A World on Fire - A Zombie Blog

It looks like this month is going to have a whole bunch of Romero news. For awhile, I didn’t hear anything about the happenings of good old George, but these days, it seems like if I don’t hear something about him, then something must be wrong.

I just logged onto Twitter and saw this article posted from his Twitter account. Evidently, in order to promote Survival of the Dead, Romero and friends rounded up four hundred corpses to storm downtown New York.

Honestly, this sounds like an awesome zombie walk. Probably the best one ever. From the article:

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Ryan over at ZomBCon wanted me to get out the word that this Halloween, there’s going to be a rather large zombie convention where you can find plenty of brains ripe for eating. These are the folks who organized the world’s largest zombie walk, thereby taking the crown from Pittsburgh. Grrr. Still, it sounds like a great time for the whole flesh eating family.

There’s actually a whole ton of other stuff, so I pasted his press release verbatim. Here is what Ryan has to say:

My name is Ryan Reiter, Creative Producer for the Fremont Outdoor Movies in Seattle. We created the cult hit Zombie Movie event last summer called Red, White and Dead last July 3rd and brought a Guinness World Record and was a huge success.

This year, Red, White, and Dead returns for another attempt at world history on Saturday, July 3rd at the Fremont Outdoor Movies.

So, if thousands of Zombie weren’t enough once a year, I have decided to bring together the entire Zombie community in one place for the ultimate Zombie fan experience. Thus year it kicks off in Seattle and then next year in San Francisco in 2011.

It’s called ZomBcon and it’s taking place on Halloween Weekend in Seattle. We have a lot planned and I wanted to simply introduce myself and send you over our media kit to give you a bit more about our event, seeing we are in the business of Zombies.

2010 is the year of the Zombie! This fall the world’s first Zombie Fan Culture Convention infects Seattle October 29th – 31st.

ZomBcon is being held at premier locations throughout Seattle including The Seattle Center, Seattle International Film Festival and the Experience Music Project Museum over Halloween weekend.

ZomBcon, the world’s first-ever, dedicated zombie event, mashes the hysteria of an obsessive extreme fan culture together with a leading-edge entertainment industry 360-degree experience. Fans of all ages will find a unique, one-of-a kind events, workshops and presentations celebrating one of the world’s most electrifying movie icons; the Zombie.

ZomBcon 2010 plays host to more than 60 specialty exhibitors. We’ve created on-trend interactive fan workshops, and gaming experiences, a SIFF-curated Zombie Film series, unique panels and discussions, and the premiere Halloween party ticket this year; The Zombie Prom.

Here’s an article article from the science-fiction website io9 which displays a wealth of pictures of ZombieFest 2008 that was held at none other than … drum roll please … the Monroeville Mall. Sure, the news might be old, but the images themselves are great such as the giant brain held aloft on fold out chairs. One has to wonder the size of the head from which it was excavated.

On a side note, Halloween might appear to be a distant spec on the horizon, but it is coming fast indeed. This year, we must do our best to have Pittsburgh reclaim the zombie capital of the world from Seattle. If any one is associated with the annual Halloween zombie walk over at Monroeville, give me a holler so I can help drum up some troops.

Cosplay Abounds at Zombie Fest in Pittsburgh (io9.com <- new window)

Looks like our friends in the Southern Hemisphere have had enough with their ratings board. For those of you not in the know, Australia has some of the most rigid video game classification rules. Games which wouldn’t raise an eyebrow in other countries tend to get the beatdown by the folks down under. These games won’t get rated and thus, they cannot be sold (according to my understanding of Aussie law). Some developers, like Valve, produce sanitized versions of their games, making a zombie apocalypse feel like a trip to the mall on Black Friday.

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Some time back, I mentioned an upcoming art exhibit over in Pasadena-land that combined our love of zombies with our love for each other. It was mixed media event that was a celebration of both zombie culture and Valentine’s Day.

Saturday marked the start of the exhibit which kicked it off with zombies shambling down the street with the ultimate convergence of the art gallery. The following article shows some pictures of the event. The funniest one on the page shows a bunch of zombies, staring at a zombie painting. There’s nothing quite like seeing zombies appreciate zombie art.

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I can’t help but say that there is no better time to be a zombie fan. There is just too many cool things going on right now in the zombie world it’s just hard to wrap my head around it all. We got zombies invading college campuses, zombies invading movie theaters, and even zombies hitting the dance floor — all happening on a daily basis.

This news item comes from Pasadena, California. Well, this really comes from Alhambra, but it’s the same ballpark being neighboring cities and all. Coming this Valentine’s Day, the Nucleus Art Gallery is exhibiting mixed art from a ton of artists with the theme of zombies in love. Here’s the actual notice:

“ZOMBIES IN LOVE” is an art exhibition/happening that gathers some recognized names in the field of zombie culture and zombie enthusiasts to contribute paintings, sculptures, and live performances, all In celebration of Valentines Day and Zombie Culture.

Believe it or not, this gets better. To kick off the exhibit, the gallery is sponsoring a zombie walk which will end in the gallery itself. There will prizes, music, tacos, and best of all, zombies. Sounds like a sure thing. I’d be there in a heartbeat if I didn’t live three thousand miles away.

Zombies in Love (gallerynucleus.com <- new window)