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Tumblr cocktails at NYC Mandarin Oriental!

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 15:56:14 -0400

Tumblr cocktails at NYC Mandarin Oriental!

Name America UnderwaterLocation Washington, DC An estimated...

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 15:56:14 -0400

Name America Underwater
Location Washington, DC

An estimated 11 million American families currently owe more than their homes are worth. A joint project of Rebuild the Dream and The New Bottom Line, America Underwater shares how these families’ dreams are drowning in debt. “If mortgages were reduced to their fair market value—what our homes were worth before the bank-caused recession—we could reset the housing market, reign in unemployment, and put money back into people’s pockets,” reads their mission statement.

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Ladypreneurs: Women Winning at Work
Inspired by creative, entrepreneurial, kick ass women, Willo O’Brien aims to inspire and support more women to speak up, stand tall, and do their part to change the game.

Hipster Branding
Holding up a mirror to the artsy community.

One Tiny Hand
One tiny step for hands, one giant leap for mankind.

Name Slaughterhouse 90210Location New York One of the most...

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Name Slaughterhouse 90210
Location New York

One of the most popular book-related blogs on Tumblr, Slaughterhouse 90210 is a perfect marriage of high and low culture. Editor Maris Kreizman pairs screencaps from beloved (and reviled) television shows with befittingly suited quotes from literature. It’s where Kurt Vonnegut meets Brenda Walsh, Oscar Wilde meets Arrested Development, and Snooki meets Somerset Maugham. This classic Tumblr celebrates its three-year anniversary this week.

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Ryan Selvy
At only 19, this prolific comic artist makes us think about life. And giggle.

Poetry Society of America
The nation’s oldest poetry organization helps promote the artform through vintage photos and comtemporary commentary.

The Trevor Project
Provides suicide prevention services to LGBTQ youth, plus great quotes, images, and videos about being yourself and loving it.

Name Celebrate PoetryLocation New York April is National Poetry...

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Name Celebrate Poetry
Location New York

April is National Poetry Month, and Alfred A. Knopf and Tumblr are joining forces to celebrate in style. Follow this Tumblr for a stream of verse from new voices in the Tumblr community as well as established writers. Submit your own poems for a chance to be featured, or join us at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe on April 23rd to meet up and hear readings by U.S. Poet Laureate Philip Levine and other amazing poets. And don’t forget to check out the brand-new Poetry Spotlight for new poetry blogs to follow!

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Made with Paper
Tumblr is the modern-day notebook. FiftyThree created Paper so you can post sketches, diagrams and more to it.

Coverjunkie
Celebrates creative magazine covers you wanna link and their ace designers.

Digithoughts
A pile of thoughts, links, pictures, and stats on mobile, gadgets, business, the web and more.

Name The Political NotebookLocation New York News, politics,...

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Name The Political Notebook
Location New York

News, politics, and spunk! The Political Notebook is a mix of curation and global news commentary by journalist and blogger Torie Rose DeGhett. TPN covers international issues, with particular attention to South Asia, the Middle East and North Africa. Torie’s primary concerns and interests are conflict, international development, gender, and social movements. She also loves Arab rap.

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Galaxy Next Door
Celebrating a passionate love of video games and gaming culture.

PTRBKR
Photographer Peter Baker lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan and likes everything that tastes like chicken.

Force Close
Tech thoughts by Cody Sherman on Android, Google, Linux, Macs, the web, and more.

Extra Extra!

Do you have a Tumblr story? Has Tumblr changed your life in any profound or personal ways? What’s your dashboard mean to you? We want to know — and if you’re game, your story could become part of STORYBOARD, a big secret project we’re working on. Post your story (or gif! photo! or video!) with the STORYBOARD tag, or if you’d like to submit privately, use this form.

Sharing your posts on Facebook just got a billion times better,...

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 15:56:13 -0400

Sharing your posts on Facebook just got a billion times better, with integration into Facebook’s Timeline, News Feed, and Ticker.

New options include:

Toggle “Send to Facebook” when posting.
Share Replies on your Facebook Timeline.
Share Likes on your Facebook Timeline.
(They even get lumped together so they’re not overwhelming!)

You can find the new options in your blog settings. If your blog is already connected to Facebook, you’ll be automatically prompted to upgrade.

Tumblr Staff: Three weeks ago we posted a preview of our new Terms of Service,...

