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Demonstrators throw stones to the police in central Athens on Wednesday, May 5, 2010.
-- (Nikolas Giakoumidis / AP)

trivial but cool observance: the dog in the picture has been seen at different riots and protests since 2008.


[ChicagoTribune.]

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Snowblind (makes me happy, makes me cold)

and so it begins...

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Monica Bellucci

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"choose". Photo by Douglas Ethan ; model: J. Isobel De Lisle

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Susana Alves, or "Tiazinha"... was a major Brazilian sex symbol.

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‘What’s Under Your Mask?’ by Adrian Pavic

What’s Under Your Mask? That’s the question that German illustrator Adrian Pavic asks in this series of prints. Honoring the masked icons in Western society, ranging from Darth Vader, to Spider-Man, and even the French thief Fantômas, this print is an interesting look at identity and our society’s obsession with secrets.

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[definitivetouch.]

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Laying one on Lady Margaret Thatcher

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-- courtesy of grayskymorning

As I stated before, I think the above photograph is a really interesting take on "giving oneself a new face", otherwise known as donning a mask.

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"Attesa.", by drmauro

author's comments:
Spesso confondiamo il dovere con ciò che compiono gli altri e non ciò che noi stessi dobbiamo compiere.


translated:

"Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself."

-- Oscar Wilde

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"GUILT", by Francesco Francavilla

author's comments:
"Strange things happen
in the darkest nights.

Strange things like
the one that happened to Charlie,
just when he thought everything
and everyone was lost".

~~~ Opening Doors Into The Darkness ~~~

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(could perhaps by a Ralph Eugene Meatyard photograph ; I'll continue to seek if this, indeed, is the case.)


-- curated by dreamattack

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"The Sad Clown" --source currently unknown

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“I had to wonder if men were so blinded by beauty that they would feel privileged
to live their lives with an actual demon, so long as it was a beautiful demon.”

Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden

-- courtesy of halinamandala.

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Grow till Tall, a photographic journey encapsulated by Angi Welsh.


[heavenandhaven.]

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Photography by Dima Helios

{Photo taken in St. Petersburg, Russia.}

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Five members of the Monster Fan Club, NYC, 1961. Diane Arbus.

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Photography by Steph Ruple

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courtesy of Nikola Tamindzic's Home of the Vain

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aaaahhhh!!!! photography by bart azare

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(lucha for lunch) ; Photography by Katinka Herbert.

about the artist:
Katinka Herbert - a famous female photographer, whose work appears regularly
in various publications and print. Her friends describe her as "obsessed with men in
tight-tights and masks." Katinka has spent the last eight years, traveling to Mexico,
photographing Mexican Lucha Libre wrestlers. In her new book «SLAM» describes the life and work of
the representatives of this unusual sport.

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+ bonus(es)

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[Telegraph.]

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Husband & wife portraiture, complete with ornamental donned Oni masks

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("Egle")

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batman by Super Bomba

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Arthur Trees, Masked Children 110th Street, New York, 1969

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such a strange museum room by oso polar

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(maybe too suggestive to be qualified as a tease?)

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Gaetan Henrioux
Ghost World, (July)2010
oil on canvas
103/4 x 131/5''

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+ bonus

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Bat Grrrl

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A man wearing a mask of former President Bill Clinton waves from a vehicle in
Rhinebeck, New York, on Saturday, July 31, 2010. Chelsea Clinton and fiancé
Marc Mezvinsky are expected to be married in Rhinebeck today. --(AP Photo/Mike Groll)

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(invested time: 78 seconds... still way too long)

Fanservice! Wednesday feature:

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Scarlett Johansson - "Mask" / Photography by Patrick Eugene

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"NIKOLAI" ; concept art by Dan LuVisi.


Perhaps by and for the same theme (if not the same author) as was previously featured by telekinetic:
Ho-ho! It is :thumbsup:


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Photography by Christophe Kutner.

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+ bonus

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you get the idea...
 

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Chris's Mentos Ad by ~Bravoswoman on deviantART

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Jean Seberg

Friggin' awesome find. I'm buying this print for my man cave. Thanks, Jetee.

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Russ Mills

(perhaps this should have been an 'Artist Feature' instead, but too late now.)


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