If tumblr is a bellwether – and it may not be but it’s fun to speculate – then the sixties & seventies are back. In style, if not in substance. So many of tumblr’s weird little blogs, each of them a kind of eclectic personal bulletin board, feature this kind of rock and roll Hair: The Musical meets back-to-the-land handmade-house thing. More than a bulletin board, actually, since each one also exists as a sort of complete photo essay and a sustained non-verbal argument. In this case it’s an argument for a simpler yet groovier style of living, and you get a feeling there may actually be a politics behind the aesthetics. Thanks to the way tumblr makes it simple to re-post an image from someone else’s tumblr blog in your own tumblr stream, while providing you with a link back to theirs, each tumblr collection instantly leads you on to many others with a similar world view. I’m not sure how I first came upon cosmic_dust, possibly it was here, but it led to alaskaneyes and self_romance which led to endless numbers of strange little worlds. These images are a tiny sample from the superb cosmic_dust.

There is something so beautiful about the way photographs, images and objects are hung on the walls in traditional rooms in Greece. The objects have pride of place but there’s also something casual and not precious about the way they accumulate. The variety of frames is appealing, and so is the way shapshots are crowded into a single frame. Vintage family portraits in black and white are mixed with cheap colour prints, and somehow it looks artful. The first two photographs were taken on Rhodes; I’m not sure about the third. They were all taken by George Grigoriou, whose postcards of Greece often show interiors of houses and kafeneions (blog here). Other design features here are the pebbled floor and the tilted hanging of mirrors in the Rhodes cafe, below, and the practice of painting a sort of wainscot section of wall in cafes, to just above table height, as seen in the photo at bottom. But the best thing is the display of photos flanked by hundreds of plates in the Rhodes interior at top, and its enviable yellow built-in cabinet with dot detail.