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

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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:


[2photo.]

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Photography by Christophe Kutner.

- - -
+ 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.)


[2photo.]

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Photo by: Nicolas Silberfaden.

(Charlatan said he had a thing for these batgirls, so...)

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.
They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues.
They are messengers of overwhelming grief…and unspeakable love.

-- Washington Irving

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A Christie’s employee poses for photographs behind a
Roman bronze helmet found with the use of a metal detector,
at the auction house’s offices in London, Monday, Sept. 13, 2010.
The helmet is topped with a griffin. The face mask features
perfectly arched eyebrows and an ancient gaze, framed by curls,
and it is up for auction. Considered an extraordinary example of
Roman metalwork, the mask was discovered in a field in
northwestern England by a treasure-hunter armed with a
metal detector. It is to be offered at auction Oct. 7 by Christie’s,
with a guide price of 200,000 to 300,000 pounds,
euro 240,000 to 360,000 ($242,000 to 363,000). --(AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

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Christer Strömholm ; Tokyo, 1963.

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Me, as horse.

It's a wonder I haven't submitted this before.

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[Catgirl] Cristina Ricci (or maybe I have?)

Penny for the Guy?
 

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In his book "Journey to California", photographer Dennis Stock has collected
everything that caught his attention during a trip to the Sunshine State.
This picture can be called "Death on the beach."


[via.]

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... something weird happens when the moon is full and bright, in the night.

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"going away and going home" (translated). photography by klaus pichler.

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Photo by: skullofsilver

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despite what you may believe, the above IS a mask - a 'death mask;. -- source unknown

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Scott Batty

[Santa Hats]

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Andrew Salomone's identity-preserving balaclava (er: the around-town ski-mask)


[make.]

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"Earth's 2008 release" ; illustrations by Stacey Rozich. --(might have shared this previously)

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月刊 仲村みう (Miu Nakamura)