My face set on Flickr

Ive uploaded over 100 of my old found face photos to Flickr.

See them here

These are just found faces captured on my phone camera.
I will create another set of found faces from my camera next week.

This Weeks Faces: 24th May

Here are some more faces that I've seen out and about this week in Farringdon, the West End and Stoke Newington. These cheeky guys have helped to keep me happy in my adventures.

Facial recognition software used in Maddie hunt

Police are using facial recognition software in the hunt for the abducted girl Madeleine McCann.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,,2085258,00.html

This software is interesting because it can rapidly scan photos for faces, then correlate differences in nodal points on these faces against stored faces of known paedophiles.

I find this interesting because humans remember people's faces in a similar way. Rather than remember individual faces, we remember how peoples' faces differ from the standard face we have stored in our brain. This constant scanning for faces by our brains also leads us to see found faces in objects.

Lets hope that this latest line of enquiry is successful in helping to find Madeleine.

Photos can be uploaded at http://www.madeleine.ceopupload.com./

Eye on my shirt

This week I have been researching the Japanese 90's craze Meary. These were eye stickers that you could add to objects to give them personality. After scouring eBay for Meary to buy and weeks of dissapointment, I stumbled upon some fun googly eyes in Paperchase.



I decided that these eyes should be used for some philanthropy. As my cleaning lady Natasha comes along tomorrow I decided to make her job more fun.

I wouldn't like to be a cleaner, it combines my 2 least favourite activities of cleaning and tidying. One thing that would light up my day would be to work in houses with Henry brand vacuum cleaners. His anthropomorphised happy red face would make it feel like I had a fun-loving sunburnt baby elephant businessman helping me to tidy the house.

Henry doesn't live in my house. So I have left Natasha some cleaning friends to help her in the kitchen instead.







Anthropomorphology is fun!

This Weeks Faces: 13th May

Here are some found faces that I found this week on my various journeys.

These cheeky characters live at Leather Lane, Holloway Road, Stoke Newington High St, Kings Cross and my work post room in Farringdon.

The acorn has landed

I got some face post from the Arts Council today.



So with my book eagerly sat on my knee, it was with great expectation that we opened the letter.



It is an acknowledgement. We will hear about our grant application within the next 6 weeks. Fingers and pages crossed!

'I See Faces' - Dave Gorman

There is a great set of found faces from Dave Gorman on Flickr:

Dave Gorman's Found Faces

I will be contacting him soon to see if he would like to contribute a photo to my book.

His image of a man washing a strangers car with a dog is a perfect example of how visual imagination can brighten up your day:

Dog Car Wash