ART & DESIGN
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http://www.warhol.org/warhol
Pittsburgh's Andy Warhol Museum hasn't put all the popauteur's works online, but you can virtually tour its physicalgallery for a contents listing. You can even order the book,postcard set and t-shirt to prove you've visited.
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http://www.lh.com/walrus/
The main sections of Mike Dashow's superbly named digital artsite are Gallery 1 and Gallery 2. They contain a collection ofhis own pictures, roughed out on paper, scanned in and then'painted' up in Adobe Photoshop. Each image is accompanied by itsname and a bit about where the inspiration came from, and as hisinfluences change so does the art, ie there's something foreveryone. Comic books, most notably Manga and even Dr Seuss, aresources of ideas. Along with a load of links to Photoshop anddesign sites, plus tips and tricks for Web graphics, this is apiece of very well-accomplished enterprise.
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http://www.wingspread.com/
Touted as a gateway to the art of New Mexico and the AmericanSouth-west, this site pinpoints museums, galleries and local infofor the serious art collector willing to travel. Hundreds ofillustrations, lots of links to art and travel sites plus onlinesubscription information. You can mosey along dusty by-roads ofthe superhighway to Taos, Santa Fe and Albuquerque forinteresting news and features.
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http://www.tonystone.com
Tony Stone Images is a picture library from which, for a fee,people can borrow photographic images. The Web should be anabsolute boon for outfits such as this but they have to beprepared to commit to it fully. Only a selection of images areavailable to browse here, and that's not nearly enough, but ifyou're able to access this site at work then that's definitely astart and ordering stock photos will be a whole lot easier in thefuture.
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http://www.slumberinggiant.co.uk
This excellent forum site for architects has a wide brief; itcovers food, fiction, artistic and, of course, architecturalendeavours. The Slumbering Giant is also offering a free homepage to every architect interested in exhibiting. With an ezineand links to what they call 'the coolest site sites in theworld', it's well worth a visit.
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http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/index.html
One of Britain's best known art college, the Slade's sitecurrently allows you to admire the work of this year's graduatesand postgraduates with contact details and comments from thestudents themselves. Coming soon will be information forprospective students, details of research and alumni activitiesand, tantalisingly, online works by students and staff. Thedesign is understated in a white, arty sort of way, but sadlythey couldn't resist going for a hackneyed name - @ Slade.
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http://www.infomedia.net/scan
Due to pressure from the PageMaker Listserv, the scanning FAQhas been transformed into an HTML document. It covers the uniqueproblems and solutions of scanning line art, halftones, greyscaleand colour scans in depth, and is invaluable for anyone scanningartwork or photography on an amateur level or, more likely,professionally. There is also a large amount of material on DTPin general, again, not just for those doing a local newsletterbut for people designing glossy magazines.
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http://desires.com/2.1/Toys/Mondrian/mond-fr.html
Mucho pretentious computer culture humour - using frames tomanufacture pastiche pictures of Dutch neoplasticist, PietMondrian. Click the box and generate a slick copyist'scomposition of Mondrian's trademark white and black boxes withmatt slabs of pillar box red, canary yellow and lovely royalblue. Click again... and get another... and so on...
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http://www.netlink.co.uk/users/lightbox/
A stylish gallery site where UK photographers can displaytheir work online, the Lightbox also offers an HTML authoringservice with advice on traditional or digital methods, and thereis an excellent index of digital photography resources. This is agood spot for image collection, for instance landscapes, foodshots, models or Carol Sharp's Magritte-like pic of man withsunflower head, but watch out for copyright.
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http://205.197.212.32/home/art/
Now if you have any interest in Egyptology or just fancy agiggle, take a gander at Richard Deurer's work. He is aself-confessed Egypt-o-maniac and has many photographs as well asreinterpretations of modern scenes in an ancient Egyptian style.The site is simple, well designed and easy to navigate. If youare really impressed you can pop along to the online gallerystore and buy a limited edition lithograph. There are many nicetouches to the site's design such as the text at the bottom ofthe page being in the shape of a (surprise) pyramid. Worth aquick trip.
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http://www.illustrator.org.uk
Site of the Brighton Illustrators Group (BIG) is theequivalent of the no-frills airline. It says what it has to sayand leaves you to get on with it... no flashy layout, no browsertrickery, no fancy footwork. Here are our artists, here's ataster of their work, here's a contact phone number. Now pissoff! But perhaps BIG should get its act together... the qualityof the work (and some ain't bad) just isn't enough to lure targetsurfers on its own. Strictly end of the pier.
