Just seen this on FARK:
The faceless mutants* have a penchant for A-list celebrity bashes and have been spotted at Elton John’s White tie ball and Harrods summer sale, opened by Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall.
With a membrane of skin stretched tightly over their eyes, noses and mouths, the alien-like figures were most recently snapped ‘watching’ a match perched on Murray Mount at Wimbledon.
Full story here .
Anybody got a theory? Some viral marketing? For what? Performance art, perhaps? Just some celebrities fed up with paparazzi (though I wouldn’t imagine they’re hounded less now)?
*contains no actual mutants
I’d go with performance art, myself. There are so many ways to ID people–walk, posture, hair, ears, body language etc, that if someone really wanted to find out who they were (and they were famous), it wouldn’t be that hard. I also don’t see celebs doing this–well, maybe Madonna.
I kind of like it–it makes you think about crowd v individual and our disparities and commonalities etc.
1.) They’re fans of The Blank or The Question or Rohrschach
The Question is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by Steve Ditko, the Question first appeared in Charlton Comics' Blue Beetle #1 (June 1967), and was acquired by DC Comics in the early 1980s and incorporated into the DC Universe.
The Question's secret identity was originally Vic Sage, later retconned as Charles Victor Szasz. However, after the events of the 2006–2007 miniseries 52, Sage's protégé Renee Montoya took up his mantle and became his successo...
Rorschach (Walter Joseph Kovacs) is a fictional antihero in the graphic novel limited series Watchmen, published by DC Comics in 1986. Rorschach was created by writer Alan Moore with artist Dave Gibbons; as with most of the main characters in the series, he was an analogue for a Charlton Comics character, in this case Steve Ditko's the Question. Moore also modeled Rorschach on Mr. A, another Steve Ditko creation on whom the Question was originally based.
While Watchmen has an ensemble cast, many...
2.) They’re a viral marketing scheme for a remake of The Curse of the Faceless Man
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Curse of the Faceless Man is a 1958 independently made American low-budget black-and-white horror film, produced by Robert E. Kent, directed by Edward L. Cahn, that stars Richard Anderson, Elaine Edwards, Adele Mara, and Luis van Rooten. Science fiction writer Jerome Bixby wrote the screenplay. The film was theatrically released in the U.S. by United Artists as a double feature with It! The Terror from Beyond Space.
The film's storyline concerns a Roman gladiator, buried alive in Pompeii during ...
I have read elsewhere (ahem…tmz …ahem) that it’s a viral marketing campaign for Lotus.
I don’t know, but awesome.
-FrL-
Imdb doesn’t seem to have an entry for a film of that name. Have you more info?
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I think that if they were overtly famous people that the general shape of their head and jawbone would be recognizable.
Neither seemed familiar looking to me, though it would be handy to have larger versions of the images.
Aha! They’re the Parasite ’s kids:
(Jones):
Parasite is the name of several supervillains appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Each version of the character has the ability to temporarily absorb the life-energy, superpowers, and knowledge of others. The most recurring Parasite is Rudy Jones, who is a main adversary of Superman and belongs to the collective of enemies that make up his rogues gallery. In 2009, Parasite was ranked as IGN's 61st Greatest Comic Book Villain of All Time.
The Rudy Jones incarnation...
Not a film, but the car company.
OK, I was wondering what being faceless had to do with 123 and WordPro and Notes…
OTOH what’s it got to do with cars?
Time will tell. It’s got to be a bit mysterious to gain public attention before it is revealed as an advert.
It’s the pre-unveiling campaign for the new Lotus 2+2, currently codenamed ‘Eagle’. It will be shown for the first time at the British Motor Show later this month. Current speculation is that it will be called Ethos, given that the names of all Lotus roadcars start with E.
There’s a website, www.facelesspeople.com where you can see the countdown and get on a mailing list and whatnot.
Here’s a photo of a heavily disguised Eagle undergoing cold weather testing.
It’s the pre-unveiling campaign for the new Lotus 2+2, currently codenamed ‘Eagle’. It will be shown for the first time at the British Motor Show later this month. Current speculation is that it will be called Ethos, given that the names of all Lotus roadcars start with E.
There’s a website, www.facelesspeople.com where you can see the countdown and get on a mailing list and whatnot.
Here’s a photo of a heavily disguised Eagle undergoing cold weather testing.
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Well. That’s a lot less cool than my theory that it’s an elaborate protest against the ubiquity of security cameras and the erosion of anonymity/privacy.
[Ralphie]A crummy commercial![/Ralphie]