Found Faces Part 2

In our previous post we explored for 'natural' faces in things around our home, neighbourhood and the forest near our home.

 Then we decided to follow Rule #2  and #3 from 'How to be an Explorer of the World'...

... and here are our pictures:

Yes, going hiking and carrying around huge googly eyes, get strange looks from some, laughs from others and an awesome time for us!

Some very happy dirt!

I don't think this log is happy to have been cut down. 

These stairs look a little like cookie monster, don't you think? nom, nom,  nom

Gonzo, is that you? 

More happy dirt. 

I could see a large beaked bird, or lizard of some kind, in profile, among these logs, Owen couldn't.

Does the eye help? 

Our favorite place to go along the River. This is a great place to explore any time. 

We saw this super cool looking duck swimming up the river. No idea what kind of duck it is. 

This rock is watching you! 

So is the rock wall! 

So, we're not charting undiscovered territory with this explore. Putting googly eye's on things is not a new phenomonon, in fact the good ole internet abounds with silly people doing silly things with googly eyes of all sizes. 

Type: "Googly eye's on things" in a google search 

and see for yourself. 

It's actually a little terrifying.





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Exploration # 41 Found Faces

Instructions from our Explorer in the World book... 

We chose Exploration #41 for our next adventure. We hike a lot in the summer and there are plenty of faces to be found in the forest around our home as well as our neighbourhood we discovered.


Here are some of the faces we documented with our camera:

 If you think of the licence plate as bunny buck teeth the face becomes apparent.

 I think this board is saying 'OH!'

Evil crosswalk is evil 

These clips always make me think of these guys from Sesame Street:

Looks like a bird to me. 

Owen insists he can see a face in this house. I can't tho. 

 There's lots of faces in rock walls. How many can you see in this one? 

Rock Wall 2

 I saw two faces in this part of the wall - both have big fat cheeks. 

detail Rock Wall 2. 

 The cheeks make the face, I think. Poor sad rock face.  

This board face looks a little nervous. 

The woods are full of faces. People have been placeing stones in the old spring board holes in these stumps. It makes the faces really stand out. 

Below is a photo (not the same tree) that shows what this holes in the trees were used for. 

This tree is creepy.

The most terrifying tree in the woods! It haunts my dreams. 

Can you see the old man's face in the moss? 

Another springboard face

There isn't a face here - I just really liked these. 

Elephant? 

The grinning gnome. 

A one eye's octopus or something... 

The trees have eyes... 

Two bulging eyes

I saw a nasty rat face, can you? 

An alligator or Crocodile? 

Owen drew some faces on the rocks by the river with water. 

End note: 

It case you want to get all geeky you can look up: Pareidolia - which is the psychological phenomenon of seeing faces in things.

It is similar to Apophenia - seeing patterns or connections in random or meaningless data.

And: Science! Check out this Article about the Study of Paraidolia 

If you google Paraeidolia in an image search you'll find bazillions of images. 

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Exploration #19 Found Paint

We are adding in our explorations found in Keri Smith's "How to be an Explorer of the World" to the wreckage blog. I bought this book as a Summer Project for myself and my son - something that would get us outside and experience the world in a new and different way.

We decided to flip the book open randomly for our first exploration. We came picked "Found Paint" exploration number 19 on page 67.

Gathering up a collection bag we headed outside.

 We collected Dandelions, daisy's, wood, berries, leaves and grass from our walk.

 Back at the house we picked some more flowers.

Here's the Collection.





Time to make PAINT!

 First up - African Violets...

then Dandelions...


which smear well and would make good paint we decided.











Salmon Berries on the other hand, not so much.

Here's a little bug we found on the leaves. 

WE DID NOT SMEAR IT. 

I let it go outside. 

Little Daisy's from the lawn - don't make good paint.


However Marigolds...

AWESOME!

Grass stains don't make the best paint. 

Wood was okay, but not great. 

Here is our final page. Complete with ratings and opinions. 

Marigolds were our number 1 choice for found paints. 

African Violets 2nd. Then Dandelions, grass, wood, salmon berries and little daisy's were our last choice for found paints. 'horable' should read 'horrible' cuz neither of us can spell without spell check. 

And that's our first exploration completed for the day, I'm sure there's plenty more things we can find to make paint from. Once the blackberries, blueberries and Raspberries are ripe we may need to revisit this explore. 

For now we move on... to number 41...

Stay tuned...

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