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prior listings

 

• ShutterBug - Nilesh 7/31/04 
  Description: a photoenthusiast's log
  Comments: For a quick, virtual visit to India, Nilesh seems an excellent tour guide.  It's a photoblog and in many of the entries, he tells you a bit about what you're viewing, sometimes providing external links to related news or information as well.  There's some beautiful panoramas and interesting feature series plus plenty of colorful nature shots in the archives.  And Nilesh has a nicely designed weblog too...  [DWT < kenliu@del.icio.us]
   
• Lomopix Today 7/29/04 
  Description: analog images, taken with old fashioned equipment
  Comments: Narrow streets in the afternoon sun in an old town.  A chapel at the top of a mountain in beautiful skies.  Can someone please tell me why I like shots like this so much?  And the most recent is an amazing blue back door of a very old house – love it!  Today's pick is Christoph's second site created in January to house his analog stuff – "old fashioned equiment like the Lomo LC-A, a russion FED 5, a chinese Seagull 205 and a Canon AV1."  His first site, about a year older, is where he showcases his digital side – I think both sites are excellent...  [no traces < JiMagery]
   
• Sticker Switch 7/28/04 
  Description: the international sticker exchange – further the possibilities for graffiti sticker art by working together
  Comments: "Send us stickers, get stickers back."  That's the concept behind the site and its galleries house almost 2,000 scans of real graffiti sticker art from 4 continents.  If you make stickers yourself, here's a perfect opportunity to spread 'em around a bit, while getting other artists' works in return – the more you send, the more you get back.  Today's pick is for the content 'cause coolstop just loves street art...  [andym@del.icio.us]
   
• the Degree Confluence Project 7/27/04 
  Description: an organized sampling of the world in pictures and stories
  Comments: A big thanks to Lonita for originally bringing this site to my attention – man, am I late in sharing it!  "There is a confluence within 49 miles (79 km) of you if you're on the surface of Earth."  Rwanda is such a small country that it only has one degree confluence, which is defined as "the exact spot where an integer degree of latitude and an integer degree of longitude meet."  Today's pick is growing database of over 37,000 photos and the stories of over 5,000 people (or should I say explorers) who visited over 3,000 confluences in 153 different countries – whew!  Massive project.  The information page is most helpful – enjoy...
   
• Smolik Attitude 7/26/04 
  Description: interactive music video (Flash)
  Comments: I haven't seen the word Webeo before, so I'm assuming that Dawid coined it.  It's a word for interactive music video and Dawid's features the song Attitude by Smolik and a character named Rosa Von Braun from a "forthcoming interactive project."  The interactive part is that you can view various sequences of the work in "non-linear order" and also learn more about Rosa using your mouse.  Or you can just sit back and watch the whole thing, start-to-finish.  Smooth music and moving visual goodness...  [robocore.]
   
• Nasosov...A(r)t 7/24/04 
  Description: Those are my paintings.
  Comments: 65 paintings, all acrylic on paper and done in 2003.  Indescribable, except that 6, mostly woman, are almost normal looking humans.  Almost.  The rest?  Amazing imagination – just call him Nasosov and just call it A(r)t... sebism@del.icio.us/]
   
• ::nineseventeenkay 7/23/04 
  Description: photo and design archives
  Comments: "...my genetics hold a virus so complete in its terrorism i can't move.."  Words and moving images, circa 1999 – Tom-Foolery on the creative side – "her shoulders and her hips" driving the text in fig2.  Move up to yesterday's output.  A series of 7 pieces form Everything, cool typographic art, accompanied on the left by 4 photos that will make you want to keep exploring.  Scroll down slowly 'cause July's been a supervisual month, and the archives – both photo and design – are even better.  Inspired by music and fast cars, among other things, it's energetic visual art...  [overshadowed (cs) < thePeaSoupFiasco (cs)]
   
• etsy.com 7/22/04 
  Description: a photo journal
  Comments: The most recent shot is up on a roof somewhere and something about the old-fashioned TV antenna and threateningly gray sky intrigues me.  I decide to go back the very first set and what hits me (#8) is a combination of texture and color, a wall apparently under construction but fortunately captured by Robert's lens before it undergoes whatever transformation is in progress.  A jump to the middle brings more interesting walls, a subway tunnel, a cute kitty, and several dark spaces.  The photos are large and I like the navigation scheme.  And this composition is wonderful, thank you...  [Satan's Laundromat]
   
