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Look Back at 2011: Biggest Tumblr Meetup

Self-organized Tumblr Meetups both big and small are happening around the world on any given day, but the largest of last year took place on June 5, 2011 in Curitiba, Brazil with nearly 500 RSVP’s.

Above: Attendees at the Curitiba Tumblr Meetup singing Happy Birthday to Tumblr! More video here!

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What do those numbers add up to? Mobile updates. We have a bunch coming over the next few weeks.

If you have any requests, please make sure to send them to support@tumblr.com!

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For your convenience, clicking any thumbnail in a text post will now expand them all.

Please send your interface suggestions to support@tumblr.com!

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Tumblr gives you complete control over all aspects of your blog, and once you know some HTML, you can make them look pretty much any way you want! On the other hand, many of us would rather benefit from the skills of the thousands of brilliant designers whose work is featured in the Tumblr Theme Garden.

The top themes of 2011 were…

The Minimalist

Inspire Well

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Name Pat Falco
Location Boston
First Post April 2010

Pat Falco is an artist, curator, rapper, and former college athlete from Boston. He helps run the Lincoln Arts Project, a vehicle to promote young and emerging artists from the Boston Area, and Pedro Romero Clothing. Pat has been named “Best Artist In The World” 7 of the past 10 years by his mother. He also runs a comic strip called The Strip Bar.

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Cave to Canvas
Everything art history. From Lascaux to Toulouse-Lautrec, Raphael to Rodin, and Klimt to Kahlo.

Free Dolphin Rides
The travel journal of a 1977 Toyota Dolphin and its inhabitants.

Music Educators
A quickly growing think tank for music educators.

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Photo posts now support Animated GIFs up to 1MB. Woo!

GIF by iwdrm featuring Blow-Up (1966)

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Business Insider came by for some photos of the office. Take a look!

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Name The Believer Logger
Location San Francisco

The Believer Logger is the official Tumblr of The Believer, a magazine celebrating interesting work in art, culture, and thought—whether that means literature, film, painting, wrestling, philosophy, or cooking. The Believer eschews condescension for optimism and news hooks for timeless pieces on art you’ll genuinely like. From Laurie Anderson to Joan Didion to Nick Hornby to David Byrne, The Believer Logger is full of special features and extras that will keep you looped in on great culture high, low, and in between.

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Clipart Covers
Classic (and not so classic) album covers recreated with clipart and Comic Sans.

Gravity. It’s the law.
It’s physics. It’s everywhere. You love it. You hate it.

Mapstalgia
Video game maps drawn from memory.

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Tumblr’s Andrew McLaughlin MCing the Emergency NY Tech Meetup to protest SOPA/PIPA!

Photo by Craig Cannon