Faces in Places

Faces in Places

Infobox Website
name = Faces in Places
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url = http://facesinplaces.blogspot.com
owner = "Jody"
type = Blog
launch date = 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.

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.

Notoriety

On September 21st, 2007, Faces in Places was featured in the b3ta newsletter [b3ta newsletter http://b3ta.com/newsletter/issue295/] , which led to an increased level of interest in the project from the blogosphere [Boing Boing: Humanizing everything http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2007/10/26/faces-in-places-huma.html] , global newspaper [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] and television press.

On Monday, January 7, 2008, the project won Yahoo! Find of the Year 2007 in the Weird & Wonderful category. [Yahoo! Find of the Year 2007 http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/finds2007/weird-and-wonderful/]

ee also

* List of Internet phenomena
* Meme
* Face perception

References

External links

* [http://facesinplaces.blogspot.com/ Faces in Places Blog]
* [http://www.flickr.com/groups/facesinplaces/ Flickr Group]


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