• anti:freeze 7/21/04 
  Description: a place to explore, escape, and discover
  Comments: "I wander the Portland streets, but my heels and toes do not touch the same sidewalk as you. I am lost, searching for a way to make your absence look back at me, with a gaze so heartbreaking it's worth it."  I've spent the last 30 minutes thinking about Karrie's fascination with honey.  Except for a rare form that comes from the tupelo gum tree, honey crystallizes around an object immersed in it, in a sense preserving the object like a fossil.  But with heat, a crystal will revert back to the syrupy form it came from, "taken back to its potential" or going back in time.  Considering the context in which it's all described, I become fascinated too.  It's all in the words – the magic of creative writing.  Chalk another point up for the power of personal expression... 
   
• ourcommon 7/20/04 
  Description: graphic design - illustration - photography - short film
  Comments: A beautiful instrumental and kites flying high amidst the clouds over Venice Beach in one of Peter's black & white short films.  In another, dancing children in the streets of Cairo.  Besides 4 Quicktime movies, there's also a number of series of photographs and illustrations plus a quick & dirty design portfolio.  Peter calls it the new york city edition and his creative work is great...  [k10k #]
   
• typoGenerator 7/19/04 
  Description: a random generator for typoPosters
  Comments: How exciting – possibly the coolest generator you've seen on the web.  Done this summer as a student project, the site creates typoPosters.  You supply the text and it searches Google for images and then combines them with a little typography, applying randomly chosen effects to each element.  Wait a few moments and you get a unique visual work and if it's not as wonderful as expected, just try again and choose which components of the image you want to keep.  There may be a law against having this much fun on a Monday morning – at least for me, it was that enjoyable.  Bear in mind that generated works may contain images subject to copyright, so please read the site's FAQ before using them.  And if you like a generated image, you can add it to the gallery, which already has almost 900 typoPosters.  Ingenious, ladyK!  [dekay@del.icio.us]
   
• enchanted ceiling 7/18/04 
  Description: see and share photos of the air above the earth
  Comments: On the way back home late yesterday, we saw an amazing sky as the sun set behind a wall of heavy clouds with small cracks and limited openings letting in the glow.  I was really ticked I didn't have my camera with me as I usually do.  You gotta admit the sky is a wonderful photo subject.  So here's a site dedicated to that enchanted ceiling above us, a community of enthusiasts and their photos – "a menagerie of skies collected by you and your internet neighbors."  Excellent!  [DWT < arianna@del.icio.us]
   
• hambot.com 7/16/04 
  Description: biomechanical transgenic nanotechological artwork (Flash)
  Comments: Just imagine!  If you had a couchbot, you could "perform daily tasks without having to leave the convenience and comfort of your couch" while you make some moolah with your very own advertiseplant.  Peter's inventions are just one vehicle for his cool illustration skills.  There's also nanoworld, a work in progress where bots are propagating, plus sections of silkscreens and sketches.  And I wouldn't wanna forget to mention the robo-generator and Mac icons – it's a colorful and fun Friday... ;~))  [upwardlink]
   
• images until the end of the world 7/15/04 
  Description: suncandy images and thoughts (Flash)
  Comments: Though shopping carts may seem an unlikely photo subject, Rick's been shooting them this month and some of the shots are cool, especially when there's a beautiful purplish night sky, a field of green, or deep dark surroundings.  The site launched on 01/01/01 and I'll assume the end of the world will come way beyond 2012, the last year on the interface.  What I really like (besides Rick's great photos) is that you can view archived months as slideshows – just choose your speed, sit back, and enjoy...  [Newstoday®]
   
• Ultraweaver.com 7/14/04 
  Description: dedicated to showing how to get the most out of creating great graphics with Macromedia Fireworks
  Comments: "I only want to give back what was given to me when I started working with these tools."  Joey, a self-taught web designer whose tools of choice include Dreamweaver and Fireworks, provides over a dozen useful tutorials including 4 videos (via Flash).  There's also a big section of downloadable works produced by other Fireworks enthusiasts.  If you use these tools and want to learn more about creating layouts with them, Joey's 13-page tutorial (at macromedia.com) is sure to help...
   
