Don't worry.

[bironic]

Be happy.

Or, How I Have Been Seeing Faces in Fixtures Everywhere

































(kind of a platypus-mole face)

Comments

[sabinetzin]

Ahaha, I approve of this post in all ways. Their little faces!

[bironic.livejournal.com]

The pair of subway lights (second from the top) is my favorite. Even if snapping the photo was not.

[sabinetzin]

I have to say that Stanley Bostitch is my favorite. But the little subway lights are a close second! They are friends!

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Stanley Bostitch is a shameless masochist, as it happens. He lies there on the desk in full view of anyone, smiling up at the sharp metal staple just poised to pierce him. Which it seldom does. So actually maybe this is a tragedy and not a peep show.

[sabinetzin]

...

I love you.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

:D

[leiascully.livejournal.com]

Well, I can't unsee that! I like them all together!

[bironic.livejournal.com]

All my power outlets cry, O noes!

[zulu.livejournal.com]

Stanley Bostitch is my favourite--he looks like he has it goin' on. The ladies all love Stanley!

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Power Outlet is scandalized.

[ignaz (from livejournal.com)]

Hang on, I've seen this commercial!

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Exactly! Only with fewer beach buckets.

[roga.livejournal.com]

Heeee! I love the Pinocchio nosed one :-)

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Indeed, that is what I've been calling it in my head.

[the-drifter.livejournal.com]

There are several pages devoted to this phenomenon in Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

...I have placed a hold on it at the library. It looks excellent.

[the-drifter.livejournal.com]

As the daughter of a man who was both a comics reader and a usable design professional, I think I'd read it well before I left middle school. It was one of my adolescent staples, and still one of the most informative works on communicative design I've ever read.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

I am doubly glad it's within reach, then (as soon as the person who borrowed it brings it back). Graphic design and typography are things I'm becoming increasingly interested in, and there was just a series of short pieces at Slate about effective signage, including a good one on the difference between U.S. and most-of-the-rest-of-the-world Exit iconography.

[the-drifter.livejournal.com]

Ha, this makes you the only internet-person I know who might find certain aspects of my job really interesting. I work in transportation (can give you more details, but would prefer to do so in chat/email), and effective signage is one of the many things that comes up. I actually spent a chunk of yesterday watching a webinar on bike/ped-related changes in the latest edition of the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices, which include a buncha stuff piloted in my town.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Cool! I don't know very much about it, but I've found what little I've read fascinating. This (http://www.slate.com/id/2246107/) is the Slate article.

And would definitely be up for chatting about what you do. You may have my email from that time I helped copyedit that chapter, or if not, my fannish one is in my LJ profile.

[synn.livejournal.com]

You know, I have too, and I keep thinking how I wish there were a blog for inanimate objects with 'faces'.

My toothbrush holder looks exactly like a : D

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Are you sure there isn't a blog for it? Whatever rule applies to fanfic (if you can think of it, someone's written fic/smut about it) may apply to blogs.

[synn.livejournal.com]

probably, but I haven't bothered to try and hunt it down,

[pynelyf.livejournal.com]

I am seeing them all about my apartment now. Thank you <3

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Excellent!

[l-eremita.livejournal.com]

OMG I SEE THEM TOO NOW! And it's creeping me out, so now I'm annoyed. :-( I may not be able to sleep again with THOSE THINGS WATCHING ME.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Uh oh. Does it help to think of them as benevolent?

[l-eremita.livejournal.com]

They are NOT. When I was little I was afraid of the staple remover because it looked like it not only had a face but BIG SHARP FANGS. (My parents would take me to their office to "babysit" me so office supplies were toys. Thanks for bringing up that deep seated traumatic memory.

;-)

[secondsilk.livejournal.com]

This is awesome. I see faces often, too.
I love the hook on the back of the toilet door!