http://www.warhol.org/warhol
Pittsburgh's Andy Warhol Museum hasn't put all the pop auteur's works
online, but you can virtually tour its physical gallery 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 art site are
Gallery 1 and Gallery 2. They contain a collection of his own pictures,
roughed out on paper, scanned in and then 'painted' up in Adobe Photoshop.
Each image is accompanied by its name and a bit about where the inspiration
came from, and as his influences change so does the art, ie there's something
for everyone. Comic books, most notably Manga and even Dr Seuss, are sources
of ideas. Along with a load of links to Photoshop and design sites, plus
tips and tricks for Web graphics, this is a piece 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 American South-west,
this site pinpoints museums, galleries and local info for the serious art
collector willing to travel. Hundreds of illustrations, lots of links to
art and travel sites plus online subscription information. You can mosey
along dusty by-roads of the superhighway to Taos, Santa Fe and Albuquerque
for interesting 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 an absolute boon for outfits
such as this but they have to be prepared to commit to it fully. Only a
selection of images are available to browse here, and that's not nearly
enough, but if you're able to access this site at work then that's definitely
a start and ordering stock photos will be a whole lot easier in the future.
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http://www.slumberinggiant.co.uk
This excellent forum site for architects has a wide brief; it covers
food, fiction, artistic and, of course, architectural endeavours. The Slumbering
Giant is also offering a free home page to every architect interested in
exhibiting. With an ezine and links to what they call 'the coolest site
sites in the world', 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 site currently
allows you to admire the work of this year's graduates and postgraduates
with contact details and comments from the students themselves. Coming soon
will be information for prospective students, details of research and alumni
activities and, tantalisingly, online works by students and staff. The design
is understated in a white, arty sort of way, but sadly they 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 FAQ has been
transformed into an HTML document. It covers the unique problems and solutions
of scanning line art, halftones, greyscale and colour scans in depth, and
is invaluable for anyone scanning artwork or photography on an amateur level
or, more likely, professionally. There is also a large amount of material
on DTP in general, again, not just for those doing a local newsletter but
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 to manufacture
pastiche pictures of Dutch neoplasticist, Piet Mondrian. Click the box and
generate a slick copyist's composition of Mondrian's trademark white and
black boxes with matt slabs of pillar box red, canary yellow and lovely
royal blue. 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 display their work
online, the Lightbox also offers an HTML authoring service with advice on
traditional or digital methods, and there is an excellent index of digital
photography resources. This is a good spot for image collection, for instance
landscapes, food shots, models or Carol Sharp's Magritte-like pic of man
with sunflower 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 a giggle, take
a gander at Richard Deurer's work. He is a self-confessed Egypt-o-maniac
and has many photographs as well as reinterpretations of modern scenes in
an ancient Egyptian style. The site is simple, well designed and easy to
navigate. If you are really impressed you can pop along to the online gallery
store and buy a limited edition lithograph. There are many nice touches
to the site's design such as the text at the bottom of the page being in
the shape of a (surprise) pyramid. Worth a quick trip.
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http://www.illustrator.org.uk
Site of the Brighton Illustrators Group (BIG) is the equivalent of the
no-frills airline. It says what it has to say and leaves you to get on with
it... no flashy layout, no browser trickery, no fancy footwork. Here are
our artists, here's a taster of their work, here's a contact phone number.
Now piss off! But perhaps BIG should get its act together... the quality
of the work (and some ain't bad) just isn't enough to lure target surfers
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 alien which you'll
recognise as soon as you see it. Gracing the pages of this self-published
chapbook, Schwa is a symbol of the indeterminate, the untranslatable and
the unknown, and experiencing Schwa is like viewing a primitively drawn
episode of The X-Files. Without words everything is articulated through
mad Edvard Munch-like pictures. Exactly what to make of this cartoon paranoia
is still up for discussion - odd, kind of humorous and very, very strange.
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http://www.rhythm.com
Brilliant site for California-based digital graphics film production
studio Rhythm and Hues, an Oscar winner for visual fx on the film Babe.
