JUNE QUOTOGRAPHS | So That’s What They’re Called

The momen­tum on my daily quote blog, Obser­va­tion Paper, is start­ing to pick up. Of the 29 visu­als this month, 24 had at least one note (either a like or reblog on Tum­blr). Three had 12 notes:

“The inter­net tends to make smart peo­ple smarter and dumb peo­ple dumber.” ~ Ben Cas­nocha

“Read all the time… read as a mat­ter of prin­ci­ple, as a mat­ter of self-respect.  Read as a nour­ish­ing sta­ple of life.” ~ David McCul­lough, Jr.

“Every­one must leave some­thing behind when he dies, my grand­fa­ther said. A child or a book or a paint­ing or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a gar­den planted. Some­thing your hand touched some way so your soul has some­where to go when you die, and when peo­ple look at that tree or that flower you planted, you’re there.” ~ Ray Brad­bury, Fahren­heit 451

Michael Schechter will tell you the best cre­ation of the month is the Risk quote from Seth Godin, but my favorite is the inter­nal debate com­ment from Yuvi Zalkow. It’s not the most visu­ally stun­ning, but I like the sim­ple illus­tra­tion of con­flicted voices.

And the clear high­light of the month was com­ing up with the tag “Quo­to­graph” for these visual quotes. After quick searches on Twit­ter and Google, I found that we’re not the first ones to use that term, but I want to thank Michael Schechter and Erin Feld­man for tweet­storm­ing with me to come up with that name.