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Name Hunson Nguyen
Location Portland, Oregon
First Post December 2007Graphic designer Hunson Nguyen is a student at Portland State University, creator of popular Tumblr themes, and former competitive swimmer. A prolific blogger, Hunson helps run several group Tumblrs including Typolicious, I Heart Oregon, and Graphic Everywhere. He can recite pi to 15 decimal places, he loves Pokemon, and he takes public transportation as often as possible. Hunson’s favorite fonts are “Neutra Text” and “Cambria.”
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Office Fridges
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Jen Bekman Projects is running a competition for photographers, Hey, Hot Shot! which ends today at 8:00 pm EDT. Grand Prize, $10,000!See you next Tuesday!
Yesterday, Amit Gupta had a great suggestion to include thumbnails on Video posts in the Dashboard:
I love Tumblr, but I almost never watch the videos people post. But I click on photos to see the bigger version all the time.
Video posts could really use a still frame to give you a peek at what’s inside.
Anyone else feel this way?
We were already doing this with videos uploaded to Tumblr. Now we’ll also show thumbnails next to YouTube videos.
Thanks, Amit!
Now testing: Direct video uploads
Over the next few hours, we’ll be rolling out crazy simple native video uploading to all accounts. This is designed to be an easy alternative to full-blown video sites when all you want to do is post a quick video to your blog.
Just a few notes:
- You can upload up to 5 minutes of video every day. You can break this up across as many videos as you damn well please.
- Tumblr will immediately post most H.264-MP4-AAC videos without transcoding! That means no waiting and no quality loss. Photo Booth videos and iMovie’s “Export to iPod/iPhone” work great.
- If you’re looking to post longer videos, customize your player, or host HD videos, you’ll be much better off with a feature-rich video tool such as Vimeo.
Enjoy!
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!
One of my favorite things Blackbook has done with Tumblr is crowd source interview questions using the Answers feature.
Foster, Blackbook’s Assistant Editor and Tumblr Ringleader, interviewed the French band Air for the magazine last week, and opened up the interview to the Tumblr community. He got amazing questions— from nedhepburn’s “Given the vast differences between each album do u make music for yrselves or to keep yr audience guessing?” (we’ll give him the benefit of the doubt and assume the “yr” is due to the character limit) to realish’s “What do you think of the recent mainstream success of fellow Frenchmen Phoenix?”
The best part? Blackbook reported back the next day and promised that whatever questions he used would be credited in Blackbook. How refreshingly ethical!
Yesterday, they held a music trivia contest to give away swag to their Tumblr followers.
Today, I got an email from Foster announcing that Blackbook had passed me in Tumblarity. :(
Good game, gentlemen.