There's so much here, but thanks to thoughtful layout, you never feel overwhelmed.
Start with a link to the official Babe site for reviews and articles. Back
for company history and FAQs, job offers, products and feedback. Best of
all are easy links to Rhythm and Hues designers' individual, quirky home
pages. Some feature personal obsessions (eg a collection of kitten pix),
while others showcase digital techniques like AutoStereograms 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 others gleaned from the Net. You're
welcome to add your own. NO LONGER AVAILABLE
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http://www.libertynet.org:80/~power/
Get it wrong when you're commissioning a designer for your potentially
prize-winning Web site and you'll end up with a crap logo, illegible text
and a home page graphic of over 50k. Get it right and you might have been
taking lessons from a company called Power Design, which offers experience
and advice on how to go about the whole thing. Clients include TV companies,
an American football club and the small business mag Entrepreneurial Edge.
The company's own Web site is smart and slick with a sassier attitude than
most. Check the PowerYak section for top tips 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's fast-loading.
I bet Stanley Tomshinsky's parents curse the day they ever bought their
kid a box of crayons. And wow! He's decided to foist not only his sub-standard
drawings on us, but provide guides to their meaning. Take for instance,
a pic entitled Tango. It prompts this revelation: ñFor me the image
expresses this musical drama.î This son of Milan heralds his site
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 called Stephanie
Rose, who hit the supermarket in despair one day in order to finish a Michigan
State University assignment. Instead of bingeing out on all the snacks she
could find, she created MeatMation. 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 out of mince or pork,
a lamb chop or hot dog. This site assaults the senses 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 of a misnomer
since the pictures here represent various other aspects aside from, ahem,
bodily fluids. Whilst all of them look great on the desktop, some are, in
fact, little more than glorified medical scans. Images are grouped by topics
like disease or cells and accessed via a snazzy index page. According to
the blurb, 'Recurring themes are the role of biology in the fluid construction
of identity and catharsis'. Quite. And the so-called 'organic texts' are
just as easy to understand. Although it may sound a bit of a turn-off, the
graphics are actually very tastefully done and worth the wait, but what
does it 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 of H-rated graphic sites constantly
overloaded with callers. NO LONGER AVAILABLE.
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http://www.emigre.com/
The innovative online home of super-swank fontshop and design empire
Emigre is almost totally geared to shipping loads of type with hip names
like Totally Gothic, Triplex Italic or Thingbat. Emigre's Internet input
apparently evolved through a BBS which still provides a key part of its
service. Customers are encouraged to download Emigre's BBS client software
to access Serving Now, from which fonts can be ordered directly and downloaded
just 20 minutes later. As a presence it's strictly for a highly evolved
tech-savvy design elite who are already in the know but, like the fonts,
its kind of cool in a pretty impenetrable 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 have to collect them. Deco-Echoes caters
for their tastes with a brief history of design from the 30s up to the 60s
and sample articles from Echoes Report , but there are disappointingly few
pictures and the calendar of upcoming events will only suit Brits planning
a trip to the States. At least the list of societies includes a couple in
London and the eclectic set of links to related sites looks promising.
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http://www.ddd.co.uk/
This site functions as a gallery for the various bits of work by Rupert
Adley. It proudly proclaims its use of Adobe PageMill 2.0 and has made reasonable
use of frames. There is a fair selection of artwork on show, but none of
it leaps out and having wandered about you don't feel as if there is any
benefit to your visit. Sad, but true.
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http://www.databoat.com/
Maybe you fancy setting off up the Nile for yourself. Well if you do
it's worth popping into the boat design section of databoat. Here you can
examine 27 categories of boat design to find the craft of your dreams, buy
the plans and get building. But be warned, the plans are not as cheap as
you'd hope - $4,000 for a sailboat. There is also a forum where you can
go and discuss the why and wherefores of different designs, which is fastest,
most efficient etc. However, the design of the site isn't as good as it
could be. Navigation (no pun honest) is tricky and it's all too easy to
get stuck in a squall having got to one place and not being able to point
your browser to your next port of call. Interesting, but not that interesting.
