My apologies, to anyone who cares, for not updating this in nearly 2 months.  After handing in my last pieces of college work I sort of ignored anything vaguely college related for a bit, to kind of clear my head/forget about some of it completely

Anyway I was stumbling through my portable hard drive a second ago and found a folder of images, much like the ones that started this blog and have since been the bulk of its content, stuff I like or that I find inspiring.  Instead these had been saved in a folder so were clearly from before this all began; and henceforth I was compelled to share them all with you. (Bear in mind it’s been a long long time since I saved these in the first place so i do not know who they are buy, all I can give you is the knowledge that they most likely all came from ffffound.com).

Enjoy.

The debate on whether human beings are innately good or evil has often caught my attention. Maybe we are both?

Amazing concept in WWF ad, childhood characters like Tarzan and Mogli won’t survive deforestation.

I must have found this in between the 2 transformer films, pretty epic still. I’ve seen both, and enjoyed both, but I gather not everyone did, any thoughts?

Massive statement, not horrifically shocking or gory like a lot of these appeals can.  Don’t get me wrong, I understand that some people are only moved into action under extremes, but its nice to see an approach that is, dare I say it, more tasteful?  In the sense that I wouldn’t mind exposing my 10 year old sister to this and explaining to her why this is cleverly made and what it is appealing to us about because I wouldn’t expect her to be scarred for life afterwards.

Just interesting to look at, makes you think about the scale we imagine ourselves, or our cities, or our countries even, in comparison to the rest of the world and to our peers.

This image screams in support of the instincts of human nature, that “Get there no matter what the cost”, that “No mountain to high or ocean to wide”, that “Sod it, I’m gonna turn my table into a boat and go see whats on that island”.

The way this image is taken, perhaps in the way it has been cropped, I’m not sure which that just amplifies the message being displayed here, the style of the building and the materials its constructed with place this into recent history where the KKK, all though still operating privately, are sort of used as an example of what we have left behind and how that level of racism (i.e. in your face, in our laws, in our governments) has hopefully been stopped as society has progressed when in actual fact it hasn’t.  The white walls imply the the building could well have been an office or government building as opposed to a house or a shop., the smashed or boarded walls give the impression that this battle is being fought now rather back in the 50’s and 60’s when we tried to put this sort thing to rest the first time, even then it was well over due.  And for this I have only just thought that the hanging KKK figure being applied to this wall rather than a flag or sign (which would signal as a statement of intent or belief) implies that this building was the source or an outlet of the racism and the artwork is applied as a symbol of victory.

The photo captures the ‘curiosity over fear’ that we learn as children.

A bit ‘emo’ but the statement is one of hope before ‘teen anguish’ and I hope people can still get that before a lopsided fringe and tight black jeans.

Just an amazing and clever photograph of an awesome tattoo.

Another amazing photo, really can’t stop investigating the details very easily, really draws you in.

Just a nice variation of a logo you see so much of, sometimes the most creative people are lost in a world of this but occasionally you see them stick their heads out again, and then we get something like this.

I’m a big fan of the Batman and his reinterpretations, so dark, so often misunderstood, and still so tragically misused by authors and writers.  Still this is come cover art that features a 1950’s Batman. Dark. Painful.

Fun illustration, everyone likes ice cream, and I like this style.

Excellent statement in the sense of creativity, the graffiti in the image of the UFO, the imagination of kids, and the patience when it serves their purpose, I’m inclined to think that this young lad hasn’t just stumbled across at the right time. Also the illustration is beautiful the subject is sat on this mesh of lines and concrete, the setting is vague yet recognisable, and the subject of light and shadow has been handled expertly.

Thats all for today but hopefully the next installment will not be so far away as this one from the one before.

1 & 2 – ffffound.com
3& 4 Twin Peaks

http://www.dropular.net

yet another in the “media bookmarking” sites along with http://ffffound.com/

the big difference is the rate and diversity of the work going up, sometimes http://ffffound.com/
feels just too kool for skool for it’s own sake, and you know when your working with a designer
who has looked through it in the morning at they’re desk over soy & granola , that after the briefing
you’ve just spend weeks going over all the strategy & planning for them into a great brief, will alas
not be read, just a “mood” board of images lifted from http://ffffound.com/ cut n pasted into a PDF…

this just aint good enough…

so, for this & this alone http://www.dropular.net is so much better, get in there peoples, and start
adding bazar shit, so all those who keep feeding from the same trough, feeding it up the line to a
client who either doesn’t care or just doesn’t know any better…

http://www.dropular.net/own/gilesphelps/ as i’m also a contributor, os said “bazar shit” & sorry to say
some “too kool for skool” stuff as well, i blame Kate Banazi, Rexbox & Kate Gibb for those…

something then, just can’t be undone….

http://www.dropular.net/own/gilesphelps/

Hey, have you ever emailed someone asking for a ffffound.com invite?

