Image Digging

A healthy portion of our spare time is taken up sifting through sites looking for images and video that tickle our taste buds. I'm not talking about the god-awful task of sourcing images for spec work. This is enjoyable brain sponging.

If you've got any bit of a collector in you, it can be little addictive. Time disappears and eyes get sore whilst you're on the hunt. So we thought we'd feed the habit, get all image pusher on you, and give our Google Readers a shake, see what falls out.

But first, we should start with Soup, a tumbler website that aggregates the stuff you find on the web. You can set it to automatically load images, links, quotes and video from all of your other sites, but we like a bit more control, so we manually post using the upload tool that sits in the task bar. Virtual scrapbook-tastic. Check ours.

Links: (Some old faves to kick off with).

Ffffound
Follow a trail of recommended images fffforever and ever and ever.

Flickr
No longer just a collection of wannabe photographers work. We've stumbled upon some amazing collections of models, posters, typography, even some nostalgic trading cards. Plus now it's got video.

Vimeo
Youtube's fit cousin.

CRBlog
Standard.

Lens
The New York Times' photography, video and visual journalism.

GigaPica
The best of international photojournalism.

Seiz Whaa?
"A space for the occasional brainfarting or just random flim flam from the interweb."

Yimmy's Yayo
"Visual crack for the ocular fiend."

Bad Bannana Blog
"Ideas, inspiration, ephemera. Put 'em in the freezer and bake some bread later."

Cool Hunting
Does what it says on the tin.

Ectoplasmosis
Silly on the surface, deadly serious content though.

Geekologie
"Gadgets, gizmoes and awesome."

It's Nice That
Quality creative industry sampling, whatever it may be.

Made In England
Cookie is a man, this is his blog.

Monster Munch
Sock monster maker and collector of cool.

Grain Edit
Retro looking loveliness.


Oh, and if you do need to do a bit of specific image searching, we haven't found a tool that beats Cool Iris.
Check it out, it's like Minority Report.

Mother Goes Pop

It was bound to happen sooner or later - no Shoreditch space is complete unless it has some trendy art hanging on it's walls. So Mother add to their adventures outside of advertising by turning their reception and canteen area into a fully fledged art gallery. They're titling it Downstairs, and last night was the opening of a Peter Blake retrospective.

This hasn't been the first exhibition in the space, (previous experiments have included Martin Parr and Anthony Burrill & Michael Marriott) but it was officially the first opening of Downstairs, and a very swanky affair it was too. Apart from the legend himself, we noticed Dawn from East Enders and Harry Hill supping on the free culture.



Look there's thingy-me-jig

Along with the exhibition starting, Mother have launched the CCA Art Bus. It was parked outside last night, and in a lot of ways, is a cooler idea than the gallery opening itself. It's upper deck is an art space, while it's lower is an educational space. Yesterday Peter Blake bombed about in it, stopping at various pop art monuments and picking up relevant celebs along the way. In the future it will drive to British schools with the aim of introducing children to the visual arts.

CCA Art Bus



CCA Art Bus