I have been discussing with some people on Tumblr the recent outbreak of negativity that fellow Tumblr users are throwing out blindly and not so blindly against other users.
Do you think that by reading anyone’s blog (be it on Tumblr or Wordpress or Blogger or…) you really know that person? And if you do feel as though you really know that person, what is it that would compell you to vocalize your dislike or like for them based upon what you’ve read?
I would like to believe that everyone’s Tumblrs/blogs just act as a very small aggregate of their interests, things that catch their eye/attention, and various snipets of their lives. It seems pretty hard and ultimately unnecessary to form a concrete opinion about a person based on what they write and/or share.
The social element of a platform like Tumblr makes it inevitable that people will interact with others based upon interests and in some cases, real life interactions. Healthy debate and disagreement or agreement with someone’s posting is part of the greatness of Tumblr, the beauty of the reblog. However, to me there is a huge difference between liking or disliking a posting, theme of a blog, opinion of a person, etc… and disliking/liking the person who posted it. Why even expend the negative energy?
In no social setting will everyone ever “like” everyone but is this medium the appropriate place to make that deduction about a person? Aren’t we all much more complex as people than our blogs? Isn’t our blog just one piece of the puzzle?
Responding to someone’s posts because you find the topic intriguing or have something to add to the idea is awesome and often educational, but unless an average user is creating a brand out of their identity, isn’t it a little off-base to claim to “know” enough about someone from what they choose to blog enough to say disparaging things about them?
To me, that just isn’t what this whole Tumblr phenomenon is all about and it is sad that this appears to be a powerful enough of a force that it actually turns people away from it as a medium for blogging resulting in them feeling as though they don’t want to engage in it anymore because of the reactions of those who just can’t seem to simply ignore the blogs and people that they don’t “like.”
Shouldn’t we all be entitled to say what we wish within our own space without being personally attacked for who we are and what we choose to share?
A fellow Sarah, always full of wisdom and maturity. And some great advice for stupid people. ; )
tumblr should have an ignore feature where you simply don’t have to listen to what certain people reblog about you.
nobody would actually use this feature because deep down everyone does care what other people think about them, positive or negative, whether or not their tumblr is a full accurate representation of them or not.
some people really do come across as douchebags on their tumblrs, but i’ve come to realize a lot of them do it simply for attention. giving them the attention simply adds fuel to the fire.
simply accept the fact that you can’t expect everyone to be on the same page with you, or to be more accurate, on the same page as the you that your tumblr represents. thats a good thing. tumblr should not be a bunch of fake shiny happy people. i’d much rather people be real than try and spare peoples feelings by being phony.
speak your mind, say what you want, and don’t take it too seriously.
From a really great At The Movies interview …
MARGARET: Why did you want it so much?
ROBERT DOWNEY JR: So I could be sitting here looking at a poster in back of you, with my hair done up all cutsie, and a big shining knight of armour in back of it.…
MARGARET: I think it’s been written well. How much of an input did you have into that writing development process?
JON FAVREAU: Well, there’s no real - I mean, there’s no real script, per se, on a film like this, compared to the smaller films you work on where you have a script, you lock it, you try to get financing and then you get your cast, and then you get your release date and then you get your poster. This one is the other way around. Here you get your poster; you get your release date; you get your cast; and then the last thing you get is your script.…
MARGARET: I know this is a stupid question, but where does the talent come from to do what you do?
ROBERT DOWNEY JR: Experience, I guess. I don’t even know. I think the talent thing is kind of a - I don’t want to be a schmuck about it, but I think if you -you could literally walk out on the street and point at somebody and say, “I want him or her to be a fully formed, gifted actor or actress inside of six months.” And if I was training them, I’d be like, “Please. That’s a no brainer.”
I think talent is, like they say, you know, where opportunity meets la-la-da-da and the rubber hits the road, and all that stuff, and perspiration rather than inspiration. It’s very rare that I have been working on a character or been on a set or in a location and said, “Boy, I feel so darn inspired today, I just feel talent pouring through me.”
Instead it’s more of the groundwork; what it is to be an actor on a movie set given - you’ve given an objective. The objective is: this is the scene you’re doing; and here are the beats you want to hit; and then it’s kind of like you can’t - basically, what I would do in the six months with that man or woman is I would say, “We don’t do a waltz here. We’re not playing rock and roll.
We’re not doing blues’ progressions. We’re doing jazz, so it’s going to be in this key, and what you have to do is improvise.” And you show them what notes to hit and what notes not to hit so it doesn’t offend anyone’s ear. And that you would call, in my estimation, talent.
We won.
It was a 3+ hour long community board meeting and we sat through a lot of bullshit, but it was so fucking worth it.