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http://www.theschwacorporation.com/
Bill Barker's Schwa is an almond-eyed, fetus-headed alienwhich you'll recognise as soon as you see it. Gracing the pagesof this self-published chapbook, Schwa is a symbol of theindeterminate, the untranslatable and the unknown, andexperiencing Schwa is like viewing a primitively drawn episode ofThe X-Files. Without words everything is articulated through madEdvard Munch-like pictures. Exactly what to make of this cartoonparanoia is still up for discussion - odd, kind of humorous andvery, very strange.
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http://www.rhythm.com
Brilliant site for California-based digital graphics filmproduction studio Rhythm and Hues, an Oscar winner for visual fxon the film Babe. There's so much here, but thanks to thoughtfullayout, you never feel overwhelmed. Start with a link to theofficial Babe site for reviews and articles. Back for companyhistory and FAQs, job offers, products and feedback. Best of allare easy links to Rhythm and Hues designers' individual, quirkyhome pages. Some feature personal obsessions (eg a collection ofkitten pix), while others showcase digital techniques likeAutoStereograms with screenshots and FAQs on making your own.Great design throughout, including frames and Java.
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http://www.hmc.edu/~awells/files/raytrace.html
More images created with Persistence of Vision - Ray 2.2,including all the samples in the package as well as othersgleaned from the Net. You're welcome to add your own. NOLONGER AVAILABLE
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http://www.libertynet.org:80/~power/
Get it wrong when you're commissioning a designer for yourpotentially prize-winning Web site and you'll end up with a craplogo, illegible text and a home page graphic of over 50k. Get itright and you might have been taking lessons from a companycalled Power Design, which offers experience and advice on how togo about the whole thing. Clients include TV companies, anAmerican football club and the small business mag EntrepreneurialEdge. The company's own Web site is smart and slick with asassier attitude than most. Check the PowerYak section for toptips on Web design.
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http://www.galactica.it/on_the_way/indice-i.html
Best you can say for this art site is that some of it'sfast-loading. I bet Stanley Tomshinsky's parents curse theday they ever bought their kid a box of crayons. And wow! He'sdecided to foist not only his sub-standard drawings on us, butprovide guides to their meaning. Take for instance, a picentitled Tango. It prompts this revelation: ñFor me the imageexpresses this musical drama.î This son of Milan heralds hissite as, ñimages to while away the day.î Get a life, Stan!
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http://www.cais.net/frisch/meatmation/
This is an interesting project from a photographer calledStephanie Rose, who hit the supermarket in despair one day inorder to finish a Michigan State University assignment. Insteadof bingeing out on all the snacks she could find, she createdMeatMation. It's a bizarre set of stills in soap opera form,illustrating the lives of some real meatheads, meatbodies,meatlegs and meatarms. Yup, everyone in the pictures is made outof mince or pork, a lamb chop or hot dog. This site assaults thesenses in more ways than one.
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http://www.ozemail.com.au/~lsharp/
Devoted to digital art of the body, the title is something ofa misnomer since the pictures here represent various otheraspects aside from, ahem, bodily fluids. Whilst all of them lookgreat on the desktop, some are, in fact, little more thanglorified medical scans. Images are grouped by topics likedisease or cells and accessed via a snazzy index page. Accordingto the blurb, 'Recurring themes are the role of biology in thefluid construction of identity and catharsis'. Quite. And theso-called 'organic texts' are just as easy to understand.Although it may sound a bit of a turn-off, the graphics areactually very tastefully done and worth the wait, but what doesit all mean?
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http://www.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca/spider/d8e192
The Japanese art of Anime and Manga is so popular on the Web,that you'll find many of the links from this collection ofH-rated graphic sites constantly overloaded withcallers. NO LONGER AVAILABLE.
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http://www.emigre.com/
The innovative online home of super-swank fontshop and designempire Emigre is almost totally geared to shipping loads of typewith hip names like Totally Gothic, Triplex Italic or Thingbat.Emigre's Internet input apparently evolved through a BBS whichstill provides a key part of its service. Customers areencouraged to download Emigre's BBS client software to accessServing Now, from which fonts can be ordered directly anddownloaded just 20 minutes later. As a presence it's strictly fora highly evolved tech-savvy design elite who are already in theknow but, like the fonts, its kind of cool in a prettyimpenetrable way.
