I loved you then,smiley18
Feeling Kinda Blue?
Lessons in Loneliness is a year-long project that uses drawings to follow Blue, a person struggling with depression and alcoholism. LIL sheds light on the everyday thoughts a person struggling with mental illness and addiction may have. It hopes to create empathy and understanding for those dealing with similar issues. We won’t know how Blue’s journey ends until December, but LIL’s author promises an optimistic conclusion.
I have the raddest wife & son ever. One of their many collaborations…LLet’s just say there has been a lot of SQUEALING from my side of the office this week.
Since its inception, Colin Meloy’s Tumblr has given me such varied and squealworthy insights into his soul as:
1. his feelings on Depeche Mode (conflicted).
2. the type of bird-themed inlay featured on what is presumably photo of his guitar (adorable).
3. and, perhaps my favorite: these scanned in pictures that his wife/Carson Ellis/Decemberists album artist extraordinaire, and son drew together in their happy little notebook. Dinosaurs! Astronauts! BLINKING EYES, people!
I think part of why this is so interesting is that Colin Meloy and The Decemberists’ music is the kind of stuff that, as JD Salinger has already said much better than I, makes you wish he was “a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.”
In the meantime I will be following him on Tumblr and reblogging pictures of his wife’s Moleskine.I suggest you do the same.
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Got some delicious fan art to show off? Submit it to weheart.tumblr.com.
Hey there, Tumblr! We’ve trying something fun today! As of now, you’ll see something new when you make a recommendation in the Tumblr Directory. Keep your eyes peeled for it!
And now, the five best Tumblrs in the entire universe:
DailyLit: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
The fine people at DailyLit are using Tumblr to share books in short installments so you can read them right in your dashboard. Also launching today are The Art of War and Poems by Emily Dickinson.Great Showdowns
Scott C. illustrates some of the greatest confrontations in film history with the cutest little drawings you’ll see today.Defaced
Vandalism may be frowned upon, but looking at photos of vandalism is fun for the whole family.Art/Music: Indie
Indie music, indie cover art, and indie tunes. I hope including this blog doesn’t destroy all their indie cred.Criminal Wisdom
The culture, art, and techniques of both criminals and detectives are explored in this Tumblr blog.Visit the Tumblr Directory for more exemplary Tumblrs!
Awesome Tumblr art by crashedcar! Our name looks nice in cursive. :)
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Tumblr Themes now available in 5 languages
Starting today, you can switch all of Tumblr’s featured and premium themes between English, German, Japanese, French, and Italian, with more on the way!
Just use the Language menu under Customize → Advanced.
This has been a big undertaking, and we’d love to hear your feedback on the translations. If you’re blogging in any of these language, please try it out!
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Name Mills Baker
Location San Francisco
First Post November 2007Mills’ writing inspires many adjectives — intelligent, insightful, and beautiful among them — but one quickly gets the feeling that, rather than compliments, his true reward is in helping readers notice something amusing about the world that they didn’t see before. Born in New Orleans, he attended Bard College and Louisiana State University. Mills recently moved to San Francisco, which he described “as though New Orleans and New York were smashed together and then placed just so in a beautiful expanse of nature.” He writes about what it’s like to be human — love, art, culture, mental illness, philosophy, and memory, among other topics. He has two awesome dogs named Bayou and Five and a girlfriend he met on Tumblr.
Also check out…
Wild! Art
This former CEO left a career in the technology sector to spend 10 weeks traveling through Southern Africa, taking incredible photographs of over 100 species.Foodspotting: Spotted
The official blog of Foodspotting, a visual guide to finding and sharing food recommendations.The Hood Internet
This Chicago-based duo mashes up indie, pop, rap, and R&B into sweet-ass mixtapes which both sound quite nice and also don’t pollute the environment.See you next Tuesday!
