Waterlilies in VanDusen Gardens.
I am looking for recommendations on interesting, funny, entertaining, or inspiring blogs to read. I feel like I am in a blog rut and would like some help getting out of it. Make some suggestions please, and base it on the ones YOU like rather than what you think I’d like.
A blog I recently started reading is Cake Wrecks on the recommendation of Susie. It isn’t normally something I would read but it’s hilarious! Who knew there was a trend in realistic cake portraiture. (Creepy.)
Lately I’ve been enjoying:
Heading East – wonderful personal/photography blog. Lots of interesting links to new and upcoming photographers. Beautiful posts about his family. He’s also on Flickr (and well worth adding as a contact).
Sweet Juniper! – a personal blog written by a husband/wife team. Lots of child raising stuff, but it’s beautifully written and often quite amusing/poignant.
Photon Detector – photography blog. Lots of interesting camera related stuff. A lot of new film and lens posts, but also a healthy supple of trashcam/toycam stuff too.
Saturday Morning Blog – classic cartoons and childrens’ shows from our youth.
A few things I like to read:
http://postsecret.blogspot.com/
One post a week, on a sunday.
http://french-word-a-day.typepad.com/motdujour/
Nice mix of a word, photos and tastes of everyday life
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/
I’m a long time fan of Cringely, by a long time I mean at least 16 years!
Thank you both for your suggestions. I haven’t had a chance to take a look at these as yet, but I like the sound of some of them.
Stewart, I am subscribed to Postsecret but haven’t looked at it in ages.
http://www.talkingtoair.com (i think you already know it though)
http://glutenfreegirl.blogspot.com/ (i don’t always read cause the posts are long, but they’re very good)
http://sarahstourdiary.blogspot.com/ (sarah kramer of vegan cookbook fame)
http://gravellybeach.wordpress.com/ (this is actually daveo’s podcast, infrequent but awesome)
http://sarahpullman.com/ (also infrequent, but good)
Oh, there are a few I really look forward to each day, that maybe you haven’t read:
16 Days Under the Sundae: Sometime Vancouver resident and my former coworker, Raspberry is trying to make a new life for herself in San Diego; it’s a personal blog. She’s had a pretty interesting and somewhat tumultuous life so far in the blog (see archives). Nice person and good writer.
Litblitz: This Baltimore sort-of friend (online friend?) of mine writes about her numerous rejection letters from literary magazines. She seems like a sweet person, is always optimistic, and I am hoping that one day her short stories will be famous.
Hebdomeros: A Washington DC writer/librarian who reviews books I almost invariably want to then read. Seems like a really nice guy and has a lot of cool literary hobbies.
I don’t know why my link for Raspberry’s blog didn’t work, but here it is.
funny, cartoony ones:
http://toothpastefordinner.com/
http://gapingvoid.com/
http://marriedtothesea.com/
stuff:
http://www.ohmythatsawesome.com/
http://www.contrariwise.org/
http://yesand.tumblr.com/
funny:
http://www.sorryimissedyourparty.com/
http://www.postcardsfromyomomma.com/
interesting:
http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/
http://www.onesentence.org/
whimsical and inspiring:
http://persistingstars.blogspot.com/
and I have plenty of food ones, of course, if you want those ones. 😉
XO
Thanks Oana. I can’t wait to check these out. They sound great.
I read for the pictures for a quick jolt of inspiration whether it be colour, pattern or an inspiring line (the drawn sort):
design related:
Black Eiffel: http://blackeiffel.blogspot.com/
Design for Mankind: http://www.designformankind.com/
Design*Sponge: http://www.designspongeonline.com/
Illustration related:
for inspired and inspiring illustration and to satisfy my cravings for Scandinavian design sensibility and the repressed minimalist in me: Camilla Engman: http://www.camillaengman.com
fantastic line work and a brave, unapologetic sketch blog: http://www.jilliantamaki.com/sketchbook/sketchbook.html
illustration and painting info etc in easy to digest, well organised posts: James Gurney: http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/
Art general:
contemporary art roundup – Hunt and Gather: http://www.huntandgatherart.com/
books:
book collection on Book By Its Cover: http://www.book-by-its-cover.com/
Fellow kid lit colleague kc dyer, whose blog I like to follow to see what new object/piece of furniture/electronic device etc her dog Silas has chewed beyond recognition: http://kcdyer.blogspot.com/
Holly crap. . . now I have to go and check out all of these. But I thought I would add a few knitting ones. Just for you!
http://www.knittingcurmudgeon.com/ she makes me laugh & think
http://nursemyra.wordpress.com/ laugh & wonder (PG!!)