Drake on Tumblr

(While I'm busy writing sexy stories, my wonderful partner in all things, Drake, graciously wrote about Tumblr!   Enjoy!  ~AC)

Drake here.

Angela is kind enough to give me a little space to write about Tumblr and my activity on it.  At its simplest, Tumblr is a hybrid of social cyber networking like Twitter and basic blogging. By some estimates, Tumblr has two million users now and has apparently become a useful PR medium for some artists.

The flexibility of the site allows easy upload of words, art, music and links in a cascade of images and words that are displayed on each user’s “dashboard.” Like other social media, you choose who to “follow” and whatever they post will appear on your display when you log onto the site. You can add images or just “re-Tumble”
the things other people post. It’s like Twitter but (at least the way I use it) far more visual.

For someone like me, obsessed with vintage imagery, films, and obscure history, Tumblr is paradise, a streaming panorama of amazing pictures that you can tune to your desire and taste.

My Tumblr stream, Drake's Way, is eclectic and revealing, a carousel of bizarre and diverse things that have caught my attention. I upload a lot to Tumblr too, scans of old books and magazines mostly that form part of the archives that collects dust around here and that occasionally fuels one of Angela’s stories.

For me, Tumblr is an especially rich source of odd old photos that are like windows into the unseen world of our parents and grandparents and even further back. Right now, Tumblr is the best free fun I know of on the internet, a good way to lose hours in the pursuit of visual intoxication.

Posted by Angela Caperton at 1/30/2010 9:07 PM
Categories: Dinosaurs, Vintage, Drake Caperton, Tumblr, Men's Magazines, Social Media
Tags: Dinosaurs Drake Caperton Social Media Tumblr Men's Magazines Vintage
 

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