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Tumblrs

Posted on June 29, 2015June 25, 2015

People put the weirdest things on the internet. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. Often, either way, it’s on tumblr. Here are a few that could fall into either category.

Who Rang My Doorbell?

I wired up some automation such that a webcam takes a picture of whomever rings my doorbell.

He did. The result is a number of uninteresting, slightly out of focus photos of uninteresting, slightly out of focus people.

Kim at the museum

Man holds up photos of Kim Kardashian in front of artwork.

Some of these are quite good. Most, not so much.

Combophotos

Photos Arranged Side-by-Side to Create Clever Scenes

Yeah. This is pretty clever stuff.

See? It’s half a photo of an aerosol can and half a photo of a fire hydrant. Clever, ne?

Drunk Furniture

Upholstrred, mate. Abslertly uppholsted.

Furniture in unusual places, doing unusual stuff. Drunk.

Very good. Please leave any other suggestions in the extensive comments section below. Ta.

Sad Footballers

Posted on June 17, 2014June 17, 2014

A little short on time (and, if I’m absolutely honest, inclination) today, so here’s a link to something new and promising.

As part of their excellent World Cup coverage (their daily podcasts are the bomb) The Guardian has launched a tumblr entitled SAD FOOTBALLERS. Now, I know what you’re thinking:

What could that possibly contain images of?

Right?

Well, it contains images of the faces of sad footballers who are sad because they are losing/have lost a World Cup game. It’s all started off a bit Iberian Peninsular, for obvious (5pain, Fourtugal) reasons.

For every winner in Brazil, there will also be a loser. And while we’re watching the former celebrating victory live and in HD, we can, at our leisure, pop onto sadfootballers.tumblr.com and see what the other half were up to. And if it’s just downturned mouths at the moment, wait til we get to the business end of the competition: expect heartbreak.

Entering Tumblr Mode II

Posted on December 14, 2013December 13, 2013

As the year comes to an end and the holiday season kicks off in South Africa, so 6000 miles… will be cutting down (mostly) on the verbiage for a short while. Family time, sunny beaches and braai’ing will take precedence over blogging for a couple of weeks.

That doesn’t mean that you should wander off though. And thus, as some sort of retainer, I’ll continue to post each day on here, just to keep things ticking over and to make those in the freezing North jealous. There will just be fewer words and more pictures. Like a Tumblr, but better. Think of it as going back to your childhood and learning to read again.