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Find them all: seaWaldo project covers Hill in little, red and white striped figures

An artist going by the name of blur says there are 100+ wheat-paste Waldos on Capitol Hill that you can hunt down and report finding on the seaWaldo site. Here’s more on the project — you can see a map of the “Waldo zone” on seawaldo.com

A bunch (about 104) hand-painted characters that are all similar in size (about 5 inches tall) can be found in the area mapped out (image of playfield to the right) on Capitol Hill in Seattle, Washington.  Waldo is hiding somewhere, but after a bunch of hours sniffing the oil fumes while making these lil’ guys, we can say most of them are pretty freakin’ cool. Many of them are as interesting and strange as Waldo and, while they may not evoke as much nostalgia, they are worth a few seconds of attention.

For every character, there is a page that has their real name, some random shit they told us, and sometimes a little about their life. Each page has a few ways you can interact.


  • If you find one of them on the streets (or are a damn liar! LIAR!), you can click the “Found me”button on their pages to help count their ‘sightings’.
  • If you think you have fallen in love with any of them, feel free to like him/her/it/them on the facebook thing (that way, your friends can ‘like’ that you like them. bwahahaha) or leave a lust note in the comments on their page.   If you have fallen in hate with one, you should probably ‘like’ them and leave a comment anyway.
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    Jonsie
    Jonsie
    13 years ago

    I found one of these yesterday by Kaladi Brothers yesterday and didn’t know what was going on. I am happily less confused now.

    Neat to see people doing stuff more interesting than tags.

    Kevuardo
    Kevuardo
    13 years ago

    Neat!

    blargh
    blargh
    13 years ago

    Seriously great idea!

    esk
    esk
    13 years ago

    cute way to brighten up the dregs of winter.

    Tom
    Tom
    13 years ago

    I’ve loved the Waldo books since I was young and had a full head of hair

    NancyD
    NancyD
    13 years ago

    What a great idea. Thank you, blur!

    JTContinental
    JTContinental
    13 years ago

    Guess I’ll whip out the camera and do a little Waldo hunting!

    Teresa
    13 years ago

    My husband and I found two today and were so excited. Thank you for a wonderful time during a Saturday afternoon walk around the hill! :-)

    JTContinental
    JTContinental
    13 years ago

    …but my partner and I found 24 of them today.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/jtcontinental/sets/721576257597

    Chase
    Chase
    13 years ago

    Do you remember the Waldo stencil art that was all over Seattle a few years ago? I don’t think it’s the same artist though…