Faces in Places
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| Faces in Places | |
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| URL | http://facesinplaces.blogspot.com |
| Type of site | Blog |
| Owner | "Jody" |
| Launched | Monday, April 23, 2007 |
Faces in Places is a photoblog that features (as the author describes) photographs of faces found in everyday places. The featured photographs consist of inanimate objects that a viewer would perceive as representing a face. This perception is a type of anthropomorphism - people attributing human qualities to a non-human being or object.
It is one of a growing trend of comedy photoblogs (such as I Can Has Cheezburger? and Sleeveface), where the content is created by an online community.
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[edit] History
The Faces in Places blog was launched on Monday, 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.
[edit] Notoriety
On September 21st, 2007, Faces in Places was featured in the b3ta newsletter[1], which led to an increased level of interest in the project from the blogosphere[2], global newspaper[3][4] and television press.
On Monday, January 7, 2008, the project won Yahoo! Find of the Year 2007 in the Weird & Wonderful category.[5]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ b3ta newsletter http://b3ta.com/newsletter/issue295/
- ^ Boing Boing: Humanizing everything http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2007/10/26/faces-in-places-huma.html
- ^ The Sun: Can you spot Faces in Places?http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/article702404.ece
- ^ Daily Mail: Faces spotted in the strangest of places http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=496085&in_page_id=1770
- ^ Yahoo! Find of the Year 2007 http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/finds2007/weird-and-wonderful/
