Japan: Nazi-Like Costumes Cause Backlash
Posted: November 8, 2016 Filed under: Asia, Health and Social Issues, Japan | Tags: Adolf Hitler, Antisemitism, Apartheid, Costume, Halloween, Japan, Nazism, Yasushi Akimoto Leave a comment
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Keyakizaka 46 girls group provoked an international backlash over their use of Halloween costumes looking like Nazi military uniforms in an event in Yokohama on Oct. 22.
The U.S.-based Simon Wiesenthal Center, which monitors anti-Semitism movements, issued a statement on Monday demanding an apology from Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc., which the group belongs to, and its producer, Yasushi Akimoto.
The center called the costumes, including black cloaks and uniform caps with eagle emblems, “inappropriate and deeply offensive.” Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] 50BMG vs Pumpkins
Posted: November 2, 2016 Filed under: Entertainment, Guns and Gadgets, Mediasphere | Tags: firearms, Guns, Halloween, Pumpkins, video Leave a comment
Halloween Candy in Japan, 2016
Posted: October 31, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Asia, Food & Drink, Japan | Tags: Candy, Halloween, Japan, Photography, Shopping, Yokohama Leave a comment
[VIDEO] The Answer to All Your Problems: Howling Wolf Mask
Posted: October 24, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Humor | Tags: Archie McPhee, Costume, Halloween, Mask, Wolf, Wolf mask Leave a comment
History of Halloween
Posted: October 19, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, History | Tags: 12-hour clock, Americanization, Autumn leaf color, Bonfire Night, Bram Stoker, Costume, Halloween, Jack-O-Lantern, Pumpkin Leave a comment
Halloween is the season for little ghosts and goblins to take to the streets, asking for candy and scaring one another silly. Spooky stories are told around fires, scary movies appear in theaters and pumpkins are expertly (and not-so-expertly) carved into jack-o’-lanterns.
Amid the silly and scary antics, Halloween is much more than just costumes and candy; in fact, the holiday has a rich and interesting history.
Halloween, also known as All Hallows’ Eve, can be traced back about 2,000 years to a pre-Christian Celtic festival held around Nov. 1 called Samhain (pronounced “sah-win”), which means “summer’s end” in Gaelic, according to the Indo-European Etymological Dictionaries.
Because ancient records are sparse and fragmentary, the exact nature of Samhain is not fully understood, but it was an annual communal meeting at the end of the harvest year, a time to gather resources for the winter months and bring animals back from the pastures…(read more)
Source: archaelogicalnews
‘The Wolf Man’
Posted: October 18, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment | Tags: Cinema, Halloween, Horror, Movie Stills, Movies, Photography, The Wolf Man, Thriller, Title Cards, vintage Leave a comment
Source: Mudwerks
‘Hair-Raising Hare’: Bugs Bunny
Posted: October 16, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment | Tags: Animation, Bugs Bunny, Cartoons, Halloween, Horror, Thriller, Warner Bros Leave a comment
Source: Mudwerks
Vintage Halloween: Old Photos of Clowns You Might Not Want to Meet at Night
Posted: October 13, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, History | Tags: Clowns, Halloween, Photography Leave a comment
[PHOTO] The Munsters, 1964
Posted: October 30, 2015 Filed under: Entertainment | Tags: 1960s, comedy, Halloween, Photography, Television, The Munsters, TV, vintage 1 Comment
Cheers! It’s National Candy Corn Day!
Posted: October 30, 2015 Filed under: Entertainment, Food & Drink | Tags: Candy, Dessert, Halloween, Holiday, National Candy Corn Day, Trick or Treat Leave a comment
Galápagos Tortoise Pumpkin Party!
Posted: October 29, 2015 Filed under: Entertainment, Food & Drink, Mediasphere | Tags: Galápagos, Galápagos Tortoise, Halloween, Nature, Pumpkin, Tumblr, video Leave a commentEnergy Department Identifies New Global Threat: Pumpkins Cause Climate Change
Posted: October 29, 2015 Filed under: Global, Science & Technology | Tags: Alaska, Barack Obama, Climate change, Department of Energy, Exit Glacier, Halloween, Jack-O-Lantern, Kenai Fjords National Park, Pumpkins Leave a comment
How scary are your jack-o’-lanterns? Scarier than you think, according to the Energy Department, which is claiming the holiday squash is responsible for unleashing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere…(read more)
Source: Washington Times
[PHOTO] Doris Day, Halloween
Posted: October 28, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment | Tags: 1940s, 1950s, Cinema, Doris Day, Glamour, Halloween, Holiday, Hollywood, Movies, Music, Photography Leave a comment
Homage To Psycho: A Halloweenization of Shower Interrupted, Art by Al Buell
Posted: October 28, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment | Tags: design, Halloween, Hitchcock, Homage, Horror, Illustration, Mystery, Painting, Psycho, suspense, Thriller Leave a comment
A Homage To Psycho. A Halloweenization of Shower Interrupted, art by Al Buell.
