Googly Eye-based street mischief

December 6, 2011 9:11 AM

Eye Bombing. More Eye Bombing.
posted by The Discredited Ape (27 comments total)

Found this a few days ago and my kids and I have been putting googly eyes on everything in the house since.
posted by DU at 9:13 AM on December 6, 2011 [2 favorites]

Viral marketing for the new Muppets movie DANGEROUS LIBERAL AGENDA
posted by 2bucksplus at 9:13 AM on December 6, 2011 [3 favorites]

relevant
posted by The Whelk at 9:13 AM on December 6, 2011

Hi. These are my cactuses. I put googly eyes on them. (Hulu, transcript)

See also: Eyes for Christmas.
posted by filthy light thief at 9:29 AM on December 6, 2011 [1 favorite]

This (from the second link) is pretty great too.
posted by logicpunk at 9:32 AM on December 6, 2011

the name is kind of scary for something so cute. maybe googly bombing instead? or would google get mad?
posted by genmonster at 9:32 AM on December 6, 2011

Time to go shopping!
posted by twsf at 9:32 AM on December 6, 2011

i have already been doing this for years because i am awesome
posted by elizardbits at 9:41 AM on December 6, 2011 [3 favorites]

Yeah, I did not know this was a thing, but rather than being sad that I am no longer original, I am pleased because googly eyes are awesome.
posted by six-or-six-thirty at 9:45 AM on December 6, 2011

Oh man. Love this.
posted by cortex at 9:54 AM on December 6, 2011

i take my googly eyes seriously
posted by elizardbits at 9:55 AM on December 6, 2011 [1 favorite]

I thought this was a pretty good application of googly eyes.
posted by Prince_of_Cups at 9:58 AM on December 6, 2011

More googly: Googly Eye Watch.
posted by Kronos_to_Earth at 10:06 AM on December 6, 2011

I recently went around the senior citizen residence where my mom lives and put googly eyes on all sorts of stuff. The residents have been having a ball spotting them ever since.

Googly eyes improve (nearly) everything.
posted by kinnakeet at 10:29 AM on December 6, 2011 [2 favorites]

When I read the post title, I immediately thought of this recent post.
posted by Alterscape at 10:35 AM on December 6, 2011

Took me way too long to find this, but...

#72 on Rob Pruitt's 101 art ideas you can do yourself
posted by orme at 10:57 AM on December 6, 2011 [1 favorite]

I was at a funeral a few weeks ago for an interesting man. He's an old school veteran, actually an Atomic veteran. He was my welding instructor. Seems he likes to play pranks. One of the stories was that he would bring his granddaughter to the foodstore and say "You take the top and I'll take the bottom" and they would sharpie marker little Hitler moustaches on all the cats on the cat food containers.
posted by brinkzilla at 10:58 AM on December 6, 2011 [1 favorite]

Also, reminded me of this!
posted by orme at 11:08 AM on December 6, 2011

The googly eyes are tough to see in this picture, but I can assure you they are there.
posted by googly at 11:28 AM on December 6, 2011

WHERE CAN I BUY GOOGLY EYES.

Dublin could use some eye-bombing action.
posted by anaximander at 11:46 AM on December 6, 2011

Googly eyes may be purchased in bulk at any shop catering to crafters. Be sure to pick up self-adhesive magnets and re-usable glue tacks at the same time.
posted by kinnakeet at 12:01 PM on December 6, 2011

I can't help but think of this, which is sort of the crude, cave painting version.
posted by The Bellman at 12:07 PM on December 6, 2011

Great googly-moogly!
posted by mmrtnt at 12:10 PM on December 6, 2011 [4 favorites]

Just a quick note, don't get caught "tampering" with the fire extinguishers in a large office building. Trust me. They don't care how cute you're being. They'll call the cops.
posted by Splunge at 12:17 PM on December 6, 2011

amazon sells 100-packs of self-adhesive googly eyes to which i am too lazy to link
posted by elizardbits at 1:54 PM on December 6, 2011

yea! my neice and nephews are going to get a big bag of googly eyes for christmas, because I want to make my brother's life just that bit weirder.

(they are also getting this because I am awesome)
posted by 5_13_23_42_69_666 at 2:01 PM on December 6, 2011

This whole discussion is strabismus-ist.
posted by StickyCarpet at 4:33 PM on December 6, 2011