{"id":1010,"date":"2011-05-25T18:31:48","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T18:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steampunkopera.wordpress.com\/?p=1010"},"modified":"2011-05-25T18:31:48","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T18:31:48","slug":"steampunk-masks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/steampunk-masks\/","title":{"rendered":"Steampunk Masks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t ask me why someone would dedicate themselves to making these things. It&#8217;s not that they&#8217;re not awesome, \u00a0they&#8217;re totally awesome. It&#8217;s just&#8230;. their possible uses kind of creep me out.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fc09.deviantart.net\/fs50\/o\/2009\/258\/8\/e\/8e06cc2282bca0a01da3eb097c6d7346.jpg?resize=640%2C696\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"696\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fc06.deviantart.net\/fs71\/o\/2010\/116\/d\/b\/db1def9471f9d1aa0f68d922d07dc87a.jpg?resize=640%2C502\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"502\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These are made by Tom Banwell. It&#8217;s his thing, making really, really creepy steampunk masks.<\/p>\n<p>The best intended use i can dream up would be some Mad Max Road Warrior kind of film, set in a post\u00a0apocalyptic\u00a0steampunk world. That would be killer.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fc00.deviantart.net\/fs47\/o\/2009\/203\/2\/7\/27e45c5bcea4f2b069f36ad1cca740e0.jpg?resize=640%2C808\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"808\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fc02.deviantart.net\/fs48\/o\/2009\/203\/5\/1\/51d2bf73e5aae2c304fd562c9d837eab.jpg?resize=640%2C870\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"870\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the sex that scares me.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fc07.deviantart.net\/fs47\/o\/2009\/230\/0\/c\/0c004bb09e8226ea9bb14e98a08bde7a.jpg?resize=640%2C646\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"646\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like&#8230; there&#8217;s a nightclub in a dark city where the people attending all wear these masks and have an orgy. And it&#8217;s&#8230; a horrible thought.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fc06.deviantart.net\/fs48\/o\/2009\/230\/c\/9\/c96adc56a8744ff4c33750fa5051f81c.jpg?resize=587%2C1024\" alt=\"\" width=\"587\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fc00.deviantart.net\/fs49\/o\/2009\/230\/5\/f\/5fd99597fa9b9cb8d7c0d58b07e53465.jpg?resize=640%2C641\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"641\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So let&#8217;s be clear, Road Warrior wasteland&#8230; awesome. Orgy&#8230;. NOT COOL.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fc02.deviantart.net\/fs47\/o\/2009\/230\/d\/3\/d36ae1df57b1a9723ff807035f8e7e66.jpg?resize=640%2C774\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"774\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What would be cool is to wake someone up wearing one of these.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ny-image3.etsy.com\/il_570xN.187906627.jpg?resize=570%2C387\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"387\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In any case, the artist is Tom Banwell and his website can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tombanwell.com\/\">tombanwell.com<\/a>. He&#8217;s got a HUGE number of other kinds of awesome masks, i just focused on the creepy leather ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t ask me why someone would dedicate themselves to making these things. It&#8217;s not that they&#8217;re not awesome, \u00a0they&#8217;re totally awesome. It&#8217;s just&#8230;. their possible uses kind of creep me out. These are made by Tom Banwell. It&#8217;s his thing, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[241,369,422],"class_list":["post-1010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-masks","tag-steampunk","tag-tom-banwell","clearfix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}