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Psshh…chocolates are so twentieth century. In a world that’s obsessed with zombies, there’s no better Valentine’s gift than a simple, handmade set of zombie monsters. You can buy you own set over at Etsy.
What happens when lawn gnomes get bitten in the zombie apocalypse? Apparently the gnomes get a hunger for flamingo flesh the way regular zombies start craving human brains.
The greatest problem with using a puncture-based weapon against zombies is that it may become lodged in the skull of your undead foe. That’s a problem that Jörge Sprave, maker of the sawblade-firing slingshot, the pump-action slingshot, and the Gatling-gun slingshot has now solved. His weapon includes a standard slingshot on one end, and a mace on the other that’s paired with a heavy spike. If your spike gets stuck in a skull, pull the lever to push it out.
-via Make
Even typographers need to prepare for the inevitable rising of the undead. To encourage them, Avery Oldfield, Jack Inscoe and Amanda Dockery made a typeface that reminds them to get ready with every word that they read. Visit the link and type in your own text to see what your words look like in fetid corpses.
Link -via Jeremy Durocher
Then visit our Zombie Shop to find the right gift for the walking dead in your life.
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If there’s a Barbie doll for all occasions, why not one that fights zombies? Zombie Attack Barbie is a design by Sarah Anne Langton. Link -via Laughing Squid
Image via American Film Market
Dear Hollywood, stop making nitwitted remakes and hop on this obvious winner. When are you starting production? Tomorrow? Good.
Well, if only making movies is that easy (on the other hand, any process that greenlighted Gigli can't possibly be that rigorous, right?).
While we wait for Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies to hit the Big Screen, feast your eyes on these 19 Insane Posters for Movies That May Never Exist, over at Wired's Underwire blog:
Extending the B-movie legacy of insane posters and catchy titles, legendary showman Roger Corman and other independent producers unleash a fresh barrage of eye-popping genre hype this week at the American Film Market. Great movie posters play a key role at the annual movie marketing event in Santa Monica, California, because sci-fi filmmakers often rely on these “sell sheets” to attract production money and distribution deals even before their movies go into production.
See also NeatoShop's Zombie Shop for more Zombie goodness.
Even if you think the idea of a zombie tattoo is kind of silly, you can still appreciate the awesome artwork in many of these great pieces that range from old school to incredibly realistic.
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Strictly speaking, the three zombies from the East didn’t arrive until much later, but it’s traditional to place them at Bethlehem on Christmas. Etsy sellers Robin and Zered follow in this tradition with this nativity set made from Sculpey clay.
Link -via Boing Boing | Previously: Top Ten Worst Nativity Sets
Draw2D2 has a collection of art mashups called “Zombie/Steven Spielberg” that place zombies in Spielberg movies, or otherwise combine the two ideas. The example shown is by Alex Ryan. Go see the rest! Link -Thanks, Jason Welborn!
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Zombie Back Scratcher – $24.95
Zombies, zombies everywhere and now we have body parts to share. That’s right folks, the Zombie invasion of the NeatoShop continues. Behold the new Zombie Back Scratcher. This fantastic handcrafted back scratcher is shaped like a like a creepy zombie hand. Everyone knows that a nice zombie is always willing to lend a hand to someone in need.
Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more Zombie fun!
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Now you know why zombies always walk so stiff -they’re just out of shape! -via the Presurfer
This fun new app/game shows you just when and where a zombie invasion is about to occur, giving you enough time to run away as fast as you can! Appropriately titled “Zombies, Run!”, it boldly attempt to combine zombie game and exercise regimen into an interactive story experience. Sounds like a great way to let your imagination run wild, just don’t go running out into traffic!
While I always though vampires were kind of cool, I find zombies to be a lot scarier. As it turns out, it might just be because I’m a bit liberal. According to this graph, more zombie stories are released when Republicans are in office and more vampire tales come out when Democrats are in power. If you’re wondering why one political viewpoint would fear either creature more than the other, then this Cracked article can fill you in on the psychological aspects.