What was it like? Did they LOL @yourusername? Or did they send you a really nice email explaining yet apologising at the same time for ‘the way of the world’? Wish I had a ffffound.com username. But on the brightside, at least I have something to aspire to in life.

Amazing photo …

Browsing ffffound again, found this, ironically. Couldn’t find out who it is by, when I have more time I’ll explore more.

‘Peace?’, by Robert Brownjohn, lovely visual wordplay.

A music labeling system that uses the songs individual waveforms to represent them, designed by Joshua Distler.

Lovely images, needed a google reader account to look further.

Couldn’t follow any of the links, so don’t know how long this image will last, until then … Evil Mickey Mouse.

Beautiful.

Enjoy. Explore. Share.

Despite the stingy inclinations revealed in your kindergarten report card,  ffffound.com helps you do the adult thing, and share nicely with others. The site’s easy interface provides users with a means to share and store your favorite images, which begs the question, “have you seen this?”

The dynamic site has a platform for a community of web-savvy users to bookmark and swap favorite images. From there, members can recommend images to one another based on previous selections.

so embarrassing when boyfriend sketches me. (from birdyandme.com)

Beyond personal uses, I think this site could have a lot of potential as a viral-marketing vehicle, particularly for those companies who have spent their marketing dollars on thought-provoking artwork.

I like her shoes. ha-ha.  I’m not gonna lie – life kind of sucks right now.  I should really get studying, instead of going out and doing nothing.   I need to start sending out the questionnaire for my Sociology paper, and start writing my story! Ideas people?  Anyone?? 
image from ffffound.com

Found a new site to procrastinate on, Booooooom.com, that 7 o’s, 7. Was just browsing ffffound again and found this photo by Zach Gold

Followed the trail to Booooooom and found some more of Mr Gold’s photos, love them all.

All images from ffffound.com

Today after I woke up I drank a glass of orange juice outside and watched a turtledove building its nest in our tree.

Top two pictures: ffffound.com
Polaroid: mine, October 2006
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Another by Asaf Hanuka; heroes … and a change in generation perhaps.

Wicked. Lovely piece called ‘The General’ by Rob Perry, found it on ffffound.com I think.

Reminds me of the experiment we had to do in first year, trying to convey the emotions, or feelings of the text through the typography.

Would you like to try and drive my Toyota Corolla?

If you think this is done through visual effects or graphics play, take a load of this:

Amazing, isn’t it? Images copied from http://ffffound.com

Cute when considering its a popular sentiment felt by peoples.

Love this … why he has a sword though, no one knows.

I love http://ffffound.com/ it’s  a great source of  imagery and random inspiration.

“FFFFOUND! is a web service that not only allows the users to post and share their favorite images found on the web, but also dynamically recommends each user’s tastes and interests for an inspirational image-bookmarking experience!!”

café é uma coisa legal

http://ffffound.com é uma coisa legal

John Cage é um cara MAIS que legal, ontem, hoje e amanhã.

How do we intend to prove whether or not we have successfully reinvented advertising? Easy. I have 89 boxes of an children’s bedtime book called “Fantazzzmia: Were Dreams Are Born.” It is a beautifully illustrated bedtime story book that creates a world in the clouds where children travel to in their sleep, to begin their nightly dreams. Simple enough product to sell to families with young children or those looking for a gift for a young child. If I can make a significant dent in that 89 box inventory, I’ll know we are on to something.

We used Fantazzzmia as the product in our initial Project Branswers alpha test. The sell through was significant on Amazon.com. But of course we had no way of knowing which sales were generated by Branswers.com. Our findings indicated a great deal of room for improvement on both Branswers.com and on Fantazzzmia.com. which generated the link to Amazon. One of the major improvements was to allow the books to be purchased directly at Fantazzzmia.com. And so that will be a portion of our Beta Test with the Amazon.com sales held back during the test period. Yesterday we started the redesign/redevelopment of the Fantazzzmia.com website. Where as the last Fantazzzmia site was more focused on giving the audience a solid understanding of what happens when their children go to sleep. Very informative and very clinical.

Our post sale interviews indicated that we may have gone too far into the “whys” of children’s dreams and not far enough into the fantasy. Also stories of fantasy do extremely well during periods of economic turmoil. Yesterday’s development session sent us firmly down the path of recreating the “journey” aspect of the child’s dream experience. We got off to a great start. Looking at the work of Japanese designers on ffffound.com was very helpful in getting the ideation process started. We hope to have the new Fantazzzmia.com site up and running by December 1, 2008. We will keep you posted.

Je viens de découvrir le site ffffound.

