Mageina was really disappointed not to have one of Judefa’s Gold frames round her—-
Tell madam to get her butt over here and stop her bloody whingeing, Cloggo
OK, here’s my GPOYW on a Friday (we’re always at least a day or two ahead of you over this side of the Pacific). Featuring round shoulders, homemade togs and my characteristic frown.
Also dig the enormous white feet. All the better to stride through life, although if I’d been given a choice I would have chosen dainty little ones — and a pretty face to match. ;=( Cloggo, see me about GPOYW
justjori: rrrick: GPOYW - taken before the man dragged me down
Jesus, RRRick, you look like Opie! I hope you like the gilt frame I’m giving you though, little tyke ;=)
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture… - but does it float (via superfamous)
Exquisite sculptures by Hiroyuki Hamada
From the Flickr site of British illustrator Ellis Nadler.
Alternatively see his work on a Blogspot here. Either way, many, many visual treats.
Trailer for Wellington actor/director Taika Waititi’s new feature Boy, inspired by the characters from his Oscar-nominated short Two Cars, One Night. His Q+A appearance (in three parts) following the film’s Sundance screening is delightful.
Jude: It’s a 1:17 taste of New Zealand and the Maoris that give the culture so much warmth and homeliness. Also: a movie I will be seeing asap.
Yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dog’s eye etc
This is an inspired essay about The Beatles’ I am the Walrus — labelled “humour”, you’ll note. It is my favourite Beatles song but gosh, I never thought to try and interpret it! The writer however, a Freudian Jungian called Lia and in league on this blog with Elledark, has special skills.
She knows the Beatles, their lyrics and the language of psychoanalysis so how could she not have a stab! The result is just a terrific read, both entertaining and thought-provoking — like the Beatles themselves.
Eight posts a day max or you're out! ;=)
I have come to my first crossroads at Tumblr, or maybe I should say CROSS roads.
I’ve been on here for 4-5 months now and am subscribed to 134 Tumblelogs, with many others bookmarked. This has turned out to be far too many to manage, given that I read/view a great deal outside Tumblr as well.
I am also trying out Twitter for the first time and learnt only last night (no-one told me?!) that Tweets can be diverted right into the dashboard here at Tumblr as well. Which makes for a very crowded dash.
So to avoid feeling defeated before I even begin, comes a time to cull …
The problem most of us have with Tumblr, of course, is that we’re deluged with photo posts, which have obvious instant appeal but unfairly drown out a lot of good but quieter offerings.
What I am actually looking for and enjoying the most could be summarised as
~ unique voices and story-tellers
~ “curators”, by which I mean people who fossick and choose items sparingly, or pause as well for reflection on what is being offered
~ beautiful design (I can’t resist it)
~ arts — but offerings you don’t see every day
~ original or oddball humour
~ established friends from an old, almost moribund, network (they know who they are)
~ English eccentrics
~ unusual photos
The crush-meter gives an unfair advantage to frequent posters and those I’ve followed from the start, of course, but I’m certainly proud to recommend them: from the top left, Cloggo, TapwaterJackson, Handa, i12bent, ElleDark, Stumbot, Master-Li, Foxesinbreeches, Hookersorcake
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Obiously I am committed to those guys — plus quite a few others — but now here’s the bit that will cut some visitors to the quick if they have been posting too enthusiastically for me to keep up with:
I have decided on what I will call the Cloggo principle, which is to say: if you’re posting more frequently than him I’m going to have to let you go. Cloggo goes at a pace of about eight items a day and — this part is important — holds himself back.
That holding yourself back, or pausing for reflection or a reread before hitting “reblog” or CTRL C/CTRL V is as important as the blogging itself, IMO.
If you are one of those who post 100 pix a day, eg, you’re probably young and just haven’t “found yourself” yet. But take it from an old crone … you’re not going to “find yourself” by trying to be first or most with everything.
On my old network, Stumbleupon, I quit subscriptions because people were overdoing it just as frequently as I dropped those who had vanished. Because it was clear they didn’t really give a shit what they put on their page.
I have to let people like that go. They drain my (limited) energy and in Tumblr they invade my personal space as well, via the dashboard.
Those I stop following (soon) willl still likely be on my radar though — on an RSS feed or bookmark — I’ll just settle for seeing one post in 10.
Breaking out of the same old same old
From the article:
With the Internet suffocating with blogs, people have developed incredibly short attention spans, and they probably won’t stop for your content if you have “just another blog”.
Seven half-hearted articles a week does not equal one very polished, interesting article.
This is a thorough article on making or improving a “blogazine”-style website, and particularly ways of approaching it afresh. The writer sees too much of the same old same old everywhere, and suggests ways to break out of the mould and keep your blog interesting for everyone. There are links distributed throughout, which left me with a pile of browsing and reading to return to later.