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http://www.deco-echoes.com/
Remember those 60s molded plastic chairs in garish clolours?A lot of us would prefer not to, but there are some people,believe it or not, who like these things so much they just haveto collect them. Deco-Echoes caters for their tastes with a briefhistory of design from the 30s up to the 60s and sample articlesfrom Echoes Report , but there are disappointingly few picturesand the calendar of upcoming events will only suit Brits planninga trip to the States. At least the list of societies includes acouple in London and the eclectic set of links to related siteslooks promising.
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http://www.ddd.co.uk/
This site functions as a gallery for the various bits of workby Rupert Adley. It proudly proclaims its use of Adobe PageMill2.0 and has made reasonable use of frames. There is a fairselection of artwork on show, but none of it leaps out and havingwandered about you don't feel as if there is any benefit to yourvisit. Sad, but true.
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http://www.databoat.com/
Maybe you fancy setting off up the Nile for yourself. Well ifyou do it's worth popping into the boat design section ofdataboat. Here you can examine 27 categories of boat design tofind the craft of your dreams, buy the plans and get building.But be warned, the plans are not as cheap as you'd hope - $4,000for a sailboat. There is also a forum where you can go anddiscuss the why and wherefores of different designs, which isfastest, most efficient etc. However, the design of the siteisn't as good as it could be. Navigation (no pun honest) istricky and it's all too easy to get stuck in a squall having gotto one place and not being able to point your browser to yournext port of call. Interesting, but not that interesting.
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http://bowlingalley.walkerart.org/
This bizarrely surreal piece of bowling metaphor artworkrequires allocating Netscape 4Mb of Ram if you're to avoid theimage/network overload induced by flying skittles. Bowling Alleyis a cybernetic installation linking three spaces via ISDN: agallery in Minneapolis, Bryant Lake Bowl and the Web site itself.Apparently, bowling at Bryant triggers changes in the chain ofISDN connections, scrambling the gallery's Laserdisc projectionand interfering with users' paths through the Web site. Rathertryingly this makes for conceptual artistic chaos which, if youdon't mind a huge phone bill, may not prove to be a completewaste of time. Some groovy visual gimmicks, possibleenlightenment, but loads too slow to load. Strike.
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http://www.arthouse.ie/index.html
This beautifully designed Web site is devoted to theactivities of the Arthouse Multimedia Centre for the Arts incentral London. Its aim is to give training, production andexhibition opportunities to artists. There's a guide to thebuilding in Temple Bar and an outline of their development andresearch activities. This site is a great resource for artistsand it's also a good example of the use of tables in Web design.
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http://www.taynet.co.uk/users/art-photography-guide
A UK-wide guide to photography galleries and exhibitionscurrently residing therein. All come with addresses and contactnumbers and a select few include pictures, along with some artsyblurb.
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http://www.primenet.com/~ferret/
So, you think anime is cutesy bug-eyed japanese cartoons forkids. Not this lot. NO LONGER AVAILABLE
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http://mindlink.net/ph/
'Art' sites are so often impenetrable and make one wonder howcan people ever connect. This site should be browsed and notdisgarded immediately as it offers a variety of interestingexperiences. The Guide is a meditation on the themes oftelevision and the media. Jamaica Journal documents the influenceof the tourist trade on West Indian culture. Masquerade playswith death and its symbolism and Longings asks you what youreally long for. It's pretty slick, sometimes surreal andaesthetically ever so nice.
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http://www.prophetcomm.com/spectacle/
Minimal content but thoroughly engrossing, Spectacle takes agerm of an idea, a few select projects and transforms them withgraphics wizardry into genuine Web magic. You'll need yourbrowser cranked up to full capacity to experience some of thearty ideas and animation here - an illustrated narrative calledConsciousness for those with adventurous monitors and asophisticated-looking game called Leggo my Logo. This is is anezine for aesthetes and serious Internet funsters.
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http://www.dti.net/imagesoup/
Image Soup is a rather highbrow periodical, a digitalquarterly for artists and designers working on the World WideWeb. Coming, as it does, from a New York design collective with afetish for sound hardware, as long as it's Mac, a key phrase hereis 'We've got Photoshop and we're gonna use it'. Examples ofcontributors' work can be found in the PDF gallery and it's fromhere that you can get hold of images in a high-res,ready-for-print Adobe Acrobat document. Filters, presets and lotsof other goodies can be downloaded from the toolbox. Moreover,the Soup is a place to pool techniques and solve Web graphicsproblems. A great recipe for digital design.
