A bit over a year ago a friend of mine sent me an urgent message, telling me to look at some tumblr link. So I clicked the link to find a photo I had taken and put up the year before. To my surprise, it had received several notes... okay, over 4,000 notes! I was in shock. The fact that so many people had liked, reblogged and even looked at my photo astounded me! (mind you along the way, it had been uncredited - so I had a bit of a freak out over the photo and reclaimed it as mine)
I actually looked at the photo today and found that it now has over 6,200 notes! Which is nuts!
It's not much, but here it is.
And I know what you're thinking... as I also have - "Uh, tumblr. How lame and immature." mind you, I have had several friend's who have had a pretty goooood success rate via tumblr. One in particular, is my friend Wafia. Her music career is mostly accredited to tumblr and it's magical sharing/reblogging powers (and a butt load of hard work and dedication, of course). But her covers became rather well known throughout the tumblr world and then on to the rest of the internet. Even now, after she has released EP (you can hear Alice on Soundcloud and Spotify, get a free download of Alice on Triple J Unearthed, and you can purchase her debut album on iTunes, Amazon, and finally on Bandcamp where you can also purchase merch) she still comments on how tumblr has helped to get her to where she is. So you never know, that could happen for YOU!
Recently my friend Savannah was over, and while she was at mine she checked her tumblr. I may of had a cheeky look at it from over her shoulder, and then she showed it to me properly. I was inspired. I previously had Tumblr and used it as a platform to share my photography (before I had my Flickr), that was until I found that people weren't crediting the photos properly. As a result, I stopped using tumblr.
Until today.
I have now started reblogging things that interest me, or things that I just really like. It's nothing special, but I am enjoying it. There are far too many things I enjoy - but that's surely not a bad thing.
So, HERE IT IS!♥
What i'm listening to in the early hours of the morning: Leo Stannard- Please Don't
How amazing is he at guitar!? Very Ben Howard of him. I found him via my friend Wafia, who seems to have insight into good music. Anyway, really enjoying his stuff, I felt compelled to message him (on his Facebook) and tell him - the next day I received a reply, thanking me and saying how much that meant to him. So not only is he a great musician, but also seemingly great guy! So I encourage you to check him out.
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