POSTED ON Tuesday, October 31, 2006
.:: Pixkins, aka. Pixar Pumpkins
What do you get when you mix a crazy cavity causing holiday and an animation junkie who carves vegetables when he should be animating? That's right. Pixar Pumpkins, or "Pixkins" as I like to call them. (And I do trademark that name! -- Eh. No I don't. Too much hassle.)

Anyway, J-Rod, his wife and I decided to get together and carve pumpkins. We had all seen the blog posting about carving in a manner that gave a look with more depth than the standard "cut some holes and go" method of carving pumpkins. So we all decided to do our own design using this method... BUT with a Pixar theme. So we sat down.. covered the table.. gutted the pumpkins (it was during this, when I started to get pumpkin slime everywhere that I thought maybe this wasn't really worth it) and started carving. Beck was smart enough to hang back and not thrust her arms into the innard of these horrid vegetables. Sigh. Ok, I lie. Actually I had her gut most of mine. What can I say? I am lazy. Then she actually baked all the seeds up to a delectable delight. Ahh.. Just like they did on that first Halloween night when they got off the Mayflower and hid those chocolate eggs.


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Now on to design. We all had to choose who or what we thought would look best on the pumpkins. And it was no small feat. Many a Pixar characters were volleyed around the room. Eventually we all settled on our choices. J-Rod went with his favorite Pixar short, "For the Birds", I went with Remy from Pixar's upcoming "Ratatouille", and Mrs. J-Rod went with everyone's favorite father and son turtle team, Crush and Squirt.


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They are, of course, not nearly as amazing to see in the light. Well, I take that back. Mrs. J-Rod's looks like art with the lights on or off. So she gets some extra kudos for style there. Overall we were pretty happy with with the results of our first attempt at carving pumpkins using this method.


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So here's to a new tradition, spending lots of time carving vegetables into animated icons that will then sit outside to rot. Ahhh.. the hobbies we find to amuse ourselves. Anyway, feel free to sound off here in the comments and let me know your thoughts. And feel free to let me see your Pixkins or other pumpkin creations.


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