• Untitled Name 7/12/04 
  Description: a New York City photo record of filth, glamour, decay and disease (love, detritus, nausea, and expression)
  Comments: "Windows. Not smashed. Yet."  Like Down By The River, each post is a series of captioned photos – interesting narratives with excellent photography.  New York City.  Subway sleepers.  Debris.  Graffiti.  You get the idea...;~))  [Satan's Laundromat]
   
• The Japanese Garden 7/11/04 
  Description: the Bowdoin College web site on Japanese gardens (Flash/Quicktime)
  Comments: As the saying goes, now for something entirely different.  And when I'm on the prowl for something uniquely cool, a trip to the fishbucket usually does the trick (thanks Anne).  From a professor at a college in Maine comes this thorough resource on Japanese Gardens "designed to provide the visitor with an opportunity to visit each garden, to move through or around it, to experience it through the medium of high-quality color images, and to learn something of its history."  Clifton Olds is the educator behind the site who shares a wealth of photos and also wrote all the texts.  Nice use of Quicktime for "Quick tours" of the various gardens – the site's design, layout, and graphics are excellent.  Educationally cool...
   
• Momentary Awe 7/10/04 
  Description: It's all about traveling and photography... (Flash)
  Comments: Just a few days ago, Catalin consolidated a bunch of "mini travel sites" into one.  From Manama, Bahrain, today's pick features photos from Cyprus, Singapore, Martinique, and Egypt (plus 8 more locales).  A big randomized image serves as a backdrop to the gallery of photos, presented via Flash – the map overlay's a nice touch.  Great photos – hundreds of 'em...;~))
   
• wholewheattoast.com 7/8/04 
  Description: drawings and photos plus blog/journal of an artist known as boxx...
  Comments: Go to a restaurant with Boxx and you can be sure he'll draw on the placemats.  A baseball cap could be a canvas too.  Don't let the words image dump fool you either 'cause there's absolutely no trash.  But there is art – drawings, photos, and comics plus a bunch of sketchbooks – and an interesting blog too (from within the local art scene)...  [Design Radar]
   
• looptracks 7/6/04 
  Description: an interactive music video (Flash)
  Comments: "Many websites use interactivity as a means of accessing non-interactive content.  In this website the interactivity is the content."  Click.  Drag.  Explore.  Sights & Sounds.  Crank it up baby!  "This process is designed to be fun."  Sure is...;~))  [k10k #]
   
• a visual notebook 7/5/04 
  Description: photography by michael singer
  Comments: Shadows give a photo "so much more depth," says Jon in the comments.  Sometimes it's the colors in a picture that accomplish the same thing, in my opinion.  And whatever this is, I love the detail.  That's 3 of almost 500 striking pics – and a nice site design too...  [moments . daily]
   
• subterrain 7/4/04 
  Description: experimental visual exploration (Flash)
  Comments: Martin calls "Brooklyn01" (found via SHIFT|Japan) a project to explore the borough as an interactive streetscape.  Navigation to his photos is by neighborhood maps, each including stills, 360 views, and drive by movies, marked in the corresponding grids.  The user can also filter the view to include only day or night shots.  Great interface and photos!  There's two other visual projects too – "Subway" and its 9-in-1 presentation of video excerpts from "Sub'terrain" is a cool bonus...
   
• snowcat 7/3/04 
  Description: illustration and animation from Korea
  Comments: Something light and minimal today – and though most of the text is Korean, the illustrations in the snowcat diary and the cartoon section (which includes some Flash animations) are fun to browse.  There's also icons to download, some cool photos, plus something to look forward to – an ecard section is in the works...
   
• Myopic.us 7/2/04 
  Description: images from an itinerant photographer
  Comments: I knew I'd be back to Red's links soon (see cs review) – that's where I found today's pick.  There's something eerie about a nuclear reactor amidst trees and a blue sky.  And Michael, a paramedic in Florida, apparently has his camera with him at all times, occasionally catching an extraordinary fire scene.  Sometimes, it's people he shoots, like Savannah.  And I love this shot, captured in NYC.  All-in-all, interesting photos documenting days in his life and a clean, simple, non-distracting site design...
   
• Interactive Chaos 7/1/04 
  Description: games and flash stuff
  Comments: "Global HQ" is an amazing panorama of the city.  Other flash stuff includes a odd machine that teaches you the color red means stop.  But if you like interactive flash games, today's pick just might satisfy.  Fight off some aliens or pills or just pocket some balls if you like.  But whatever you do, stay away from those atomic chickens 'cause they might drive ya batty...;~))   [Newstoday®]