm of that prop was actually engineered as a puppet, so a hidden actor could "grab" patrons. For the Nervous Nellies out there, the hand is made entirely of furniture foam, so it's the ...
This is one of the scarecrows from this year's DryRot Gulch. The head and torso are paper mache, with a blindfold of faux barb wire. The torso is paper mache formed over a skeleton. The skull is a plastic prop skull I spray-glued some distressed fabric to. As previously mentioned, I made barb wire out of twine. ...
Updated 01-30-2021 at 01:36 PM by DryRot
I just got a copy of SCARECROWS by Avon Neal and Ann Parker. I first heard about this book from the Pumpkinrot Blog. When I admire someone's work, I want to be inspired by them, but even more, to be inspired by what inspired THEM! I guess I'm like Jon Favreau in that one small way. Mr. Favreau created the wildly popular series "The Mandalorian" in large part by going back to the Samurai and Western movies that inspired George Lucas. ...
For Christmas this year I got a friend a cookbook. I happened to know he is a fan of Vincent Price and a fan of Bruce Campbell and the Evil Dead series. So this time when I was looking for a gift I bought him the Vincent Price Cooking Price-Wise cookbook. I decided to give it a Necronomicon style book cover just to make it interesting. How to do this is readily available all over the net, so I'll ...
Updated 01-20-2021 at 05:08 PM by JustJimAZ
I am a big fan of Pumpkinrot. Big Fan. I just love what he accomplishes with his displays. Among my favorites are his "Sentinels". This my interpretations of it. I wanted to do something I had never seen done before. I decided to illuminate the Jack o'Lantern head not with a candle or electric tealight. I decided to put "hot coals" inside, since I'd never seen that done. It's weird, when you think about it. The original "lantern" ...
Updated 10-01-2020 at 05:12 AM by DryRot