Leather fetish pilot mask

From the Bob Basset steampunk art collective in the Ukraine, their latest creation: a stunning black leather pilot mask. I own one of their masks and it is a goddamned thing of beauty.

Black Pilot Leather Mask. Маска Чёрный Пилот.

[#1 posted by Ratdog, April 24, 2009 1:13 PM]

I bet these will be worn after/during the apocalypse.

[#2 posted by MarkHB, April 24, 2009 2:25 PM]

I shall never look up at your balloon the same way again, Cory.

[#3 posted by Anonymous, April 24, 2009 2:56 PM]

It's just 'Ukraine'. Only very careless writers refer to 'the Ukraine' as such.

[#4 posted by Takuan, April 24, 2009 3:05 PM]

makes sense in an open cockpit.

[#5 posted by MeninaEstelar, April 24, 2009 4:00 PM]

beautiful.

It reminded me of brazilian noise band Gengivas Negras
They play in suits and masks.

[#6 posted by Anonymous, April 24, 2009 4:27 PM]

Those ear holes seem too big for the average human specimen... Is this a fetish mask designed specifically for the Easter Bunny?

[#7 posted by jjasper, April 24, 2009 6:32 PM]

I own one of their masks

The images... forming in ... my head...

UNICORN CHASER!!!

[#8 posted by Takuan, April 24, 2009 6:36 PM]

duh OK
http://www.elfwood.com/~meg/Unicorn_Centaur_in_Bondage.3028430.html

[#9 posted by airshowfan, April 24, 2009 6:44 PM]

Beeea-U-tiful!
How much?
(Oh, wait. That means I can't afford it)

Menina Estelar,
Do the Gengivas Negras play the music from the Star Wars cantina?
They should.
(And please no one say I'm culturally insensitive. I've seen my share of live concerts in Brazil and none of the musicians wore anything like that. Except maybe in the Carnaval parade...)

[#10 posted by nicol, April 24, 2009 7:10 PM]

God bless you, Cory

[#11 posted by Anonymous, April 24, 2009 7:56 PM]

That must belong to Homer Simpson.

[#12 posted by Cory Doctorow, April 24, 2009 10:34 PM]

@3 Well, my Ukrainian family members say the Ukraine. I guess that being of Ukrainian descent entitles me to say "The Ukraine" if I choose.

[#13 posted by Antinous / Moderator, April 24, 2009 10:58 PM]

It's just 'Ukraine'.

If you want to be really Ukraintsi about it, you'd say Ukraina.

[#14 posted by Noah Lieske, April 25, 2009 3:46 AM]

What drugs do you have to take to design something like that?

[#15 posted by Ratdog, April 25, 2009 8:58 AM]

So, Cory, do you wear that steam-punk mask in your free-time? or do you just wear it to work?

[#16 posted by Takuan, April 25, 2009 9:12 AM]

(we take turns)

[#17 posted by elfspice, April 25, 2009 10:34 AM]

that mask is teh sex.

i love that style with the big round bug-eyes, there's a military gas mask which is similar and it likewise puts me into fits of 'i vaaaaant' :)

[#18 posted by Anonymous, April 29, 2009 10:28 AM]

Please, not say The Ukraine, say Ukraine, like USA, not The USA.

[#19 posted by ChesterKatz, May 15, 2009 11:28 PM]

@18 Bad analogy. Although it's not considered correct to say "The Ukraine", it is indeed correct to say "The USA".