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Along with a sharp new Engineering Blog and a beautifully organized new Developer Center. Enjoy!

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Every now and again we find some Tumblr fan art that’s too cool not to share. We’ve been cataloging them on weheart.tumblr.com and, in honor of the new Submission feature, are taking your submissions!

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We’re in Chicago next week for the AWP writers conference and will be throwing a happy hour for Tumblr writers of all stripes. We’d love to see you there.

The venue, Uncharted Books, is a new bookstore funded on Kickstarter which had a Tumblr blog before it was born. It’s a dream spot for book-web-community nerds and we absolutely can’t wait to see it (and all of you.)

(Source: rachelfershleiser)

We decided to organize some camera statistics from photos uploaded to Tumblr, and it revealed some interesting data:

One of the most surprising results is the dominance of photos taken with Apple’s Photo Booth application, which snaps photos from the built-in webcams in most Macs.

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Name FAUX FIX
Location Connecticut

A collage of art-pop and hauntingly intimate vocals, Faux Fix is the studio brainchild of hypnotic chanteuse Katie Chastain and indie film composer Nathan Johnson (Brick, The Brothers Bloom). Simultaneously ethereal and beat-driven, the songs liberally mix instruments and influences to form a backdrop of electro-theatrical arrangements. Final touches are being put on a full-length album now.

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GOOD
A community of thought leaders and cultural creatives who give a damn. Join them as they collect and explore all things visual.

Hovering Art Directors
Top secret evidence of the world-class hovering ability of unrepentant art directors.

Dr. Cranquis’ Mumbled Gripes
An American physician in an Urgent Care clinic who sees lots of stupid things. He copes by mumbling under his breath (and posting about it here).

Photo by Christopher Kuehl.

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Name Natasha Vargas-Cooper
Location Los Angeles
First Post July 2008

Natasha is a journalist. She’s written for The Atlantic, The Awl, The New York Times, and many other equally impressive publications. Her latest piece is on Rebecca Black for New York Mag. Before this, she spent several years working as a union organizer and health policy analyst for a labor union. (She also spent some time in Brooklyn not working.) She graduated Summa Cum Laude from UCLA with a double major in History and Public Policy. Natasha wrote a book called Mad Men Unbuttoned, and she created and hosts a monthly live storytelling series in LA called Public School.

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The Kid Should See This
There’s so much science, nature, music, arts, technology, storytelling and assorted good stuff out there that kids haven’t seen.

Magical Game Time
A comics and art blog inspired by a lifetime of playing video games.

Help From A Native Texan
A displaced Texan looking for re-connection. Thoughts, advice and knowledge on everything in the Texas Variety. “Y’all come back now, ya hear?” OH, WE HEAR!

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Name Cole Stryker
Location New York
First Post January 2008

Writer Cole Stryker is scholar of internet culture. Like some kind of geeked-out Indiana Jones, he slips into the underbelly of internet communities you may have never heard of, collects evidence of their strange and sometimes bizarre customs, and then emerges back in the sunlight to present his findings and their possible implications. His new book, Epic Win For Anonymous, is the latest collection of such anthropological findings. For fun, Cole enjoys eating boxes and boxes of pizza.

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Replaceface
George Dawe was an English portrait artist who painted 329 portraits of Russian generals. Today, with photoshop, Replaceface gives them a refresh.

Crap at My Parents House
Pay homage to all of the weird crap that everyone’s parents seem to possess.

The Art of Google Books
Captured mark of the hand and digitization as rephotography.

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Tumblr Tuesday: Special CMJ Edition!

Event CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival 2011
Details October 18-22 NYC
Tag #cmj

For five nonstop days and nights, the CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival invades New York City with over 1,300 artist performances and dozens of cutting-edge films. CMJ fills more than 80 of the city’s greatest venues, nightclubs and theaters with over 120,000 fans, music industry professionals, college radio tastemakers, bloggers, press, filmmakers and musicians.

CMJ 2011
News and info straight from the source.

Cantora Records
Independent music company with a full-fledged record label, active music tech incubator, publishing company, and live events agency.

Yvynyl
The evolution of social music, experimental art, and the power of instant self-publishing.

SERIOUS BUSINESS MUSIC
Classy record label, recording studio and music collective that began in 2004.

Acoustic Night NY
A monthly unplugged acoustic series showcasing local artists in different amazing New York spaces.

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Introducing the new and very improved way to customize your blog

With themes organized by category, realtime previews, and an advanced code editor, it’s never been faster or easier to make your blog yours.

Internet Explorer users will still see the old Customize interface while we wrap up IE testing.

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Name Papillion Institute of Art ARTE:ZINE
Location Los Angeles
First Post December 2009

ARTE:ZINE is a contemporary art zine run by the Papillion Institute of Art in Los Angeles. Established in the spring of 2010, PIA is a multi-disciplinary art space and gallery exhibiting emerging and established artists. Committed to education through the arts, PIA provides art workshops and classes year round taught by volunteer professionals and working artists. PIA TV is their online art network dedicated to creating and producing original web series based on art and the culture around it. The institute is also home to interactive projects like live streamed art openings, live streamed artist talks, and a short film screening series.

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SI Photo Blog
Your link to sports history, one photo at a time.

Zach Klein
Working on the internet now so he can live in the woods later.

Hyper Geography
“What in the history of thought may be seen as a confusion or an overlapping is often the precise moment of the dramatic impulse.” – Raymond Williams

Photo: Installation by Megan Geckler, currently on view at the Papillion Institute of Art.