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The Route of the Infection

A. Survivor — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:19:32 +0000

At 5:00 PM October 24th, Waterville NY will become infected with the living dead. Our festering corpses shall spill forth into the streets of Waterville beginning at the registration point and then head North on Main street, crossing over a couple streets, then heading North again on Stafford Avenue until we reach East Bacon Street. Here we will cross over to West Bacon and then proceed South down Stafford Ave. back the way we came all the way down Main Street until we reach our final location at Stinkers for the After Party.

If you like please feel free to bring your make up with you and help others that may be less prepared than you.

SPREAD THE DEAD!

The Path of the infection.

New Starting location announced.

A. Survivor — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:38:25 +0000

Well we’ve got a new starting location and probably a better one than we orginally had anyway. We will be starting Registration and Food collection in the parking lot behind the Waterville Family Medical Center, across the street from Stinkers Tavern. Located at 117 W Main Street in Waterville.

We will still be starting Registration at 4 with the walk beginning at 5 PM on October 24th. Check our map below… FYI: West Main Street is Rt 12.

Where the infection will begin!

Starting Location will be changing.

A. Survivor — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:42:21 +0000

Well we should have known it was to good to be true. So far this entire event has come flowing together nicely but today we encountered our first bump in the road. More like a ditch than a bump actually. But we’re going to lumber past it anyway with a shuffle and drag.

Our original location for starting the Walk, Memorial Park Elementary School has denied our request to use their parking lot for the event. This is VERY unfortunate for multiple reasons. 1, it’s written on all of the posters and flyers. 2, the parking lot is big enough to handle the unknown number of participants regardless of how many or few there are. And 3, our walking route has to change. But fear not, we will over come. As we all know, nothing can stop the infection from spreading. Not even a change in venue.

We are now discussing alternative parking and collection spots that will be able to give everyone a nice place to park and congregate prior to the walk. We will write more about this again as soon as we hear back from the Village or find another acceptable alternative.

Do not dismay, the walk will go on!

Remember to spread the dead!

Join the Street Team

A. Survivor — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:56:41 +0000

Want to help do something meaningful, or do you just want to have fun? Well now you can do both; by helping us raise the number of Undead in Upstate NY. Join the Upstate Undead Street Team and help us “Spread the Dead” by posting our flyers for the upcoming Waterville Zombie Walk around your neighborhood.

Zombie Walks are fun but they rely on numbers, and our numbers are YOU! So join the Street Team and help us raise our numbers.

How do you join? Easy, just start printing and hanging the flyers. Don’t have a printer, tell everyone you know about the walk. Being part of the Street Team is all about spreading the word

Print’em, Hang’em – Spread the Dead

Who wants pro-makeup?

A. Survivor — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:57:32 +0000

Here’s another awesome bit of news for you shambling maggot hotels.

Are you to lazy to make your own costume?
To busy to do your own makeup?

Don’t worry! The Waterville Zombie Walk has just what you need!

Meet Collin Major!

Collin is a graduate of the of the Tom Savini School of Special Effects Makeup.

He has been gracious enough to attend the walk and offer his services to those wanna be Zombie’s that either don’t know how, or don’t want to be bothered; doing their own makeup. Collin has worked on such films as “Splatter Movie: The directors Cut” , “Schism” and more.

For a modest fee Collin will be available prior to the Walk to do YOUR makeup. So if you don’t want to do it yourself, or if you just want to feel like you were in a real Zombie Movie with a professional make up artist catering to your needs, have Collin take care of you.

Fees and Times are still in the air but we should know more in another day or so. We’ll keep you posted on that. Check out some of his work below
and more in his myspace gallery.

The Dancing Dead? Or…

A. Survivor — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:18:03 +0000

Well boys and ghouls (is that to cliche? oh well) another day closer to the walk and I’ve got great news. We’ve obtained two more awesome features for the Walk. But I think they both deserve their own entry. So for our first bit of news; lets talk about this the after party. As we all know, the walk will begin at the Memorial Park Elementary school and end at Stinkers Tavern, where we will all have the opportunity to have some drinks and good times, but really what does every party need?

Music!

And thats what we’ve got. Beginning at 7:00, shortly after the walk concludes the floor will be “alive” with The Ward. There’s nothing like a bunch of dead folk flailing around to some great music!

The walk lumbers on…

A. Survivor — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:11:44 +0000

Slowly the impending day approaches. Lurching forward and still soo much to do. When you’re so excited about something it’s hard to hold back the details from other people that are excited with you. Finally today I was able to meet with the Waterville Village Board and discuss the walk with them. It was a little akward, truth be told. A panel of people; who with a single vote could destroy the walk that we’ve put so much work into thus far.

Sitting there through official business, which I had no idea about, awaiting the time that they opened the floor for public discussions was a bit unnerving. But not as unnerving as standing up and saying “Hello. My name is Frank, and I would like to have a bunch of people dress up like zombies and walk through town“. Surprisingly the laughter I had expected did not ensue as I continued on to explain that we would be taking donations from participants for the local food pantry prior to the walk. Apparently the Mayor had already spoken to them about the walk, and one of the members (whose name I unfortunately did not catch) had heard about the walk on the local radion station 96.9′s morning talk show Gomez and Dave. I had emailed them on Friday regarding the walk, wish I had been listening when they spoke about it. Oh well.

A bit more banter regarding the walk continued and then they did it. They said OK for the walk, and then proceeded to offer us the village sign to assist with advertising. I love my Town!

So now, the times for the walk ok good to go. Now the only thing I have left to do is secure approval for the municipal buildings meeting room for a special guest speaker who wil be presenting prior to Registration. Once I have this secured I will complete the fliers information and get a rush order on the printing, send out event invitations to the facebook group and order our makeup!

You should go order yours too! See you at the walk!

- A Survivor

Our Walk Logo

A. Survivor — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:52:17 +0000

It is with great pleasure, and humble thanks that I present to you all the logo for our walk. I scoured the intenet for zombie artwork, waiting until something really caught my eye, after hours of searching between myself and Mrs Survivor we’ve finally located the piece that we decided to use for our first annual zombie walk. I contacted the artist immediately and told them of our event and graciously donated the work to our cause. So we’d like to give many many thanks to O’Ryan Rudis for his donation of this fantastic work.

So withouth further adieu a peak at the new logo for our flyers and signs.

Our first annual zombie walk logo

No need to Bleed…

A. Survivor — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:06:55 +0000

Unfortunate news for the Walk today. I was contacted by the Red Cross representative whom I have been dealing with regarding the Blood Drive for our event and unforunately they simply do not have enough personnel available to assist on the day we rise. However she did inform me that her Regional manager wants to speak with me regarding the event. Not sure what he cuold possibly want to talk about, but I’ll talk about the Zombie Walk all day to anyone that has an interest. So while it is unfortunate for the walk there is now no need to bleed.

I know a lot of people were looking forward to the Blood Drive, so I will make sure we secure their involvement for next year.

This is going to be a fun event, so go infect your friends and get them to join the walk!

Flyers in the works

A. Survivor — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:25:23 +0000

So today I took some time to do up some fliers for the upcoming walk. Even though I think I’m the only one that knows about it aside from my wife. I guess it doesn’t matter yet, and I thought I had better get some fliers set up in case people wanted to help.

Unfortunately for us, I was unable to secure the rights to the photos I wanted to use. However, I have found a fantastic logo which the Artist was gracious enough to donate, as well as several other images which we will be using to create new fliers, pamphlets and posters. The new promotional material should be available in PDF format for download within the next couple of days.