The Think Tank

It’s All Hallow’s Eve eve and Crestfallen Manor is ready to roll for the big night.  I’ve been planning on shooting a video walk-through all season, and tonight I finally got to it.  For all of you who are not able to join us tomorrow night, hopefully this video will give you a taste of what is happening.

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We finished up our pumpkin carving tonight, with a grand total of 27 jack o’lanterns.  I think they turned out excellent!  Thanks to everyone who came and helped: Joel & Sarah; Jim, Jamie & Camden; Alan; Marcie & Brett; Miranda & Kyle; and then of course Mom, Maure and Shannon.  Here is a peak at this years crop, and I’m sure there will be more to come after the big night tomorrow!

Mom submitted the video I made for the previous post and sent it to Channel 8 News, and they came out tonight and did a live spot at the house for KGW @ 7.  Here is the video of the segment.

KGW – Halloween 2013 from Christian Roberts-Olsen on Vimeo.

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/77946448[/vimeo]Hi everyone!  As you know this is my favorite time of year.  We did a great job of getting all the Halloween stuff up pretty early this year.  I’ve continued to mess around with a few things, but everything has more or less been up and running since around the 10th of October.

Saturday night was our annual Pre Halloween Party, and it was a really nice night.  The weather cooperated beautifully, and we had about 20 people over the whole night.  Some of those folks were old friends, and several were folks from the neighborhood we met as they were admiring the display out front.  The other part to the Pre Party is to test out all the effects and props, and that went well too: the teeter-totter died and had to be fixed, and the air line for the Crypt Popper sprung a leak as well.  Hopefully that will be it now, and Halloween night can go without trouble.

For those of you who aren’t going to be able to make it over this year, I used my shiny new iPhone to shoot a video tour of our haunt.  Hopefully I will get some more on Halloween night with the hoots and hollers of scared kiddies, but this should suffice for the time being.

Talk to you soon!

Our Halloween Dry Run party was last night and I have to say that it was definitely a success.  However, because I was too busy taking part I did not get any pictures of the event at all.  I am hopeless in this regard.

Anyway, our Halloween preparations are almost complete now.  I had intended to do regular updates on here with pictures and videos showing our progress and highlighting our new projects for this year, but due to a number of issues I did not wind up with enough time to actually make any posts.  As such, I am going to detail everything in one single post.  Read through the bump for all the gory details and some videos of the  new elements.

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