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Faces in Places

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There was a parrot in the bathroom at our last apartment. The old, bumpy plaster on the walls looked like a parrots head. The woodgrain in our childhood bedroom door looked like a monster. That's the sort of stuff you'll find at this downright entertaining blog, Faces in Places...

 
 

It's a photographic collection of faces found in everyday places. We love this, and can really relate to it. Anyone else see faces in unexpected places around the home or the city?

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Weird.

posted by shani-o on September 28th 2007 at 6:08am
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That side of the roof is kinda creepy!!

posted by Sara_Hew on September 28th 2007 at 6:14am
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Oh my god ... I've been obsessed obsessed OBSESSED for years with faces found in objects — I have HUNDREDS of photos of them. I'm so glad to find a home for them now and to see all the brilliant ones other people have found!

posted by ridge. on September 28th 2007 at 6:19am
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Loved the post! The pictures were great. It made me smile.

posted by Archie on September 28th 2007 at 6:20am
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The plaster in our former bedroom ceiling looked like Scooby-doo. I swear.

posted by SisterRae on September 28th 2007 at 6:34am
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ridge ... me too. I see faces all the time. I love it (except in tree bark, those freak me out for some reason).

I have an elephant in my office door -- I am looking at it right now.

posted by robyn on September 28th 2007 at 6:37am
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that must be some kind of syndrome when you see this everywhere. now I'm going to see this everywhere too.

posted by Pixie on September 28th 2007 at 6:52am
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did you guys find this from dooce.com?

posted by elizabeth in AL on September 28th 2007 at 7:05am
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My dad recently took hilarious pictures of the face made by little holes in an ikea candle holder, but my favorite is the eggplant I bought recently. It had a nose.

posted by katef on September 28th 2007 at 7:07am
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Those are actually called "eyelid dormers."

posted by Jon_B on September 28th 2007 at 7:18am
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Love it! Thank you so much.

posted by JenDC on September 28th 2007 at 7:30am
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There's one in a knothole patch in one of my bedroom "walls" (aka back of Gothic Cabinet Craft bookcases). I'll have to take a photo of it...

posted by the opoponax on September 28th 2007 at 8:33am
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wow! i enjoyed the blog! i saw a face on the bathroom stall door at work. i don't even wanna know what substance made that face! i suspect tho it was probably an accumulation of air freshener residue.

posted by SD913 on September 28th 2007 at 8:38am
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I heard or read somewhere that people are wired to see faces in plaster, bunnies in clouds, etc. I think it's a way of making sense of things that lack pattern. I like the face on the saw.

posted by gordon on September 28th 2007 at 8:56am
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Fabulous, thanks!

posted by Deborah on September 28th 2007 at 9:30am
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This past summer, I visited a fairgrounds where I used to show horses about 16 years ago. In one particular bathroom stall, the paint is still peeled to show a man's head with a really large nose.

posted by brittanykate on September 28th 2007 at 10:05am
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The roof is creepy indeed. It's got that "I'm watching you" look written all over it. Can you imagine coming home at night?!

posted by Annalisa on September 28th 2007 at 1:18pm
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Oh my! That is some roof

posted by projectblancoyd on September 28th 2007 at 1:52pm
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