If you're looking for artistic inspiration--or just a way of avoiding the (sometimes very hard) work of painting--you might consider Found Photos, if you haven't already.

Intrigued by the photos he found in a fileshare network, the site's creator Rich Vogel, began sifting through them and compiling archives of his favorite shots. Scrolling through his selections can get  heady--it's a bit like watching the secret lives of others--but at the same time, it's a good lesson in how the ordinary can become extraordinary. Sometimes it's all a matter of context and sometimes it's the audience that makes the art.

Join the Found Photos mailing list and recieve found images by e-mail here. I pulled the selections shown here from several different archives. I'd love to include about 110 more.