Masked Marauders
 

The whereabouts in which it is encouraged, and mandated in order, to attend the party, you don your best facade and join in on the masquerade.

What will you find when you realize you can choose, hide, and/or exhibit yourself in a myriad of masked displays?
The adventure you seek all depends upon the face, and those who would embrace it.

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Photo: Lars Botten


This eventual smattering of content will be different than Cosplay events and The Superhero Subject because I will steer this ship into the right direction of what can be seen as a 'new' wilderness to explore, gaze upon, and wonder, "what's he hiding behind that visage?".



“You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.”

— V for Vendetta

Also to note: full-face paintings are an acceptable alternative to feature here, though unless they are very intricate in their detail, I'd rather them remain omitted until the need to showcase them arises.
Thank you.
And in case it needs to be said, this is a 'safe-for-work' thread, so please, if you have some nudity to share, link it, (or enclose it in the [hide] feature).

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Sounds like a fun party.

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/b/ is not your personal army.

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"hide" by alexintrouble

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by Susannah B, part of the 'Metamorphosis' series

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last but not least, my son when he ran for President of the United Snakes

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An exile Tibetan Buddhist monk performs a ritualistic dance
called 'Cham' at the Khampaghar monastery in Tashi Jong,
about 40 miles from Dharmsala, Thursday, March 25, 2010.
-- (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)

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FantomA

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Alessandra Cestac

"Gorilla Mask"
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a Banksy wall-spot

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Central Park Peace March, New York City, April 5th, 1969 ; photo by David Fenton

masks of the malevolently-inanimate, set forth with a purpose
 

otherwise known as "killer robots and-slash-or destructive aliens"
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From Hexagonall's Project: Film Posters

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Alter Egos on the Behance Network

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Googling for source, downloaded a long time ago

edit: According to TinEye, which rules by the way, this is from Dan Luvisi's Last Man Standing. http://superpunch.blogspot.com/2009/...-standing.html

Dude is losing all his jelly beans.

No COMFORT HERE, SIR. -- images courtesy of "&& Hobogestapo"
 

February 2nd - "Playground Night" 2010. Day Two and it's dress up time. From this point on, things went from strange to stranger. It's okay. It's all part of the plan. -- Kid

Masked Opera
 

Tiger steals the show (this always seems to happen, anywhere, involving a Tiger)



[urlesque.]

moe cats in masks (of big cats)
 

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"REALITY BYTES" by Dale Yudelman


[viceland.]

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Photography by Peter Yang

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by nickelplated

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by Julian Hibbard

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Japanese Manga: Kerberos Panzer Cop. 2010.

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가내수공업식 폴리티칼 앤드 콘템포러리 콘셉츄얼 디지털 아트 매거진 liveevil - those whom the gods detest

I've decided to allow a new category to be included in this commons, besides regular face-(eye-and-or-mouth)covering masks, and fully-immersive face-paintings, and that would be... whatever it is you call this:
(what would you call it? I have no idea what it is known as, but my offering would be for it to be known as 'face-pulling', or 'head-adopters'...)

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by Evan Lane

Cool Design that Actually Exists: The Emoticon Mask
 

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'The Mask Of Emotion' exchanges facial expressions for digital emotions.
If you weren't easy to read before, now people should have no problems
discerning your emotion. Designed by the Digital Media Design Department
at Hongik University in Korea, the 'Mask Of Emotion' mimics your own facial
expressions and translates them into LED pixel emoticons. If you frown, the
mask changes the LED design to a slanted frown as it sees fit.

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courtesy of xorsyst. and coolest-gadgets.

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Friday the 12th

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by Mark Pernice

Mark had taken a small reel of himself in a photobooth and, with a little bit of
creative help from his buddy Christian Hanson, converted the silly two-minute
photo-op into a creepy real-life portrayal of what happens if you make those silly faces long enough.


-- courtesy of today&tomorrow.

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Urban Landscape by Marco Zamora

select artwork, by Stacey Rozich (Seattle).

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Lil' Sad Clown by Aihibed Magaña

ordinary ninjas

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Ninja by clarkmackey (part of series, "Day in the Life of Asheville", 2009)

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Ninja Getting Ready by Doctor Donald Brief

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Barrie's 2nd Ninja Shoot by Beavis Bob

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by mrtheomichael (found at the Victoria and Albert Museum)

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Daft Punk by Beatrice Neumann

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Photography by Susan Meiselas, 1978

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"Top Women", courtesy of The U.S. National Archives

Original caption:
Like Girls from Mars Are These "Top Women" at U.S. Steel's Gary, Indiana, Works.
Their Job Is to Clean Up at Regular Intervals Around The Tops of Twelve Blast Furnaces.
As A Safety Precaution, the Girls Wear Oxygen Masks., 1940 - 1945