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prior listings

 

• Peter Mitchell 4/30/03 
  Description: a personal art gallery (Flash)
  Comments: Fessing up.  I don't have a clue how to describe Peter's art.  It's got a collage style (to me, anyway) and the caricatures are phenomenal.  It's colorful and has real character (or should I say flavor?).  What else can I say?  Maybe, I'll get back to you on that, but for now, enjoy a few dozen pieces of original art presented via a smooth Flash interface...  [robocore.]
   
• [a] BLOW 4/27/03 
  Description: design > narushima > tokyo > japan
  Comments: Start with a random, tasty design cover, click and find yourself in ver5.  The "gallery" serves a "lineup" of previous covers and issues, and "special contents" has even more colorful covers done for other sites.  It's all visual, though words and typographic elements serve to enhance what meets your eye.  I like the dirty style and unique flavor of the works from Narushima, from somewhere deep in Tokyo...  [channel 67 < Retrolounge]
   
• Retrolounge 4/24/03 
  Description: bringing you the best of bygone eras - your source to find the coolest retro links on the web (Flash)
  Comments: "It's no novelty that many of today's creative works are strongly influenced by the masters of bygone eras."  Patrícia's admiration "of all things with a retro feeling" is conveyed in the concept and design.  Today's pick is an alternative portal, focused on providing "cool retro links" in a wide selection of categories.  From architecture to music, toys to fashion, and advertising to cars of the 50s, 60s, and 70s, Patrícia's big collection of pointers will serve your curiosity well...explore!  [emptydrome]
   
• colour-minded 4/23/03 
  Description: a selection of colourfull paintings... (Flash)
  Comments: Jurgen formed a most appropriate nickname with some characters from his real surname.  As a painter, he goes by the moniker of "BRANT."  He'll be graduating in June, having earned his second degree from College Sint-Lucas in Ghent, Belgium.  Visual arts and graphic design are his specialties and just a peek at his showcase of paintings will tell you he's one talented dude.  Great design and real art.  Take more than a peek and colour yourself inspired...
   
• nofont 4/20/03 
  Description: Experiments with language and communication. With typography and letterforms.
  Comments: "We need to get away from what has been to find new sources of inspiration and ideas. We need to interact within ourselves to be able to develop thoughts and ideas that are truly unique."  As a font designer, Andreas' experiments, or explorations into typography are quite interesting.  One of the experiments ("Urban communication") asks "Is there architecture in typography? Or more importantly: is there typography in architecture?"  Another experiment ("A typographic bounce") will make you say "Oooo..."  Andreas also offers a number of free fonts, but you'll have to contact him to get them.  I think today's pick is really about the inspiration if you happen to be wearing your designer's hat.  "Creativity shall burn out not fade away..."  [ILinkYou]
   
• Pontos.de.vista 4/18/03 
  Description: Group photography site, presenting differing views of the same subjects, as seen by each author.
  Comments: João, Sofia, and two guys named Paulo hardly knew each other until mutual interests in photography brought them together.  The concept for the site came as a result of their attending the Eastern Timor independence celebrations in Lisbon, as a group, to photograph the event.  Different points of view or vantage points come into play and each one's view of the same subject, or "light shed over that subject" is unique.  Available in Português, English, and Français, the site presents the group's differing perspectives, through both collective and individual exhibitions.  "Um local maravilhoso da fotografia!"
   
• fuzzygroove 4/17/03 
  Description: art : music : philosophy : activism ::: creative awareness
  Comments: The site's mission statement points out that "many people see the internet as nothing more than a point-and-click shopping mall" and reminds us that before "the media frenzy and internet business boom" came about, "people were using the internet to communicate in groups."  Well.  The boom led to burst (for now, anyway), but the web still remains in "the hands of the masses."  Creativity is alive and well.  Among the "inspirational dialectics" you'll encounter (besides the groovers' forum) are "giga beats, hi-fi multimedia, and latent imagery."  The site's navigation scheme is cool and the content, real stuff from real people...  [linkdup|unfiltered list]
   
• varshava.com 4/15/03 
  Description: a little web gallery presenting nice graphics, painters, and designers, plus linx and webscan
  Comments: For starters, Jan suggests you check out his "webscan."  It is what it seems.  "The idea is basically to scan myself, so i do it sometimes and publish here."  Amusing self-portraits, but the real attraction here is the "gallery" with its "profiles and works of artists from around the world."  Several dozen people are featured and it's outstanding.  The "linx" section has a number of site reviews and all text on the site is provided in both Polski and English.  "It's quite exciting you can do something and put it in the place where everybody could go and look at it."  Yes it is, Jan...   [eviltwin]
   
• eatpoo 4/14/03 
  Description: sketches and digital painting by roundeye
  Comments: Cheers and a big thank you to Aliotsy at TheThousand Dot Net for pointing to the site in his Linkathon feature.  I have to agree when he says "Ok, the name leaves something to be desired, but the illustrations are stunning."  There's over 50 of Roundeye's sketches and digital paintings in the gallery and most of them are simply breathtaking.  Rich in color and emotive expression.  Add an active forum with over 5,000 members and a fair amount of submitted images, plus periodic contests (recognizing "creativity, skill, and humor") that bring in even more tasty visuals from others, and we're off to an artsy day that definitely does not... err... forgive me... eat poo.
   
