The uncanny valley just got uncannier

May 30, 2011 11:45 AM

Artist Landon Meier crafts realistic latex masks of babies.
posted by logicpunk (28 comments total)

KILL THEM WITH FIRE!
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 11:54 AM on May 30, 2011 [5 favorites]

AAAAAAAAAHHH!
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 11:55 AM on May 30, 2011

previously
posted by nathancaswell at 11:55 AM on May 30, 2011

That's cool, I wasn't planning on sleeping ever.
posted by spiderskull at 12:01 PM on May 30, 2011 [10 favorites]

I was wondering what I could to do liven up my next presentation at work.

Thanks!
posted by verb at 12:05 PM on May 30, 2011

You could rob someone while wearing that. I mean, without a gun. I'd give you money to go away.
posted by fleetmouse at 12:05 PM on May 30, 2011 [7 favorites]

They're quite expensive, though I don't doubt it's a reasonable price considering the detail and apparent quality and the limited demand.

If they were cheaper, I would totally get "crying baby." Then I would wait for a night when my toddler gets up at 2 and starts banging around. Then I would burst in with the mask on, wailing. And she would never get out of her bed again, even if there was a fire.
posted by Mayor Curley at 12:09 PM on May 30, 2011 [19 favorites]

Be sure to check out this vid from his site.
posted by idiopath at 12:10 PM on May 30, 2011

This is way too soon after 'The Rebel Flesh' and 'The Almost People'.
posted by Slackermagee at 12:20 PM on May 30, 2011 [1 favorite]

previously

Yeah, I prefer the baby when it was my grandma. Not a sentence I ever expected to type.
posted by robself at 12:21 PM on May 30, 2011 [3 favorites]

This is way too soon after 'The Rebel Flesh' and 'The Almost People'.

Careful, you'll make ArtW cry
posted by fullerine at 12:23 PM on May 30, 2011 [1 favorite]

I bet a lot of the customers for these masks are of this persuasion.
posted by beagle at 12:24 PM on May 30, 2011

For $250 plus s&h, it ought to come with the rest of the baby.
posted by crunchland at 12:25 PM on May 30, 2011 [1 favorite]

That would be an effectively scary Halloween costume.
posted by codacorolla at 12:30 PM on May 30, 2011 [1 favorite]

The strangest shop in Barcelona...
posted by tigrefacile at 12:56 PM on May 30, 2011

Wonder if I can wear one of these AND my vinyl zentai suit at the same time?
posted by carsonb at 3:54 PM on May 30, 2011 [1 favorite]

what.
posted by xedrik at 4:08 PM on May 30, 2011

OMG I WISH I HADN'T CLICKED ON THAT!!!!111 MAKE THEM GO AWAY! MAKE THEM GO AWAY!!!
posted by Neekee at 4:16 PM on May 30, 2011

$250 really isn't that bad for an individually crafted mask of that quality. Almost worth it for Halloween.
posted by ixohoxi at 5:24 PM on May 30, 2011

Hi
posted by dirigibleman at 5:46 PM on May 30, 2011

This is worth $250 to me.
posted by cmoj at 6:06 PM on May 30, 2011

I keep looking at this and thinking, "Man, the Adult Baby scene is about to get really fucking weird."
posted by Minus215Cee at 6:51 PM on May 30, 2011 [1 favorite]

Should have previewed: beagle beat me to it.
posted by Minus215Cee at 6:54 PM on May 30, 2011

I'm 234 years old and what is this?
posted by America at 7:03 PM on May 30, 2011 [1 favorite]

Christ, what a baby.
posted by phirleh at 8:02 PM on May 30, 2011

And I thought real babies were scary.
posted by kinnakeet at 5:43 AM on May 31, 2011 [1 favorite]

I find them freaking hilarious. I ask, and this is not a rhetorical question, what does that say about me?

Also, I keep reading this as "...made of babies." What does that say about me?
posted by no relation at 9:07 AM on May 31, 2011

Someone on youtube using this mask for "art".
posted by idiopath at 4:22 PM on June 1, 2011