6 Awesome Blogs on Blog Day 2011

The internet is filled with millions of people sharing copeous amounts of information through various mediums. Every now and again, I find myself stumbling across a random but brilliant blog that showcases the author’s creative and eccentric personalities.

When a blog is truly amazing beyond comparison, I would share the find with some of my close friends, hoping that they too would enjoy it as much as I do.

At times I do forget to bookmark the website. And when I do, I will go through my entire week’s browsing history list to find what I have lost.

Some of the websites above are actually quite amazing. I won’t tell you which. Play a game of roulette and try your luck on Google.
 

August 31st 2011 commemorates International Blog Day, where bloggers can choose to put up a post containing a list of their favourite blog finds and share it with their readers.

There are numerous blogs that I follow on a daily basis, but I am going to hold back from sharing blogs that already have a generous following, and instead share blogs that my readers have probably never heard of or forgotten about.

Here are my top 6 picks:

 

[#6] Pointing Is Fun @ Stephanie Lok

Pointing Is Fun (http://pointingisfun.blogspot.com) is a blog started by a childhood friend, Stephanie Lok.

Steph is an artist, a designer, a photographer and a foodie. Her blog contains a mixture of her illustrations and daily encounters of the unordinary and bizarre, which matches her extraordinarily quirky yet eclectic personality.

Pointing Is Fun is an inspiration for creative ideas, an innovation for design and eye candy for the hunger deprived!

 

[#5] Loading Artist @ Gregor Czaykowski

Loading Artist (http://www.loadingartist.com) is an online webcomic strip that tackles the values of everyday life with well juxtapostioned humour.

Gregor depicts social and personal issues by relating his own struggles as an artist to the everyday life of a modern man. He often engages his audience with the use of his imaginative story telling and satirical sense of humour.

The best way to keep updated with The Loading Artist is to follow the artist on Twitter.

 

[#4] The Daily Beard

I contemplated hard whether or not I wanted to include The Daily Beard (http://www.thedailybeard.net) on my list of blogs to share.

2011 has been marked the year where my keen fascination kicked into the eccentric world of beard-dom. Having grown a beard for the first time in my life, I began to explore different mediums of motivation to keep myself from staying away from the razor.

The Daily Beard is not for the feint hearted. For those used to the mainstream media promoting hairlessness, The Daily Beard is essentially a tumblr blog that prides itself as a medium against the mainstream look. Readers often regard The Daily Beard as “beard porn”.

Don’t worry, the blog is not sexually explicit, unless of course you choose to roll that way!

Bearded for life!
 

 

We are only half way through. The top 3 entries are waiting on the next page!

[#3] Brawl in the Family

Brawl in the Family (http://brawlinthefamily.keenspot.com) is another webcomic I just had to share.

Brawl in the Family, or BITF, centers itself around popular Nintendo character Kirby, and his many adventures meeting other famous Nintendo characters such as Mario, Yoshi, Starfox, Zelda and many more.

If you used to play a Nintendo, or was ever a huge fan of any Nintendo title at any point in your life, BITF is guaranteed to entertain. With over 300 titles,  BITF is a a fun read when you feel like getting away from reality and embracing a childhood nostalgia.

You need not worry as each BITF story sits by itself without the need to engage in the full history of each character.

 

[#2] Ken Wooi

Ken Wooi (http://www.kenwooi.com) is an entertainment blog by a Malaysian advocate named Ken Wooi. (Omg really?!)

I’d like to think of Ken Wooi as a skinnier, younger, more rojak version of Kenny Sia (Malaysia’s Top Blogger), who coincidentally shares half of Kenny’s name.

Don’t get me wrong, Kenny Sia has been and always will be my biggest inspiration to blogging, but being away from the blogosphere has taken a toll on Kenny’s popularity.

Ken Wooi, on the other hand, started blogging in 2008 as a way to communicate his daily shenanigans to his friends and family as he left home to pursue his tertiary education. Sound familiar?

Ken updates very frequently, often sharing stories based on his everyday interests. He enjoys making a parody of himself, operating on photoshop induced characters of himself in uncanny situations.

 

[#1] Sketchy Minds @ Ivn

Sketchy Minds (http://sketchyminds.blogspot.com) is a personal blog by an artist named Ivn, who depicts the struggles of his routine life through single frame comical illustrations.

I truly believe illustrative design is a hard enough feat to accomplish. Having said that, being able to deliver the conflicts of his life in a single comical illustration deserves the recognition of more than just a few. This is why I chose Sketchy Minds as my #1 blog of 2011.

I randomly found Sketchy Minds a few weeks ago when going through my old chatbox. Ivn left me a nice message on my cbox 2 years ago, which had a link back to his own blog. I remember spending hours going through his work and thoroughly enjoying it.

I was instantly awestruck by the simple beauty and sheer brilliance of his story telling.

Be sure to check out each recommended blog above.

If you do, please do let them know that they were featured here on AdamTam.com!

 

I would also love to know what blogs you read and continuously support.

Please let me know in the comments section below, my Facebook Page or @adamtam on twitter.

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[#3] Brawl in the Family Brawl in the Family (http://brawlinthefamily.keenspot.com) is another webcomic I just had to share. Brawl in the Family, or BITF, centers itself around popular Nintendo character Kirby, and his many adventures meeting other famous Nintendo characters such as Mario, Yoshi, Starfox, Zelda and many more. If you used to play a […]