World's creepiest ski mask

I used to think this ski mask was creepy, until Phil Torrone Becky Stern published Andrew Salomone's "Identity Preserving Balaclava" on the MAKE blog.

[#1 posted by Art , February 9, 2009 11:07 AM]

Wonderfully nightmarish!

It alludes to the handiwork of "Buffalo Bill" in Silence of the Lambs.

Great post. Thanks!

[#2 posted by Kyle Malashewski , February 9, 2009 11:11 AM]

finally a mask that will allow me to carry out my fantasy of looking like a life-like blow-up doll.

[#3 posted by Cowicide , February 9, 2009 11:16 AM]

If I use this method to display my penis outside my pants will I get arrested?

[#4 posted by TailSlide , February 9, 2009 11:23 AM]

Looks exactly like a dude from Goldeneye on the N64.

[#5 posted by ab5tract , February 9, 2009 11:24 AM]

With just a touch more blurriness this mask would be the ultimate Quake 1 costume accessory.

[#6 posted by jahknow , February 9, 2009 12:07 PM]

"But what happens, the antidepressant, all it does is mask the problem. There's ways of vitamins and through exercise and various things. I'm not saying that that isn't real. That's not what I'm saying. That's an alteration of what-- what I'm saying. I'm saying that drugs aren't the answer, these drugs are very dangerous. They're mind-altering, anti-psychotic drugs. And there are ways of doing it without that so that we don't end up in a brave new world.

The thing that I'm saying about Brooke is that there's misinformation, okay. And she doesn't understand the history of psychiatry. She-- she doesn't understand in the same way that you don't understand it, Matt."

[#7 posted by FrankensteinsMonster , February 9, 2009 12:30 PM]

Me like new mask. It not look like me. Many mask look like me- me not get residuals ever. Me try get lawyer- girl scream, run away. Lawyer scream, run away.
If you rob likker store, use this mask, not me mask. Me tired of cops think me rob likker store.

[#8 posted by God45 , February 9, 2009 12:42 PM]

I love this and everything about it.

[#9 posted by IWood , February 9, 2009 12:48 PM]

Yeah, but does it shut off all my ports? If they can still be polled I don't really have anonymity.

[#10 posted by Anonymous , February 9, 2009 1:09 PM]

It's Edgar from Men in Black !

[#11 posted by nanuq , February 9, 2009 1:09 PM]

I hope the inventor uses online banking. Depositing his royalty cheques at the bank in person might be a problem.

[#12 posted by Tony Moore , February 9, 2009 1:16 PM]

The film which you are about to see is an account of the tragedy which befell a group of five youths, in particular Sally Hardesty and her invalid brother, Franklin. It is all the more tragic in that they were young, but had they lived very, very long lives, they could not have expected, nor would they have wished to see as much of the mad and macabre as they were to see that day. For them, an idyllic summer afternoon became a nightmare.

[#13 posted by Takuan , February 9, 2009 1:18 PM]

wear into a pub in England

[#14 posted by jahknow , February 9, 2009 1:25 PM]

Tom: "I honestly haven't had this kind of feeling before." [jumps on couch again]

Oprah: "The boy is gone. Katie once said her dream was to marry you..."

Tom: "I don't want to disappoint her...." [does the 'YES!' jump again] "...I've spoken with her parents....she's an extraordinary woman...very, very special woman...her generosity, her life force, she has a spirit...

[#15 posted by Boeotian , February 9, 2009 1:42 PM]

Leatherface!

[#16 posted by Troglodyte , February 9, 2009 2:03 PM]

I've been a rabid skier for 18 years-- and I'm only 21-- and I've never seen anyone wear a ski mask skiing. Why are they called ski masks? Was there ever a time when these were the vogue for skiing?

[#17 posted by TheNipponese , February 9, 2009 2:19 PM]

This isn't creepy if you've ever played Golden Eye for the N64.

http://www.gamerevolution.com/images/games/n64/goldeneye/goldeneye_003.jpg

[#18 posted by thehoundoflove , February 9, 2009 2:58 PM]

Slappers Only!

[#19 posted by arkizzle , February 9, 2009 7:04 PM]

Troglodyte, I'm with you. It's a balaclava.

[#20 posted by Bray_beast , February 9, 2009 7:17 PM]

Golden Eye, Quake, either way, wearing that balaclava will really make me want to shoot at you.

[#21 posted by softpieces , February 9, 2009 7:19 PM]

This very much reminds me of David Meanix's work.

[#22 posted by FrankensteinsMonster , February 9, 2009 8:45 PM]

Troglodyte:
"...Why are they called ski masks? Was there ever a time when these were the vogue for skiing?"

Mask not for ski. Mask for rob likker store. Invented by mother of Waleska Waszknuwittchuski. He rob likker store, whole willage know- he only one with mask. Soon others rob with "Ski" mask, and Waz- Wazsnooty- dey call him Ski. Ski get blame, go jail. Mother make a lot money tho- she sell many ski mask.

[#23 posted by Anonymous , February 10, 2009 2:42 AM]

Zut alors, the ?ALLSTEPS trick doesn't work on instructables any more.