The hotel we should have stayed at. #brasil (Taken with Instagram at Curitiba)

joshuanguyen:

Today.

We jump so high!

#TumblrCuritiba!! Living dashboard; One Direction flash mob; tumblr tween madness.

Barack Obama Being Adorable with Adorable Children

alexleo:

Barack + Babies.

Tuuumblr! Curitiba, Brasil. (Taken with Instagram at Museo Oscar Neimeyer)

15 hours on a plane… THIS IS NOT A PHOTO OPP JOSH NGUYEN!

onetinyhand:

dr. wernher von braun explains the saturn launch system to JFK. (1963)

storyboard:

A Tiny Step for Hands, A Giant Leap for Man

One Tiny Hand made us special #Storyboard space pictures. I want to give them a tiny-handed high five.

Arriving at LAX. “Pick your bags up at Carousel B— B like Botox. Welcome to LA!” —Virgin America steward (Taken with Instagram at Los Angeles International Airport Runway)

picturedept:

Hello World

PICTURE DEPT is a new venue for photography presented by the award-winning Newsweek & The Daily Beast photo teams. As photo sharing has exploded online with services like Instagram, Tumblr, Facebook, and others, there has never been more content available for viewing. But as more great, new photography venues are created, it is increasingly hard to keep up with the seemingly endless stream—and to find the very best of what’s out there. PICTURE DEPT is designed to both filter and condense this information into a single resource. The site includes curated photo features and recommendations of the best of what is happening in photography—not just from Newsweek & The Daily Beast but also from Tumblr, around the Web, and the world beyond the computer screen.

About the name:

When we decided to create a photo Tumblr, we turned to the amazing Newsweek archives for inspiration, and there we discovered a battered metal box that contained hundreds of faded yellow 4 x 6 note cards. On each card was the date of an issue of the magazine and the complete listing of its photo spreads. And they were all titled “PICTURE DEPT”, the original moniker of the photo department. The cards ranged in date from the 1930’s - 1970’s and reminded us of the amazing legacy of the magazine. So we decided to resurrect Picture Dept for the 21st century. 

Awesome. This is going to be great, in the spirit of the Lively Morgue, but with even more community engagement. Congrats guys!

storyboard:

Lady Comics: Who Needs Late Night? We’ve Got Tumblr

If you ask a female comedian how social media has impacted her professional life, she will likely respond like Elaine Carroll. “Social media has made my career,” says Carroll, the 30-year-old creator of the Very Mary Kate web series, a spoof of Mary Kate Olsen’s glam life in New York.

Remember just a few years back, when comedians (of any gender) relentlessly chased guest spots at the feet of David Letterman and Jay Leno? Getting a gig on late night was the ultimate career boost, but women comedians had to fight through the prejudices both professional (like infamously misogynist Letterman booker Eddie Brill) and cultural (let’s all try to forget that Christopher Hitchens essay).

But the level playing field of Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr means no one gets between ambitious talent and a potentially receptive audience. All it takes is perseverance, ability, skill, and infinite patience.

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radioon:

Proof that we’re in a Ryan Gosling bubble.

“At this rate, theoretically, by 2094 every single Tumblr will be Ryan Gosling-based.”
—Topherchris

Also: Public Service Announcement: Feminist Ryan Gosling got a book deal. Tumblr asked Ryan Gosling’s (publicist) if he’d do a phone interview with us about his memedom. Publicist said no. STORYBOARD WONT STAND FOR THIS!

brandspirit:

65/100: Polaroid

todaysdocument:

It’s National Train Day!

EXCITING MOMENT FOR THESE YOUNGSTERS IS A PICTURE TAKING SESSION ON THE STEAM POWERED ENGINE OF THE CUYAHOGA VALLEY LINE … 10/1975

Frank J. Aleksandrowicz, Photographer. From the EPA’s DOCUMERICA series

In Germany, police fired 85 bullets in all of 2011.

think-progress:

In the U.S., police fired 90 shots at one unarmed man in Los Angeles. 

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