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prior listings

 

• 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!
   
• 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...;~)) 
   
• 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...
   
• 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!
   
• 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...
   
• 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...;~)) 
   
• 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). 
   
• 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!