Eat A Brain

Eat A Brain

Brigitte Brown, dressing up as a bride and eating a brain full of vitamin.

Stop Me Not

Stop Me Not

A zombified mr construction worker

From My Old Dead

From My Old Dead

I believe the sign wrote "From My Cold Dead" though. I was actually waiting for the old lady to walk past so that I can continue to take some more photos of the zombies. However, her slow walking pace and hillarious expression make a very interesting shot.

Don't Look At The Mirror

Don't Look At The Mirror

A great word of advice to Daniel Belfrage-Young. Zombies do get terrified of themselves too you know.

Crack A Skin

Crack A Skin

Richard Leigh Watts with his skin face cracking as he shuffles through the city.

High Class Zombs

High Class Zombs

Our high class braces zombs showing her trained teeth proudly.

In the mid-18th century the French physician Pierre Fauchard (credited as the father of modern dentistry) witnessed and treated several dental deformities very common among citizens in Paris during the pre-revolutionary France. Historians believe that two different men deserve the title of being called "the Father of Orthodontics." One man was Norman W. Kingsley, a dentist, writer, artist, and sculptor, who wrote his "Treatise on Oral Deformities" in 1880. Kingsley's writings influenced dental science greatly. Also deserving credit is dentist J. N. Farrar, who wrote two volumes entitled "A treatise on the Irregularities of the teeth and their corrections". Farrar was very good at designing brace appliances, and he was the first to suggest the use of mild force at timed intervals to move teeth.

The American dentist Edward Angle is also widely regarded as a father of modern orthodontics. Practising in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, his eponymous classification of dental arch relationships is used worldwide. His textbook, "Treatment of Malocclusion of the Teeth" was first published in 1887. It went into seven much revised editions and laid the foundation of the modern specialty. After tenure as professor of orthodontics in two medical schools, he went on to found his School of Orthodontia in 1910. He designed several fixed orthodontic appliance systems including the ribbon arch and then the edgewise appliance. This has evolved into the sophisticated pre-adjusted and self-ligating systems used by the great majority of orthodontists today.

(courtesy of wikipedia.com)

Holey Depression

Holey Depression

Holey pokey hole face Chris Rode waiting for the red man to turns green.

Institute of Zombs

Institute of Zombs

Wonder what it would look like if the trams had "Institute of Zombs" instead of "University of Melbourne" as their destination. Michelle Louder-Stine dressing as our modem schoolgirl.

Long Live Zombs

Long Live Zombs

Mitchell Hannaford, procuring the day that Zombie shall live for another day at the stand near South Gate.

Poop Devastator

Poop Devastator

Skye Gellmann, dressing in ever so creative sense, chilling through the cold Melbourne.

Suck A Blood

Suck A Blood

Bob the man got his blood sucked this time round.

The Leader From Supre

The Leader From Supre

One of the organiser of the Melbourne Zombie Shuffle 2008, Clementine Bastow carrying a Supre bag. The mass of Zombies makes a powerful image.

A zombie is a reanimated human corpse. Stories of zombies originated in the Afro-Caribbean spiritual belief system of Vodou, which told of the dead being raised as workers by a powerful sorcerer. Zombies became a popular device in modern horror fiction, largely because of the success of George A. Romero's 1968 film Night of the Living Dead.

There are several possible etymologies of the word zombie. One possible origin is jumbie, the West Indian term for "ghost".^[1] Another is nzambi, the Kongo word meaning "spirit of a dead person."^[1] According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the etymology is from the Louisiana Creole or Haitian Creole zonbi, of Bantu origin.^[2] A zonbi is a person who is believed to have died and been brought back to life without speech or free will.^[3] It is akin to the Kimbundu nzúmbe ghost. These words are approximately from 1871.^[2]

(courtesy of wikipedia.com)

Bob The Man

Bob The Man

Mr bob holding Ms tiny barbie down at the southbank.

Bob the Killer Goldfish

Bob the Killer Goldfish is a fictional villain in the Earthworm Jim video games and animated series. He is featured as a boss in all three of the console games. Bob, being just a goldfish, rides around in a small glass bowl and gets his feline minions, particularly Number Four, to do all the work for him. In the cartoon series, his home planet is La Planeta De Agua (Arriba!) and he wants Earthworm Jim's supersuit so that he can have legs, as well as 'a nice, big, juicy, worm soup to eat'.

(courtesy of wikipedia.com)

Some Help Please

Some Help Please

Slit throat? Well, no matter what she must be in some terrible state. Any one willing to give some help to her?

The Lot

The Lot

The lot of Zombs going down the tiny stairs at the southgate. That lady zomb was quite prominent. The image has been edited to stamp out a flash on a tripod and seems that I did a pretty good job. Well, if you can spot it, then its otherwise then.

We Want Brains

We Want Brains

What do we want?
Brains....
When do we want?
Brains....

That's the chant that went on and on during the zombie shuffle.

