{"id":722,"date":"2006-10-31T15:11:09","date_gmt":"2006-10-31T15:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=722"},"modified":"2006-10-31T15:11:09","modified_gmt":"2006-10-31T15:11:09","slug":"happy_halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2006\/10\/31\/happy_halloween\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a couple more links that might help you get in a mildly creeped-out mood for All Hallow&#8217;s Eve:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>James Lopez is an animator who has worked with Disney and Dreamworks on a number of high-profile features. He also loves the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland. We all do, of course &#8212; it&#8217;s the coolest ride in the park next to Pirates &#8212; but James loves it so much that he&#8217;s recreated elements of the Mansion in his own home, and what he does to the place for Halloween is out-and-out inspiring. You can see for yourself if you check out <a href=\"http:\/\/hauntedmansion-northside.blogspot.com\/\">his blog<\/a>.\n<li>When I was a kid, my parents used to set up stereo speakers in our front-room windows and play a spooky sound effects record (you see, kiddies, we used to have these things called <i>vinyl LPs<\/i>) to set the mood for trick-or-treaters approaching the house. I remember one especially amusing incident when this little kid rang our doorbell just the sound of a gigantic Oriental gong played. Scared the crap out of him. Ah, good times. Anyhow, Phil Plait over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.badastronomy.com\/bablog\/\">Bad Astronomy<\/a> has similar memories from his childhood; he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.badastronomy.com\/bablog\/2006\/10\/30\/cosmically-creepy-chords\/\">suggests<\/a> that science fans can accomplish the same effect as those old records by looping the eerie <a href=\"http:\/\/cassini.physics.uiowa.edu\/space-audio\/cassini\/SKR1\/\">sounds of Saturn<\/a>. To explain, the ringed planet emits intense radio emissions, which have been recorded by the Cassini spacecraft, sent back to Earth, and processed so we puny humans can actually hear them. I listened to them myself a little earlier, and they are the perfect ambient noise to induce feelings of unsettled foreboding&#8230;\n<\/ul>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a couple more links that might help you get in a mildly creeped-out mood for All Hallow&#8217;s Eve: James Lopez is an animator who has worked with Disney and Dreamworks on a number of high-profile features. He also loves the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland. We all do, of course &#8212; it&#8217;s the coolest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}