My eye for design is that of a six grader armed with a box of “extra bright” Crayola markers but I CANNOT ignore the automotive industries innovation aneurysm after innovation aneurysm.

Picture A: redesigned 2013 Ford Fusion. Originally unveiled to the American public as ugly in 2005 though an instant success as they were rapidly swooped up by every Taurus owner who had been looking for a reason to upgrade since 1996.

Picture B: 2011 Aston Martin V8 Vantage. Introduced in 2005 and still carries many distinct design cues as today’s model. The Vantage is finely crafted by the Brits for cheeky, slightly over-weight gentleman like Jeremy Clarkson to own and for the rest of us to grumble about not being able to afford. Regardless, a beautiful car.

REALLY — who went out to lunch on this one? We’ve come to expect this kind of behavior from Kia but typically not the Ford guys. Clearly what happened is some design chief got behind the eight ball, wrangled up all the university design student interns, gave them six cases of Red Bull, five seasons of Top Gear and said ‘I’ll be back Monday to see what you got.” 

It’s Caturday, time to get weird.

staff:

Introducing: Highlighted Posts

Every now and then, a post comes along that’s meant for big things. It could be pulling the wraps off your new project, promoting your next show, raising awareness for a cause, or just sharing a truly incredible photo. 

Today you’ll have a new option to Highlight those extra-important posts. For one dollar, your post will stand out in the Dashboard with a customizable sticker to make sure your followers take notice!

Tumblr goddammit. We all know that revenue models are extremely important to appease investors, afford hosting costs, pay staff, pay rent at unnecessarily roughed up office spaces but this is completely half-assed. Time and time again with such a wealth of creativity enrolled at your doorstep you continually roll out half-baked bull crap like this blatantly to show efforts at a revenue model. IT’S HORRIBLE.

The only community focused and believable profitable move you’ve ever made is allowing premium themes. Lazily copying Facebook promoted stories is a wonderful thought but remember that promoted stories are also delivered in sidebars as well as the horribly annoying ticker. Currently the only force-fed content delivered by Tumblr is the RADAR which, let’s be honest, no one looks at. You effortlessly killed RADAR with infinite scroll but I’m sure you knew that.

I don’t need extra emphasis on my dashboard of people I already follow to highlight importance. I follow them. Isn’t that showing importance? If I needed a red notation indicating HOLY GOD READ THIS ONE THIS TIME I wouldn’t be following in the first place.

If you’re going to properly execute highway robbery $1 at a time at least don’t attempt to sell it off as a cutesy starburst. A good company brainstorm never hurt anyone.

GPOYW - What’s the matter, never seen a guy reading the Sunday Sports section with an open container of cherry tomatoes accompanied by Red Velvet Cupcake scented candlelight? Sounds like your evening needs an upgrade.*

*outside of the frame I’m boiling broccoli because Jenna asked me to

No additional commentary other than, yes.

(Source: alifeofleavinghome, via ginobambino)

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Belfast December Meetup

The Tumblr community in Northern Ireland likes to get together in a big way, and they’ve just created a blog that proves it: NI Tumblr Family. They’ve already posted more than 100 meetup photos in just a few days!

On that note, several others have created Meetup blogs for their own towns and universities. Here are some of our favorites:

• Boston Tumblr Meetups
• Kansas City Meet-ups
• Bandung, Indonesia Tumblr Meetups
• Fuck Yeah! Chilean Tumblr!
• Bicol University, Philippines

Find a Tumblr Meetup / Host a Tumblr Meetup / Meetups Blog

We got featured not because we deserve it but because we’re beautiful.

thedailywhat:

Single Serving Site of the Day: Stress Relief 2.0: Devastating Explosions, at the Touch of a Button.

[mefi.]

I clicked this, a lot.

jennabee:

Holiday Card 2011: UGLY CHRISTMAS SWEATERS.

Get it? [Previously.]

File under things that we do well - Christmas cards.

(Source: jennabee)

The Sunday paper, harder to read than you think

(Source: muymra)

Believe it or not, this was also not taken with Instagram. Hopefully people can still see it

Rarely do I get a chance to see the beach, but when I do, every time feels like the first time. Hopefully everyone can still see these since they weren’t taken with Instagram.