Just a little note to let you know, if you didn't already, about Pinterest.
Firstly to say it's here - www.pinterest.com - like a big social, global, web based mood board. It rather niftily lets you bang a quick url into a field* (or 'pin' it) and bam - there's your image on your board. Since it links straight back to where you found it, all the credits / acknowledgements to the original owner of the image are sorted automatically - brilliant!
*Or you can do it the old fashioned way and just upload an image.
At present it's mostly the domain of craft and decor types but I can see limitless potential for how it could be used. You can have individual boards or collective ones, depending on whether you set it so that only you can post to it, or whether you allow other people to as well.
Secondly be warned
a) it's addictive
b) if you're about to follow the link to my pins and boards I have absolutely no strategy to what's on there. I'm just experimenting with it for now so you might come across anything from a photo I took whilst out walking, to some favourites on etsy, to something I'm researching for work, and there's every chance it will stay that eclectic. Just now for example, you'll see lots of lights and shadow puppets in prep for a Halloween project (I know, I'm early, but I wanted to capture the ideas before they left my brain again).
smallprint:
at the minute it's in private beta so you need to either ask to join and wait for them to sign you up; or ask someone who's on there for an invite (if you want to leave your email in my comments I'll happily send you one)
See you there - and do leave a link to your pinterest profile in the comments below so we can all have a good look at what you're collecting too.
