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prior listings

 

• chris.bur.st 5/31/07 
  Description: photography of Chris Rich, an artistically-challenged, pessimistic musician who enjoys photography in his spare time
  Comments: When young Australian Chris Rich isn't busy with his music studies, he enjoys taking pictures – some great People, Cars, and Urban photos (among other things) in the archive...  [VFXY dailymosaic]
   
• Underspray 5/30/07 
  Description: artist interviews and gallery
  Comments: "Underspray is the brainchild of Mr.Burrows, a self styled internet playboy, art connoisseur and adrenaline junkie, enter his playground wide eyed in wonderment and enjoy your stay." He refers to the featured artists as seeds – "Each artist interviewed is asked to nominate 1 or 2 others to be interviewed. And so it grows." And it's grown considerably since in launched last December – interesting interviews and corresponding galleries of artists' works...  [reminded by Scene 360]
   
• eldiego.it 5/29/07 
  Description: illustration, design, and photography (Flash)
  Comments: El Diego, sometimes known as eldi-ego, showcases his graphic works and photography. His sketches are fascinating, like parco giochi (play park) and passioni (passions) – I love the colors in the latter work. The Web.2D section contains both static elaborations and some animated works. And the smaller section of photos includes pics called skysea and winch that triggered some nice memories for me. Ispirazione saporita...
   
• The Whitezone 5/28/07 
  Description: the lab of the weblog 'Central Scrutinizer'
  Comments: Marco, who happens to have another site previously reviewed here, says The Whitezone exists to "collect the experiments made" in his Central Scrutinizer weblog. Besides some amusing material and cool scripting experiments, both the lab and the blog (just like that other site) sport really cool designs – impressive!
   
• moodaholic 5/27/07 
  Description: photography from Denmark by Kenny Weng
  Comments: "What you see: Is almost what you get." Kenny hopes something special will come from his post-processing efforts. Whether the subject is an old car, an eerie sky, or something more human, I've gotta say there's, indeed, something special about this collection of images...
   
• Just Between Us 5/26/07 
  Description: digital work presented by students of the 2007 graduating class of York University/Sheridan College Program in Design (Flash)
  Comments: From the Design program at York/Sheridan, it's the online version of the 2007 Grad Show.

  I'm a designer & I buy books for the cover.
  I'm a designer & I eat challenges for breakfast.
  I'm a designer & it shows.

  Great digital works from over 4 dozen young talents and a cool interface too – yes, it shows!  [surfstation]
   
• Erosie 5/25/07 
  Description: streetart and illustration (Flash)
  Comments: "I went to artschool and all I make now is this lousy sticker..." Street artist Erosie says he'll "do anything to get street-credibility" but stickers are just part of his thing. There's a big section of outstanding illustrations and it seems he's also a member of the Bling Bling Bike Gang, who like to paint bicycle shadows on walls and have a few stickers of their own – cool streetart with a fun attitude...;~))  [reclaim your city.net]
   
• The Vintage Mac Museum 5/24/07 
  Description: vintage Mac screenshots and simulations
  Comments: If you're into old computers and programs, particularly in the realm of the Mac, you'll fall in love with the site with its true black & white, 1-bit graphics. Today's pick is a museum of screenshots (and some simulations) of the oldest of applications running on vintage Macs starting way back with System 1, circa 1984 – just imagine running with only 400k total disk space! I gotta pull my old AT outta the closet one of these days...;~)) 
   
• Bryan Schutmaat 5/23/07 
  Description: photographs by Bryan Schutmaat
  Comments: Today's pick features Bryan Schutmaat's work with the camera. I'm curious to see what's coming soon in Motor Chronicles, based on the single photo appearing in that series for now. His portraits of Old Romans are astonishing (to me, anyway). But there's more than a dozen shots among the assorted singles in the Archives that I would have to say I enjoyed the most – beautiful photographs!  [The Style Press]
   
• wasted photos 5/22/07 
  Description: photoblog
  Comments: "The photoblogging is like an addicting drug. There are the dizzying highs ... and the incredible lows. One minute you're the photographer of the day with 1000 fans all screaming your name... the next you're all alone with nay a single comment looking through your archives wondering where you went wrong and how you can ever get that high again." As I couldn't possibly add anything nearly as thought-provoking as what the guy behind the site said, I'll just note that there are some great photos here along with interesting personal commentary...  [Photoblogs.org]
   
• Hannes Caspar Photography 5/21/07 
  Description: people and others (Flash)
  Comments: Selected primarily for its content, today's pick features the photography of Hannes Caspar in 2 categories. On one side of the hand, a link leads to a collection of down-to-earth portraits of very real people – some extraordinary faces. And on the others side, an assortment of things, some abstract – like the amazing color of frisch gepresst and perfect balance of das ziel ist der weg – freshly pressed and the goal is that way...;~)) 
   
• Liliana Farber 5/20/07 
  Description: an artist exploring the subject matter of the self-portrait across different technologies (Flash)
  Comments: "I give myself into these works and these are filled with great honesty and sensibility. The result becomes part of myself; recognizable, in the viewers eye, as human intimacy." Uruguayan artist Liliana Farber describes Las habitantes as a narrative of her "portrait beginnings; between games, truths and lies." Like most of her art, it's an exploration of the self-portrait (and of self). Exposing personal emotions like her "solitude and anxiety" and dealing with being "vulnerable and aggressive" are just a few of the things Liliana portrays through her amazing (and bluntly honest) art. An experience...
   