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Constantly changing selection of prints from the back issuesof Time-Life. Available to order but entertaining enough todownload at home, take your pick from stuff like movie-goers inthe 50s wearing 3-D specs, the first man on the moon or Jackie O.
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http://www.ftech.net/~floodnet/
Here are a whole bunch of pictures that Glenn has createdsince the age of 14. He works in various mediums on varioussubjects and some of his work is really rather good.
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http://www.gatech.edu/graf/
This ever-expanding archive of global graffiti art has justhad a redesign. The result - better looking, faster loading phatpics from city walls to subway trains, including featuredartists, outlines, stickers and digital styles to designate yourown. Better than watching paint dry.
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http://www.myth.com/
The fairytale fantasies of Suza Scalora are dreamy andother-worldly yet exploit the fantastical properties of thelatest technology. The key imagery and symbolism in her work ismythological - vampires, goddesses, legendary creatures. Awelcome departure from the usual digital art.
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http://www.cascade.net/kahlo.html
This is great as a basic introduction to the Mexican painterFrida Kahlo. There's been a revival of interest in her work inrecent years and she's had more written about her than Madonna,who incidently is a fan. A short biography is accompanied by herpictures and a list of suggested reading tops it off. Althoughthis site is pretty image-intensive, the pictures are manageableto load and you are directed to the FTP site for bigger, betterquality portraits.
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http://www.hub.co.uk/intercafe/binge/binge.html
If you have a taste for these art sites and you can stomachthe combination of eye candy and cod-techno philosophy, then noworries. Pictures are kind of cool but a little too small.
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http://www.national-arts-guide.co.uk/uk/home.html
Well presented, with the occasional illustration, guide toart galleries in the UK. Individual exhibitions don't get amention, so you'll have to give them a ring to find out what'son.
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http://www.kaapeli.fi/~best/dada1.html
Interactive, multi-user, post-modern, digitally networkedpiece of hyppereal, conceptual critique or a load of old rubbish?You choose.
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http://doric.bart.ucl.ac.uk/web/sheep/metamute/
Newly launched art and technology newspaper, Mute, haspromised to post issues online a month after the paper hits thenewstand. Its combination of rather high fallutin' theory anddigital art critique means this is one of the few art sites wherethe text will be worth viewing as much as the pictures.
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http://www.afrinet.net/gallery
Let's face it, much of the so-called art on the Web isactually pretty poor. This is one of the most rewarding, quick toload galleries you're likely to visit. It's a collection of,mainly figurative, Afro-American painting and art.
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http://pharmdec.wustl.edu/juju/surr/surrealism.html
Plenty of artistic and literary links on everything from Dalito Dada.
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http://www.ntu.ac.uk/liveart
This is merely a text-based database containing material onart involving a human being, being there. A guide book isavailable, not online, to help with using the archive. Theinformation is strictly specialist and, at the moment, just theteensiest weeniest bit dull.
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http://artaids.dcs.qmw.ac.uk:8001/
The ArtAIDS Link is an Internet art project for digitalartists to commemorate and celebrate the fight against AIDS. Ifyou would like to contribute a piece of art the preferred formatsare 24-bit Tiff or Adobe Photoshop (2.5).
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http://pncl.co.uk/subs/rsmith/rsmith.html
Zipped PC files containing examples of marvellouslymathematical raytracing...Oh is that the time?
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http://www.ruskin-sch.ox.ac.uk/~jake/base3j.html
Choosing fortune cookies and finding Lucky Dip random linksis the basis for Jake Tilson's interactive art. This is a studyin techno-claustrophobia from an artist-in-residence at theLaboratory, Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, OxfordUniversity.
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http://marlowe.wimsey.com/~jamacht/Kate/Pictures/
Some people collect train numbers. Jeff collects scans ofKate and puts them on the Web.
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http://www.xs4all.nl/~wanted/
Although these may appear to be pornographical portraits inthe worst possible taste, we're assured it's all in the name ofart. Suprisingly, Cyberia didn't see it that way.
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http://dragon.acadiau.ca/~901430w/gallery.html
Here's something that's fun to try at home, and requires nospecial equipment or safety clothing.
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http://white.nosc.mil/images.html
If you want traffic through your site, incorporate specialistlinks. The speciality here is graphics in the form of flags,icons, medical images, space snaps and travel pics. No content,just links, but there are plenty of them.
