The costume only gets worn for a few hours. If you’re not in the same city, or the same state, or the same time zone, a blurry photo the next day is a poor substitute for watching your grandchild spin around in a dinosaur costume in real time. The good news is you don’t need…
Before Halloween lived on Instagram, it lived in ASCII art. Early online communities, the newsgroups and bulletin boards and chat rooms of the pre-web and early web internet, found their own ways to mark October without any of the tools we’d recognize today. No filters, no likes, just people who’d never met deciding together that…
Picture a kid in a homemade costume, standing on a stranger’s porch, holding out a pillowcase, and looking up at a phone screen instead of the person handing over the candy. It happens more than anyone likes to admit. Not because kids are ungrateful, but because a phone in the pocket is a habit, and…
The pillowcase hits the floor around 8:30 PM, and what follows is not chaos. It’s an economy. Every kid who dumps out their haul on the living room carpet is about to sort, evaluate, and trade goods based on personal value, scarcity, and negotiation skill. They don’t know that’s what they’re doing. They just know…
Your kid watches one video about the best Halloween costumes of the year, and by dinner time, every app on the tablet is showing them inflatable dinosaur suits and glow-in-the-dark skeleton onesies. They didn’t search for those. They didn’t ask for those. The algorithm just noticed and started following them around like a very persistent…
You have probably seen a lot of pranks on the internet. Some are pretty intense and some are just pure nonsense. But who would think that the Halloween prank is not a lost art? Well, here is a pretty good example. This Irish TV station resurrected the art of the prank, with this hilarious weather report. This is very funny and…
Halloween is almost here and be sure you have your carved pumpkin sitting on your porch or at the window looking out at all the trick-or-treaters. You also want to light up your pumpkin of course, but not as crazy as this. In this clip, this pumpkin gets very bright with a 5000 Watts bulb…
Billy is a puppet that has appeared in the famous Saw franchise. It was used by John Kramer, known as jigsaw to communicate with his test subjects by delivering recorded audio. Well, that puppet was really creepy and scary. But in this clip, this video shows what it would be like to work with Jigsaw…
Zombie movies are really cool to watch. I mean, we all know those aren’t true and just a bunch of prosthetics. But what if you actually encounter them whilst driving or walking somewhere? How would you react? If you think you’re not that easy to dupe, wait, ’til you see this very realistic zombie apocalypse…
Halloween is coming up quick, so you better know what you’re going to be. Perhaps a sexy pirate on her way to the brig? How about a not so sexy witch eating turtle stew. Either way, make your plans before it’s too late. Here are some of the hottest current trends for Halloween. * Generation…