• Samuele Silva >> PhotoBlog 5/19/07 
  Description: a person, a moment, a place, a gesture
  Comments: From Imperia, Italy, Samuele Silva says he's continually searching for "the perfect photo" in the hopes the viewer will "observe and see the truth." Seen through Samuele's sensors, the truth "can be one person, a moment, a place, a gesture." Observe and enjoy...  [VFXY dailymosaic]
   
• Barroga Obscura 5/18/07 
  Description: a 'commemorative sheet' of photos, stories, and found objects (Flash)
  Comments: "What do you do when you find yourself in Hong Kong–avoid the tourist spots and shopping areas and hit the back roads." The story accompanies a photo of a treasure found in a cemetery along with "a defective Shenzhen Metro single journey ticket." Today's pick is a collection of odd photographs (or plates), each with its own envelope inviting you, the curator, to reveal its stories and found objects "for your personal safekeeping." What a unique creative space!
   
• T. Schwab | Photography 5/17/07 
  Description: showcase of photographs
  Comments: A simple site presenting a small collection of square photographs taken by T. Schwab in Berlin, it includes stark portraits, beautiful landscapes, critters, and other things. The last pic, #22, is most inspiring! 
   
• My Site™ 5/16/07 
  Description: video works of Jared Eberhardt
  Comments: "This is: My Website." A little rough and you'll need the [back] button to return to the main page, but the content is most entertaining – 3 short films by Jared Berhardt, hailing from Long Beach, California. 2 of the works are cool animated music videos and the other, which happens to be my fave, is That Titles, a "special blend" of green typeforms, people, action skaters, and other living things...;~))
   
• HB's Photo Stream 5/15/07 
  Description: a photo project by Kostadin Hristov
  Comments: Besides 5 streams of photos, some rather spectacular (in my opinion), I really like the site design/layout. Each photo stream is browsable via slices of the contained images (interesting compared to using thumbnails) and each expanded slice is also available at x2 zoom along with details. And I really enjoyed Stream 01.people...;~))
   
• Peter Stanick 5/14/07 
  Description: paintings and digital art (Flash)
  Comments: Return of Silent Radio, Peter Stanick's currently featured online exhibition, is a collage in motion unlike anything I've seen. It's like watching culture (or maybe more accurately, pop culture) unfold before your eyes. There's Howdy Doody, Speedy the Alka-Seltzer guy, Clark Kent, cows, surfer trunks, and assorted clip-art-like characters, not to mention an assortment of scantily-clad bombshells, tastefully done. The symbols keep coming at you and eventually, you'll close that window and find a menu waiting for you on the main page. On to Do Not Disturb, apparently inspired by South Beach and New York City. And if you're patient enough to keep clicking through, you'll find Stanick's Magic Art Reproducer and deeper towards the end, his Free Art Talent Test. A total gas, through and through...
   
• Vlad Bîrdu 5/13/07 
  Description: photography
  Comments: "I'm not moving. Standing here, trying to stop the world, trying to switch my disfuntional identity off. Reset and diving eyes closed, hoping i'll never see the ground." That's part of the caption accompanying Vlad's Disfunctional identity, one of many photographs he categorizes as Imagology. Here's another – exceptionally artistic photography from somewhere in Romania...
   
• Floyd Photography 5/12/07 
  Description: photography of Gilles AbenhaÏm (Flash)
  Comments: Besides great series of photos from New York, Tel-Aviv, and Miami (for starters), I like the interface, which scales with the window when resized – maximize and enjoy...  [Design Licks]
   
• No Curves 5/11/07 
  Description: adhesive tape art
  Comments: "No curves here, no sweet roundness." Armed with rolls of color adhesive tape, nocurves says "we believe in angles and straight lines." He performs his odd art thing in and around Milan and Barcelona with some amazing resulting works, though sometimes short-lived. An interesting twist on street art...  [Design(Radar]
   
• Doffdog 5/10/07 
  Description: illustrations by Alexey Potapov (Flash)
  Comments: Watch the curious flying pooch as you wait for the site to load, 'cause he's certainly watching your every move. Cute. From the port city of Odessa, Ukraine, comes Doffdog and his showcase of illustrations – big style and a fun interface. See his blog for even more visual goodies. I love the work he calls Noise. Yo!  [Mowsnet]
   
