Very good blog !

Do you think to publish pics of frenchs boys actors ? Do you know Zacharie CHASSERIAUD, Kérian MAYAN and Vincent JASINSKIJ ?

gee wrote on 24. Mar 2011 at 23:57:


I don't know. I'm assuming it's from photo shoot for a magazine article.

Cinefan wrote on 24. Mar 2011 at 22:16:


I'm not sure which one you're asking about exactly, but I don't think any of them have been "doctored." If you meant the one where he has wings, as I said to Gee, I think it's from a magazine shoot, but I don't know the source.

The one with the Playboy magazine I'm pretty sure is from Home Alone. Or maybe Uncle Buck? I'm pretty sure there was a scene in one of those movies where he finds one of those magazines, but it's been ages since I've seen either.

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A blog is a type of website. A blog means that it's updated regularly and that new posts are arranged in reverse chronological order, with the newest ones showing up at the top. Typically, blogs rely on some pre-existing platform, like blogspot, wordpress or (in my case) Tumblr. These are services that provide not only the hosting but most of the functionality of the site as well. You can customize it to make it look the way you want, but once that's done, posting is about as easy as posting on a message board is. You type in your text, upload photos, click "POST" and you're done.

Will it be a lot of work? Well, yes and no. My goal is not to compete with something like this website, which is a resource that aims to include as much information and be as comprehensive as possible. A blog is much more about people reading or looking at the new updates as they get posted. The idea is that people would visit the site every day (or every few days) and get a bunch of new pics. I'm not too worried about including EVERY actor or whatever.

Nérodiaman wrote on 24. Mar 2011 at 22:45:


Yes, I plan to include French actors. I'm not familiar with any of the names you mentioned, but I will look them up.

Good luck on your new venture.

I'm thinking Jules Sitruk will get a mention. 

Cal, Tumblr is maybe not the best platform if you want to do things like sorting alphabetically. Although there are a few things you could do to get around it. And platforms like Blogger or Wordpress have more options.

Sorting blog posts alphabetically by actor name is probably not going to be an option on any of these. Although you can add tags to the posts and those tags can then be sorted and displayed as a list of links. (I know this is very easy to do on Blogger. Less so on Tumblr.) Comments are also fairly easy to implement. They're a built-in option in Blogger and Wordpress. With Tumblr you can add it via a third-party application, like Disqus.

Links are of course no problem. You can simply add links in the body of the posts, standard HTML.

I've considered all of these options when deciding what platform to use for this blog, and in the end I decided to go with Tumblr despite the more limited functionality, because of (a) how easy and quick it is to post images, and (b) the popularity of that platform and increased chances of finding an audience there.

On that last point, the way Tumblr works is very much community oriented. If you have an account, you can "follow" other tumblrs, you can "like" individual posts (which then generates a feed of all your liked posts, which you can either keep private or make public so others can browse it), and you can "reblog" other people's posts with a single click. All the tags are also searchable, meaning Tumblr user who searches for "Corey Haim" will find my tagged pics of him, which they can then "like" (which puts them in their like list for future reference) or "reblog" (which copies the post onto their own tumblr, for all their followers to see and like and reblog). So without any effort to promote my blog, I've got several people liking, reblogging and following it already. And that audience is going to continue to grow.

It's always more fun when you have a little bit of an audience. Although, ultimately, I'm doing this for my own amusement more than anybody else's. I don't think Tumblr is your best option if you're particularly interested in organizing your posts in different orders. But if you're just looking for a place to collect nice images, it's pretty great.

Great blog! I'm browing it right now. Nice pictures that you find or scan.  I forgot Barret Oliver also had tons of freckles and how good looking Elijah was in the War.