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http://www.interport.net/CORE/
Are you a budding industrial designer, just waiting for abreak? Maybe you'll find some help here. There's advice onputting your book together, marketing tips, employmentopportunities, discussion forums, as well as listings of industryassociations, business contacts, recommended reading lists anddesign schools. If you're still stuck, maybe the student projectsfrom Pratt's design programme in New York will provide someinspiration.
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http://iguana.images.com:80/dupecam.html
If you want to see a lizard's futile struggle againstcaptivity, this remote camera will deliver the goods every fewminutes. Otherwise, you can email this small imaging house andrequest that it be reunited with its natural habitat.
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http://www.kodak.com/
Here's where to find out about Kodak's products, services andlatest developments, particularly its PhotoCD technology. Thereare digital images in both JPEG and ImagePac formats, as well asthe necessary viewing software, for download. If you need furtherinformation, you can query the company directly by email.
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http://offworld.wwa.com/
The suit greeting you at the entrance would have you believethis is yet another Net mall. Perhaps it will be, but at thisstage it's a commercial digital art gallery with the most vividbackdrops and Netcape 1.1-isms you're likely to encounter.
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http://www.hrc.wmin.ac.uk/
Hypermedia, is it art or is it ...? Read the manifesto, playthe surrealistic game, absorb the theory and decide for yourself.
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http://sunsite.unc.edu/otis-bin/showgrid
Use the infinite grid selector to tailor this multi-layeredpsychedelic collage to your favourite of 12,288,000,000 possibleconfigurations.
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http://mambo.ucsc.edu/psl/cg.html
Here's a heavy page to load. It's a collection of links tonumerous computer-generated art resources, using distinctthumbnails as captions.
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This exhibit of visual art sets out to expose and explore theprinciple human anxieties such as fear, religion, paranoia,madness, torture, sex, death and war. There's nothing cheeryhere.
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http://mmm.wwa.com/tab.html
The Art Book, a colour directory of British Illustration isavailable free if you qualify, or for £20, if you don't. Seehere for more details.
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http://ids.net/~randyman/randyland.html
Less exciting than it sounds, Randy is a computer artist,working on combining music with animated images. Material is in alow-res version of Quicktime. Pretty mediocre but worth a briefbrowse if it's your bag.
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http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/jwu/origami.html
You'll find galleries, Gophers, Postscript diagrams, mailinglists and other paper folding stuff, but still no paperlessalternative to this popularJapanese artform.
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http://www.art.net/
Here's a well structured place to post your own art or viewthe creations of others.
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The pornography section of this massive digital picturearchive recently closed down due to over demand, so now you'llhave to restrict your downloads to categories such as art,paintings, comic, computer-generated, cars, aeroplanes, faces,nature, technology, space and others.
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http://www.uio.no/~mwatz/pov/
Persistence of Vision is a popular shareware ray-tracingpackage which appeals to those who, rather than drawing, preferto create images as a sum of their mathematical parts. By settingcertain constraints such as surface texture, reflection,refraction and light source positions, objects can be replicatedso closely, they make photographs look phoney.
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http://mphh2.ph.man.ac.uk/gareth/sirds.html
This launch pad to many sites featuring single image randomdot stereograms has software, FAQs and plenty of advice as well.In no time, you'll be able to induce a migraine at will.
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http://gertrude.art.uiuc.edu/@art/gallery.html
This digital art gallery has a new exhibition every sixweeks, but don't worry, all the old ones are archived.
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http://www.atom.co.jp/GALLERY/
An interesting modern art exhibition from Japan including asemi-racy photographic series by Hisayoshi Osawi featuringsubjects in non-sensible shoes.
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http://amanda.physics.wisc.edu/
An exhibition of prints, etchings and lithographs byphysicist John E Jacobsen, some of which are superb. Check outthe Cybersex sketch, it may not be what you'd expect.
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This diverse collection of international graffiti art showsyouths with nothing to say, speaking their minds eloquently.
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OTIS (operative term is stimulate) is an extensive, wellplanned, gallery of photos, drawings, tattoos, raytraces, videostills, record covers, sculpture and more. To subscribe to themailing list, send a message to
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http://mistral.enst.fr/~pioch/louvre/
Before you can take this superb tour of Paris' Louvre, you'llneed to choose your closest mirror in the Webmuseum network. Oncethere, you'll find exhibitions of famous pictures, a mediaevalart display, and a gallery of classical music. Paintings areclassified by artist and, although not every work in the museumis included, there is an excellent selection of the most famous.Expect it to grow and include more links to similar presences.
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