Just yesterday this blog passed 500,000 views. I started posting here back in 2009 as a way to display my Jason-related artwork. Since then I've done deep dives into hockey mask history and all things makeup and prop-related in the Friday the 13th franchise and I want to thank everyone who stops by to check out all the photos I've collected from around the web and read my analysis. I've been away from this for several months but I have a couple of Jason-related projects underway I'll be posting soon.
Jasonlivessince1980's Friday the 13th Blog
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
Friday, October 20, 2023
New Stan Winston Jason Photos Revealed
Stan Winston Studios posted these recently on their social media in honor of the recent Friday the 13th. Really nice photos of casting Richard's face for the original sculpt used in Part III. You can also see the exaggerated mauve flesh tones used in painting the final pieces. FX guys usually did this knowing that color timing would inevitably rob the piece of some amount of it's original color.
Wednesday, September 6, 2023
Jason Takes Manhattan BTS
Kane has a lot of mud and debris on him, so I'm guessing this was when they were filming the opening scene on the house boat.
Wednesday, August 2, 2023
More Photos of the Part VII Mask
Here's a couple more gorgeous photos of the Part 7 hero mask, from the Wall Street Journal and Josh Ludemann of Beyond Disgusting Studios. What a great piece of cinematic artwork.
Thursday, June 8, 2023
Finally: Razor Sharp Photos of the Part VII Mask
Taken from the Profiles in History auction catalog. This mask is expected to fetch over $100,000.
You can also see a short HD video of the mask here:
Saturday, March 25, 2023
Bloody Ending II Touch-Ups
I've done a few enhancements to my Bloody Ending II bust, made from a stunt-mold mask from the production of Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter. I went for the heavily shadowed paint job that Kevin Yagher chose for the original stunt pieces, while adding some His Unlucky Day-inspired touches of realism, with blemishes and depth in the skin. The results are below.These are easily the best photos I've taken of this piece, and I'm happy to finally have them up.
Here's Yagher with the original stunt heads he painted for the film in 1984. The shadowy paint job gives Jason a bit of a "zombie" appearance.
Despite being a couple generations removed from the movie mold, you can see here the detail on the Bloody Ending II is pretty high-fidelity to the original.Saturday, March 18, 2023
Screen-Used Head From 'Voorhees' Lit Up
A screen cap from Voorhees (2020) |
The director of Voorhees and I are working on a new film called The Crow: Days of Sodom and you can find the project group on Facebook.
Saturday, March 11, 2023
Saturday, March 4, 2023
Rare Footage of Ted White in Makeup Chair
Courtesy of Nathan Stafford of the Horror Costume Index, here is some of the clearest footage we've seen from Tom Savini's old VHS tapes of Ted White getting made up as Jason by Kevin Yagher for the unmasking scene in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter. There is also some machete dummy footage.
This came off a DVD copy of the Tom Savini documentary Smoke and Mirrors.
This is likely the clearest look we'll ever get of Ted in full makeup nearly forty years ago and it's glorious! Just beautiful work by everyone involved.