Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/12/25/does-the-creepy-santa-mask-fro.html
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Maybe Jingle Dale (Wild at Heart) has one?
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I’m cool with just a pocketful of Zu Zu’s petals. Happy happy everybody.
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Yeah, ha! Paste it, Daddy is something my daughter likes to say when she needs my help.
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Hmm. A replica with eyeballs that track faces. (A video camera feeding a Pi running TensorFlow or similar.)
Santa marks used to be quite common. In old photos of children with Mr. Claus as well as silent films with Santa, you can see that Kris Kringle was usually portrayed by someone wearing a mask.
I saw one of these at an antique show in Dallas about five years ago; I slowly backed way, avoiding eye contact.
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So where’s a picture of this mask?
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It’s around the boy’s neck in the picture (took me a while to notice it too).
ETA: Oh God, just noticed the one around the neck of the younger boy-had previously only noticed the one on the bigger kid. Now I get why it’s so disturbing.
Killing a Santa and skinning his face for a mask is an old festive tradition among my people.
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collect as many pictures as possible to make a scan, enter that (w/ appropriate software) in a 3d printer. Viola!
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are the two masks in the picture the same?
I have nothing about It’s A Wonderful Life, so here’s a Santa brawl in compensation.
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Have this.
The one thing I can take from this is that Ayn-caps started the war on Christmas.
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I got a creepy old painted papier-maché half-mask (not Santa-related), at a antique/tchotchke shop in the Sierra foothills, relatively recently, that has a little sticker on the inside, reading “©1960”. So, it’s not beyond belief that a similar mask from 1946 might still survive (although I suppose a copyright notice dated 1960 doesn’t mean this particular mask is that old… although it wouldn’t surprise me if it were).
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Creepy doesn’t begin to cover it.
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Otay.
Hello, friend.
“She has the Marks of Santa! Burn her!”
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