• typorex 4/13/03 
  Description: If you like working or fooling around with type, this is your place.
  Comments: Guillermo is putting a call out there for graphic designers to take their medicine.  One pill per day is the recommended dosage and there's a warning to "use with moderation."  In this case, the pills are artworks that must contain "at least one character" of typography, submitted by designers "designing for visual pleasure."  Take your medicine and you'll increase the odds for "your life to become more beautiful."  You get the picture...  [Newstoday®]
   
• Lackadaisical 4/12/03 
  Description: life in photos
  Comments: The third year, which actually started last December for today's pick, is organinzed into monthly series.  The second year, in contrast, is a collection of 22 different sets based on locale or theme.  Again different, the first year appears to more a daily photo diary.  Add it up and you have an enormous number of photos going back to December, 2000, from a guy named Lucas in Brooklyn who apparently doesn't leave home without a camera.  His work ranges from an abstract, blurry style, on one hand, to crystal-clarity on the other.  I like his captures of 9/11 and some of the shots he's taken without leaving home.  And don't miss the bonus link to Kerry's stuff in the lower right corner, wink, wink, nudge, nudge...  [deluxe Inc.]
   
• SnakPak Dot Info 4/11/03 
  Description: a developing and leap-frogging sketchbook of ideas
  Comments: So.  What were they thinking when they created the .info top-level domain?  There's Germany.info, the home page of the German Embassy in Washington, which bills itself as "Your German Information Source."  Seems to demonstrate an appropriate usage of the new suffix.  Today's pick is also a .info site.  It has all kinds of content, but it seems to be one guy's little creative playground and I'm not sure where the "info" comes in.  Then again, I may visit it one day and see that it's become an ecommerce site, selling little packets of vitamins and supplements and then it'll all make sense.  Silly?  Me?  I guess.  "What's So Funny About Peace, Love, and Information?"  You can't pin that one on me.  Those were Jim's words, not mine.  He's the guy behind today's pick, an odd assortment of amusements that I'll leave to you to explore.  Me?  I like the army of pink flamingoes myself.  Jim also once said, "Great Project (yours, I mean)!"  Exactly.  Right back at ya, Jim...
   
• muted.com 4/10/03 
  Description: a personal webspace [the line between hobby and mental illness]
  Comments: Jennifer just redesigned her site on the 6th and I think it's absolutely balanced and beautiful.  Great style.  It's a personal site, deep in content (love the "galleries"), that honestly conveys her personality, both visually and verbally.  Though Jennifer and I may not see eye-to-eye on some issues, I have enormous respect for her sense of conviction and how intelligently she expresses her points of view.  "I suppose everyone is entitled to their opinion, and I don't mind taking my turn."  In a word, I'd say her site is engaging, but I wouldn't want to leave out two other important words about the person behind it – creative and sincere...
   
• extrajetzt® composer 4/9/03 
  Description: the application with the Bananabow
  Comments: This cool Flash application, described as being "like a drum computer with a synced-up synthesizer" is still a work that's "growing with time."  Andre and David are working "to get more functions running" and I'm sure the 3 betatesters are kept busy at the moment.  When they add the "save" feature, allowing users to share their tracks with others, that'll be a major step.  Right now, there's a library of samples one can incorporate into their own tracks and the various devices that make up the interface are quite impressive.  Seeing they already have a packaging design and some trademarks in place (as a joke, perhaps), I'm not sure what the application is destined to become beyond an obvious promotional vehicle for Andre and David's work, but I'm jumping on it today because it's an interesting development project in progress that's a gas to play with, too... 
   
• slant 4/8/03 
  Description: bimonthly online magazine publishing essays, memoirs, reviews, interviews, poems, and fiction
  Comments: Issue 5 features an essay about The Two Towers, a review of Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self (along with a discussion of Pepys's diary), and a writer's account of their "First Summer in Brooklyn."  There's also an interview with a famous food writer plus featured poetry.  If you're a writer, you may be interested in the call for submissions for the "Whereabouts" column ("writers write about home"). The editors are "always on the lookout for good cover art," too.  Pleasing design + excellent content = enjoy!   [deliberatelyburied]
   
• upwardlink 4/7/03 
  Description: a design portal about webdesign and virtual art in general
  Comments: There's a small pop-up when you hit the main page, but it's not commercial advertising.  It's a timely message and pointer to a very well done Quicktime movie (whether you agree with its point, as I do, or not).  I've found a few good sites at this design portal recently.  Each time I visit, I'm pleasantly sidetracked into exploring new things.  Nice visuals in the daily news plus a growing database of great websites keep me coming back and the wallpapers and user-submitted, randomly-served pictures and swfs are big bonuses.  Respect to Cam, Jul, Supa, Tang for their work on the site and a big meeeeeeeeeeow to Mika, obviously the inspiration behind the cute, cuddly logo...
   
