2008 shooting assignment #39

My video assignment today wasn’t all that exciting, but I did find a silver lining in the way of freaky rubber masks.

I was at the local Red Cross office, shooting a news segment urging people to update their CPR skills. Like all CPR stories, at some point the mannequin victim comes out of the bag for a demonstration. Today none of them were outfitted with faces! I guess I didn’t realize that they had removable faces, but it makes sense now that I think about it.

I also didn’t realize they kept hundreds of rubber faces in large, plastic storage bins. At first glance it’s seemed quite freakish, causing me to feel like the guy who wandered into Leatherface’s house to ask for directions, glanced around at furniture made of animal parts, and then thought, “Something is not right here.”

Actually it way more like being at a thrift store in 2059, looking through bins for replacement parts for a crappy household robot. And while I was there…I found a robot baby!

Fact: Robot babies don’t cry, they emit ringtones - which is still rather annoying.