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 15:56:13 -0400

Tumblr Staff: Three weeks ago we posted a preview of our new Terms of Service,...:

Three weeks ago we posted a preview of our new Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and Community Guidelines to get your feedback.

We’ve been delighted to read all of the thoughtful feedback you’ve sent to our policy team, and have hopefully answered every single email. Please let us know if…

Name Jake FogelnestLocation Los Angeles (en route) Comedian...

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Name Jake Fogelnest
Location Los Angeles (en route)

Comedian Jake Fogelnest started a one-man public-access TV show, SQUiRT TV, from his New York City bedroom when he was 14 years old. Two years later, the show moved to MTV, bringing celebrity guests into his bedroom. Jake has written for VH1’s Best Week Ever and regularly contributes to SNL’s “Weekend Update.” He currently hosts two shows on Sirius XM radio. This week, Jake moves to Los Angeles, to pursue his dream of making it big in Los Angeles.

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Screenshots of Despair
Cataloguing online messages that evoke feelings of despair. Submit your own!

The Spirit of Schubert
A collection and reflection of everything Schubert, to accompany Spirit of Schubert on BBC Radio 3.

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
The inside story of Ai Weiwei, a dissident for the digital age who inspires global audiences and blurs the boundaries of art and politics.

Attn: Android users. We’re incredibly excited to announce the...

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 15:56:12 -0400

Attn: Android users. We’re incredibly excited to announce the launch of the new Tumblr app!

Apart from a totally new, beautiful interface, updates include:

More responsive, faster-loading dashboard and blogs
Better photo browsing and animated gif support when you tap an image
Notifications for multiple blogs live in one place
Tumblr Radar!

If your phone isn’t set to auto-update the app, be sure to download the update in the Google Play market.

staff-testclone: Listen to this! We just teamed up...

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 15:56:12 -0400

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Listen to this! We just teamed up with Spotify so you can post tracks, playlists, and full albums from their very extensive library. Search for tracks or paste a Spotify link to embed your music — without the daily limit. :)

To celebrate, we’ve put together this playlist featuring musicians from the Tumblr Spotlight. Hit play and enjoy!

Don’t have Spotify yet? Get it here!

Tumblr Tuesday: Earth Week Edition Join me in celebrating...

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 15:56:11 -0400

Tumblr Tuesday: Earth Week Edition

Join me in celebrating Earth’s natural environment with these fully compostable and biodegradable Tumblr blogs! Photo of Beaver Brook by Noah Kalina.

Climate Adaptation
Michael Cote is an environmental expert who wants to punch climate change in the face.

The Green Urbanist
Green urbanism and environmental public policy.

Local Food Lab
An incubator for sustainable food and agriculture startups.

Fuck Yeah Permaculture
Working with nature, rather than against it, for sustainable systems.

Cabin Porn
Inspiration for your quiet place somewhere.

Weather Boner of the Day
Photos of weather. Awesome weather.

Check out the Sustainability Spotlight for more!

Name MelaphantasticLocation Melbourne, Australia Mel Roach is...

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Name Melaphantastic
Location Melbourne, Australia

Mel Roach is an illustrator and animator from Melbourne, Australia, and her Tumblr is literally bursting with exotic creatures, comics, animated GIFs, and cartoons. (You may remember seeing her illustrated reindeer GIFs that exploded across Tumblr last December.) A recent graduate of RMIT University, she uses TVPaint to animate and draws with a mini Wacom tablet. Her final film project, Happy Happy Yay Yay, is a journey through action packed rainbows, chocolate and insanity. You know, the usual!

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MLB on Tumblr
Get Drawn to MLB with the official Tumblr of Major League Baseball. PLUS: All 30 MLB teams now have Tumblr blogs. Here’s one!

The YUNiversity
Do you want to flaunt impeccable grammar like a boss? Do you like memes? “Y U NO FOLLOW THE YUNIVERSITY?”

Brand Spirit
Every day for 100 days, Andrew Miller will paint a branded object white. From Tabasco sauce to McDonald’s french fries (with each fry painted white), the images are simple and compelling.

A gift for New York verse enthusiasts: Tumblr and Knopf Books...

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 15:56:11 -0400

A gift for New York verse enthusiasts: Tumblr and Knopf Books are sponsoring “A Celebration of Poetry” at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe on Monday, April 23. Featured readers include Poet Laureate Philip Levine, 2012 Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy K. Smith, and two poets from the Tumblr community, namely Saeed Jones and Karolina Manko. The event is open to the public and starts at 7pm. Meanwhile, check out more poetry on Tumblr.