Charles Schultz: ‘The Great Pumpkin’
Posted: October 27, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment | Tags: Animation, Charles Schultz, Halloween, Illustration, Movies, Peanuts, Poster Art, Television, The Great Pumpkin Leave a comment
Mickey Mouse in the Haunted House
Posted: October 23, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment, Mediasphere | Tags: Animation, Disney, Ghosts, Halloween, Horror, vintage Leave a commentMAD Magazine Halloween Issue, 1960
Posted: October 23, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment | Tags: 1960s, Cartoons, Comic Books, Halloween, Illustration, Mad Magazine, Magazines, satire, vintage Leave a comment
Here’s Your Head What’s Your Hurry?
Posted: October 22, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment | Tags: Dolls, Halloween, novelty, Photography, toys, vintage Leave a comment
Answer: No, Unless They Are Zombies
Posted: October 22, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment | Tags: Cartoon, Comic Panel, design, Halloween, Illustration, Lettering, Skeletons, Spooky, vintage Leave a comment
Halloween is Coming
Posted: October 21, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment | Tags: Cartoon, design, Greeting Card, Halloween, Holiday, Horror, Illustration, Spooky, vintage Leave a comment
[PHOTOS] Spooky Halloween Nail Set
Posted: October 19, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Mediasphere | Tags: Archie McPhee, Australia, fashion, Fingernails, Get Buffed Nails, Halloween, Sarah Elmaz, Spooky Leave a comment
The Department of Magnificent Manicures is feverishly making plans for their Halloween fingers thanks to this awesomely inspiring Spooky Halloween nail set created by Australian nail artist Sarah Elmaz of Get Buffed Nails. The nails on her left hand are alternately delightfully creepy and impressively gory. Even though we know it’s not real, it’s still hard to look at that bloody screw for more than a moment. Meanwhile the nails on Elmaz’a right hand have been done to look like sections of a Ouija board, complete with a tiny planchette on her middle finger. Perfect for Halloween part séances.
Follow Get Buffed Nails on Instagram to check out more of Elmaz’s outstanding nail art.
[via Fashionably Geek]
Source: Archie McPhee’s
[PHOTO] Best ‘Day of the Dead’ Costume
Posted: October 14, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment | Tags: Costume, Day of the Dead, Dress, Halloween, Paper Plates, Plastic Utensils, Wedding dress Leave a comment
Check out this amazing Day of the Dead costume…The dress is skillfully made of “cups, plates, and plastic utensils.” (more here)
Source: Goli Mohammadi – MAKE magazine
Vintage Halloween: ‘Trick Or Treat’
Posted: October 14, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment | Tags: Black Cat, design, Halloween, Illustration, Trick or Treat, typography, vintage 1 Comment
Democratic Presidential Debates Underway
Posted: October 13, 2015 Filed under: Entertainment, Humor, Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: Baltimore, Bernie Sanders, Bewitched, CNN, Endora, Halloween, Hillary Clinton, LAS VEGAS, O'Malley, Parody, Presidential Election 2016, satire, Television, The Pantsuit Report, TV, Witchcraft 1 Comment
I Had the Spooky Halloween Black Burger
Posted: October 4, 2015 Filed under: Food & Drink | Tags: A1 Steak Sauce, Black Burger, Burger King, Fast food, Halloween, Hamburger, Whopper Leave a comment
It was good! Actually, it tasted like a regular Whopper. But the novelty was irresistible.
Read more…
- Burger King’s Black Bun Whopper Comes to America in Time for Halloween
- 黒ハンバーグ！BURGER IS THE NEW BLACK: Behold, the Kuro Pearl Burger
- More: Burger King Japan’s Burgers of Color
- おいしいです！サムライバーガー！Burger King to Debut Bright Red ‘Samurai Burgers’
Burger King’s Black Bun Whopper Comes to America in Time for Halloween
Posted: September 28, 2015 Filed under: Entertainment, Food & Drink, Japan, Mediasphere | Tags: A1 Steak Sauce, Big Mac, Black Burger, Bun, Burger King, Denny's, Halloween, Japan, Kuro Pearl Burger, McDonalds, Samurai Burger, Twitter, United States, Whopper 1 Comment
A.1. sauce gives bun its color
You don’t have to go to Japan to try Burger King’s black-bunned Whopper.
Burger King is bringing it to the U.S. just in time for Halloween. “Something wicked is coming,” announced the burger chain on Twitter, with a brief promo video featuring thunder and lightning and a lunar eclipse, with a burger standing in for the moon…
Not so new! Regular punditfromanotherplanet readers will recall our coverage of Japan’s introduction of the Kuro Pearl Burger…
And the Red Samurai Burger…
Extreme Identification Policy: Shanghai Market Lets Shoppers Track and Return Eggs
Posted: February 1, 2015 Filed under: Asia, China, Food & Drink | Tags: Bakersfield, Eggs, Food, Food and Drug Administration, Gala (apple), Halloween, Shanghai, Shelf life 1 Comment
A local food market named Miyunlu in Shanghai has started selling eggs with identification numbers on their shells to help consumers. According to reports, when shoppers find eggs that are out of date, they can instantly trace the item back to the original producing farm and date of the eggs.
