Comments on: Tumbling Into Paradise

By: max

max — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 23:23:38 +0000

I have often (and by often I mean far more than I should reasonably have done if I was as productive as I want to be) clicked on a link and found myself on a Tumblr site with exactly this problem – and no matter how good the images are I have always closed the tab, without hesitation, simply as a matter of principal.

There are a number of really good Tumblr sites (I personally visit http://syntheticpubes.com/ daily – and have added those above to look at) but they are far and few between.

The fact that so few Tumblrs (tumblers?) make any effort at all is, to me, symptomatic of a wider internet culture that has no respect for anyone else and exists within a myopic world view where anything and everything is there for the taking – without any attempt to contribute in any original form whatsover.

Yes – this is a personal bugbear of mine as even a clever little idea like Stumble takes you to site after site of repeated and stolen content.

I guess I should finish with thanks to the content creators – amongst which I count all contributors (and links) on this site – you have my respect and gratitude.. for what it is worth.

By: Karl Elvis

Karl Elvis — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:43:03 +0000

Drake, your Tumblr is awesome. (clicks “follow”).

By: Bacchus

Bacchus — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:06:00 +0000

Drake, you’re one of the good ones — I’ve had Drake’s Way open in a browser tab for about two months now until I can find the time to finish mining you for goodies. ;-)

I’m getting the sense — from sauce monkey and Karl for example — that the Tumblr interface doesn’t exactly encourage adding info about image provenance. And yet it’s clearly possible to do it.

I *definately* don’t want to go too far out on a limb here, because it’s so easy to someone to come along and cast stones at me for my own sins. If I see something and immediately blog it, I try to be religious about credit. But if I right-click and “save as”, a year later when I find the image on my hard drive, I won’t know where it comes from and I won’t be able to give a good credit. I don’t let it worry me; I see the blogging credit ethos as being a “best efforts” sort of deal — you share the info you have, as Drake does when he’s still got the magazine in front of him that he scanned from.

It’s the Tumblr people who never once bother to drop a link, that bother me.

By: Drake

Drake — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:56:05 +0000

I understand the frustration. You’ve been kind enough to re-post some of the things I’ve Tumbled here, always properly credited of course. The problem arises I think from the variety of uses people have for Tumbling — and yeah, you’re right, the slick interface makes laziness easy. I started Tumbling really as a way to give myself some incentive to scan and document the piles of old paper around my house and occasionally help promo my partner Angela Caperton’s erotic fiction. I was lazy at first too, but pretty quickly learned the Tumblr etiquette, at least as it applies to vintage stuff. For many Tumblrs, I don’t think Tumblr is anything more than a cascade of images and it would never occur to them to credit something. Frustrating, yes, but the Tumbling experience overall is one of the most graphically entertaining things I’ve seen on the web in awhile.

By: thesaucemonkey

thesaucemonkey — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:17:55 +0000

I’ve found flickr to be an excellent fountain of filth.
The images range from raunchy to the deliciously perverse. Using blogger as a posting platform does have an upside. In that it’s possible to give the photographer and the “girls” their due.

By: Mark Cook

Mark Cook — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:00:27 +0000

Try paintingsilke.tumblr.com and many of the other sites under “painting” in the Tumblr directory. You will find that many of these people are serious about these works of art, providing links and often insightfull commentary.

By: Tamarisk

Tamarisk — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:47:12 +0000

This is one of my favorite Tumblr sites…

http://easilyaroused.tumblr.com/