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Bob Basset steampunk leather mask art-calendar

Cory Doctorow at 4:37 pm Wed, Jan 9, 2013

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Bob Basset -- Boing Boing favorites, steampunk and fetish maskmakers -- have issued a rather lovely art calendar for 2013 with Mell Ghandy.

Bob Basset and Mell Ghandy Art Calendar 2013

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Jake0748

I dunno. I like Steampunk as much as the next person. But these kind of masks just make me think of S&M and torture (or enhanced interrogation). – Which I am not in to at all. They don’t appeal to me. What am I missing?
- http://twitter.com/writebastard Ian Wood
  
  Nothing. You just don’t like BDSM grace notes.
http://twitter.com/fossilfuels Funk Daddy

Hmmm, Superb, but can it get me through the day?

The one featured for September, I can imagine the glass fogging up on me in traffic.

And what if I left my leather and brass soda straw at home?
rob_cornelius

can I create a new word please? Ladies and gentlemen I give you… “steamgimp”
http://twitter.com/The_Evil_Hare Sam Medina

Now that’s attention to detail!