Reports say that the Shanghai store’s eggs have gone through an additional strict sterilization process before being placed on the store’s shelves. Shoppers were also ensured that the eggs have no dirt on the exterior and that they have been coated with protective oils to extend the shelf life.
As a result, consumers are buying quality eggs with confidence, and are now able to receive compensation when returning damaged egg shells or out of date eggs to the market.
Betty Boop’s Halloween Party, 1933
Posted: November 18, 2014 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment | Tags: Animation, Betty Boop, Cartoons, Ghosts, Halloween, Movies, Pumpkins 1 Comment
Top 5 Halloween Bad Taste Award Winners
Posted: November 1, 2014 Filed under: Entertainment, Mediasphere | Tags: Bad Taste, Cigarettes, Costumes, Ebola, Halloween, Jack O'Lantern, Kool Aid, Pranks, Soviet Union, Whiskey 2 Comments
# 1 CIGARETTE BABY COSTUME
#2 EBOLA VIRUS COSTUME
#3 FAT GUY KOOL AID COSTUME
#4 JACK DANIELS AND MARLBORO FATHER & SON COSTUMES
#5 SOVIET JACK-‘O-LANTERN CARVING
Happy! Lucky! Halloween
Posted: October 31, 2014 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment | Tags: Advertising, Cigarette, design, graphics, Halloween, Illustration, Pumpkin, typography 1 Comment
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[PHOTOS] Dia de los Muertos At The Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Posted: October 30, 2014 Filed under: Art & Culture, U.S. News | Tags: Dia de los Muerto, Halloween, Holiday, Los Angeles, The Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Twitter 1 Comment#ICYMI: Dia de los Muertos At The Hollywood Forever Cemetery (Photos) #DayOfTheDead http://t.co/im8J69hF3m pic.twitter.com/jEeSWgyDIy
— FOX 11 Los Angeles (@myfoxla) October 30, 2014
[PHOTO] Halloween Over Easy
Posted: October 29, 2014 Filed under: Entertainment, Food & Drink, Mediasphere | Tags: Bacon, Breakfast, Day of the Dead, Eggs, Festive, Halloween 1 Comment
[PHOTO] Colt Vampire Hunter
Posted: October 27, 2014 Filed under: Guns and Gadgets, Mediasphere | Tags: Collectible, Colt, Engraving, Halloween, Memorial Day, Revolver, Sportsman Channel, United States Constitution, Vampire Hunter 2 Comments
NRAblog.com For Halloween week we feature the @ColtFirearms Vampire Hunter on @SPORTSMANchnl edition of @CamAndCompany
[PHOTOS] Dancing Bones and Chipmunks at Tokyo Disney Sea’s ‘Skeleton’s Street Party’
Posted: October 24, 2014 Filed under: Entertainment, Japan, Mediasphere | Tags: Costumes, Disney, Halloween, Photography, Skeletons, Tokyo, Tokyo Disney Sea 2 Comments
[PHOTO] かわいい！Lindo! Kawaii! Tokyo Disney Sea Día de los Muertos Skeleton Parade
Posted: October 24, 2014 Filed under: Art & Culture, Asia, Entertainment, Japan | Tags: Costume, Dance, Day of the Dead, Disneyland, Festival, Halloween, Japan, Kawaii Cosplay, Mexico, Skeleton, Tokyo, Tokyo Disney Sea 2 Comments
Some truly colorful (and very kawaii!) festive images at Tokyoblings Blog, see them here:
It is Halloween which just possibly could be the highest point of the season at the newer one of Tokyo’s two different Disney parks, Tokyo Disney Sea. The whole park is decorated in a sort of hyper colorful Mexican Day of the Dead theme with fantastic looking skeletons entertaining the visitors throughout the park…(more)
Halloween Cheer
Posted: October 22, 2014 Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment | Tags: Comic Books, design, Devil, Halloween, Horror, Illustration, Movies, Skull, Spooky, suspense, Thriller 1 Comment
[PHOTO] Vintage Fire-Eating Devil
Posted: October 20, 2014 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment | Tags: Charles Baudelaire, Fire Eater, Ghosts, Goblins, Halloween, Photography, Satan, Spooky, The Devil, Vaudeville, vintage Leave a comment
“La plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu’il n’existe pas.”
― Charles Baudelaire
[PHOTO] Hitchcock Halloween
Posted: October 20, 2014 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Mediasphere | Tags: Alfred Hitchcock, Halloween, Photography, Pumpkin 1 Comment
Who’s Up for Psychedelic Chocolate Skulls?
Posted: October 10, 2014 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Food & Drink | Tags: Bones, Candy, Chocolate, Confection, Day of the Dead, Dessert, Halloween, Skulls 1 Comment
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[PHOTOS] Autumn Nostalgia: Marilyn Monroe by Andres De Dienes, 1945
Posted: October 4, 2014 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment | Tags: Andres De Dienes, Autumn, Halloween, Marilyn Monroe, Photography, Pumpkins 1 Comment
Marilyn Monroe photographed by Andres De Dienes, 1945
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