Masks and How to Make Them
Slade
1964
Submitter: ‘Mask-making is a fascinating and inexpensive hobby’ states the blurb. Maybe so, but should it necessarily be promoted by such a disturbing cover? Believe it or not, these are children sporting their home made paper mache ‘Big Heads’. The writing is beautifully Sixties Britain; in making your own Big Head you are encouraged to ‘Get an old copy of, say, the Radio Times’. At least it promotes libraries, with its final chapter ‘Books on Masks’, stating that local libraries may have books on masks, even though as far as the author knows there are no books on masks in English. He then follows with a few suggestions from the 1920s. Wonderful.
Holly: These are cool in a creeptastic kind of way! Most of the book is too dated to be useful, though, based on what Submitter said. I keep thinking about this episode of Freaks & Geeks (Best. Show. Ever.) Sorry, couldn’t find video, but enjoy the picture. It’s epic.
and of course, my local library has this!
They’re terribly comfortable. I think everyone will be wearing them in the future. 🙂
The unnecessary quotation marks around ‘Big Heads’ make me want to weed it.
Since the point of Halloween is to look like something creepy or scary, those kids on the cover are doing a good job. Of course, those masks may not be for Halloween and looks like it would be hard to see inside them.
I don’t think those are kids. :/
I dunno-I’d keep it just as a counter-measure for the ironic wisenheimers and their brats who think anything that isn’t app-related is passé….
Oh no. Making big paper-mache heads never leads anywhere good.
Ahh, Frank Sidebottom! A sad loss, RIP.
“Big Heads” looks like they’re supposed to be politicians they knew, or maybe their least favo(u)rite teachers!
Some of my left-wing activist buddies could probably get some mileage out of this book.
Vermont has the Bread and Puppet Theater! http://breadandpuppet.org/about-bread-and-puppet/photo-gallery
Good work guys. Please keep on
I have have seen this in our local library. I will take interest in it. Mask Maker in our neighborhood.
Just today I saw a Bernie Sanders mask online that would fit right in with these guys :-O