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We’re throwing a Texas-Sized Tumblr Meetup this Wednesday in Austin!

Heading out to SXSW? Come on down to Clive Bar on March 16 anytime from 1:00-6:00pm to meet and hang out with Tumblr friends old and new. Plus, we’re giving away hundreds of T-shirts, thousands of buttons, and a whole mess of stickers. Also: beer!

In other SXSW news, we’re hosting a developer gathering, an industry party, and Tumblr staff will be on-hand during the entire duration of the conference. We’re looking forward to meeting as many of you as possible throughout the week!

Please RSVP here if you plan to drop by the Meetup!

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Our new Japanese Tumblr Logo T-shirt is now available through BustedTees! All proceeds will go directly to the International Federation of the Red Cross to support disaster relief efforts by the Japanese Red Cross Society.

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Name Ian Andersen
First post November 2009
Location Houston, TX

Ian Andersen always liked comics, but it wasn’t until he found James Kochalka’s American Elf that he started making his own. “The idea of just doing a strip a day about my own life really blew me away,” he says. Like many other cartoonists before him, he discovered that this daily routine pushed him to improve his ability in both drawing and writing. Ian has posted a daily comic for two years now, attends college, and drinks lots of coffee.

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Museums and Stuff
A PhD student living in Vienna shares her love of museums.

Let My People Show
Robin Cembalest, executive editor of ARTnews, blogs about art and culture.

Movies and Food
An exhibition of food and drink as portrayed in film.

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Now Live: Camera Info

The Dashboard now lets you view the Camera Model, ISO, Aperture, Exposure, and Focal Length of any photo uploaded with Exif data.

We’ve also made this data available in themes with the following tags:

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    {block:Camera}
        Camera: {Camera}<br />
    {/block:Camera}

    {block:Aperture}
        Aperture: {Aperture}<br />
    {/block:Aperture}

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        Exposure: {Exposure}<br />
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Name Shane Burcaw
Location Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

“I will most likely be dead before I turn 30. Even that estimate is a generous one. I have a disease called Spinal Muscular Atrophy (Type 2) that has been slowly destroying all the muscles in my body,” starts the first post on Shane’s blog. Laughing At My Nightmare is written by a 19-year-old kid in a wheelchair named Shane about his life and his disease. A sophomore at a small liberal arts college studying journalism and psychology, he loves to laugh as he shares his unique perspective on life.

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FFFFOOD
A place for all things gastronomical: Recipes, reviews, and general foodliness.

Our Favorite Findings
A fantastically curated list of Emily and Karishma’s favorite findings on Etsy.

Richard McCoy
Art conservator, writer, researcher, educator, and guy who loves his family.

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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.

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Awesome. This happened last night. :)

Thanks for putting this together, Frankie!
You have an amazing collection of Jon Stewart GIFs.

And thank you, Daily Show!!

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Photo posts now support Animated GIFs up to 1MB. Woo!

GIF by iwdrm featuring Blow-Up (1966)