How To Be A Zombie

By On July 16, 2009 · 1 Comment · In A Big Something, Politics, Sordid Underground Worlds


(all photos by Don Goede)

This Sunday, Newspeak will reprise its zombie bike contingent for the 19th Annual PrideFest Parade. While makeup artist Mark Modeer, owner of Zeezo’s downtown, won’t be doing the makeup for this year’s group, we thought we’d haul out the amazing old photos from two years ago and ask Mark for a few pointers.

 
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  1. Zooooombies! : Newspeakblog.com says:
    July 16, 2009 at 10:48 am

    [...] you haven’t already, do check out KRCC’s The Big Something which gives you a how-to on zombie makeup and also highlights the bike-zombie thing from the first [...]

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