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This is the Zombie, a classic tiki cocktail created by Don the Beachcomber in 1934 at his restaurant Don the Beachcomber in Hollywood, California. The Zombie was the first famous tiki drink. It was a whirlwind of flavors and rum, containing four ounces of rum, one ounce of which was 151 proof! Its description merely said "Limit 2 per customer". It was also a tightly guarded secret. Even most of the Donn Beach's staff didn't know exactly went into the drink. Donn Beach would pre-mix particular ingredients together and label them vaguely. Because of its fame and lethality, there were many imitators, but most weren't even close.
In 1994, the intrepid tiki historian Jeff "Beachbum" Berry set out to track down the original recipe. It took him over ten years to eventually meet Jennifer Santiago, the daughter of Dick Santiago who worked for Donn Beach. Jennifer had unveiled an old recipe notebook from her father's bartending days. This did contain the original recipe, but it was partially encoded, calling for "Don's Mix" which was grapefruit juice and "Spices #4". More sleuthing ensued and Beachbum Berry eventually unlocked the last piece of the Zombie puzzle, "Spices #4" was cinnamon syrup. Finally over 70 years later, the "big bang" of the tiki craze had been unlocked.
The recipe is actually a maximalist version of the Planter's Punch. Every ingredient has been replaced with an amped up version. Making a zombie at home will take your own sleuthing to track down all ten liquid ingredients, but it's so worth it.
1.5 oz aged Jamaican rum
1.5 oz white cuban-style rum
1 oz overproof 151 demerara rum (Hamilton 151 is best here)
0.75 oz fresh lime juice
0.5 oz Falernum
1 tsp grenadine
1 dash Angostura bitters
1 dash absinthe or Herbsaint
0.5 oz Don's Mix (2 parts grapefruit juice, 1 part homemade cinnamon syrup)
Combine everthing into a shaker tin. Double-check to make sure you didn't forget anything (seriously). Add ice and shake vigorously until arctic cold. Strain into a chilled crushed ice-filled collins glass. Garnish with a sprig of mint.
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It seemed necessary to do a cooler shot in my zombie hunting shirt, although I have too much hair for you to see the front logo in this shot.
You should all be very happy that calvo and I are keeping you safe from the zombies.
Zombie Response vehicle on Garrard Street (behind the old Friars Walk Mall).
A company called Zed Events use the Mall for Airsoft and Zombie events. They have people made up like zombies (very realistically!) and you fight your way through the old abandoned Mall :)
I decided to try a different approach to the zombie theme today. Since I'm planning on a larger themed zombie shoot this saturday I figured I'd try both Zombification both in reality and in photoshop. Day 121 was in photoshop while today was all special effects makeup. Either way it takes along time.
We started with a trip to Walmart to grab craft clue, vasoline, toilet paper and Elmer's white glue. Oh and a what trip to Walmart isn't complete without a stroll down the toy isle!
We started around 9pm and first began applying glue to Shawn's face, followed by ripped pieces of toilet paper. This was applied in layers over and over to build up the scared skin look. I opted to leave his hand normal to show the contrast between fake and real.
I airbrushed his eyes and lips with black non toxic paint then did a light wash of white from his chest up to get rid of that tan Florida look. This would eliminate the need to desaturate in post and save me time. From her we mixed brown and white with Vasoline to give a mushy flesh like paint and dabbed it on. We built up layers of brown, green and red until we were happy. I then peeled back some of the tissue and applied red paint. This would give the nasty falling apart look. Later I would pour ample amounts of fake blood in these wounds to freshen them up.
Shooting was tricky as I wanted to show the texture but not give it away that is was the same stuff we all use each day in the bathroom. I used two blood recipes today in hopes of avoiding the plasticy look of the blood in yesterdays shot. I mixed some red and black airbrush paint with water. This isn't ideal as it just looks like he is a sloppy zombie when drinking cranberry juice.
Lighting was trial and error as I originally setup one light and was going for a dark moody portrait. However, when previewing I wasn't happy as I was loosing a lot of texture. I setup an edge light and it seemed to solve the problem.
I'll try again Saturday. I scaled back the styling today and went for a more "b-movie" look. I'm not sure which style I like better but will mess around abit more before saturday.
Post wasn't difficult because 90% of the effect was done. I just went over areas to solidify the effect. I dropped in this background to finish it off.
After the shoot I spent 30 minutes scrubbing off blood from the house. I felt like a crime scene cleanup crew. I wont spatter blood on my models near the house again. It took bleach water and nearly all my remaining energy to get it off. Come light I don't want the neighbors thinking I'm any more strange than they already do. and blood spatter on my house would definitely bring me to the next stage of weird and creepy
The prosthetics came off very easy and shawn was back to human form in less then 10 minutes. Another victory in not staining, maiming or injuring my models. I'm on a role.
Lighting:
AB800 Beauty Dish Boomed overhead 1/4 power
AB800 Med Softbox 10:00 Full power
Cyber syncs on Beauty Dish, Optical on Softbox.
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When zombies go shopping, they're just too damn loud. You can dress 'em up, but you just can't take 'em out.
The Sydney Zombie Walk is a free public event where thousands of people get on their finest zombie attire and roam Sydney's streets to raise awareness for Australia’s Brain Foundation. The zombies will make their way around the city streets, limping from Hyde Park through the city.
As you can see, this platform it much larger than an average human, keeping them safe from danger of zombie attacks, and giving them a good vantage point of the hordes attacking them.
EDIT 12-2-08: It's sole purpose is not to destroy zombies, yes it is advisable to eliminate as many as possible, but it is unnecessary to do so. This is a mobile fort. Say, your old base was overrun and you need a place to stay before a defined base is chosen, This mech is high enough that it'll survive the night with out being overrun. (Yes the large cannon on top is completely unnecessary, but I like it anyways)