Unless somebody makes a series of action figures for obscure figures in the Presbyterian Church of Queensland there’s not much chance that I’ll ever fulfil every boy’s childhood dream without paying a substantial amount of money for a customisation. Oh well. Here’s a tumblog that collects people with that dream coming true. Actors with Action Figures.
In the spirit of the just posted Sad Etsy Dogs comes Pets Who Want to Kill Themselves…
And Animals Dressed as Other Animals…
Comically Vintage is probably worthy of its own tumblrweed post. But in a chicken v egg situation I feel compelled to offer this single serving of that single serving tumblr.
Literally a comical guide to meeting boys.
In case you can’t make the picture bigger (hint, click here)… here are the top options:
1. School.
2. Church.
3. Community.
4. Blind dates.
5. Family friends.
Well. Simple. There you have it. I’d say that, broadly speaking, covers just about all the options except work and Bible college.
If there’s one thing I like about this particular tumblr, fastest possible, it’s that it shows its possible to build an audience for one’s art without actually being good at it. I’m horrible at drawing. Pictionary only works for me if I figure out subtle ways of cheating. One time I was playing pictionary online with some friends. We were all sitting in the same room, on different computers, playing against people from the other side of the world. And we’d just draw a bunch of random stuff and guess right, that memory still makes me laugh. Anyway. Fastest possible… the aim is to recognisably represent a thing in the fastest way possible. Perfectly fusing minimalism and pictionary. Some samples…
In the same stream as Dads are the original hipsters comes Accidental Chinese Hipsters – a celebration of the monkeys and typewriters principle of fashion – namely, that when billions of people have a finite number of clothing choices eventually some will incidentally, or accidentally, become hipsters.
My friend Mika tipped me off on this one.
Chronological visualisations on graph paper. Need I say more? Possibly. But seeing it will make things much clearer. When the What.
It’s scientifically proven that awesome people read. Now it’s proven photographically as well.
Still no Kim Jong Il looking at things…
This tumblr is kind of meta. The premise for content featured on Dear Photograph is summed up as: “take a picture of a picture from the past in the present.”
Tumblrweed would have to be one of my favourite blog tags. Some cool stuff there. Let me know if you have a favourite single serving tumblr in the comments.
I made a new blog. It’s very much a work in progress. Mostly because I need someone who can draw. I’m thinking that fonts are like actors. They’re perfect for playing some roles and obviously miscast in others. Which is great. Because the language of type lends itself to such an interpretation.
When I’m trying to pick a font I like to think of my publication/purpose in terms of a type of person or profession, and then I match the font to that. This is pretty much the premise driving FacedType.
e.g
Papyrus: A Vegas Casino Egyptian Character. Not really authentic, but what people think might be authentic.
If you can draw and would like to make me little cartoon caricatures for these fonts I’m sure we could make a book, or trading cards, or some sort of splash on the internet. If you can think of a two or three line description of the type of actor/role typified by a font. Let me know.
Check it out (I’ll be moving it over to facedtype.com at some point in the near future).
Awesome people hanging out together is a collection of exactly what it sounds like. Though the definition of “awesome” is broad.
Charlie Chaplin and Albert Einstein.
The Beatles and Muhammad Ali
Plenty more there.
The Onion has been around for ages. It’s older than Facebook. Older than YouTube. Almost older than the internet. And yet. Some people still don’t understand that it’s satire.
There’s a great online law – Poe’s Law – that says good satire will be indistinguishable from truth. Literally Unbelievable is a demonstration of the power of Poe’s Law. Capturing Facebookers who don’t know the difference between the Onion and real news.
If ZooBorns wasn’t quite cute enough for you, hows about some more cute animals, this time with stuffed animal counterparts? No? I’m not talking taxidermy either. I mean animals of the toy variety. Will that do? No? Well. There’s no pleasing you. For everybody else – check these guys out.
I’m off now to find some sort of content with explosions.
Hipsters. Love them, hate them, they’re here to stay. At least until something cooler comes along. But lets face it. Moustaches and tight clothes epitomise cool. I’d be a hipster if I could grow a mo. And if I didn’t want to mock them relentlessly. But I digress. Dads are the Original Hipsters demonstrates, photographically, that there is nothing original about our current generation of hipsters. They are just copying our dads.
The only difference is the lack of deliberate irony for most of these dads.
This is kind of clever, but at this stage only has a few sites up. Keep your eyes peeled (well, not literally). Back of a web page.
Twitter
Flickr
YouTube
A couple more there. Now, if you did the back of the back of a webpage tumblr that would be a bit too meta, and the internet would break.
