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And now the robots take away our crafty folk-art? Will your domination know no bounds, you soulless machines?!

Check the via link for more of Reddit user Charles_baker's cool pumpkin designs!

And now for something completely different! I bet you didn't realize it, but 13 minutes of someone delicately carving a giant jawbreaker is both beautiful and hypnotizing. Give it a shot!

We've featured the work of Ray Villafane quite a few times now, but these are some of the pumpkins that put him on the map. Villafane's ability to carve texture and character into these ordinary squashes is mind-boggling, to say the least. He'll be making all kinds of new works for the New York Botanical Gardens through Halloween, so we'll be sure to post any more cool ones that come our way!