So! This is absolutely the coolest mask I make. Medusa.
It's really really difficult to cut out, carve, and shape. So I don't make them very often (this is the first Medusa I've done in three years). This one has eleven snakes, shaded from gold to copper over a black base. I thought green eyes for the snakes would really stand out nicely with all that gold so I used 3mm malachite beads. Those eyes are a PAIN in the ass to sew in. I sew them onto a small scrap of suede, cement the suede into each head after I position the eyes in the sockets, and then cement another piece of black suede under the chin, to hide all the sewing work. ELEVEN TIMES! Auuugh. But, it's worth it because this mask really rocks (in my not-so-humble opinion) and is a total show-stopper.
You can see the heads just a bit more clearly from this angle. That's all one piece of leather, by the way.
I did a ~second~ Medusa (eh, it keeps me busy) but the picture didn't load correctly so I'll post that another time.
Also, I had the best conversation with![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
rumdiculous today, which unfortunately I failed to save. Talking points:
1. Someone really needs to cosplay Naraku, complete with Shard pasties
2. Where might one tuck a $20, should one wish to tip a strategically sharded naked Naraku?
3. '80's fantasy movies are mucho fun. Glitter = magic!
4. "Legend" is more disturbing than "Labyrinth". Labyrinth has David Bowie's mesmerizing spandex-clad "area"...but Legend has Tom Cruise in a disturbing chain mail mini dress that shows off his hairless boy-thighs, and that wins.
It's really really difficult to cut out, carve, and shape. So I don't make them very often (this is the first Medusa I've done in three years). This one has eleven snakes, shaded from gold to copper over a black base. I thought green eyes for the snakes would really stand out nicely with all that gold so I used 3mm malachite beads. Those eyes are a PAIN in the ass to sew in. I sew them onto a small scrap of suede, cement the suede into each head after I position the eyes in the sockets, and then cement another piece of black suede under the chin, to hide all the sewing work. ELEVEN TIMES! Auuugh. But, it's worth it because this mask really rocks (in my not-so-humble opinion) and is a total show-stopper.
You can see the heads just a bit more clearly from this angle. That's all one piece of leather, by the way.
I did a ~second~ Medusa (eh, it keeps me busy) but the picture didn't load correctly so I'll post that another time.
Also, I had the best conversation with
rumdiculous today, which unfortunately I failed to save. Talking points:1. Someone really needs to cosplay Naraku, complete with Shard pasties
2. Where might one tuck a $20, should one wish to tip a strategically sharded naked Naraku?
3. '80's fantasy movies are mucho fun. Glitter = magic!
4. "Legend" is more disturbing than "Labyrinth". Labyrinth has David Bowie's mesmerizing spandex-clad "area"...but Legend has Tom Cruise in a disturbing chain mail mini dress that shows off his hairless boy-thighs, and that wins.
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Thank god for that. I HATEHATEHATE body hair, it SOOOO grosses me out. All men should be utterly bald everywhere but their scalps. Women too of course, but they're already close enough to it to not be downright disgusting.
The mask is very cool, but I hate snakes so it would creep me out to have to touch it, lol. They look like they might actually move, and then I'd scream.
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I have a good friend IRL who has a really bad snake phobia. She can't even pick up the Medusa mask, let alone try it on. When you're wearing it, all the little snakes are swirling in front of your eyes like bangs and she just can't handle it.
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Re: Legend... OMG you've SEEN that? I thought I was the only person in the world. I laughed my ass off. The whole way through. I'm going to go watch it again now and laugh some more.
Re: Naraku... I don't know, not much room for a twenty with the strategic-shard-setup *I* have in mind...
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Legend...hah! I remember seeing that movie *in the theater*!!! I'm old, my dear. Old. :::totters off to die:::
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And yes, I agree with #4. Legened is FAR more disturbing on several levels than Labyrinth.
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Labyrinth actually was what inspired me to make masks. That scene where Sarah is tripping out and she's at a masked ball...I remember seeing that and thinking it'd be cool to make masks like those. Now I do! For a living! Life is weird.
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Umm...to keep the Tom Cruise/Legend theme alive...I never saw that movie. Didn't interest me back then, and not now, either. How 'bout this: if you wanted to, could you make me a Tom Cruise Top Gun mask based on the wire rim aviator glasses dear Maverick wore when he felt the need...the need for speed? If I commissioned you to? Could you? Just wondering.
NOT Anonymous, I just didn't head link (or whatever) this post properly,
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Don't see "Legends"...ever. Unless you want to give it the MST3K treatment. It's perfect for that.
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That mask is beyond awesome... o_O!! I've been meaning to comment on your maskage, but the ones I saw were so far in the past I figured it would be less prudish if I waited and then snuck a comment in one day... Hehehe. ^_^
Someone really needs to cosplay Naraku, complete with Shard pasties
Oh good lawrd, I read that as "complete with shard PANTIES." Which, of course, isn't all that far off, but... *demented face* And no special-effects-laden craptastic movie slapjob they do these days can ever even hold a candle to awesome 80's fantasy movies. ;)
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In fact, I love bartering (I'm an anachronism...if I could trade art for goods and services I would). If you ever want a mask, drop me an e-mail (merimask at aol dot com) and we'll talk. :-) I'd LOVE to do something special and unique for you.
Yeah, '80's fantasy movies are a hoot. I have a pretty impressive collection (not really fantasy, but I watch "Bladerunner" all the time...it remains one of my all time favorite movies).
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And HAH, there's no element of that conversation you two had that I don't like XD
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I have the funniest conversations with rumdiculous. XD I don't know why, but we're hilarious online together...we crack ourselves up.
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Hah, there's nothing better than having total crack-induced conversations with others! Sometimes, I have no idea what me and Cinnie are talking about, and that's when you know the gettin's good XD
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Hm...I know of a few places to stick the twenty but I'm not gonna say. :D
Eek, thinking about Cruise's girl-thighs makes me cringe. He disturbed me more than Tim Curry's character. XD
Btw my friend still hasn't gotten over Labyrinth. We have this fabulous joke about the glitter and Bowie's area-but it's funnier to see it in person. I'll tell you the punch line though, "Want to see some glitter?! POW!" Now combine that with a pelvic thrust...
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LOL!! Oh wow, I TOTALLY got the visual on that. Too freaking funny.
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