Something like this is what I'm picturing. Imagine this taking up the whole space of the screen (maybe with fewer images, now that I'm thinking about it) and it moves dynamically to the screen size, so it'll still look dope on mobile.

For the links module, having it float in a line at the bottom of the page would be the easiest option, imo. It'll also give you the flexibility to add a bunch of links if you wanted to or remove links as you wanted.