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