No, I did not just cuss on live internet.

I’d never heard of Polyvore until I noticed today that I’d received a couple of hits from the site. I followed the link to find a Flickr-like looking site with this image:

Liz by AlexWriterGirl featuring Monsoon

What’s that in the upper right hand corner? I made that! Those are my “wall of polaroids” that I made as a mock-up for potential thesis show installations.

The central concept of Polyvore is pretty cool… images from around the web are gathered and collaged together. I’m all for that. What I dislike is the strong fashion aspect with all the clothes and things. It even lists the prices of the things used in each collage with links to the sites where you can go buy everything. So what could be a site for cool mashups from things around the internet ends up looking more like fancy shopping lists. Ugh.

Not all of these collages are good… but they are all new. Keep an eye on this post—more works will be coming.