The script "Inconceivable Halloween Adventures"

Ghost2: There is a Hallowe'en. You remember that every year on Halloween we have a right to come down to the earth to spend one day among people. This year is not an exception. The moment has come! Let's go!

Ghost1: We are the real power in this crazy world. We’ll ruin everything on our way. Those human creatures will suffer and cry every minute, every second.

Ghost2: We will frighten people, will hear their screams and will fill their souls with horror of coming end

Ghost1: Hey! Look at these two silly humans. Let's make merry over them.

Ghost2: Oh, yeah! It's a great idea! I haven't enjoyed myself this way for a long time!

M: Oh, I'm so hungry! I want to eat something... What do we have? Bananas... No, I don't like it... What else? Cheese... No! Sausages? Yeah, it is exactly what I need!

H: Where is my slab chocolate??? I want something low-calorie to eat. I have problems with my stomach and feel myself badly.

Ghost1: See how professionals do such things! Crible-crable-booms!

M, H (frightened): Ghooooost!

Ghost2: Haha! We did it!

H: Mrs Jones?? Is it you??

M: Oh, that's you, my careless son-in-law??? I always knew that you wanted me to die! 

H: Oh, yeah. That's your night. It's Halloween today, the day when women like you are supposed to come out.

M: What a flat nonsense! You'll never amount to anything. Did you come to eat? AGAIN? Don't touch the pudding! It's mine!

H: But it's MINE!  My Wife cooked it for ME!  It's MY house! You are just a guest.

M: It's my daughter's house! You didn't even get registered here!

Ghost2: Buddy, we are the champions.

Ghost1: That's true! Come on! Let's gut other people's lives.

Ghost2: Look at this girl! Let's inspire her with the sin of gluttony! She will eat until she becomes as fat as a pumpkin!

Ghost1: Ooooh, i will watch it with pleasure. Bewitch her!!

Ghost2: Crible-crable-booms!

Girl: Ohhh! Food! I need food! Sweets, lard, sandwiches, chocolate, and a lot of pumpkin!  I'm dying of starvation. I want to eat more and more. What's happening to me?

Ghost1: I think it's not enough. I'll turn myself into a crow and pilfer her ring!

Girl: Oh, while I was eating someone stole my ring! Was it a ghost? Today is Halloween and everything is possible! I'll look outside to find my ring. 

Ghost2: Look, she's going out! Let's follow her!

Ghost1. All right.

Girl: (meets a boy). Hello, Larry! I haven't seen you for ages. Happy Halloween! Remember, you've once said that when you are 10, you'll go round the haunted house? Don't you think it's time to keep your promise?

Boy: Hmm, you have an excellent memory, my dear. Really, it's time for making a feat. I even have a better idea. What you'll say, if I enter the house and turn on the light on the top floor?

Girl: Are you fully confident in yourself? You are not really afraid of ghosts?!

Boy: I don't just believe in them. I consider all this stuff about spooks to be one big silly superstition.

Ghost2: What an aftergrowth! I like our enterprise more and more!

Ghost1: So, what will we do next?

Ghost2: Let's frighten this boy out of existence!

Ghost1: Yeah. We'll make him chilled to the bone and he will cry for mercy.

Boy:Oh, it's rather quiet here and not dark. Everything is flooded with moonlight. What a peaceful atmosphere! So, where should I go? Probably upstairs. My goodness, there is complete darkness. Oh, but I have a lantern (he turns it on). There is one door and it is ajar. (he comes in).

Ghost1: WOOOOOOOO!!!!! 

Boy: WOW!!! What a funny masquerade! Hilarious show! Ahahahaha. Let me touch you! I have never seen such stupid monsters before! How incredible you look! I split my sides with laughter. This holiday pretends to be the most unforgettable in my life.

Ghost2: Buddy, what's happening??

Ghost1: I don't understand! Let's escape until it's not too late!

Ghost2: Ruuuuuun!!!

