When Ian drew us a picture of a face (whitch later turned into Hitler), and started talking about how people recognise faces naturally, genetically, I instantly remebered this site http://facesinplaces.blogspot.com/ It's a whole blog full of photos of faces people saw where they shouldn't have. It's really interesting how things like that are both amusing and strangely thought provoking...It's also interesting how people take advantage of this while creating some inhuman characters in cartoons and such. Disney too plays around with how people recognise faces in inanimate objects in some of its' cartoons, like the talking flowers in Alice in Wonderland:
While their humanisation is a lot more straightforward, it's still heavily based on how people tend to see faces in flowers, especially in pansies. Also, flowers here get turned into other objects and animals they remind us of as well, such as cats, bells and trumpets. Also, Lewis Carrol shouldn't be left out too, it was his idea to exploit this tendency in the first place.
Overall, Alice in Wonderland is a great example of semiotics and various analogies, since it's basically a dream a young girl has where her imagination and her personal analogies are materialised, under whitch there seems to be a deeper meaning lying, well, as far as I remember.
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