The unnamed gentlemen in this video are concerned about running out of ammunition during a major zombie attack. So they devised this ingenious solution: two 100-round magazines for an AK-47 strapped together. When you empty one side, flip it over.
Video Link -via Everyday, No Days Off
New images have been released of the zombies in the film based on the book World War Z. Is it me or do they kind of look like mummies?
I suppose that there’s nothing really extraordinary about this series of photos celebrating the engagement of Juliana Sunmi Park and Benjamin Jinsuk Lee. But they’re so touchingly romantic that you should definitely take a look.
Link -via Comics Alliance
Update: Since the original link has gone to password protection, see the pictures at the photographer’s site. Link
Yes, it’s a bowling ball. It just looks like the head of a zombie! Artist Oliver Paass painted a set of these balls that were then placed in German bowling alleys to advertise a TV channel specializing in horror films. Link -via @johncfarrier
Mossberg, an American armsmaker, has produced a pistol-grip shotgun that is supported with the type of grip that you’d commonly find on a chainsaw or weed eater. Here’s a video of YouTube user bigdaddyhoffman1911 trying it out in a short-range zombie attack scenario. I’m not a fan of shotguns against zombies. Really, if you’ve let the undead get within shotgunning range, you’ve screwed up in a big way. -via Everyday, No Days Off
Apparently Cookie Monster is a video game developer and he really is sick of video games that feature zombies. Check out Cookie in the video at the link.
If you are as tired of the endless horde of zombie games as I am, you are not alone! Watch as Cookie Monster — possibly the greatest network executive since Jack Donaghy — gives video game maker Tim Schafer feedback on his new game idea and then comes up with his own, starring (you guessed it) monsters.
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by Annalee Newitz
Editor, io9
San Francisco, California
Chart by Stephanie Fox. Additional reporting by Katharine Duckett.
There’s been a huge spike in the production of zombie movies lately, and many of them seem to be inspired by war. Everything from 28 Days Later… to Zombie Strippers makes explicit reference to wartime, as did seminal 1968 zombie flick Night of the Living Dead. Is there really a connection between zombie movies and social unrest? We decided to do some research and find out. The result is a line graph showing the number of zombie movies coming out in the West each year since 1910, and there are definite spikes during certain years, which always seem to happen eerily close to historical events involving war or social upheaval.
Mostly we’ve focused on movies from the U.S. and Europe, and we’ve included mummies but not vampires and ghosts. It’s necessary to correct somewhat for the fact that more movies are being made as we get closer to the present, and (more importantly) there are better records of those movies with better tagging. So it’s easier to research movies with zombies in them if you’re looking at productions from the 1980s onward. In addition, there’s been a huge boom in indie and low-budget horror movies over the past ten years, and that undoubtedly accounts somewhat for the giant spike you see during the last 8 years or so.
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If you’re going to look at these historical correlations, you have to consider that movies inspired by a real-life event aren’t going to show up in theaters for at least six months to a year, so we’ve accounted for that. Still, even correcting for these factors, there are distinctive spikes in zombie popularity, and they always seem to fall slightly after a huge political or social event has caused mass fear, chaos, or suffering. World War II, Vietnam, and the current Iraq War are all followed by a zombie rush at theaters, as are other periods of trauma such as the AIDS epidemic. Is there a causal connection, or is it just coincidence? You be the judge.
It’s not the first zombie-centric dating site, but it does have the best commercial.
Gravedate.com is a real site set to launch “soon”. If you’d like to be notified when undead folks just like you are looking for someone to talk to over a few brains, maybe a little uncoordinated running through town square, then sign up on the site.
via Kuriositas
The city council of Leicester, UK, has twenty days to respond to this Freedom of Information Act request by resident Robert Ainsley:
Leicester City Council has 20 working days to answer but its head of information governance, Lynn Wyeth, took to local radio yesterday to address the issue.
She said: “We’ve had a few wacky ones but this one did make us laugh.
“It’s one of those questions that you could do a one-liner saying there is nothing specifically in the emergency plan to state a response to a zombie invasion.