In addition to this very official Tumblr Staff blog and our...

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 15:56:11 -0400

In addition to this very official Tumblr Staff blog and our charmingly factual About page, you may already be familiar with our official Engineering blog, which shines a light on technical developments of interest to the Tumblr population. Today we’re rolling out four more departmental Tumblrs showing how we live and work, as well as better communicating with the community about what we’re doing.

The Editorial blog previews stories and features in progress from this new and still secretive organization (have you submitted to the Storyboard tag yet?). The International blog gives you a taste of our globetrotting efforts (did you know Tumblr serves nine languages, with more on the way?). The Ministry of Design represents our aesthetics corps (lately tripled in size and militancy). And the Support blog provides a wealth of tips, insight, and advice about how our friendly little town of 50-million-plus gets on and gets along.

More of these departmental Tumblrs may evolve and appear, and all should be considered works in progress — by turns serious and useful as well as creatively stimulating and amusing. Take a look and let us know what you think.

If you’re a fan of Tumblr’s recently updated Android app,...

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 15:56:10 -0400

If you’re a fan of Tumblr’s recently updated Android app, consider the wisdom of Tumblr’s own Android expert Chris Haseman. He recently released his second book, Creating Android Applications: Develop and Design. Available for Kindle download and paperback purchase via Amazon, Chris shows you how to use the powerful set of Android tools to begin creating the next generation of Android applications.

“I wrote the book because learning Android is hard in a few ways,” he says. “Doing a bunch of searches on how to write an Android application gives you information without knowledge.”

Creating Android Applications provides a complete introduction to developing for Google’s mobile OS, offering tons of insights and hard-earned advice. After a tour of how to install and configure the Android SDK and Eclipse IDE, you jump right in to build your first Android project.

“Android has several traps for beginners all of which I’ve fallen into. The book, in a way, is my best attempt to help new people avoid them,” Chris says. “Plus, I’ve always wanted to dedicate a book to my wife, and this seemed like the shortest path to get there.”

Name The Underground New York Public LibraryLocation NYCFirst...

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Name The Underground New York Public Library
Location NYC
First post December 2011

The Underground New York Public Library is a visual library featuring the plentiful and diverse reading-riders of New York City’s subways. Beneath the streets, photographer Ourit Ben-Haim takes candid shots of commuters with their books and posts them with the book titles and other commentary. Weekly features include a Sunday bible-reader, a Friday e-book reader, and mystery titles that are solved by the Tumblr community.

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FULLMETALPIXEL!
Development blog for Full Metal Pixel, a game created by this guy.

PenLive
The Pen American Center is liveblogging its annual World Voices Festival of International Literature. Hear from authors like Salman Rushdie, Tony Kushner, Jennifer Egan, Margaret Atwood, Colson Whitehead and many more.

Tonight: I Love Charts Book Launch and NYC Tumblr Meetup
Celebrate Tumblr’s own I Love Charts book launch with a special Tumblr Meetup 6-11pm at Hôtel Americano.

Attention West Coast: Check out our official Tumblr meetup in...

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 15:56:10 -0400

Attention West Coast: Check out our official Tumblr meetup in Los Angeles on Tuesday 5/1! RSVP here.

Olá! Today we’re launching Tumblr’s official Brazilian Staff...

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 15:56:10 -0400

Olá! Today we’re launching Tumblr’s official Brazilian Staff Blog while we finish polishing our upcoming Brazilian Portuguese localization. We haven’t forgotten our users in Portugal, either — Tumblr’s official Portuguese Staff Blog also just launched, and we’ve got a European Portuguese version of our interface on the way too. Em breve teremos mais novidades! / Fiquem atentos às próximas novidades!

(Photo: Josh)

Exciting fashion news from Vogue and The Metropolitan Museum of...

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 15:56:09 -0400

Exciting fashion news from Vogue and The Metropolitan Museum of Art! For the first time, Tumblr bloggers Jamie, Jillian, and Julia will cover the red carpet of the prestigious Costume Institute Gala on May 7 in New York. Check out the action on their Tumblrs as well as the museum’s live feed. (Photo: PMc)

The Ministry of Design has a flag now. Salute!

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 15:56:08 -0400

The Ministry of Design has a flag now.

Salute!