Les images les plus incroyables du web sont mises sur le site, ce qui offre une sorte de galerie de près de 1100 pages (et 25 photos par pages, faites le calcul!). Toutes les images sont vraiment très bien choisies et c’est très plaisant de se ballader de pages en pages.

Amateurs de belles images régalez-vous !

Voici 3 photos que j’ai sélectionné et qui m’ont bien plu:

My blisters from doing the Rower in Gym finally went away yesterday. Unfortunately, we did it again today and I have fresh ones.

I believe we are going out to dinner tonight.

The word of the day is brouhaha, meaning an uproar or hubbub. The color of the day is a shade of brown, zinnwaldite, that ‘beige’ color of old telephones.

The holidays are Iris Day, No Socks Day, V-E Day (Victory in Europe Day), and World Red Cross/ World Red Crescent Day.

I finished reading a book called Get A Hobby, which I checked out because I have no hobbies other than reading, writing, going on the computer, and occasionally knitting. I found a few ideas that I may incorporate into my life, such as balloon twisting (balloon animal-making), ant farming, and knotting, all three of which I have always been interested in but never gotten around to acting upon. Right now I am reading up on how to make an ant farm.

The number of the day is nine hundred thirty-three.

Guess what? Today is Harry S. Truman’s one hundred twenty-fourth birthday! According to Wikipedia, Harry was a, “folksy, unassuming president,” who, “popularized such phrases as “the buck stops here” and, “if you can’t stand the heat, you better get out of the kitchen.” His three main interests were reading, music, and history. Sounds like a pretty amazing guy, if you ask me.

Besides Get a Hobby!, I also started and finished reading My Secret: A PostSecret and am far along in Thirteen: The History of the World’s Most Popular Superstition.

Hey, have you ever heard of the obscure instrument called a ‘klaxophone?’ According to Wikipedia, The Klaxophone is an instrument created by the American composer Henry Fillmore. Made up of twelve car horns, it was created for use in his Klaxon March…this piece featured the instrument mounted on a table and powered by a car battery.” A strange and wonderful place the world is.

Oh my goodness, while searching for information on klaxophones I came across a phantasmagorical website called Wordie, at http://wordie.org/. It is made up of lists of words and phrases, two of my favorite things! I am most definitely going to be spending a lot of time on this site in the near future.

Oh yeah, in English today we had a substitute and got to watch Star Wars: A New Hope! It is the first one made and I loved every minute of it that we have watched so far (we did not finish and hopefully will tomorrow, after the A Separate Peace test).

We received new pictures of the puppies we will have to choose from.  We are getting one in about three weeks.  Here is one of the photos below:

My favorite would definitely be the dark one in the back on the right side.  It has the best eyes.

For the second time, oh my goodness! I just had a sudden burst of happiness over my adoration of words and books. I love thee, fair words.

Wow, look at this site: http://ffffound.com/ about amazing pictures.

Random word: spookily. How fun it is to say and use!

And now, with amidst much of a brouhaha, I bid thee farewell. May you grow old surrounded by piles of words.

i spend so much time online, and the more time i spend online the more cool stuff i find, and the more cool stuff i find the more fragmented my time spent in any given place becomes. i’ve resolved to make a concerted effort to document more of the things that inspire me, for whatever reason. starting with this rad sofa box i found at swissmiss:

ffffound.com is an image bookmarking site i like to frequent for sheer viewing pleasure, or what i call a Brain Massage. some gems include:

and then i see that Courvoisier is kicking their latest branding efforts up a notch by collaborating with urban/skate / hip hop brand LRG this (USA) spring. some of the awesomeness includes these branded gadgets – iPhone and BlackBerry. mmm, me please.

thanks NotCot.

i also came across this article on a speech given by Bill Cosby on how to combat racism, and i find it pretty inspiring. as someone who lives in a racially charged country, it’s refreshing to hear someone speak from a rational place on the topic.

Ανακάλυψα χθές (μετά από πρόσκληση φίλου)ένα καινούριο image bookmarking site ονόματι FFFFound.Όμορφο και απλό χωρίς τα εκτενή profile κτλ.Σου προτείνει φωτογραφίες ανάλογα με τα ενδιαφέροντα και τα είδη που προτιμάει ο κάθε χρήστης.Οι περισσότερες είναι καλλιτεχνικές και design related αλλά βρίσκεις οτιδήποτε.Δυστυχώς χρειάζεσαι κάποιον να σε κανει invite ,τουλάχιστον για τώρα, οπότε θα πρέπει να βρείτε κάποιον ευγενικό να σας κάνει share.Αναφέρω με ικανοποίηση ότι λειτουργεί θαυμάσια σε iphone.

                                                                    courtesy of photos: cliphaven.com

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