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. :)
Submit your creations to weheart.tumblr.com
Check out this theme by Kevin and Jamie!
Paris Nights has a real life scrapbook feel, thanks to its exquisite use of scanned objects and beautiful typography. When you play with the demo, make sure to mouse over the lights on top! This attention to detail is everywhere.
Use it on your blog for just $49. And if you like this, definitely check out their other theme, Southern Afternoon.
Name Kyoko Has a Blog
Location Maryland
First post March 2009Kyoko Escamilla is a photographer, crafter, and apple farmer born and raised in Nagasaki, Japan. From an early age, she’s been passionate about comics and superheroes. Thanks to them, she learned english, heroism, and the fact that not everyone can pull off the cape look. “Superheroes were my first set of friends,” she says. Every weekend, she sells her knitted hats, original photos, and apples at the local farmer’s market. Kyoko has dogs named Bo, Rufio, Tink, Lux, Mowgli, and Theodore Bear. She can juggle, enjoys magic, and is better at Call of Duty: Black Ops than you are.
Also check out…
92nd Street Y
This world-renowned community and cultural center is focused on its mission of enriching the lives of all who pass through its doors.What’s the Daily?
World of Warcraft news from a class 80 geek. (That’s a compliment!)boston.tumblr
News and photos of the world we live in, from The Boston Globe.
It’s hard to organize Tumblr blogs by topic. A single one of your blogs may include your personal updates, your art, your opinions, and a YouTube video of a cat speaking Japanese, all in a single day. This has been a real limitation of the current Tumblr Directory. So, for the last few weeks we’ve been experimenting with some brand new tools for exploring Tumblr.
The new Explore page organizes and filters posts by tag. This means that every tagged post has a chance to show up in front of an audience of millions that might not otherwise see it. Think Tumblr Radar by topic.
Up top, the Tumblr Wire makes a return, pulling in featured posts in realtime. Below is a list of popular and trending tags (currently English only, with more languages coming soon). You can also Track these tags to get notifications on your Dashboard when a new post is featured.
Make sure to tag your posts where relevant to help more people find you. You can still look up any tag using the search box on your Dashboard.
We’ve already started finding posts and following blogs that we had no idea existed. Please give it a spin!
Celebrating International Women’s Day!
Today marks the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, a global celebration of respect, appreciation and love towards women and a time to recognize the achievements made by women around the world.
The Tumblr community is bursting with amazing, talented, inspirational women who we love and admire. Check out these blogs run by five of them…
Awesome Shit Women Did
Celebrates the impact women have had on our world by highlighting their incredible accomplishments and contributions to all areas of life.Britticisms
Britt is a music, arts, and culture writer and researcher, and she writes about avant-garde and independent music and culture here.Agent 3Z
Zahira’s collection of whatnots, eyebrow raising shenanigans, and the occasional rant.Thresca
Tere is a web developer, writer, and artist who blogs about her creations and inspirations.Owsome
Chelsea writes about space exploration, science, and other awesome things with an infectious sense of wonderment.(photo via nevver)
We’re throwing a Texas-Sized Tumblr Meetup this Wednesday in Austin!
Heading out to SXSW? Come on down to Clive Bar on March 16 anytime from 1:00-6:00pm to meet and hang out with Tumblr friends old and new. Plus, we’re giving away hundreds of T-shirts, thousands of buttons, and a whole mess of stickers. Also: beer!
In other SXSW news, we’re hosting a developer gathering, an industry party, and Tumblr staff will be on-hand during the entire duration of the conference. We’re looking forward to meeting as many of you as possible throughout the week!
Please RSVP here if you plan to drop by the Meetup!
Tumblr Android 2.0: Now available on the Android Market
Android users, say hello to the new Tumblr app, rebuilt from the ground up! We hope you’ll enjoy the updated features, including:
- New interface: A total redesign centered around Android’s hardware and software.
- Manage multiple blogs: It’s now a simple swipe to access your different blogs and manage your drafts, queue and followers on-the-go.
- Create a post: We’ve highlighted posting to Tumblr so you can share text, images, links, chats, quotes and videos whenever you want.
- Messages: View and reply to messages for each of your blogs.
- Address book: Find people to follow from your phone’s address book.
- New users: Sign up right from the app.
- Bonus: For quick sharing, you can post anything from your home screen via the Tumblr widget.
Go ahead and grab it on the Android Market!
Name Papillion Institute of Art ARTE:ZINE
Location Los Angeles
First Post December 2009ARTE:ZINE is a contemporary art zine run by the Papillion Institute of Art in Los Angeles. Established in the spring of 2010, PIA is a multi-disciplinary art space and gallery exhibiting emerging and established artists. Committed to education through the arts, PIA provides art workshops and classes year round taught by volunteer professionals and working artists. PIA TV is their online art network dedicated to creating and producing original web series based on art and the culture around it. The institute is also home to interactive projects like live streamed art openings, live streamed artist talks, and a short film screening series.
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SI Photo Blog
Your link to sports history, one photo at a time.Zach Klein
Working on the internet now so he can live in the woods later.Hyper Geography
“What in the history of thought may be seen as a confusion or an overlapping is often the precise moment of the dramatic impulse.” – Raymond WilliamsPhoto: Installation by Megan Geckler, currently on view at the Papillion Institute of Art.
