{"id":1442,"date":"2016-02-22T17:46:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T17:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/?p=1442"},"modified":"2017-11-29T20:23:06","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T20:23:06","slug":"a-video-of-my-cuckoo-clock-skull-mask-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/a-video-of-my-cuckoo-clock-skull-mask-in-action\/","title":{"rendered":"A video of my cuckoo clock skull mask in action!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine took this video of me opening and closing my mask on Mardi Gras morning, around 9am at Jackson Square. The hinge mechanism in the door (made from a plastic file folder and some magnets) held up great over the course of the long day. Check out parts <a href=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/cuckoo-clock-skull-mask-mardi-gras-part-1\/\">one<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/cuckoo-clock-skull-mask-mardi-gras-part-2\/\">two<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/cuckoo-clock-skull-mask-mardi-gras-part-3\/\">three<\/a> of my process for making this mask, and the article I wrote about <a href=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/making-a-bird-skeleton\/\">making the little cuckoo bird skeleton<\/a>. Fun!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/156296670?title=0&#038;byline=0&#038;portrait=0\" width=\"338\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The hinge was so convenient and helpful, I&#8217;m going to try to incorporate something like this in all my future masks! Seriously, it really beat taking my mask off and putting it on a million times throughout the day whenever I needed to eat or drink or talk to someone face to face. <\/p>\n <div class=\"ad-300x250 ad-float-right\">\r\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- MMS 300x250 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:300px;height:250px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5009313124668288\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3616150394\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another pic someone snapped (below) while I was posing for a photo for someone else. A really fun part of wearing this mask was noticing all the people noticing me opening up my face to have a sip of booze, and they all scrambled for their cameras! I was asked over and over to demonstrate for people; you won&#8217;t hear me complaining. My flask was empty by about 9am (that&#8217;s after starting parading\/drinking around 6am) and then someone put this double shot of whisky in my hand. The day starts getting a bit foggy after this point! Luckily one of the skeletons bailed a little early and took my mask with him in our designated driver&#8217;s car, leaving me to party all day without worrying about losing and\/or destroying the mask. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/cuckoo-clock-mask-open.jpg\" alt=\"My cuckoo clock skull mask opening so I can enjoy a sip of booze\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I look forward to experimenting with other materials and hinge-type mechanisms for future masks! While the plastic file folder I used held up well, using it all day made me realize a few shortcomings: The door had no way of staying open by itself; I had to always hold it with one hand or the folder would try to close by itself. The magnets hidden inside the paper mach\u00e9 proved to be really useful; the door never popped open on its own despite all the walking and dancing and moving around I was doing. Next year I may try real metal hinges; my hope is that they&#8217;d be stiff enough that I could open the door to any position and it&#8217;d stay put. I&#8217;m also thinking I won&#8217;t bother doing a complicated paint job on the inside of the mask next time; that proved to be really tedious work and in the end I don&#8217;t think people really saw that part enough to appreciate it. So maybe I&#8217;ll stick with just black or gray for the interior next time. <\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly the pine cones and chains didn&#8217;t bother me at all, or get caught on anything, or break off. They&#8217;re really almost weightless and I didn&#8217;t even notice them bouncing around as I walked. That was a bit of a relief. And the bird skeleton and pantograph proved to be very sturdy; I accidentally bumped them on things a few times and they didn&#8217;t get damaged. I took a ton of chances with designing this mask and I kind of can&#8217;t believe how well everything worked out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine took this video of me opening and closing my mask on Mardi Gras morning, around 9am at Jackson Square. The hinge mechanism in the door (made from a plastic file folder and some magnets) held up great over the course of the long day. Check out parts one, two, and three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[184,232,92,168,6,5,3,8,4,183],"class_list":["post-1442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-booze","tag-cosplay","tag-costume","tag-cuckoo-clock","tag-mardi-gras","tag-mask","tag-paper-mache","tag-skeleton","tag-skull","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1442"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7088,"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions\/7088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}