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Name Butch Walker
First post September 2008

Butch Walker first gained attention in Cartersville, Georgia in the 80s as a guitarist and performer. He moved to LA in 1988, and less than a year later, his band was signed to Virgin Records. Today, Butch is best known as a musical renaissance man. He’s produced or written for Katy Perry, Weezer, Pink, and Avril Lavigne. His last album earned stellar reviews, with Rolling Stone calling him “one of America’s best singer-songwriters.” Next up, the August 30 release of The Spade, and the premiere of the first single, “Summer of 89,” on his Tumblr blog today.

Also check out…

Epitaph Records
Independent record label and home to Bad Religion, Social Distortion, Bring Me The Horizon, Weezer and more.

Polyvinyl Record Co.
Polyvinyl is an independent record label with a diverse family of bands, including of Montreal, Deerhoof, American Football and more.

Kassette Klub
Kassette Klub believes in collaboration, music as art, kittens, and magic. But mostly they release music that they love.

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Name The Burning House
Location New York

If your house was burning, what would you take with you? The answer says a lot about your values and background, according to photographer Foster R. Huntington. The Burning House is a living gallery of photographs of the items chosen by people from all backgrounds, from all around the world. “It’s a philosophical conflict between what’s practical, valuable, and sentimental. You’re forced to prioritize and boil down a life of accrued possessions into what you can carry out with you,” Foster says.

Also check out…

The Changelog
A weekly podcast and blog that covers what’s fresh and new in Open Source.

Sounds of My City
A collaborative, community-oriented audio ethnography of Toronto. This is what Toronto sounds like.

Officials Say the Darndest Things
Cataloging what officials in business and government (and any other centers of power) let slip.

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Hey there, Tumblr! We’ve trying something fun today! As of now, you’ll see something new when you make a recommendation in the Tumblr Directory. Keep your eyes peeled for it!

And now, the five best Tumblrs in the entire universe:

DailyLit: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
The fine people at DailyLit are using Tumblr to share books in short installments so you can read them right in your dashboard. Also launching today are The Art of War and Poems by Emily Dickinson.

Great Showdowns
Scott C. illustrates some of the greatest confrontations in film history with the cutest little drawings you’ll see today.

Defaced
Vandalism may be frowned upon, but looking at photos of vandalism is fun for the whole family.

Art/Music: Indie
Indie music, indie cover art, and indie tunes. I hope including this blog doesn’t destroy all their indie cred.

Criminal Wisdom
The culture, art, and techniques of both criminals and detectives are explored in this Tumblr blog.

Visit the Tumblr Directory for more exemplary Tumblrs!

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Congratulations are in order for hipsterpuppies, the latest in what is approaching a regular tradition of Tumblr-to-book deals. Christopher Weingarten, the boy behind the blog, has posted an open call for “pupster” photos, but he wants you to remember, “No cats. Seriously, fuck cats.”

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A closer look at Mike Harding’s featured theme: Scaffold

Scaffold, one of Tumblr’s new premium themes, uses a super-minimal layout to keep the focus on your blog’s content. Photos and videos are scaled right to the edges of the post columns, which can create a uniform grid or an awesome collage of mixed media.

Mike also gives a ton of attention to the permalink pages, switching up the layout to enlarge your photos and videos. And make sure you take a second to appreciate the search field that repositions itself when you start scrolling!

Scaffold supports just about every Tumblr feature, including pages, group blog attribution, Twitter, Disqus comments, and lots more. It only takes a second to add a custom header graphic, but changing the background will require some CSS skills.

Mike Harding:

My aim setting out was to create something simple and uncluttered, removing as much information as I could from the index pages while still retaining a good level of usability. I’ve been very inspired by the clean, minimalistic work of people like Stefan Dziallas, and David DeSandro’s work on Masonry made it possible for me to consider moving to a two-column layout — which I was keen to do so that I could use the page width to show more content, and to move away a little from the standard vertical blog format.

Check out some of the ways people are using it:

• Daisy May and Stanley Chow show off their illustrations and beautiful custom header graphics.
• João Travessa emphasizes the grid to feature his polaroid collection.
• Diedrik Dijkstra adds some great texture with background and header graphics.
• Guillaume inverts the colors, keeping the contrast great for text and making images pop.

Scaffold is available in the Theme Garden for $9. Check out the demo.

Thanks, Mike!

• The Dashboard and Likes APIs now include:
  • A tumblelog element on each post with its tumblelog’s information and avatar.
  • Information about originating posts for reblogs.
• You can now get the source code of your custom themes, custom CSS, and tumblelog descriptions from the /api/authenticate…

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We’re very proud to announce that, starting today, you can procure your very own Tumblr Sidebar Iconic Promotional Unit! This product was designed by Tumblr engineers to drastically improve the quality of your life through a complex (and patented) algorithmic process. Also, participants will get a crapload of new followers.

Hit the link under the Tumblr Sidebar Iconic Promotional Unit Gridbox to make a purchase, and your avatar will be displayed and linked until it’s pushed off the grid.

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