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How To Make DIY Flaming Pumpkins For Halloween

Everybody knows that everything is much more impressive when you add fire to it. Especially Halloween decorations. If you want to add some burning heat to your haunted house and/or burn some costumes off, watch this video that shows you how to make a flaming pumpkin. It’s really easy. Like shockingly easy.

25 October 2012

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I Want To Meet These Amazing Pumpkin Carvers

Marc Evan and Chris Soria are amazing artists who can do more with a pumpkin than you can with a pen and paper and/or photoshop. In The Pumpkin Maestro, a short documentary about the duo by Tumblr Storyboard, you get to see what influences and motivates their work and the unique tools they use to carve pumpkins.

1 November 2011

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Laser-Carved Pumpkin Produces Impressive Results, Terrible Smells

In a stroke of pure genius, Jack Chalkley decided the intricate pattern he’d chosen for his pumpkin was too complicated for his limited carving skills. So he converted his design into vector art in Illustrator, fed the results into his laser-cutting machine, and plunked his pumpkin down on the cutting bed.

28 October 2011

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How To Build Your Very Own Flamethrower Jack-O’-Lantern

This time of year, there’s no shortage of insane and awesome Jack-O’-Lanterns this time of year, but this is the first we’ve seen that shoots fire out of its mouth via a remote-controlled flame thrower. Instructables user randofo has a guide on how to make your own.

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Watch Pumpkins Getting Smashed (And Unsmashed) In Slow Motion

Sure, it was an iconic, angstish band some decades back, but have you ever actually smashed a pumpkin? What about watching them get shattered to bits and put back together at 1000fps? No? Well it’s the Great Pumpkin Smashing, Charlie Brown!

25 October 2011

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World’s Largest Pumpkin Carving Is Also The Most Impressive

When you carve your Jack-o-lantern this Halloween, try and keep it simple. Because no matter how good you are at carving, shaving and hollowing, you won’t be able to match this epically designed pumpkin carving. Demons, ghouls, zombies, guts — all artistically sculpted from this 825kg pumpkin.

19 October 2011

Gadgets

A Drill Bit For Power-Cleaning Pumpkins

Not sure why, but the thought of gooping out all the slimy mess from inside a pumpkin makes me a bit queasy. This Halloween, I’m going to keep my hands clean and give this power-drill-propelled Pumpkin Gutter a shot.

28 September 2011

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This Record-Breaking Pumpkin Grew In Just 2.5 Months

This record-setting, 674kg pumpkin is the product of one Ken Desrosiers of Broad Brook, Connecticut, and grew to that size in just two and a half months.

1 November 2010

These Pumpkins Run On Fossil Fuel

Did anyone see any truly great pumpkins this year? Did you try carving your own pornkins, or maybe an R2D2-O’-Lantern? For me, nothing beat last year’s Sleepy Hollow Pumpkin Blaze dino display. [Flickr via Ecorazzi via Photojojo]

28 October 2010

Pornkins: There Goes The Neighbourhood!

Carving pumpkins with scary faces is kids stuff. Carving pumpkins with sexual scenes more explicit than you ever could have thought possible – that’s what mature witches and warlocks do. If that sounds like you, say hello to Pornkins:

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