Zombies burst from monster pumpkin

Inhabitat has a great gallery of photos of sculptor Ray Villafane's zombies carved out of the world's largest pumpkin at the New York Botanical Garden:

Last week, we brought you news that the world's largest pumpkin was going under the knife, and now we have actual photos of the carving in action! We were on the scene yesterday at the New York Botanical Garden, as carving master Ray Villafane whittled away sections of the 1,818.5 lb pumpkin to reveal an incredibly intricate three-dimensional scene of zombies and demons busting out of the orange shell.

PHOTOS: Ray Villafane Carves the World’s Largest Pumpkin into an Intricate Spine-Tingling Sculpture (via Super Punch)

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

MORE: art • Food • halloween • happy mutants • maker • not food • sculpture • zombie

More at Boing Boing

Eurovision 2013: An American in London

The technology that links taxonomy and Star Trek

Guest

Grains…. GRAIIIINNNNNSSSSS
Guest

Plantaiiiiiiinnnnnns. (Just look at them)
nybg

Ray’s sculpture is still up at the Garden. If anyone wants to come up to the Bronx and visit it, we’ll be carving two more this weekend, with Michael Natiello. Full details on our site: http://www.nybg.org.
- Guest
  
  That is simply the coolest, most awesome pumpkin sculpture I’ve ever seen! Applause! Bravo!
  
  Now, where can I score one of those t-shirts, please?
nybg

Ray has a store on his website: http://villafanestudios.com/store The prints are awesome. Here’s a time lapse video we made of him working, too: http://www.nybg.org/plant-talk/2011/10/around-the-garden/zombies-in-the-garden/ Ray’s so awesome! We feel really lucky to have worked with him!