So either the government officials are either (1) guilt of gross negligence or (2) hiding their true plan — one that probably provides for the security of selected elites.
Link | Image: United Film Distribution
The Centers for Disease Control, an agency of the United States government, finally got with the times and decided to warn the public about the dangers of zombie attacks. Here’s what the CDC plans to do during an outbreak, assuming that its staff shows up for work:
If zombies did start roaming the streets, CDC would conduct an investigation much like any other disease outbreak. CDC would provide technical assistance to cities, states, or international partners dealing with a zombie infestation. This assistance might include consultation, lab testing and analysis, patient management and care, tracking of contacts, and infection control (including isolation and quarantine). It’s likely that an investigation of this scenario would seek to accomplish several goals: determine the cause of the illness, the source of the infection/virus/toxin, learn how it is transmitted and how readily it is spread, how to break the cycle of transmission and thus prevent further cases, and how patients can best be treated.
This sounds a trifle naïve. Anyway, the website then offers tips on how to prepare your family to live through this kind of unnatural disaster. There is one, huge, glaring oversight: no weapons. There’s not a single mention of the utility of guns, machetes, and such during the most obvious time when they will be absolutely necessary to survive.
But that’s probably more a job for FEMA. Maybe the CDC isn’t the place to go for survival advice.
The hit viral video “Charlie Bit My Finger” is now being turned into a feature length major motion picture. OK, maybe not but this short film imagines what a horror version of the video would be like. See full video at the link.
The architectural firm KWK Promes takes security very seriously. Its “Safe House” design, at the push of a button, drops steel shutters, swings concrete slabs over windows, and lifts a drawbridge. For those of you who think that this is silly (because zombies, unlike vampires and werewolves, aren’t real), just remember:
If you’re prepared for the zombie apocalypse, a hurricane is just a storm.
Link via Geekologie | Photos: KWK Promes
Is there something about a cute bunny rabbit that brings out the perverse side of toy designers? You’d think so by looking at these! The bunnies on this list are scary, bloody, or dead, and may be disturbing to some readers. To be fair, they are marketed to adults. Shown here are the Killer Bunny Slippers of Caerbannog, the most innocuous image of the lot. Link
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We’ve had some marvelously funny and inventive submissions to our contest imagining life trapped inside the NeatoShop warehouse while surrounded zombies. Neatoramanauts were challenged to think of creative uses for the contents of the warehouse as survival tools and weapons. Here are the three runners-up, each of whom wins a free t-shirt of his choice:
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Redditor TheLocoYoko and his fiancée wanted to set the right mood for their wedding, and so commissioned this image for their wedding invitations. When he was asked “Are you inviting people to a wedding, or a massacre?”, TheLocoYoko responded “Depends on how things go with the open bar.”
It’s May, 2011 in sunny Santa Clarita, California. A gentle breeze is rolling in from the sea, adding a nice cool to the air on your face. It’d be a wonderful day to go down to the beach, or a hike in the mountains. You’d might consider doing either, but you’re surrounded by a horde of the undead while inside the NeatoShop warehouse.
The fall of civilization came surprisingly quickly, as most people simply refused to divert their attention from petty concerns while the infection spread. You, too, were distracted by silly things, like the newest Rebecca Black video and Charlie Sheen’s astonishing career comeback.
Now it’s too late to make serious preparations. You’ll just have to improvise from materials in your current location — the warehouse serving the NeatoShop retailing empire.
What will you do? You came without so much as a rock in your pocket and now must survive using only the contents of the warehouse.
This is a contest. Look through the contents of the ‘Shop and devise materials that you’ll need to survive — improvised weapons, water filters, medical equipment, cook stoves — anything that you’ll need to see through the end of this dark chapter in human history.
Leave the description your improvised survival tool in the comments. The most inventive/funniest/silliest will win your choice of any item under $25 from the NeatoShop, and several runners-up will win a t-shirt of their choice!
When you enter the description of your survival implement(s), be sure to also provide the name of the item that you want if you win. Please make sure that you provide a selection or your entry will not be considered.
(Original image credit: Flickr user theogeo)
