About face

by | Monday, July 19, 2010

I love finding interesting faces. I am not speaking of the ones on people (though I like interesting ones there as well) but rather the unexpected faces we find in things around us. I have been doing this for a while now and have a flickr set devoted to this. Here are some interesting examples from my set, you can of course see all the of them by going to my set titled Faces We See.

Face in auto Face in wood
A face in an auto-rikshaw
Bhubaneswar, India
A “scream” in wood,
Kinawa Middle School, Okemos, MI
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Bunch of faces in concrete Vending machine
A row of scared concrete faces
Outside Salt Lake City airport, Utah
A nice smiley face in a vending machine
Charles de Gaulle Airport, Paris

I am not alone in this as this recent Huffington Post slide-show and this Mastercard commercial (that I wrote about here). My internet searches also pulled up this Audi Commercial.

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  1. Tom H

    Brilliant perspective…these faces are everywhere we look as long as we keep our minds open…

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