Friday, 22 May 2009

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.

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