Canvas to the Imagination

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.

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.

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.

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

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/