Stock image searches! We've all been there. Scrolling through page after page of 'Forest Clearing' to find the right angle. It's one of the most tedious requirements of a creatives day to day.
An idea that seemed so right in your head is now being destroyed by having to find something similar online.
I've clocked up solid weeks, maybe even months trying to find an image that fits my vision. Sometimes you nail it, sometimes you have to move on and come up with something new. That's the way it goes.
However, now and again you come across an image that has no relevance to anything. You know, the really laughable ones? The ones you wonder how they were ever commissioned in the first place? The ones you and your colleagues mock?
Luckily for us, an Art Director I used to work with has some amazing examples. He got fed up of paying his subscription for shit images. So when he comes across one, he saves it.
They're compiled here http://shitterstock.tumblr.com/
Check it out. You won't be disappointed.
Shutterstock offered him quite a bit of money to buy the site so they could close it down. He refused because he likes that it annoys them. It's made funnier when you misspell 'shutter' as 'shitter' by accident (since the 'u' is right next to the 'i') and get redirected. He gets a lot of traffic mistakenly rolling through.
Get this up on screen and everyone in the office will be gathered around.
UPDATE: They brought him out the bastards
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