Boy: Where are you going? Don't leave me! Hey! Wait! I liked you so much! Don't go! It was the most unusual surprise I had ever had on Halloween. All spooky creatures played their terrible roles perfectly. My friends won't take on trust that such a show was made in my honour.

Halloween story

The evening fell. All the houses on Maple lane were illuminated by funny and scary Jack-o-Lanterns. Sculptures of black cats with fire green eyes, of various little monsters and other Halloween creatures adorned almost every yard. There was a lot of movement inside and outside the houses, but just except one place. That was not a big dilapidated wooden house. It was situated at the very end of a long lane and considered to be out of the town's territory. It was believed that ghosts and monsters inhabited that place and no one of the citizens dared to come in. There was always an ominous silence, but some people said that sometimes they had heard strange creepy sounds coming from old walls.
On that very evening, on the 31st of October, after traditional trick-or-treating a group of teenagers gathered on the playground to divide all collected sweets into equal parts for each of them. They talked, laughed, discussed their fruitful work.
"Hey, guys, look what Mrs. Pastwick gave us!!! She was perhaps the most generous this year," exclaimed Larry, opening a brown sack full of chocolate sweets. "Yes, this one will be for me..."
"Not so fast, Larry "King"! I think Mrs. Pastwick would not be glad if all cooked-by-herself sweets were eaten by YOU!" said Angela in an adult strict voice, so that was a bit ridiculous. "Don't you remember how you fell on her favourite flowerbeds trying to catch the ball?"
"Yeeaahh" Larry drawled this word, "That day she called me "Lucifer in a human body" for the first time."
"And she was somewhat right", smiled Jack.
Responding to this remark, Larry raised his hands, crooked fingers, made a scary face and growled "I'm a devil. I've come for your souls...". Everybody laughed.
Some time later Max spoke to Larry "Remember, you've once said that when you are 14, you'll go round the haunted house? Don't you think it's time to keep your promise?"
There was a silence for a few seconds, then Larry said: "Hmm, you have an excellent memory, Max. Really, it's time for making a feat." He stood up. "I even have a better idea. What you'll say, if I enter the house and turn on the light on the top floor?"
"Aren't you afraid of ... ghosts?" Kate said a bit worried.
"I don't just believe in them. I consider all this stuff about spooks to be one big silly superstition."
His friends exchanged glances, but said nothing. Larry was known as an obstinate, intrepid person, who didn't like to lose and be mocked at. And all of them knew that he wouldn't change his mind.
So it took 10 minutes for them to get to that haunted house. Teenagers stopped before the gate and looked around. There was rather quiet. George took a small lantern out of his pocket and gave it to Larry.
"Thanks, man" said Larry, slightly smiling.
He opened the gate and went towards the house. All his friends kept silence. At last Larry came in. There was not dark at all. Everything was flooded with moonlight. Interior seemed to him rather nice and the atmosphere rather peaceful. His heart beat regularly. He went upstairs.
Meanwhile Larry's friends felt nervous. Max began to regret that he had started all this.
Larry already reached the top floor. He turned on the lantern and saw two closed doors. He slightly pulled the doorknob of one door, but it was locked. Then he came to another door, but it appeared to be ajar. Larry's calmness suddenly vanished away, he felt someone's presence. He was already about to run away, but then he pulled himself together. "The last step, only one step and I'm the winner". And he eventually opened the door, but the lantern stopped working. He shook it, but nothing. Batteries were probably flat. "Oh, George, better pray, cause when I go out, I'll kill you" said Larry in a low voice.
There was complete darkness in the room. Larry made a step and suddenly fell, stumbled over something. A loud ominous laughter filled the house. All windows opened by themselves and the light was switched on all over the house. Dark silhouettes flickered in windows.
Larry's friends got frightened and ran away, crying for help. When a lot of adults reached the house, it was quiet. All windows were closed and the light was turned off. Some brave men entered the house and went upstairs to the top floor. There they found an empty room with an only broken lantern on the floor.
"What a horrible nightmare!" Larry woke up in a cold sweat. He got up and came to the window. He focused his attention on the dilapidated wooden house, that stood on a small hill and was seen among the branches of the maple tree. That was the night before Halloween.

