This is everything I uploaded to Tumblr in April.
Sometimes Tumblr takes me by surprise. I use the queue functionality to collect images that I like, and then allow the site to automatically post a certain number of images each day. This means that I never quite know exactly what I’m going to find there, and sometimes images pop up that I’d forgotten about.
I like to think of it as a kind of endless digital scrapbook. I used to collect pictures from magazines and stick them into a book. Sometimes I wouldn’t look at them again for months, and I’d be taken by surprise at the images I’d chosen. Sometimes themes would become apparent, sometimes there’d be duplicates. Sometimes I’d wonder what on earth I’d been thinking of, when I’d collected certain images that somehow no longer appealed.
There’s something very satisfying about collecting what appear to be very disparate images, and then looking at them in a large group like this. It becomes very easy to spot trends in colours, or shapes, or textures, and I find that very useful when I’m stuck for inspiration.
I used to cross-post every image from Tumblr to Twitter, but quickly found that my “proper” tweets were being lost amongst the noise. If you have a tumblr account yourself and would like to follow me, you can find me here. If you follow blogs via an RSS feeder, there’s an RSS link too. Otherwise, I’ll keep posting archive pictures like this, as often as I remember!