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Emma Flannery Lawrence Healey and Richard Rosenbaum are at it again. Last summer, they constructed faces along Queen Street West by sticking googly eyes on inanimate objects; this summer, they've done the same along Bloor Street West. "We decided to do this when—about a year ago—we realized that there is literally nothing that cannot be made more hilarious with the addition of googly eyes," Healey told Torontoist. "We look either for things that look like they need eyes (certain objects, like newspaper boxes or crosswalk buttons, fit this description perfectly) or things that already have faces where we can just place the googly eyes. The thing is that once you spend enough time scouting out things that look like little faces, you start seeing them everywhere. I've been fighting off the urge to stick googly eyes on all of my belongings, the back of my cat's head, [and] the Queen on every twenty dollar bill..."
All photos by Emma Flannery Lawrence Healey and Richard Rosenbaum.
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I love this. I'm for sure going to go to Queen West and check it out. Those pictures made me laugh out loud. Thanks for that! Great idea.
Luciano Galasso
Those eyes on the mailbox make me want to mail lots of parcels, just to feed it. You can't do that with e-mail.
J. R. "Bob" Dobbs got googlied. I'm not sure if that's pro-Slack or implicitly the work of pinks.
Where's a good place to buy googly eyes?
I've bought them before from Loomis (arts & crafts store right at Richmond & Spadina if you're downtown). And dollar stores often carry them in their craft sections for cheap. Happy...uh...googling.
Found you blokes quite by accident{just like Boing Boing}bet Now and Eye are looking over their shoulder,eh! Kudos to Emma,Lawrence & Richard a brilliant,whimsical and quaint idea.What I love about it, is that the application and siting of the eyes is open to the wit and whimsy of anyone, regardless of age or culture.A real,positive addition to T.O.'s image.Got to go now I'm going to Google-Eye Mimico Village!!