Andrew Pick dressed as Where’s Waldo.Photo: courtesy andrew pick
Andrew Pick has turned Instagram into a real-lifeWhere’s Waldo?book.
Pick, 39, dresses in the iconic red-and-white striped shirt and hat and poses in crowded places from the Vancouver Marathon to the Lincoln Memorial.
Pick first found his love of photobombing when he was a college student studying at Philadelphia University. On the weekends, he and his friends would travel to New York City and photobomb tourists' pictures.
“I thought it would be really funny,” he says. “There’s no blending in or hiding in the back of people’s photos.”
Pick at the Lincoln Memorial.Faye Wu
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Eventually, he started his own page (and started asking friends or coworkers to snap photos for him) which he posts on Instagram@waldopic.
“People just get a smile on their face and turn to somebody and say, ‘I just found Waldo!’ " he says. “I can see them all cracking up.”
Now based in Vancouver, Canada, Pick is a design engineer. Whenever he travels to a new place, he takes his Waldo outfit with him. From visiting Mayan Ruins in Tulum, Mexico, to throwing fish at Seattle’s Pike Place Market, he’s easy to spot.
Andrew Pick in the 2022 Eastside 10K.Rob Shaer
“It’s just funny to take it out of context and make it into a game,” Pick says. “People get very excited.”
“I was like, ‘Wait a second, I definitely see Waldo!’ "
source: people.com
