FFFFOUND!

I have been catastrophically remiss in not posting about this much sooner than I am now. FFFFOUND! is a new-ish image bookmarking site, kind of like del.icio.us for whatever badass photography/art/design/etc. you find around the internet. Not only that though, the website itself is an aggregate cornucopia of beautiful, stimulating, cortex-crunching imagery taken from everyone else’s submissions. I subscribe to the RSS feed and it usually pulls in about 200 new items a day, all of which I flick through in a few minutes, letting the visuals wash over my subconscious and picking out favorites to bookmark myself.

Right now the service is invite-only and unfortunately I’m fresh out of invites. What makes this place so good though is the quality of the content that rises to the top. Where else will you see the paper sculptures of Jen Stark, classic Josef Müller-Brockmann posters, scientific illustrations of micro-organisms, field shots of nuclear mushroom clouds and sexy/artsy nude female photography all side-by-side? Member or no you can still browse everything on the site, and if you ask them nicely they might send you some invites, that’s what I did.

I’m including some images from my own FFFFOUND! stream inside this post to give you an idea of what you can expect. Much more at my profile and the site itself.

Update: See FFFFOUND! Redux for a debate over the appropriateness of content.

I rest my case.

LINK/IMAGES [FFFFOUND!]
LINK/IMAGES [my FFFFOUND! profile]

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Duncan 24 November, 07 @ 3:46 pm

I put their feed into feedburner so I could subscribe to it via email a while back. I’m really enjoying getting this eye candy in my inbox every day…

When you get some invites hook a brotha up!
weisheng 25 November, 07 @ 9:38 am

I find it’s a great resource for discovering design-related content at the moment. It’s a different kind of experience from reading regular blog content, because unlike text I just browse through all the images quickly and let them wash over me. Anything that catches my eye I open in a new tab and bookmark.

Will they ever be opening it up to the public or will it be permanently closed and exclusive. On the one hand I’d like to get in on it one day, but then I’m afraid if everyone gets in on the act the quality of images will drop. At the moment, it’s like curated content for the masses.
Fish 08 April, 08 @ 7:48 am

You can also check http://vi.sualize.us , another social bookmarking site for pictures but without nasty invites. I use it to save the images I like on ffffound ;)