Love these albums that Joy posted. Available at Auto.

Make lots of cool stuff from your pics printed from your ink jet onto these shrinky sheets.

A timeless classic. Design your own keychains, jewelry, picture frames, or anything else you can imagine. Inkjet option makes these better than ever!

These cool LEGO-like frames from Pylones let you build your photos into all kinds of fun shapes. Great for kids and the boxes have storage compartments, too. Monochromatic or super-colorful – $12 for a set of three.

Saw this cool retro camera print on Decor8 and had to post. Available on John W. Golden’s Etsy site, the Lunastrella Camera print ($30).

poppy – polaroids by maditi (pictured)
oh joy – photographic inspired prints on balsa from salvor
exposure – DIY photo wall
shelterrific – turn your jpgs into gifts
alec soth blog – review santa fe and advice for emerging photographers

Urban outfitters always has some fun photo stuff to check out. The bell jar photo clip has a black base detailed with 3 black roses and a curved metal clip to hold a photo. Also cool – the old school photo album.

Issue 7 of JPG Magazine is out now AND you can now order subscriptions!

Plus, they are offering fototiller readers a special gift: A $5-off subscription coupon. Just use code FOTOTILLER or subscribe here and the discount will be automatically be included.

A great gift idea for the holidays, especially if you order the gift box subscription which comes with the JPG ultrapod and JPG stickers.

(And check out the article I wrote on DIY holiday photo gifts!)

Grab your cameras on your way to vote tomorrow and you can prticipate in the AIGA Polling Place Photo Project. Organizers of the project are hoping to collect photos of all the polling places in America.

The Polling Place Photo Project is a nationwide experiment in citizen journalism that seeks to empower citizens to capture, post and share photographs of democracy in action. By documenting their local voting experience on November 7, voters can contribute to an archive of photographs that captures the richness and complexity of voting in America.

via kottke.org

I consider myself more of a visual person than a verbal one, but I love to play with words — I’m a huge fan of Scrabble and the Times Sunday crossword (anyone know a seven-letter word for ‘unknown’?)

So, I was very excited to come across the compound word project.

photos by gracia and kristen

The project is the brainchild of Shari; she picked compund words and then assigned each participant a single word from the compound. Not knowing their compound word, each participant took a photo to represent their single word. Then Shari matched up the photos, creating a dipytch for each compound word – and everyone tried to guess what the compound words were. Not only is it fun (and harder than it looks) to correctly guess the answers, it is pretty amazing to see how well these photos (that were taken independently of each other and by different people) complement one another.

photos by leslie and karen

Shari hopes to do another project beginning in November, so check the site for more details if you are interested. Oh, and think you know the answers? Check here to see if you’re right!

photos by tiffany and paula

[Thanks to Shari and all the photographers for permission to show their work!]