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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 2007-09-28 11:08:06
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That side of the roof is kinda creepy!!

posted by Sara_Hew on 2007-09-28 11:14:56
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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 2007-09-28 11:19:53
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Loved the post! The pictures were great. It made me smile.

posted by Archie on 2007-09-28 11:20:29
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The plaster in our former bedroom ceiling looked like Scooby-doo. I swear.

posted by SisterRae on 2007-09-28 11:34:34
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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 2007-09-28 11:37:44
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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 2007-09-28 11:52:38
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did you guys find this from dooce.com?

posted by elizabeth in AL on 2007-09-28 12:05:21
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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 2007-09-28 12:07:00
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Those are actually called "eyelid dormers."

posted by Jon_B on 2007-09-28 12:18:34
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Love it! Thank you so much.

posted by JenDC on 2007-09-28 12:30:09
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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 2007-09-28 13:33:39
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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 2007-09-28 13:38:07
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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 2007-09-28 13:56:54
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Fabulous, thanks!

posted by Deborah on 2007-09-28 14:30:42
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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 2007-09-28 15:05:52
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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 2007-09-28 18:18:10
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Oh my! That is some roof

posted by projectblancoyd on 2007-09-28 18:52:08
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