Halloween poem

It's dark already in the street.

It's night when evil spirits meet.

This party's held just once a year.

Do you wanna know what happens there?

Each of the witches takes her broom

And flies towards the gathering gloom.

Dry skeletons rattle their bones.

Black ravens fly above gravestones.

Humans are frightened by translucent spooks

Which have come out of darkened nooks.

Vampires sharpen again their fangs.

Eerie green goblins gather in gangs.

Bats circle around the burial mounds.  

And haunted houses make creepy sounds.

Bright Jack-o-Lanterns lighten each street.

Children traditionally play "trick-or-treat".

The name of this day ends in a "ween".

Sure, you've guessed. Happy Halloween!

"After the ball..."

       After the ball was over                                                              Окончен балл, уж пробил час.

   Mary took out her glass eye                                                       И Мэри вынула стеклянный глаз,

Put her false teeth in some water                                                Искусственные зубы в воду опустила,

      Hung up her wig to dry                                                          Парик свой высушить не позабыла,

   Put her peg leg in the corner                                                  Ногу деревянную она в угол поставила,

  Hung her wax ear on the wall                                             Ухо восковое висевшим на стенке оставила.

That's why you'd never know Mary                                           Никто и никогда так и не узнает Мэри

             After the ball.                                                                 После того, как залы замка опустели.

Art of the XXI century

The new century begets new ideas, views, beliefs. The development of science and technology gives a possibility to create new tendencies in art. Although almost 11 years have passed, there are already a lot of trends, which take a deserved place in art history. They are virtual art, altermodern, stuckism, superstroke, relational art, VJ art, IMMAGINE&POESIA (Italian) or IMAGE&POETRY, mobilography, water drop art and others.

My choice fell on Water Drop Art or as it is also known - Liquid Sculpture.

Liquid Sculpture is the process of creating shapes by dropping and splashing water or other liquids. The sculptures are than photographed since they last only a few thousandths of a second.

The founder of this art trend is named Martin Waugh.  By varying the size, speed and position of drops, as well as the color, viscosity, and surface tension, Martin creates a panorama of color, movement and intrigue.

He writes: "I orchestrate these sculptures by accurately aiming the drops and releasing them with precise timing. As nature takes its course, I photograph the unfolding forms using a digital camera and electronic flash".

This photo technique and the imagination of an author make it possible to imprint the moments of associative images and forms, which appear due to the contact of diverse liquids.

These photos convey the uniqueness of water, the feeling of tranquility, the beauty of life. It is so pleasant to look at these pictures, to admire at same time the simplicity and singularity of the form.

To my mind water will never stop astonishing people. The substance that seemed studied from all the aspects, uncovers new sides of its nature. In skillful hands of a photographer water becomes an amazing work of art.

The purposes of contemporary art

     There is no precise formulation of art's purposes. One interprets them according to his own understanding of art.
     In my opinion, the main purposes of art are as follows:
- to charge people with positive energy;
- to inspire them;
- to evoke high feelings and emotions; 
- to create for people a small world of serenity and harmony;
- to let people not forget about the beauty of the world;
- to expand people's consciousness.

Art is ...

Art is an essential part of our life and it has a very long history. For centuries people have been creating, developing art, making attempts to bring it to perfection. Nowadays we are surrounded by art, we can feel its influence almost everywhere. But do we often question ourselves what art is? Probably not.

So, it is time to learn the definition of art.

The world-known English dictionaries give a lot explanations of the concept "art".

1. Oxford Dictionary: art is the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power.

2. Merriam-Webster Dictionary: art is the conscious use of skill and creative imagination especially in the production of aesthetic objects.

3. Collins Cobuild Advanced Dictionary: art is paintings, sculptures and other pictures or objects which are created for people to look at, admire or think deeply about.

In addition to these definitions I have made my own.

Art is a process of connection of artist's imagination, perception of the world with his mental health, state of mind at the present moment and his endowments, that leads to creation of a little miracle.