zombies vs larpers

I was talking with sweetwildandmad and his friend yesterday about the zombie attack on LARPers in Montreal I'd seen a while back. I thought I'd posted about it in my LJ, but searching the archives, I couldn't find links, so. Googled.

A report on the zombie attack on Mount Royal
Medieval club guys and zombies battled it out for over an hour, with no small amount of brain-eating and undead-turning taking place. And in the end, as I said, the zombie attack was actually a lot of fun for everyone.

John Macfarlane's article in The Gazette
After a brief stop at McDonald's (where Hooper saw an opportunity to highlight the oft-suggested zombie-like nature of corporate and fast-food culture with a macabre dance party that amused the clientele and irritated the manager), the zombies regrouped in the woods near the fighters. ... There's obviously something ironic about mocking a group of people who dress up in costumes and attack each other by dressing up in costumes and attacking them. And so those zombies who perhaps weren't initially very interested in Hooper's more spiritual goal of seeking escape by playing a role, and who really just wanted to "stick it to the nerds," were subject to a revelation.

81 Photos of the event on flickr
the zombie call: " You know those nerdy Cegep kids who run around on the mountain during Tam Tams fighting with duct tape weapons? We're trying to recruit an army of slow, dumb annoying zombies to go and attack them, just to see what happens. We're meeting for a potluck at 1:00pm, putting on makeup, dirty clothes etc., and then going out to do battle. You're heavily encouraged to prepare some zombie clothes beforehand (rip up some old clothes and smear them with dirt), and bring makeup if you have it. " -stillepost.ca

The Z-Day experience retold by one of the zombies.
and then everyone was dead and ready, we just got out on the streets and started walking toward the mountain. we established early on that we were gonna be classic slow moving zombies. not the running kind. so what would usualy have been a 5 minute walk took us about 45 minutes. ... we scared little children, we stopped cars, we tried to grab passers-by and eat their brains, we screamed and moaned, we bumbed into eachother. the look on peoples faces, that WHAT THE FUCK look. it was oh so priceless. people just didnt understand why this was happening a 3rd of july.

G4 video clip on the zombie attack.
The clip is short and fairly derogatory, but. *shrug*

bbq; sticks; blizzard

The weekend is over already! How did this happen?!

Yesterday I went to a barbecue at sweetwildandmad and katkel's. I met a couple other friends of theirs. It was a good time. I brought poi and did a little poi throwing -- I figured out the wave! OMG. Well, sort of. I've got most of the movemnet down. I'm attributing that to practicing with the escrima sticks. Anyway. Yeah. Good time. I spent a lot of it geeking out over Stargate and zombies films and whatnot with sweetwildandmad and his friend Dave. I didn't leave their place until about 2am, I think. Whoa.

As a result, I didn't get up this morning until after noon. Then I putzed around on the internet before heading out to do some yardwork. Not that I did that because instead I decided to recruit seijitataki to help me cut the dowels I bought to make my own escrima sticks. I know, I know, I was going to buy a set and I probably still will, but it's amusing to me to be able to make my own things. Like I made my own poi, but bought two sets anyway. So. I had him cut the dowels and then help me find some tools to sand them with. I had purchased oak dowels and picked the ones with the best looking grain -- as in, didn't look like they were going to splinter. Wel... while I was sanding them I was none too amused that bits of it were still coming up rough because of the way the grain was. Glargh. Now, I got a lot of it sanded really smooth, but there are just parts that would probably give me splinters. I'm thinking of getting some wood putty to fix it up. *shrug* $2 at Lowes, I think, so it wouldn't be a big expense.

After fooling around with that, the brother and I did a bit of yardwork. Nothing too exciting.

I watched "Sateda" again with cassiejamie after dinner. Still really loving that episode.

And now.. it's time for bed. Sheesh. I can't believe it's this late already...

Edit: I forgot to mention this. seijitataki linked me and I thought I'd pass it along.

Blizzard is having an art contest for 3D and 2D concept artists.
Contest submissions will be accepted on this website until 11:59 PM PST September 17, 2006! Whether you are low- or high-poly, 2D or 3D, amateur or professional, this will be your chance to pour your creativity into the Blizzard universes: Diablo, StarCraft, and Warcraft.

Blizzard judges will award grand prizes to the top 3D computer graphic modelers or 2D concept artists in the following four categories: Best Diablo, Best Starcraft, Best Warcraft, Best Cinematic.

I haven't the skill, but i think some of you on my flist and extended flist do. So. You know. Have at it.