A little over 8 years ago I moved from the intersection of Thai Town and Little Armenia (I like to call that area Bulletville) to Playa del Rey. It takes me anywhere from 45-60 minutes to get up into Hollywood proper, or over to my agency in Universal City, or any of the other showbiz-related places I might visit in a given week, but I don’t mind having to drive far away when I get to come home to this:

I’ve been falling in love with Flickr over the past few months. I was never much of a picture taker growing up – I have little to no photographic evidence that I went to college save for a few random shots taken by other people (not that I had anything to hide – weekends were spent going to the movies with friends – you can only imagine the amount of tail I was getting). Only since I started getting into Social Media did I want to start keeping record of things, and from that I got into just taking pictures of things that struck me. So now I use to Flickr to upload, organize, map and share pictures. I always use Flickr when I need a picture for a blog post too, so I’ve been looking for a way to more easily find and embed pictures – let’s see if this is it:

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The photo above I just grabbed from the random stream – it says that all the photos I was viewing were under creative commons attribution license, and the photo comes with a link to the photographer’s work. It was really easy to do – just a few button clicks, all in a pop-up window and I was good to go. I do wish there was a caption available there so I could do a text credit to the photog.

And here’s one from my photostream:

Simple, relatively fast (takes some loading time between pages of pics) and again, the searching process has been streamlined.

I would definitely recommend this plugin; it’s free, easy to install, and worth trying for yourself if you use Flickr as your primary photo storage/search engine choice.

You can get it here.

Thanks, YouTube. Why should I be the only one that suffers? Sent to me by my friend Josh.