I’m addicted to paulgi’s Pilgrims.

The second leg of the Flickr World Tour concludes tomorrow night in Hong Kong. We hope that you’ll join us to celebrate the 24 hours of Flickr and our International launch. The full event info is listed at Upcoming.

This weekend saw Europe’s biggest street party, the Notting Hill Carnival spread through west London. Amazing costumes, delicious food, booming sound systems… and best of all the sun was shining!

Check out more vibrant carnival photography in Flickr’s Notting Hill Carnival cluster.

Photos from stemy, kayodeok and Monkey Magic.

The team hops on a plane this afternoon for Kuala Lumpur. If you’re free tomorrow night, we’re hosting the 24 hours of Flickr, Kuala Lumpur at Maison. Full details are available at Upcoming. We hope that you’ll join us.

Team Flickr has had a wonderful time meeting Flickr peeps in Seoul and Manila. If you’d like to see more photos from the festivities, check out the following tags: “flickr24seoul” and “flickr24manila.”

Photos from SuzÿQuzÿ, Katoole, Little Mix Mix and rarerimages by shutterbugrer.

The team leaves Seoul tonight, flying to Manila for the second stop of this leg of the Flickr World Tour. We’re very much looking forward to meeting all our friends in Manila, so if you haven’t RSVP’d yet, it’s not too late! We hope that you’ll join us to celebrate the 24 hours of Flickr and our recent international launch.

Observing an L.A. photographer - an article about a LA Times photographer who took the buy-out and is doing her own thing and posting it to Flickr. You can see more of Iris Schneider’s photography in this Flickr set.

QOOP is sending 10,000 free 4.25” X 6” postcards anywhere in the world. Head to QOOP to get yours.

“With the plethora of social networking sites, it’s easy to come to the quick conclusion that what we are doing on these sites - chatting up strangers, lurking on people’s profiles, spying on friends - is just a waste of time. But there is one site that is more than just an unhealthy habit: Photo-sharing site Flickr is a photography school, art gallery and a sandbox for experimentation. On Flickr, bad photographers get schooled, mediocre ones get better and some even rise to the top as stars - all supported by an immense, and sometimes intimate, international community.” - Flickr Changes Lives, Launches Photog Careers, MediaShift

“1001 is a unique Flickr client from Adriaan Tijsseling, developer of the Mac version of blogging app ecto (the one with a slick new alpha version) and RSS newsreader endo. In addition to letting you upload your own photos to Flickr, I think 1001’s primary appeal lies in its downloading and viewing abilities.” - 1001: A really cool Flickr client, The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

“Flickr on Wednesday announced Nikon’s sponsorship of a Flickr site, the Nikon Digital Learning Center. The site provides online tips and tutorials and lets photographers chat live with pro shooters Rosanne Pennella and Cliff Mautner as well as Nikon School instructors Reed Hoffman and Bill Durrence.” - Nikon gets the Flickr bug, CNET news.com

Pretty things to put your MOO MiniCards in.

“Web trends seem to come and go like the seasons. The latest one out of the Bay Area is a sport that offers relief to cubicle workers around the globe. It’s called “Faceball,” and workers at Flickr invented it to take off the edge.” - ‘Faceball’ Craze Hitting Cubicles Around The Globe, CBS5.com (with video!)

Photo from schneidereye.

Team Flickr has landed… If you’re in or around Seoul, we hope that you’ll join us tomorrow night to celebrate the 24 hours of Flickr and our International Launch. There’s more event info available here.

From here, we travel to Manila, Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong.

…no two are the same.

Photos from Linda Cronin, David G Kelly, fotosmart.at , Olo Kunovsky, Tetsuya Blues, and heavenuphere. As suggested by Dave Gorman in Flickr Central. See more photos of electricity pylons in this “electricity” cluster.

We’d previously uncovered the beauty of dogs in pools. Turns out boys like diving too, and it’s a great big world out there. As documented by Basil, [kren], Victoriano, stephen sakulsky, Diogo Farias & FredIsDead.