Dalston Lane, Hackney, East London. Via.

I‘m all for stuff like this - The Free Stuff! Flickr Pool, take a picture of something to want to get rid of, post it to the pool, if someone wants it they get in touch, pay for the postage and off it goes to a new home. Same as freecycle I suppose, but this is much more fun to browse. Sadly the Smurfs glasses have already gone god damn it :(

Don’t know much about these sculptures above other than they’re made by Hans Hemmert and he’s into rubbery things. I do know that I want them though, the proportions are great! Check out the video of them jumping about here. Seems to be part of a public art space group called Inges Idee.

Via Wrong Distance.

Lori Nix is a Brooklyn based photographer who shoots big epic scenes of destruction and grandeur in tiny model diorama format. I love the pure amount of effort and work that has gone into building these little scenes just to get that one shot, wonder what she does with the models afterwards?

There’s an interview with her on Cool Hunting, where she explains her craft, also she has a book, Small Dangers.

Via Yewknee.

I was quite upset last week when I realised that the Mayang directory of free textures doesn’t seem to exist anymore :( There’s quite a good pool on flickr of textures here. Does anyone know of any other good source of textures? Now that everyone is sick to their back teeth of shiney web 2.0 looky feely, think textures are going to have their day again :)

My mate Paul has been busy finally uploading his photos of our previous walking holidays to his Flickr. Above is us climbing Mt. Whitney at god-knows-o’clock in the morning, to get to the summit for sunrise. Whitney is the highest point in the contiguous United States at 4,421 meters. It’s taken from a trip we did to California last year to walk the John Muir Trail.

You can see all photos here: Day 1, 2, 3&4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 & Vegas.

Couldn’t resist posting the image of me below, winding down in Vegas at the Hooters casino in vegas and the end of the hols ;)

Here’s some pics from Paul of our trip to Corsica in 2006. Set one, two, three & four. You can see by the before and after image above we had an unusual amount of snow in June for somewhere in the middle of the mediterranean!

Looks like he’s started uploading the Norway 2005 trip as well, but hasn’t organised them into sets yet. Blighmy that one was cold… and as you can see from the image above, the visibility wasn’t always that great!

Loving these 3 part Polariods, especially when the head is much bigger than the rest of the body or the legs are too small. By the always entertaining Dave Gorman.

Via Sopheava de Lumiere.

Sleeveface is such a brilliant idea.

Cheers for the link Garry.

Wow, The American Library of Congress has an amazing Flickr Set of the 1930-40s Great Depression & World War II era.

Via yewknee.

Another POKE blog in one day!

This time it’s Greg who’s got his act together and made peeklondon »

Looks great Greg! I love the extra large first letter caps & the huge quotes. Apparently the link background colours change according to what time of day it is, nice touch :) I blogged a while back about Greg’s fantastic photography incase you missed it.

Across my desk at work is Greg, we pump out hot air from the backs of our G5 towers towards each other all day. Only recently I’ve discovered how good and daring a photographer he is (he’s a web developer during the day). Check out his Flickr account for lots of saturated colour, graphical compositions and fun fair fun.

Next week (2-9th December) he’s having an exhibition at Gallery 5 in west London, I can’t wait, see the NottingStill website for more info.

A friend who I’d best not name snuck into the under construction Bishopsgate Tower the other night to take some pics from the top (no lifts, had to climb all the stairs…) Well worth the effort though, looks great, and a long way up!

You get a good view of Shoreditch Houses swimming pool from up there:

I’m not generally a massive fan of photoshopped images, but I really love these odd huge headed folk by Christophe Huet.

Via The Serif.