• Tom 7 5/9/07 
  Description: Tom Murphy VII welcomes you to the internet.
  Comments: Coming from a long line of Tom Murphys (not to mention "the bajillions of other Tom Murphys" in the world, especially in Pittsburgh), this particular Tom Murphy goes by the name of "Tom 7," brilliantly cutting through the ambiguity. Today's pick is the serious web page of Tom 7, a graduate student involved in programming languages research at CMU, but his academic papers, as interesting as they may be to some of you, have absolutely nothing to do with my featuring his site. I'd rather call your attention to his other important endeavors like the art movement he started and one of its key projects, or an innovative invention, for which he is solely responsible. "I love to make things," says Tom 7. Indeed...;~))  [unalog]
   
• Milk Bar 5/8/07 
  Description: a show-case for those artists who found in photography the way to express their art (Flash)
  Comments: Its 3rd issue includes series of distinctive photographs from 7 creative contributors not featured in previous issues. "Every day, it may be that these images are the reflection of a state which is not mine, but that of one depressed chronic to which one would have entrusted a camera." So says Jean-Claude Delalande, one of the featured photographers, whose photo subjects each "share a small moment of loneliness..." Another photographer, Giacomo Brunelli, presents a series of 20 images intended "to describe shared experience between animals and humans in the natural environment" – black & white visual magic! Just small tastes of what you'll find down at the milk bar...
   
• Orca! 5/7/07 
  Description: downloadable magazine featuring photography, artworks, and general graphics (.pdf format)
  Comments: You don't need to be a photographer or professional graphic designer. If you want to participate, you just have to send us your image and we will gladly include it..." This brand new PDF magazine went with portrait as the theme for issue 0 – 74 pages of tasty visual works from dozens of creative contributors. If you're interested, the next issue (together) has a May 31st submission deadline – "we don't judge your work..."  [Design(Radar]
   
• foto.jens hauspurg 5/6/07 
  Description: photography by Jens Hauspurg (Flash)
  Comments: The odd Flash interface leads to over a dozen series of photos, some with corresponding Konzept documents in .pdf format. Textual content is mostly in German but Jens' photographic works are outstanding on their own. I particularly liked the to-day and ...bei Weimar series and the experimental Epson shot (for which the concept is also explained in English). 
   
• ilustre! 5/5/07 
  Description: 'pdf poster magazine' featuring works by students and professors of the visual arts
  Comments: From the College of Visual Arts at UFG in Brazil comes the first issue of this "compilation of posters" and other images created by students and professors. If you're looking for fresh and exciting art/design inspiration, it's definitely worth the download (.pdf format). The 29-page magazine is available both in screen resolution (a small, quick download) and higher resolution suitable for printing (a much bigger file). In either case, the inaugural issue is full of wonderfully creative visual works...  [Uailab]
   
• VFXY Photos 5/4/07 
  Description: browsing and collecting photoblogs and images, made easy
  Comments: This one's a bit overdue. It's a site I visit several times daily, having found a number of excellent photoblogs there. A place to browse the latest shots from hundreds of photographers and to collect one's favorite photoblogs and images, it keeps getting better and better in terms of functionality and new features, including buzz, the wonderful dailymosaic, and its latest offering, a mobile version. Love it!
   
• tlbox 5/3/07 
  Description: tools for programmers and web designers
  Comments: "A lot of sites have been promoting pages for web developers, but none of them have asked what people are actually using to do good work. This site hopes to answer that question..." A nice, straightforward resource, today's pick provides pointers to tools for both programmers and web designers, "best sites first." Build your own tool box from the listed resources. And a little bonus treat – you might also enjoy the site designer's ambient classical music – double cool... 
   
• time in a frame 5/2/07 
  Description: photoblog of Alex Spineanu
  Comments: There were relics on the main page the first time I encountered the site, yet another outstanding photoblog from Romania. That shot by Alex Spineanu is still fixed in my mind. Another great black & white shot – cyclist at sunset. Other recently found photographers from Romania include George Hreniuc (who linked to Spineanu) and Voicu Bojan. Distra...;~))
   
• This is Wanted 5/1/07 
  Description: something coming soon (Flash)
  Comments: I'm not sure what it is that's coming, but it's coming soon – in just a matter of days according to the countdown clock. By all the links I've seen to it from various sites in the design community, I've got a feeling this little piece of viral marketing is working. Its combination of spoken words and bold type in motion against an odd soundscape has impact. What's coming may or may not be commercial – don't know. But it'll get your attention, this site that, for now, is only a most unique Flash intro (which, by the way, you can download). And whatever it is that's coming, you can be sure if you believe the persuasive message, that it's definitely something wanted! The suspense is killin' me...;~))