• bp.underground.hu 4/6/03 
  Description: a picture diary
  Comments: It started back in January, 2001, and features daily photos from Barcelona to Budapest, with few gaps in the calendar.  Looks like Budapest is home, where Eszpee was for most of 2001, before spending the next year in Spain, returning early this year.  The wonderful picture trail not only tells that story, but also opens windows to people and cultures far from here, captured through one person's perspective.  Damn!  I think that's why I like photo sites (like this one) so much.  They provide an inside view.  "This site is a picture diary. No purpose, just documenting, experimenting, having fun. As long as I enjoy. That's all."  And I enjoy, too... linkdup|unfiltered list]
   
• RR 4/5/03 
  Description: a collection of web projects
  Comments: At first, I thought the single paged [crying] site with the very, very long name was just an external link.  Then I viewed the source and found Rafael's name above the cool ascii artsy teardrops, realizing it's his own work.  Cool...  Then I find another site with an even longer name.  It's an interactive, self-generating art kinda thing with more ascii style in the source.  More exploration takes me to the proverbial "pull my finger" and a cloud-zapping toy and I realize that my slow morning of trying to find something for the faithful few that actually frequent this joint on a Saturday has finally paid off.  [Links found while diving in the soup have resulted in cool and the chain remains unbroken...
   
• Exposur3 4/4/03 
  Description: photography by chrys, from seattle to stuttgart
  Comments: Chrys calls it "a place to exercise creativity."  Though it currently focuses on photography, there's other art forms that interest Chrys and the site is also intended as a means to "to gain further knowledge and insight" into other areas.  Four different cameras and a love for travel show up in the "foto galerie" which currently houses over 60 shots with a "collections" section coming soon.  There's a "writtenword" section as you enter the site with plenty of visual content as well.  Nice design/implementation of movabletype, and better yet, great photos...  [photoblogs.org]
   
• Brad Sucks 4/3/03 
  Description: a one man band with no fans
  Comments: "You can't exactly steal what I'm giving away for free.  If the worst case scenario is becoming a well-heard musician who never gets paid, I can live with that."  Brad's an independent songwriter/musician who's made at least 8 of his original tracks available for free download with "no copyright of any form."  He's following the lead of a number of well-known musicians by using the Internet to "reach people directly and bypass a lot of the inherent awfulness of the record industry." Letting people download, listen to, and share one's music just might be the key to becoming a working musician in "the post-Napster universe."  But whether it works for Brad or not, it seems obvious to me that his enjoyment of music is really what's driving him.  By the way, after listening to some of Brad's originals and reading some of his posts, I'm here to tell you he definitely does not suck...  [scottandrew.com]
   
• winnerssociety 4/2/03 
  Description: happiness - a time of better (Flash)
  Comments: It took quite a while, but I finally made it to the "thank you" page of the seemingly endless volley of visual goodness and positive thoughts.  "Join us for a few moments of success and merriment - we have raised the bar... life can be good."  It seems Mr. Palpa is on a mission to help make things better, particularly when it comes to attitude.  "Mutual understanding goes great lengths" says the guy behind the "association of very intelligent people" with the name that "means peace."  Follow the subtly floating leaf and keep moving forward through his outstanding visual works and snippits of thought.  "Believe.  Risk.  Live."  In the end, you'll feel inspired on several levels and, if you're lucky, you'll even feel refreshed.  No, Palpa.  Thank you! 
   
• Fotolog.net 4/1/03 
  Description: a place to share your latest, greatest photo
  Comments: When I looked about an hour ago, there were already 225 new photos submitted today.  It's now up to 251.  These numbers aren't surprising when you consider the site has over 2,500 participating "Fotologgers" and already stores over 42,000 photos.  It costs nothing to create your own log and thanks to the long list of "patrons" who donate towards the site's monthly expenses, the three guys who run the thing will hopefully be able "to keep it that way."  The design is clean and simple, but easy navigability and a powerful backend deliver!  Kudos to Spike for the coding, Scott for the idea and Adam, the product guy, for his "obsessed" involvement.  The three guys "who do this in their spare time because they enjoy it" have done an awesome job of building a fun community.  If you like browsing through everyday photos and want to see new pics everyday, today's pick is perfect for you.  And if you need a place to share your best shots, ditto...