Noble used the opportunity of shooting a zombie movie last spring in order to propose to Claudia. Claudia was willing to help on the movie, but she had no idea the whole thing was staged for her benefit (the rest of the 20-person crew all knew). She said yes, which led to an October wedding complete with a Zombie Wedding Cake. Read more about the proposal at the YouTube link. -Thanks, Noble!

Flickr user noblerobinette was delighted with her wedding cake, a zombie scenario created by Mike’s Amazing Cakes in Seattle. Even the attendants were modeled after the real people! See more views in her photo stream. Link-via Digg

Artist Amy Rawson (previously at Neatorama) has created a cute-as-can-be needle felted zombie bunny for Halloween. Or at least, it’s cute on the side its eyeball isn’t falling out of! See more pictures at eBay. Link

The problem of zombies intrigued Philip Munz of Carleton University and his colleagues at the University of Ottawa, who recently wrote a scientific paper quantifying various properties of zombie epidemics. Standard modeling techniques for disease outbreaks weren’t quite sufficient, the authors found. “The key difference between the models presented here and other models of infectious disease,” they wrote, “is that the dead can come back to life.”

After a thorough, if tongue-in-cheek, analysis, the authors found that the optimal method for halting such epidemics involves killing zombies early and often – the rare scientific paper that satisfies both the splatter-film aficionado and the Centers for Disease Control.

Other math questions come up in The Dark Knight, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and other films you are familiar with. Link -via Buzzfeed

(image credit: Flickr user joelf)

In the corner, a small chainsaw sits inside a glass case that reads “In case of zombie attack, break glass.” The bartenders all dress like Simon Pegg in “Shaun of the Dead” — white button-up, red tie and blood stains. The friendly female servers wear long black gowns. Again: This is a classy zombie joint.

No word on whether brains are on the menu. Link -via Pajiba

(image credit: Tom Wallace, Star Tribune)

Marc Price of Nowhere Fast Productions sparked a media frenzy with his first feature film: a low-budget a zombie flick titled Colin. And when Marc said low-budget, he meant low-budget. The whole thing was shot for $70, and the zombies came free with the help of Facebook!

Tom Foster wrote the story for CNN:

"When we say it’s a low budget film, people presume a couple of hundred thousand [dollars]. People can’t figure out how it’s possible. What Marc’s achieved has left people astonished."

It was by advertising for volunteer zombies on social networking site Facebook, borrowing make-up from Hollywood blockbusters and teaching himself how to produce special effects that thrifty director Price was able to make the film for less than the price of a zombie DVD box set.

"The approach was to say to people, ‘OK guys, we don’t have any money, so bring your own equipment,’" the the 30 year-old director told CNN.

With help from a makeshift band of friends and volunteers, Price shot and edited the feature — which ingeniously spins the zombie genre on it’s head by telling the story entirely from the zombie’s perspective — over a period of 18 months while working nights part-time as a booker for a taxi company.

Online social networking was an invaluable tool in both generating buzz and cheaply sourcing the undead: "We went on Facebook and MySpace and said ‘Who wants to be a zombie?’" Price told CNN. "We managed to get 50 brilliantly made up zombies and stuff them into a living room."

Link

I won’t pretend that I’m "with it" when it comes to comic books, but it was a complete surprise for me to find out that, starting in 2005, Marvel began issuing limited series of comics in which the superheroes are … zombies! (Probably a better read than Spider-Ham)

Link to Marvel Zombie’s official website | Marvel Zombies at Wikipedia

Who the enemy is might just depend on your perspective …

Here’s a clever ad campaign for the Sci Fi TV channel by Agostino Toscana and Luca Lorenzini, illustrated in the style of old paperbacks by Mike Koelsch.

Link – via stefdem

From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by Jake.

Whoa! How awesome is this: a Hello Kitty Zombie birthday cake, made by Debbie Goard of Debbie Does Cakes. See more of the cake at Kristin and Sean’s website: Link – via Hello Kitty Hell (More Cake Geekery at this Food Geekery post)

Previously on Neatorama, another creation by the ever-talented Ms. Goard: Yoda Cake 2.0

One day, Fendy Sutandio of Orimath blog looked at his garden and found this strange "Zombie Hand" fungus. It does look like a zombie’s hand digging itself out of its grave!

Link – via Cliff Pickover’s Reality Carnival

Zombie Haiku by Dylan Thomas
Do not go gentle
into that zombie plagued night.
And take the shotgun.

Zombie Haiku by Walt Whitman
Every skin atom
form’d from this soil, this air,
tastes like chicken meat.

Zombie Haiku by William Shakespeare
To bite through the skull
or beat it against the wall?
That is the question.

Soon after, real poets and writer joined in the fun:

Back to the buffet
for second helpings-
Care for a rump of infant?
- Billy Collins, former U.S. Poet Laureate and author of the lovely Ballistics: Poems

If zombies smoked pot
maybe they would skip the brains
and settle for cake.
- Doug Benson, writer and comedian regularly seen on Best Week Ever

The day I died you
tried to put a bullet in
my head. You missed. Lunch!
- David Wellington, author of the terrifying Monster Island trilogy

Link – Thanks Ryan!

(Photo: Zombie Walk San Francisco 2006, more at Laughing Squid)

Japanese artist Fumie Sasabuchi takes photos of glam models straight
from the pages of fashion magazines and turn them into … zombies! Ironically, by doing so, she made the photos far more interesting than the original. Link | More at Artnet and ZINK blog – via Notcot

Picking up where John left off with the cat haiku, here are some zombie haikus at ZombieRama:

Playing fetch with Spot
is dangerous when the bones
he brings back still move.

I felt your lips, teeth
brush against my shoulderblade,
but it was not love.

The vegan zombie
cares not for sweet grey matter
they cry out for graaaaaaaaaaains!

Link – via Locusts & Honey

Jason Wishnow is a Zombie Yoga Master. Inspired by Scott Kenemore’s book The Zen of Zombie: Better Living Through the Undead, he sent out invitations saying "Bring a Yoga Mat, Dress like a Zombie …" The result? The world’s largest yoga session, created as a trailer for the book! Link – Thanks John!

Boing Boing TV, the newest venture of our pals at the famous Boing Boing Blog, has the exclusive behind the scenes documentary (by the way, if you haven’t been watching their videos, you’re definitely missing out!). Here it is:

[Boing Boing TV Link]