Faces in Places
Type of site | Blog |
|---|---|
| Owner | Jody Smith[1] |
| URL | facesinplaces |
| Launched | April 23, 2007 |
Faces in Places is a photoblog that features (as the author describes) photographs of faces found in everyday places.[2][3] The featured photographs consist of inanimate objects that a viewer would perceive as representing a face. This perception is a type of pareidolia—perceiving random stimuli as significant, or anthropomorphism—people attributing human qualities to a non-human being or object.
History
The Faces in Places blog was launched on April 23, 2007, with a photo of a crane that resembles a grasshopper. Prior to this, the editor had started to encourage people with a similar interest in anthropomorphic images to submit them to a Flickr group. The Flickr group is now the main source of images used on the blog. The blog has not been updated since January 2015.
Book
In 2010, Ammonite Press published a book by the same name, compiled by Jody Smith.[1] The book follows the blog and features photos of pareidolic "faces" in everyday places photographed by members of the Flickr group.[1] Proceeds from the book raises money for the children's charity, Hope For Children.[4]
Awards
On January 7, 2008, the project won Yahoo! Find of the Year 2007 in the Weird & Wonderful category.[5][6]
See also
References
- ^ a b c "If these walls could talk: The very best Faces In Places". Metro. 27 March 2014. Retrieved 2019-08-19.
- ^ Boing Boing: Humanizing everything http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2007/10/26/faces-in-places-huma.html
- ^ b3ta newsletter http://b3ta.com/newsletter/issue295/
- ^ "Father creates book showing collection of 'faces in places'". ITV News. Retrieved 2019-08-19.
- ^ Randerson, James; correspondent, science (8 January 2008). "Yahoo names top UK websites of 2007". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-08-19 – via www.theguardian.com.
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