Random question: Is there a site that connects art directors and writers? Or a place where people can post their portfolios/look at other people’s work?
Or somewhere all creatives can go to post ideas/join projects? Like a section of craigslist where creatives who want to work together with someone on a project can meet. Doesn’t have to just be ad projects ­ just something cool that requires more than one person to complete it. So people can post ideas here and see if they get responses, or go here to find …

Found this blog the other day from Illustrator Sophie Blackall of Brooklyn, NY. I know it is not the first execution of art derived from craigslist, but it is still pretty cool. I as many others used to troll through the missed connections section of craigslist for my morning entertainment. Always full of absurdity and randomness craigslist always delivered and now luckily there is a visual outlet to the randomness that is that list of craig’s.

Check it out For your self:
http://missedconnectionsny.blogspot.com/
- Keith Gibson

Working efficiently has always been a modo of mine. Anything I can do to make things faster I teach myself. Wether it be look for new software or learn the key commands to my software. The faster you work the more valuable you are and people will notice.
One HUGE thing that has shaved countless hours off my days is COOLIRIS.
www.cooliris.com/download-all.php
This easy to download and use app has been a heaven sent add on to my web browser. You can use it to browse pictures on a 3-D wall with the …

The two most successful song covers in history were both done by UB40. They did the most popular version of overly-done-to-death “Can’t Help Falling in Love,” and most people don’t even know that Neil Diamond originally sang “Red Red Wine.”
Why did those two covers do so well? Because they took a good idea and they made it original. In this case, they took two really boring, slow songs and made them into baby-making reggae songs. UB40 “revived” the songs. There have been other covers of these songs that sound an …

As many of you I sometimes get stumped.  After twiddling my way through all the copies of CA and Archive on my desk, checking Facebook a billion times in 3 minutes and perusing some job postings on that list of craig’s I need somewhere to go.

It’s at times like these where I have learned the value of solid randomized internet research. ALWAYS click on links, you never know where they will take you!
Here are some go to sites I highly suggest bookmarking that once upon a time I stumbled onto:
www.buzzfeed.com
www.ffffound.com
www.fecalface.com
http://abduzeedo.com/tutorials …