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Some genius is adding googly eyes to rusty street objects in Bulgaria http://ift.tt/2qKuVBC Some genius is adding googly eyes to rusty street objects in BulgariaA face tempered like steel.Image: Eyebombing bulgaria
By Nikolay Nikolov2017-06-01 16:00:33 UTC
Post-socialist cities like Sofia in Bulgaria, aren't known for their architectural diversity. They tend to be a bit monotonous. And rusty. Very rusty. But when you add googly eyes (aka eyebombing) to cities rumbling ruins gain a certain charm. OOO-ways look on the bright side of life. Image: Eyebombing BUlgaria Photographer Vanyu Krastev, 42, has been eyebombing Sofia over the past two years, breathing life in the most unexpected places. His project got a flurry of attention in Bulgaria after an article in Bored Panda and now there are much more eyeballs on it (geddit?). Waka waka waka waka. Image: eyebombing bulgaria Krastev is hoping that it will develop into a grassroots movement, where people geolocate themselves moving around the city and follow the lead of other eyebombers. A plastic smile. Image: EYEBalling Bulgaria Like many capital cities in Europe, parking is a nightmare In Sofia. There are cars everywhere. Especially sidewalks. So the city is littered with a variety of stony sculptures that function as barriers. What better place to put some googly eyes? "You should see the other guy." Image: EYebombing Bulgaria And that's the point. Finding beauty in anything, both animate and inanimate, is a matter of perspective. Krastev says he can't unsee that beauty anymore. The plastic googly eyes, just like the ones on most Sesame Street characters, are a filter through which he can mould the city and make it come to life. An urban Rorschach test. Image: EYEBOMBING BULGARIA "I bought a few of these plastic eyes and decided to try it in Sofia. I noticed no one had done it before (in Bulgaria) and I went from there," Krastev said. "The more eyes I stuck on things, the better I became. I got a sort of flair for it. Nowadays, I don't even need to go on a specific 'eybombing hunt' around Sofia. The little creatures just kind of pop out all around me." "I may be rusty, but I'm still beautiful." Image: eyebombing bulgaria Krastev was inspired by the two Danish masters of the street art initiative, who describe it as an "effort to define and refine a largely neglected and overlooked" part of everyday life – the urban aesthetic. And their methodology is simple – create weirdly gleeful creatures from inanimate objects, which in turn bring equally wide smiles to people passing by. "Don't look down on me." Image: EYEBOMBING BULGARIA Sofia is a particularly good canvas for this sort of installation because the best eyebombing works with things that are "broken, ruptured, punctured, tangled, crumbling, or twisted," Krastev says. "You are, in a way, humanizing them." These's an abundance in the city and once you look at them through the googly eyes filter, it's kind of an inspiration. "Cookie, cookie, cookie, cookie!" Image: EYEBOMBING BULGARIA A real mouthful. Image: eyebombing bulgaria Proof that beauty and life is everywhere. Social Media via Social Media http://ift.tt/1N1mMj1 June 1, 2017 at 04:27AM
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