MetaFilter posts tagged with masks

Dressed For Thrills

vronsky — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:58:28 -0800

Phyllis Galembo: 100 Years of Halloween Costumes and Masquerade

Not a Halloween Post.

gman — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:46:13 -0800

The Maskatorium: hundreds of masks collected from around the world over the past 20 years.

Celebrating 50 Years Of Less-Ugly Hockey Players

mannequito — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:37:01 -0800

The Face Of Hockey: November 1st will mark the 50th anniversary of Jacques Plante - subject of an upcoming biography - skating onto the ice wearing a goalie mask. A new style was born, one that would later be carried into the mainstream by another prolific slasher. And to celebrate the anniversary, TSN is running a poll asking which current goaltender has the most original mask. (gallery) bonus gallery links - Life's Head Case: Weird, Wild Hockey Masks & Sports Illustrated's Goalie Masks of the NHL (previously on mefi)

Aardvark K Mask

netbros — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:04:59 -0800

Looking for some new head gear for your next party? While many reach for a cap to cover up those bad hair days, Spanish designer Kepa Rasmussen would rather sculpt a mask. Crafting highly innovative facial sculptures under his label Aardvark K Mask, Rasmussen's conceptual pieces are hand-crafted expressly to make heads turn.

The Many Faces of Crime

terranova — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 13:13:24 -0800

In one of the largest jewelry heists in history, robbers -- at least two wearing women's wigs and dresses -- relieved a Harry Winston boutique of $108 million worth of diamond rings, necklaces, and watches. Despite criminal investigation teachings that robbers "have better things to do with their money than to buy an array of masks and disguises" and will opt for functional attire, many thieves express themselves creatively and impractically through costumery, dressing as Dracula and Black Father Christmas, a tree, Greek prime ministers, clowns, and ghosts, while others cover their faces with duct tape, cookie dough, drywall, and baking-flour-and-ketchup. Minimalists just wear men's underwear and women's thongs on their heads.

African art

nickyskye — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 14:18:15 -0800

Much of the extraordinary variety of traditional art from Africa comes from the countries in West and Central Africa, because of the availability of wood (often called exotic woods) and metal. Hamill Gallery has organized their excellent site to show the materials, including textiles, metals, beads used, as well as the names of the many tribes and categories, such as animals. The images are accompanied by information about the art. The Yale University Art Gallery also has a nice selection of African art with information. The Africa Image Library offers an archive of images, which give a little backdrop to the lives and environment of the artists and artisans in various parts of Africa. African Wood Figures / Fetishes / Dolls and Puppets Google book: African Sculpture By the late Ladislas Segy, who was a pioneer among Westerners writing about the meanings and ritual uses of West African art and gallery owner Traditional African art created before 1955 is considered "old", and usually quite costly, because many of the materials used, such as wood or barkcloth, were subject to decay by weather and bugs. [This was told to me by Merton Simpson.] African Art history resources on the web

We can now declare the next president!

twoleftfeet — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:05:09 -0800

There is a litmus test that has predicted the winner and loser of every presidential election over the past 100 years. If the Dow has risen 3.3 percent or more in October, the incumbent party has never lost. If the Dow has dropped 0.5 percent or more, the incumbent party has never won. That is, until 2004. Perhaps a more reliable test is the relative popularity of halloween masks; track your favorite candidate at Amazon or BuyCostumes.

Lucybelle Crater posts to Metafilter

Del Far — Wed, 28 May 2008 09:26:13 -0800

"The Photographer Ralph Eugene Meatyard (May 15, 1925 - May 7, 1972) suffered a fate common to artists who are very much of but also very far ahead of their time. Everything about his life and his art ran counter to the usual and expected patterns. He was an optician, happily married, a father of three, president of the Parent-Teacher Association, and coach of a boy's baseball team." "His images had nothing to do with the gritty "street photography" of the east coast or the romantic view camera realism of the west coast. His best known images were populated with dolls and masks, with family, friends and neighbors pictured in abandoned buildings or in ordinary suburban backyards." His most well known and last photography series "The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater" (1972) was based on the short story by Flannery O'Connor, "The Life You Save May Be Your Own." A Gallery of more of his stuff has been put up by George Eastman House Still Photograph Archive.

Photos of WWI poison gas and flamethrowers.

damn dirty ape — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:46:26 -0800

Photos of WWI poison gas and flamethrowers. This amazing photo set includes masks for horses, gas attack as seen from above, a pretty corpse, there can only be one, subterranean frogs, and americans with liquid fire.

Mexican wrestlers

nickyskye — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 14:58:02 -0800

Striking photographs of the masked wrestlers of Mexico, Lucha Loco by Malcolm Venville. [via the amazing everlasting blort] [more inside]

Female Mask Site Galleries

Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 08:00:06 -0800

Female Mask Site Galleries. Here you will find all the galleries that have been updated in 2005-2006. (via this thread; some images nsfw)

Other Africas

tpoh.org — Sat, 04 Jun 2005 07:20:39 -0800

Other Africas. Critical observers have long noted that museum collections from Africa are composed largely of the spoils of colonial pillage. Thus the Africa we normally encounter in museums—the Africa of masks and ritual objects displayed on walls and in glass cases—is a fetishized Africa of colonial nostalgia. The objective of this exhibit is to offer images of Other Africas, perspectives that lead us away from the desolate and romanticized Africa of the Western imagination toward those places where African modernities are emerging.

masks

y2karl — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 21:03:18 -0800

I have been thinking about masks lately. Masks are ancient and universal, our ancestors put on masks to become an other, to become a god, even unto this day. Greek tragedy and comedy began in the worship of Dionysos, the god of wine, intoxication, and creative ecstasy, in rituals where worshipers often wore or worshipped masks. Indeed, the word for mask in Greek drama was persona, now commonly used to describe constructed online identities. And so we understand ourselves as wearing masks, whole series of masks--behind which we find only emptiness, for we can never see ourselves truly.

Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream

gwint — Tue, 31 Aug 2004 13:40:48 -0800

Death Masks (Keats, Newton, Etc.)

Why should the world be overwise, In counting all our tears and sighs?

plexi — Wed, 28 Apr 2004 15:12:27 -0800

Sterile couture. A Dutch architect designs surgical masks for the Japanese.

wanna see something SCARY?

crunchland — Mon, 20 Oct 2003 20:00:22 -0800

mr. deadguy / biomorphs / death studios / ghastly creations / lubatti designs / nfx studios / monster mayhem / the monster lab / twisted toybox / 1313

It's a madhouse!

plinth — Sat, 20 Sep 2003 04:39:46 -0800

It's not too early to think about Hallowe'en. This year, why not go as Dr. Zira?

venetian carnival masks

crunchland — Tue, 04 Mar 2003 21:24:51 -0800

venetian carnival masks

mathowie — Tue, 29 Oct 2002 14:07:14 -0800

The scariest costumes this year represent those that crushed the dreams of many, bilked millions from strangers, and got away. Psycho Killers? Crazed Snipers? No, Forbes gives you: CEO Halloween masks. I know the kids will love going as Martha. It's a good thing.