staff:

In addition to this very official Tumblr Staff blog and our charmingly factual About page, you may already be familiar with our official Engineering blog, which shines a light on technical developments of interest to the Tumblr population. Today we’re rolling out four more departmental Tumblrs showing how we live and work, as well as better communicating with the community about what we’re doing.

The Editorial blog previews stories and features in progress from this new and still secretive organization (have you submitted to the Storyboard tag yet?). The International blog gives you a taste of our globetrotting efforts (did you know Tumblr serves nine languages, with more on the way?). The Ministry of Design represents our aesthetics corps (lately tripled in size and militancy). And the Support blog provides a wealth of tips, insight, and advice about how our friendly little town of 50-million-plus gets on and gets along.

More of these departmental Tumblrs may evolve and appear, and all should be considered works in progress — by turns serious and useful as well as creatively stimulating and amusing. Take a look and let us know what you think.

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muscle-museum-project:

Portrait of John the Baptist, detail of “The Apparition” by Gustave Moreau circa 1876

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designcloud:

All by Maurizio Cattelan

Entitled “All,” the exhibit is a retrospective of Cattelan’s body of work since 1989. Each sculpture hangs from the ceiling suspended by ropes and references the idea of death. It’s quite an unusual way to display art, and this unorthodox style only adds to Cattelan’s peculiar personality.

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laughingsquid:

Hello Darkness My Old Friend by Tom Pappalardo

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meekkreet:

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Forgive me, Im tolerant with others but ruthless with my own feelings.

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laughingsquid:

LEGO TV Show Characters

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npr:

Just how giant are a giant squid’s eyes? It’s a question that’s vexed scientists for a long time, given that giant squids are rarely found while still alive. Then researchers tracked down a picture of a dying giant squid taken in 1981. In the photo, there’s a fuel hose crossing the eye’s pupil. The researchers used the size of this standard hose to calculate the eye’s dimensions. The whole unblinking eye was about 10.5 inches across; the pupil was about 3.5 inches across. -@acarvin

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contemporaryartdaily:

Claire Fontaine, “Dildo Washer” at Sorry We’re Closed

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Not like we need two of them, but very interesting to think that a piece thought of as unique for centuries and made by a single artistic icon has a copy or twin. Many would probably feel like this takes away from the original, but enforces how the process of making art sometimes tell a narrative richer than the final product.

glassholeglasshole:

“The Mona Lisa’s Twin Painting Discovered”

Juxtaposing the two paintings — and using infrared technology, which works like an X-ray, allowing one to see beneath the paint to see previous, obscured versions — conservators say that Leonardo and the painter of the replica made exactly the same changes at the same time.