Like most other internal organs, the brain can serve as nourishment. For example, in the Southern United States canned pork brain in gravy can be purchased for consumption as food. This form of brain is often fried with scrambled eggs to produce the famous "Eggs n' Brains".^[11] The brain of animals also features in French cuisine such as in the dish tête de veau, or head of calf. Although it sometimes consists only of the outer meat of the skull and jaw, the full meal includes the brain, tongue, and glands. Similar delicacies from around the world include Mexican tacos de sesos made with cattle brain as well as squirrel brain in the US South.^[12] The Anyang tribe of Cameroon practiced a tradition in which a new tribal chief would consume the brain of a hunted gorilla while another senior member of the tribe would eat the heart.^[13] Indonesian cuisine specialty in Minangkabau cuisine also served beef brain in a gravy coconut milk named gulai otak (beef brain curry). Roasted or fried goat brain is eaten in south India and some parts of north India. Norwegian cuisine includes smalahove where a singed lamb's head, including the brain, tongue and eye, serves two people.

Consuming the brain and other nerve tissue of animals is not without risks. The first problem is that the makeup of the brain is 60% fat due to large quantities of myelin (which itself is 70% fat) insulating the axons of neurons.^[14] As an example, a 140 g can of "pork brains in milk gravy", a single serving, contains 3500 milligrams of cholesterol, 1170% of our recommended daily intake.^[15]

(courtesy of wikipedia.com)

Redder

Redder

Unique haircut, striking colour.

Modern Panda

Modern Panda

His dark makeup around the shadow may well turn him into a zombie panda.

Bourke Lurker

Bourke Lurker

The next series of photos will be from the Melbourne Zombie Shuffle. An annual event organised by a group of facebookers. The number of turnouts was hundreds showing a different creativity of the definition zombie.

Tree In Moonset

Tree In Moonset

Due to the post processing of this shot, the dark blue sky on the higher part give me an impression of the dark high atmosphere that contradicts with the bright light on the tree.

The Bouquet

The Bouquet

Taken with a prime (fixed) lens at f/2.2 produces some nice bokeh to the image. I love the mood that the colour produces.

Creepy

Creepy

A giant insect crawling on the ground. I had to kneel down to get close to this fellow. There was not enough light when the insect was in the shade so when it wander into the sunny side, I then tried to get as many good picture as I can with a higher speed shutter.

The Curve

The Curve

Another path along the hanging rocks track. This one is even more curvy. What really interest me was the shadow and the tall slender trees ahead.

Window of The Cave

Window of The Cave

Similar to the previous picture. This one was taken with a different composition and different post processing.

Stucked Rock

Stucked Rock

A rock stucked in the middle of two bigger cliff. Has some dry plant growing on its side.

Jigsaw

Jigsaw

Jigsaw of rocks. This one is stacked too nicely though.



Jigsaw puzzles were originally created by painting a picture on a flat, rectangular piece of wood, and then cutting that picture into small pieces with a jigsaw, hence the name. John Spilsbury, a London mapmaker and engraver, is credited with commercialising jigsaw puzzles around 1760^[1]. Jigsaw puzzles have since come primarily to be made on cardboard.

There are also three-dimensional jigsaw puzzles. Many of these are made of wood or styrofoam and require the puzzle to be solved in a certain order; some pieces will not fit in if others are already in place. Also common are puzzle boxes: simple three-dimensional jigsaw puzzles with a small drawer or box in the center for storage.

Another type of jigsaw puzzle, a kind of cross between 2-D and 3-D puzzles, is a puzzle globe. Like a 2-D puzzle, a globe puzzle is often made of cardboard and the assembled pieces form a single layer. Like a 3-D puzzle, the final form is a three-dimensional shape. Most globe puzzles have designs representing spherical shapes such as the Earth, the Moon, and historical globes of the Earth.

(courtesy of wikipedia.com)

Overexposed Little Stuff

Overexposed Little Stuff

The little flowers that overexposed my shots. Had to lower exposure from the raw file and do double masking in photoshop.

Barren Tree

Barren Tree

Taken near the summit of the hanging rocks track. This tree looks dead and cold.

Patriotism

Patriotism

This is a shot of Ian. Not patriotism of like "US" patriotic kind but its more of like "Canon" patriotism. See how proud he was holding his Canon 30D.

In June 1934 they released their first camera, the Kwanon (see "Origins of company name" below). Three variations of this product were marketed, however, none were actual products. Of the ten Kwanon cameras that were rumored to be produced, none were ever known to reach the market.

The new company was off to a good start. However, there was a problem: Precision Optical Instruments Laboratory had not developed a lens. Several alternatives were considered, but the decision was made to seek help from a corporation known as Nippon Kogaku Kogyo (Japan Optical Industries, Inc., the predecessor of Nikon) to use their Nikkor lens. So in February 1936, the Precision Optical Instruments Laboratory was able to release the "Hansa Canon (Standard Model with the Nikkor 50 mm f/3.5 lens)", which became Kwanon's first commercially available camera.

The following year the company name was changed to Canon to reflect a more modern image, and on 10 August 1937, the current corporation was founded.^[1]

(courtesy of wikipedia.com)

Matchstick

Matchstick

Reminds me of a giant match stick ready to be burnt. The image is very contrasty due to the harsh sunlight, but it gives the "matchstick" burnt look.