Although this post is a little late for Halloween, I’d like to think of it as a project to start now for next October. Ray Keim of Paper Model Purgatory at Haunted Dimensions creates printable 3D papercraft models of spooky buildings he has crafted including New Orleans Square and the Bates House. If you are more inclined to ghostly gingerbread houses, he has plans for those too. He states that “I created these models for entertainment purposes only. They represent months of work, taking hundreds of hours to design.
I am now offering them for free to any mansion fan who would like them, as a token of appreciation for all the phenomenal support I have received since starting this site, and also in the hopes that it will encourage others to share their art and ideas freely online.” There is an interesting panel with Ray Keim so, “You want to be a theme park designer” from Inside the Magic. It illustrates huge scope for 2D and 3D visualization as a career and a hobby.

According to MarketWatch, Mitsubishi will be offering the world’s first online test drive of an Outlander Sport Nov.1 – Nov.10, 2010 on their website. The advertising concept was created by 180 LA and B-Reel, a hybrid production company. B-Reel has created an evocative, interactive, music video for Arcade Fire, The Wilderness Downtown personalizing the video by hometown or location. The types of jobs open to creative people with geospatial skills keeps expanding as geospatial technologies become an expected part of everyday life. It is interesting to see how marketing to a person’s personal location is changing advertising. What a challenge.

Check out the second episode of the great Geospatial Revolution Project, which is now live:

Haunted places, there’s an app for that, really. When I went searching for haunted places apps for Halloween, I thought that there might be one or two apps out there. Instead I found several categories of haunted apps. First there are the local area apps such as the WeirdNJ which is a guide to NJ legends like the Jersey Devil. Haunted historic tour apps like the WickedWalks app for New Orleans, Savanah, Key West, and New York. Traditional haunted apps like what is happening in Salem, Massachusetts.The SyFy Ghost Hunters show has a haunted house finder app. But probably the most useful of all is the haunted hotel stay apps so that you know where to stop or not, on your next trip out of town. Don’t bother asking if there is a app for trick-or-treating. Iconosys, Inc is offering a free app trick-or-treat app to track your child using your smart phone through Halloween.