Happy Halloween – here’s the best pumpkin evah.
Wednesday, October 31st, 2012
Happy Halloween, everybody!
Enjoy the day with the best pumpkin of the year – perhaps the best pumpkin evah. This beauty was commissioned for New York City’s Museum of Modern Art, and carved by Marc Evan and Chris Soria. I wonder how long it took to make.
Meanwhile, in the spirit of the day, you might want to revisit Dana Gioia’s ghost story, or more recently the Jeff Sypeck’s take on the spooks from the rooftops of Washington’s National Cathedral. Or how about George Orwell on love, sex, religion, and ghosts. Or… or… or… Dostoevsky, Coetzee, Vargas Llosa, and Paul West on evil — just in time for Halloween.
Enjoy the day, and take it easy on the candy. Read a book instead.
Postscript: From high art to pop art in a few quick hours. Here’s another pumpkin to celebrate the day. Sculptor Andy Bergholtz created the jack-o-lantern Joker in one manic 8-hour stretch:
“Surprisingly, Bergholtz has only been carving pumpkins for a year. He said that another sculptor he knows, Ray Villafane, had been encouraging him for years to sculpt squash, but he resisted. Then last year Villafane recruited him to help carve pumpkins for Heidi Klum’s Vegas Halloween party. Bergholtz said, ‘I instantly fell in love with the art form and haven’t looked back since.'”
Want to know how the artist did it? See video below.
