New masks

[merimask]

As promised, some pictures of my new masks.

They're not really "new", since I do these all the time.  I have a basic "half-mask" pattern that I trace out on the leather.  Then, with a stylus, I etch a dragon onto one side of the mask (most often with the wing sticking out beyond the edge 'cause I just like it that way), and then I cut out and carve the whole thing.  Usually, I do the mask in black and they look like this:


...but I felt like getting colorful so I did the blue & gold mask above, as well as these two:


I'm curious to see what people think of them.  I'll find out next week in Kalamazoo, I guess.

In other news, I am SO happy that our nation's multi-billion dollar Homeland Security Act has protected us from...Meatwad.  Way to go!  Yeah, I guess if you squint and tilt your head a little, the 'Lite-Brite" display of a Moononite flipping the bird might look like a bomb.  *sigh*  Maybe I'd be more inclined to be outraged by it all if the freaking displays hadn't been out in public for weeks and weeks...I guess they SUDDENLY looked bomb-like on Wednesday (wednesdays will do that to ya...more people don tinfoil hats on wednesdays than on any other day of the week...it's true!).  What's next, exploding Wile E Coyote displays?    Beware packages that look like HUGE anvils with "ACME" printed on the sides!  We need to coin a new term for this phenomenon; "Cartoon-Terrorism".

And OMG if Sessoumaru dies I am going to be monumentally pissed-off.  It'll cause a great disturbance in The Force...almost as if millions of fangirls "squeeee!" all at once, and are silenced.  Takahashi (as I was pointing out last week) has a penchant for using "one word" titles for the chapters where characters are killed off.  "Wind" for Kagura, "Light" for Kikyo, "Void" for poor little Kanna.  I swear if I see that next week's title is something like "Pride" I am just NOT going to read it.  *shakes head*

Comments

[golden-meliades.livejournal.com]

The colour I was thinking of is a sort of...wine/eggplant blend. An eggplant that tends more toward red than blue, anyway. That is the single most spectacular colour I can think of to go with my eyes, unless my hair is black. When my hair is black, my eyes look pure silver grey...which is interesting, but I'm more interested in green :) So if it was a mask I was going to wear, I'd be looking for one in purple or red. But I like looking at the masks hanging from my plaster plinth...they look very artsy, there. :)

The American gov't already freaks me out a bit so I don't think I'll check out something that freaks out someone tougher than me in these matters. The Canadian gov't does some crappy crap, but it's more stupid than scary, most of the time. Aggravating, bureaucratic silliness, kind of a dealie. We're Steve Urkel as compared to Arnold Swartzeneggar...

SCOOTER Libby? What an unfortunate name...

Homeland Security. Sounds like a SWAT team in a can. (And now available in convenient microwaveable cup!)

[merimask.livejournal.com]

I agree Scooter is perhaps the DUMBEST nickname I've ever heard...it just screams "Out Of Touch Doughy Elitist White Guy" to me. Also, it reminds me of what my old dog Ruby used to do on the carpet after one Milkbone too many...ewww.

Homeland Security to ME sounds like one of those "feminine hygiene" sprays. "Homeland Security...for those times when you want to feel really fresh."