Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Introduction

Hey everyone! Welcome to my blog!

So anyway, I figured that my first post should be about what this blog is about and why I created it.
Back in High School, a classmate of mine proposed an ambitious idea to transform the high school into a Haunted House. She was a good friend of mine, but I, in all honesty, thought that it was over-ambitious and was going to crash and burn.
Surprisingly, her ambitions came true and "Haunted High" was a huge success. For the following years I worked alongside her diligently.
When we graduated, we really didn't know what was going to happen to HH. We didn't throw away any props being hopeful that someone could take it over. Well, unfortunately, someone did. Someone we did not like. Someone who, our senior year, decided to dress up in one of the rooms as a
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"A punk rock diva fairy from Mars"
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Yeah. Needless to say, one of her rooms was a "France" room, because her intentions were to have creepy mimes when all it had was a boy in a striped shirt with a mustache sitting at a table with a baguette. Frightening. Oh! And there was a "Kill Justin Bieber" room. Which had several androgynous teens partying in a room to JB music. No killings were actually involved. Needless to say their revenue was so low that they didn't make any profit. But all of the money they made went to the Red Cross, which is good and all, but she left nothing for the following years of HH.
Next year, my brother and his friend took initiative decided to lead it. Some of my friends and I, who were also participants in HH in high school, came down to help out.
Their first year was a success, but unfortunately, they didn't make much revenue due to the local Trick-Or-Treating on Saturday and it was also the weekend before Hurricane Sandy hit, so on Sunday, it began to rain and we got high winds.
But even with those events, they still made for money that the year before!
Nevertheless, this year we are hoping that this will be the greatest Haunted High. There is a possibility that this will be the last year, since anyone who would be deemed as "determined enough" to carry on will graduate. Everyone else doesn't seem reliable or determined enough.

So anyway, since this year will be the best year to date. And since we are making some snazzy props, I decided to post some of our creations. If there's a few things I learned in Haunted High it's these:

1. Anything is possible with Duct Tape.
2. Do NOT fret about the finer details of things. People are running through the attraction, terrified, in the dark. They're not going to say "Oh wow! The brush strokes on this wall painting show an advanced understanding of the fine arts!" They're going to say "Holy shit, there's a man with a chainsaw chasing me, I knew I should have brought an extra pair of panties!"
3. There's always an easier solution to what you're trying to accomplish.

So without further ado,
Welcome to my blog, where you'll find awesome and intriguing creations for your very own haunted house~

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