True, Michael Stipe is no longer in REM, but he’s still artistically active—most publicly on his stimulating Tumblr page. It’s called “Confessions of a Michael Stipe” or, in Tumblr-speak, confessionsofamichaelstipe. If Tumblr’s archive module is to be believed, he’s been running it since January 2011, and he posts incredibly frequently—I would estimate well over 100 posts a month. Many of the pics he posts focus on high art or experimental art, but there’s plenty of music and movie imagery as well.

It’s decidedly NSFW—there are plenty of pictures of the beautiful male figure in all its glory—but it’s simply a very high-quality Tumblr. Prominently featured right now are original one-sheets of Fellini Satyricon and Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point (both from Stipe’s collection), Valentin Serov’s painting Portrait of the Italian Singer Angelo Masini, a Marianne Faithfull album cover, a photo of Brigitte Bardot, and a painting by Winston Chmielinski.

In the archives you can see patterns. In July 2012 he was posting about George Herriman’s Krazy Kat, in December 2012 he was all into Kate Moss. On August 5 he posted an amusing sequence consisting of several b/w images with the blue label “I DID THIS FIRST MICHAEL STIPE” superimposed over them.

In among the high-quality artsy-fartsy pics you’ll glean new bits of information about Stipe you may not have known before. For instance, you’ll see pics of

the first three records that i purchased, and with my own money (to boot)

deep purple “hush”  (na na na nahh na na nah, na na na na na nahh)

glen campbell ”galveston”  (hand written name, taken w/me to summer camp)

van morrison “brown-eyed girl”  (also my first 4”flexi/hip-pocket record)

In this video with Tumblr Storyboard, Stipe discusses the “confessional” side of his Tumblr as well as the sculptures he’s been working on for the last several years.

 
via Fluxtumblr

Previously on Dangerous Minds:
70s Michael Stipe in drag at ‘Rocky Horror’
Michael Stipe’s pipe!