We at ZADL are sorry to not have updated recently. The pressures of work have been consuming. Regular service will be resuming shortly. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Be Loud, Be Proud
Zombie Photographer Eric Ingrum has photos from last year’s march. The official organizers are available at their Facebook group, if there are any questions.
Coming up in August so plenty of warning all you Zombies who need time to travel!
Warp Films (the people who brough you modern British classics such as Dead Man’s Shoes and This is England, not to mention the twisted artistic vision of Chris Cunningham) and Film Four and The Big Chill Festival are asking YOU to don all the undead garb, tilt your head, go slack jawed, stiff kneed, outstrech your arms and get yourself involved in the world biggest zombie walk ever.
Filming begins on Thursday 6th August at this year’s Big Chill – giving festival-goers an additional day of festivities. The co-production will use thousands of Zombie costumed ticket holders, not to mention vats of make-up, to swell the cast numbers and enter the Guinness Book of World Records for of the “Most Amount of Zombies Captured on Camera”.
Click here for the I Spit on Your Rave mini site (live from the June 8th) to find out how to get involved, also start following the organisers on Twitter and Facebook for up to the minute updates on what, where and when it’s happening.
We seem to be reporting a number of these recently, so here are two more.
First is Evil Dead: The Musical which we encourage all ZADL members to protest. We are NOT evil, and don’t let “the man” ever convince you of it! If you do protest the vitalist message of this performance, we ask that you do so quietly and with respect, no bloody rampages! We need to teach people the error of their ways through peaceful means.
Second is Isle of the Dead, which we will try to learn more about. So far though it seems to have a scene of all the Zombies singing Bryan Adams classic, “Summer of ‘69.” Such cruelty cannot be ignored.
A ZADL Activist with the collected food.
The more we can get our message out, the more we will be able to assert our rights!
Watch this space for additional photos and video as they come in.
UPDATE 1
Photos from Running Stitch
A write up from Columbus UnderGround
Update 2
More video of the massacre. Just like Tiananmen Square. We weren’t doing anything wrong. So many Zombies slaughtered….
So many smiling faces!
Professional photographer (and assumed Zombie sympathizer) Kimberly Atkin has graciously and serendipitously documented part of this weekend’s Zombie March in Boston. Enjoy the photos and “feel free to tag yourself!”
Our apologies for the lack of updates recently, but our blogger has been slammed with work, and has not had much time to keep the site up to date. Normalcy will return soon however, and regular posting will resume. Our apologies for the inconvenience.
The Blog of the Living Dead will provide you with one new Post Vital friend every day. We approve.
For post vital residents of the Windy City, there is a march coming up, June 13th at Millennium Park, around 2 pm.
Want to help feed the hungry, while also marching for your Post Vital Rights? The Columbus, Ohio Zombie Walk is coming June 6th 2009!
What do we want? Brains!
When do we want it? Brains!
ZombieWalk Columbus is a grassroots organization that aims to generate awareness through annual public performances and “street theatrics” of bone chilling proportions. Horror enthusiasts, young and old, are invited to dust off their Halloween spirit, as well as their costumes and make-up, and take part in our third annual event Saturday, June 6th, 2009 at Goodale Park.
Continuing this honorable trend toward feeding others – rather than feeding on others -˗ freshly converted and veteran zombies alike will stagger, limp, and lurch their way along the sidewalks of the Short North. Completing a circuit of about two miles, the trek takes approximately 60-90 minutes, depending on the lag of each zombie. And this year’s goal? To generate over a half ton of food for the Mid-Ohio Food Bank, an organization that provides more than 43,000 meals each day to people in central and eastern Ohio.
First of all, there is a Zombie March in Boston, on Saturday, May 30, 2009, 2:00pm – 6:00pm, Outside South Station in Boston MA. We encourage any and all Zombies and ZADL supporters to attend and to stand up against the chainsaw of oppression, climb over the shotgun of vitalism, and march with your head held high or lolling to one side for your post vital rights!
Also, via Pharyngula (and thanks to user Boston Zombie) we learn that Boston Police are ready to Twitter any Zombie “threat.”
Show your support!
We at the Zombie Anti Defamation League are once again obliged to point out that being bitten by a Zombie will not turn you into one. At least not necessarily. Zombies are playful, social beings, and biting is often a sign of affection. Yes it can sometimes be a bit enthusiastic.
Virus infected individuals who transmit disease through bites are not Zombies – they are infected humans. There is a difference. They may soon become Zombies, after they die and have a Deathstyle Crisis, but at that point any diseases they might have had will be of little threat.
Still, we would expect the Boston Police to report any assault, from a living or post vital assailant. Discrimination or favoritism should not be a factor.
Apparently our message is being heard far and wide, as Colin, a movie made for only £45 is catching the attention of distributors:
“We wanted to focus on story and character, and rely on that to hook the audience.”
The film puts an unusual slant on the zombie genre, telling the story from the point of view of a zombie trying to understand what has happened to him, rather than a human trying to escape and survive.
“The ultimate goal was rather than going for screams, we wanted to try to move the audience, to try to get them to cry, get a real emotional response from them,” Price said.
“We wanted to try to avoid what other films had done, which is why we began doing it from the zombie’s perspective.”
We are intrigued by the film, as it seems to perfectly encapsulate the violence and unreasoned hatred people have towards Zombies, and will be updating as we discover more about it. As usual, we will be contacting the filmmaker.
Today we have initiated an attempt to enter into dialog with the Zombie Research Society. We feel that they present an inconsistent view of Zombies, sometimes positive, sometimes vitalist, and wish to help clarify the message. The more people we feel we can contact the better. We must continue to fight oppression!
Hello, I represent the Zombie Anti Defamation League (ZADL.org), and I would like to enter into dialog about the purpose of the ZRS.
We feel that Zombies have been grossly misrepresented in popular culture, and that their great contributions to society have been largely overlooked. Without Zombies, there would be no one to staff your state BMVs, or the TSA.
The constant talk of the “Zombie threat” is something that we are trying to overcome as it totally distorts the motives of our post-vital friends.
Thank you for your time.
“Zombie Prom” is the story of Jonny, a teen rebel who decided to take the customary “H” out of his name, and Toffee, who met at Enrico Fermi High School and fall in love. When Toffee’s parents force them to break up, Jonny, played by Tyler Fritz and Tony Evans in the shared role, has a tragic accident and Toffee, played by Morgan Ladd and Kendall Cornish, is left broken-hearted. When Jonny returns to school as a teenage nuclear zombie, Miss Strict, the principal, played by Victoria Tovig, turns against him. All the students, including Toffee, have to make a choice: to go back to the way things were before or to stand up for zombie rights. Jonny wants to reconcile with Toffee, but Toffee is torn, especially when Miss Strict refuses to allow zombies at her school.
Way to go! If anyone at Cooper High School has some video footage, we’d love to post it (YouTube would be best).
(still trying to figure out why embedding video doesn’t work – someone’s going to get a brain eaten here soon…..)
