Facehugger-inspired leather mask

From Ukrainian steampunk/fetish mask maker Bob Baset, the Hugger Head mask, "Slightly reinterpreted Giger monster. It now manages the object. Or maybe it’s a happy symbiosis?"

Hugger head Leather Mask

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

MORE: costume • fetish • giger • leather • mask • science fiction • Sex

More at Boing Boing

Eurovision 2013: An American in London

The technology that links taxonomy and Star Trek

http://www.goodfella.com/de_razor.html Goodfella

Reminds me of the movie Alien
- http://www.facebook.com/curt.sallinger Curt Sallinger
  
  Ya think?
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Oliver-Schmieding/100000452523362 Oliver Schmieding
  
  hmmmm….now that you mention it…
- princessalex
  
  I’m going to assume that you’re not trying to be sarcastic, and that you really don’t know that H.R. Giger was the creator of the alien in Alien. And, that Facehugger was the name affectionately given to the alien (well, one stage of it, anyway). Check out this Alien Species Wikipedia page on it for more info: http://aliens.wikia.com/wiki/Facehugger
  - http://www.goodfella.com/de_razor.html Goodfella
    
    No not sarcastic, I’m just not as well read as you are.
- daneyul
  
  Shit. You’re right!
PaulDavisTheFirst

ah, life with small children.
ChuckieJesus

Like a cleaned-up version of Evil’s helm in Time Bandits…
princessalex

As a fun add-on, I ran across the Museum Syndicate webpage. You can play with HR Giger’s works as puzzles! (There are also hundreds of other artists, of course.) http://www.museumsyndicate.com/artist.php?artist=561
RobDobbs

Yeah, they’re doing it wrong. Mayhaps this would be better named as HeadHugger? What’s that thing from that videogame series, the one Portal spawned from? They had headhuggers a little more similar to this.

It’s nice otherwise. I wouldn’t wear it to a wedding, but it’s nice all the same.
- Ellen McManis
  
  You’re thinking headcrabs, from Half-Life.
bolamig

Just wear a monocle so you don’t poke your eye out.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=607675355 Brent Kirkham

I’m running a sweepstake on how many of these Cory owns. Another for how many he’s allowed to keep at home.
http://profiles.google.com/steve.nordquist Steve Nordquist

You know, if you get any funny looks from RyanAir from wearing custom-tailored forward-pitching shoplifting^Wconcert festival vestments, wearing this ought to get you a pass. See if they confiscate your eggs over 3oz., though. (Tell me I have my fetish taxonomy right?)