Once upon a time, I used to have a very successful Tumblr page. It was a neat archive of images sourced from the internet, or reposted from the platform itself, that I liked and felt the need to reshare.
This endless scroll of curated digital etchings was revered and referenced by quite a few important names in today’s pop culture, and it served as a window into my brain—looking back now, it was a precuror to 2018’s Instagram moodboard pages, it definitely played the same role in the landscape of online creative direction.
When Tumblr started to fade and Instagram rose to the surface as the go-to portfolio platform, my main Tumblr took a backseat. It became more a weekend past time, something to look at when I was bored. At this point though, my camera roll kept bloating up with photos I took on a daily basis and screenshots of random inspirations. To dodge the need for an iCloud upgrade, I created a new Tumblr URL called lifeasnao with the goal to create a space where I could download the ever-growing archive.
For a period of time, I would create daily photo dumps meticulously filed by date and location but by 2015, my life had become too hectic to keep it up. IG took precedence and the rest is history.
As I grow older and I increasingly lose interest in the Meta-owned software, I thought I’d bring my old habits back.
Especially given the fact that I haven’t been writing much lately. From now on, every Saturday I will be sending out 5 images picked at random yet chronologically from the 31,776 photos I have saved on my phone.
In honor of my old blog, this series will be called Life As Nao.
Enjoy.
See you next week!
2013-2014 Vince Staples is quite the flex 💪🏼 🙌🏼