Steve Isaacs

Murray's Cheese Shop - my first YouTube upload in HD.

Shot yesterday in Greenwich Village. Testing out the new Canon HF10 HD camcorder. Not bad.

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Miami Sunset

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Monument Island, Miami

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On a boat in Miami

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Changing Up my Web Presence

It’s been great. Actually very great. Tumblr has come very very close to being an ideal blogging platform for me. The posting interface is uber clean, well designed, simple and free of the bloat that accompanies almost all other services, and I’ve tested out most of them. The thing that I have dealt with and just assumed would change someday apparently isn’t going to anytime soon - the idiosyncratic posting constraints.

Those not using Tumblr, let me fill you in. If you want to make a standard “normal” post, one with a title, a picture or two, and some text, well, you just can’t really, at least not without some clumsy workarounds. If you just want to make a text post with a title, fine. If you want to make a photo post, awesome - just upload directly into Tumblr and you’re done - but you CAN”T have a title. Want to make a video post - sure, but forget about having a title as well. Why? Cause Tumblr is crazy, that’s why, and you better hang with it. Want a “standard” post? Sure, just make it a text post complete with title, then add a picture - BUT you need to upload it to flickr or some other source then link to it from Tumblr (!). Want a post with text, a picture AND a video? Don’t get me started. This all has become a pain in the ass for me, and I need a change.

With Tumblr, I can take a pic on my iPhone and post it to my blog instantly. I love the freedom I have in HOW I can deliver posts, but what will prolly make me leave it as my main blogging tool is that I don’t have that freedom in how the post will ultimately look, which sucks. I’m sick of the oblique and difficult-to-read “Tumblr Style” that really just excludes most non-Tumblrites. Tumblr pages, to an average reader look cryptic, lack form and just seem messy.

Not sure how I’ll transition, or how I’ll keep this page going, maybe I’ll post personal fun stuff here (as lots of Tumblr bloggers tend to do) and leave the “main” blogging to Wordpress or something. As for links I like, pictures I find and videos etc. I’ve been sending almost 100% of that to FriendFeed for the last few months anyway.

That said, I really do love Tumblr and admire it as a product and all the work the Tumblr people have done to make it so good, but it’s just not right for me in it’s current form.

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Banksy Pet Store. I took my camera to UK street artist Bansky’s mysterious Greenwich Village, NYC art installation on a rainy October night to see the fascinating sights at the “Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill”.