Eyebombing

I've been sticky googly eyes to things.

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Robot graffiti with googly eyes.

Things like this robot, painted onto the door of the bathrooms of a hipsterish East Oxford bar.

(it looks like one of the robot's eyes fell off before the bar's owners Instragram'd it)

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Robot with googly eyes.

See the robot? THE ROBOT SEES YOU NOW!

There are those who would argue that this isn't true eyebombing, because I ought to be sticking eyes to non-anthropomorphic, inanimate objects, and making them look alive by doing so. But the folks on /r/eyebombing don't seem to mind: they're far more-focused on the chaos and hilarity that ensues when you just put eyes on any damn thing that looks like it could benefit from them.

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This guy's so angry he's popping his eyes out of his head!

This guy's so angry he's popping his eyes out of his head!

When I was on holiday in Jersey, for example, I found an unattended rack of tourist information leaflets that were just crying out for a 'bombing.

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"Does this dress make my eyes look fat?"

"Does this dress make my eyes look fat?"

And because I pretty-much carry googly eyes around with me all the time - in the pocket that generally contains my headphones, a pen, a hair tie, and other everyday essentials - I started sticking eyes onto things.

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Soon. Creepy cyclist is watching you exercise.

Soon.

The game didn't stop even when I touched back down on the mainland.

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Sign at the toilets in the arrivals lounge of Gatwick Airport.

Sign at the toilets in the arrivals lounge of Gatwick Airport.

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2 comments

  1. I used to do that in high school - I had two different-sized pairs of eyes in my pencil case which I used to liven up textbooks. (My favourite was Mother Teresa holding a kid.) I didn't know there was a name for it.

  2. CHRISTeL::โค's::YOU! (@whotheF_i_is) CHRISTeL::โค's::YOU! (@whotheF_i_is) says:

    oh no...now I just HAVE to do it! #eyebombing

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