{"id":16866,"date":"2014-07-16T06:22:08","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T11:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=16866"},"modified":"2019-11-26T06:58:36","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T11:58:36","slug":"beauty-the-niece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2014\/07\/16\/beauty-the-niece\/","title":{"rendered":"Beauty & The Niece"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Beauty-and-the-niece-det\"<\/a>I was hunting through an old four-drawer filing cabinet in my studio for something that eluded me and has now completely escaped me when I came upon this old snapshot of me under heavy zombie makeup and my niece Jessica playing a hapless victim unconvincingly.<\/p>\n

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\"Brian<\/a>

Brian Bubonic & the Plague<\/p><\/div>\n

Brian Bubonic<\/strong> probably snapped the shot with a Kodak 110 and helped me apply the latex and greasepaint to my face. We were obsessed with horror movies, and I think we got the zombie recipe from a couple of different stage makeup books. We were inspired by the works of horror auteur George A. Romero and his regional, can-do spirit, and figured if he could slop around grease paint and fake blood in Pittsburgh, we could do the same at the Jersey shore.<\/p>\n

\"Beauty-and-the-niece\"<\/a>This was the backyard of a place my family rented in Ocean City, NJ, and I figure it was probably 1982 or possibly ’83.<\/p>\n

Brian and I had brought our 8mm movie equipment and the makeup kit in the hopes of throwing together a 4 minute horror opus with the beach and boardwalk as a backdrop, but it never did happen. I think we shot some footage and took a few pictures, but nothing resembling a monster movie with a real plot ever took shape. We did the makeup on me which was really uncomfortable and wandered the boardwalk in a desperate bid for attention.<\/p>\n

\"Jessie\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s a better photo of Jessie from around that time. She wasn’t much of a horror movie actress, but she was adorable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was hunting through an old four-drawer filing cabinet in my studio for something that eluded me and has now completely escaped me when I came upon this old snapshot of me under heavy zombie makeup and my niece Jessica … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[33,3227,2863,23,122,733,37,711],"class_list":["post-16866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blast-from-the-past","tag-1980s","tag-latex","tag-makeup","tag-monster","tag-new-jersey","tag-ocean-city","tag-plague-productions","tag-zombie"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-4o2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":44679,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2025\/02\/25\/keeping-it-in-the-family\/","url_meta":{"origin":16866,"position":0},"title":"Keeping It In The Family","author":"Joe","date":"February 25, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"I was a little under the weather last week which put a damper on my doodling, but I've come back this week with another drawing and another chunk of the Teenage Beast story. 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