My best friend still has a job, a nice man still has a business, and Brooklynites still have a sweet fucking bar. After the victory we all went to Union Hall to celebrate… AND HAD FUN.
Take that, Jon Crow. You fucking fuck.
good, i can finally go play bocce there.
this whole ordeal was like the brooklyn version of footloose.
Maybe it’s me, but it doesn’t seem normal to lighten a two year old child’s hair. Just sayin.
via JustJared
relatively speaking, thats the closest thing to normal going on with these two.
theduty:peterwknox:mtumblelog:
Historic stuff.jack kerouac explains on the road
this clip is simply wonderful. in it kerouac not only gives us a glimpse into his thought process in writing this american classic but he reads a passage from the book as well.
this clip may interest no one but myself but i feel as though i found a diamond in the youtube rough with this one.
i was obsessed with the beats, kerouac, ginsberg, burroughs, and the yippies, abbie hoffman, jerry rubin etc… kind of cliche, as most people seem to be draw to them in their twentysomething, trying to find your way years. i still find them to be such interesting personalities who lived fascinating lives. they all intertwine with the great musicians and poets in the late 50s and early 60s along with dylan and lennon. i think part of me wishes i was around then.
Tonight I experienced two (I think there was three but I just can remember the third) really obnoxious instances of people thinking they were hotter shit than they actually are. I think my biggest New York annoyance is people who think for some (typically incorrect) reason that they’re better than anyone else.
1) Hey, girl who is a reporter for some shitty website that I’d never heard of and is trying to muscle her fat ass in front of everyone else who has waited an hour plus to get a good spot because you’re attempting to take pictures for your terrible website with your shitty little Canon S350! You aren’t important. This ridiculous girl actually used the following sentences to justify her pushing her way through a packed crowd who had been waiting a pretty long time: “Have you ever been to one of these things? This is how they work. It’s my job.” If you had a real photographer, he/she would have been camped out like all of the other people rather than talking down to kids who were real fans and just wanted to see the show. She also had the gall to ask Kanye West’s tour manager to get her a drink when he walked by after she got to the front, he laughed in her face.
2) Hey, “King of the LES” A- Ron, few things made me happier than when you got kicked out of the show because, after trying to give Kanye West your business card while he was on stage— which he refused, you thought you could throw a glowstick at Kanye to the and get away with it. Not a good idea considering there was security everywhere who were keeping their eye on the crowd to make sure they weren’t videotaping, much less throwing glowing projectiles up on stage. Also, it was dick of you to, like the girl above, push your way to the front because you saw the much more talented and nicer Jeff Ng up front and thought you could mooch his patiently waited for seats. I’m pretty sure they didn’t want you up there.
You’ve been able to enter tags on posts for a while using the “Show advanced options” link. Most people use tags to indicate categories or topics, such as
vacation, music, photography.Today, we’ve added two new ways to use tags:
Tags can now be displayed for each post in your theme (see the Custom Theme reference’s new Tags section). You can link to URLs that look like this:
http://tumblelog.marco.org/tagged/New_music_experiment
…where you can replace
New_music_experimentwith your tag name. Underscores in the URL are interpreted as spaces in the name, so that tag was actually entered as"New music experiment".The standard view shows posts in reverse-chronological order (latest posts on top), like your tumblelog’s front page. If you want the opposite (earliest posts on top), you can append
/chronoto any tag URL to display the posts in chronological order, like this:http://tumblelog.marco.org/tagged/Ohio_trip/chrono
It’s a great way to present all posts relevant to a certain event (in this case, my trip to Ohio) or a category (e.g.
"photography tips").You can link to these URLs in your Description for commonly used tags, or you can link each post to its tags using the new Custom Theme variables.
Make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt … The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty.
Watch: Chris Matthews Tears Up Kevin James on Hardball
Long story short: conservative pundit compares Barack Obama to Neville Chamberlain, the man who gave Hitler half of Czechoslovakia.
Chris Matthews asks James what exactly it was that Neville Chamberlain did. James does not know. He flusters around calling Chamberlain an appeaser for several minutes without ever naming the major historical event associated with Chamberlain’s name.
It’s always wonderful to see pundit’s shallow talking points so blatantly eviscerated. Hee!
WOW- Matthew’s famous last words to James, “You were trying to defend something you know nothing about.” Also, Mark Green makes a few key points within this mess of an interview that I wanted to highlight.
“What President Bush and apparently Kevin (James) is interested in is rhetoric and not reality. They’re interested in loaded words for political slander.”
After citing four cases of Israeli diplomacy including one in the works, he says, ”Diplomacy and common security in a world of terrorism, proliferation and pollution is not a four letter world it’s called diplomacy and the next president will do it.
Word.