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http://bowlingalley.walkerart.org/
This bizarrely surreal piece of bowling metaphor artwork requires allocating
Netscape 4Mb of Ram if you're to avoid the image/network overload induced
by flying skittles. Bowling Alley is a cybernetic installation linking three
spaces via ISDN: a gallery in Minneapolis, Bryant Lake Bowl and the Web
site itself. Apparently, bowling at Bryant triggers changes in the chain
of ISDN connections, scrambling the gallery's Laserdisc projection and interfering
with users' paths through the Web site. Rather tryingly this makes for conceptual
artistic chaos which, if you don't mind a huge phone bill, may not prove
to be a complete waste of time. Some groovy visual gimmicks, possible enlightenment,
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 the activities of the
Arthouse Multimedia Centre for the Arts in central London. Its aim is to
give training, production and exhibition opportunities to artists. There's
a guide to the building in Temple Bar and an outline of their development
and research activities. This site is a great resource for artists and 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 exhibitions currently residing
therein. All come with addresses and contact numbers and a select few include
pictures, along with some artsy blurb.
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http://www.primenet.com/~ferret/
So, you think anime is cutesy bug-eyed japanese cartoons for kids. Not
this lot. NO LONGER AVAILABLE
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http://mindlink.net/ph/
'Art' sites are so often impenetrable and make one wonder how can people
ever connect. This site should be browsed and not disgarded immediately
as it offers a variety of interesting experiences. The Guide is a meditation
on the themes of television and the media. Jamaica Journal documents the
influence of the tourist trade on West Indian culture. Masquerade plays
with death and its symbolism and Longings asks you what you really long
for. It's pretty slick, sometimes surreal and aesthetically ever so nice.
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http://www.prophetcomm.com/spectacle/
Minimal content but thoroughly engrossing, Spectacle takes a germ of
an idea, a few select projects and transforms them with graphics wizardry
into genuine Web magic. You'll need your browser cranked up to full capacity
to experience some of the arty ideas and animation here - an illustrated
narrative called Consciousness for those with adventurous monitors and a
sophisticated-looking game called Leggo my Logo. This is is an ezine for
aesthetes and serious Internet funsters.
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http://www.dti.net/imagesoup/
Image Soup is a rather highbrow periodical, a digital quarterly for
artists and designers working on the World Wide Web. Coming, as it does,
from a New York design collective with a fetish for sound hardware, as long
as it's Mac, a key phrase here is 'We've got Photoshop and we're gonna use
it'. Examples of contributors' work can be found in the PDF gallery and
it's from here that you can get hold of images in a high-res, ready-for-print
Adobe Acrobat document. Filters, presets and lots of other goodies can be
downloaded from the toolbox. Moreover, the Soup is a place to pool techniques
and solve Web graphics problems. A great recipe for digital design.
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http://www.pathfinder.com/pathfinder/photo/sighthome.html
Constantly changing selection of prints from the back issues of Time-Life.
Available to order but entertaining enough to download at home, take your
pick from stuff like movie-goers in the 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 created since the
age of 14. He works in various mediums on various subjects 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 just had a redesign.
The result - better looking, faster loading phat pics from city walls to
subway trains, including featured artists, outlines, stickers and digital
styles to designate your own. Better than watching paint dry.
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http://www.myth.com/
The fairytale fantasies of Suza Scalora are dreamy and other-worldly
yet exploit the fantastical properties of the latest technology. The key
imagery and symbolism in her work is mythological - vampires, goddesses,
legendary creatures. A welcome 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 painter Frida Kahlo.
There's been a revival of interest in her work in recent years and she's
had more written about her than Madonna, who incidently is a fan. A short
biography is accompanied by her pictures and a list of suggested reading
tops it off. Although this site is pretty image-intensive, the pictures
are manageable to load and you are directed to the FTP site for bigger,
better quality 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 stomach the combination
of eye candy and cod-techno philosophy, then no worries. 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 to art galleries
in the UK. Individual exhibitions don't get a mention, so you'll have to
give them a ring to find out what's on.
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http://www.kaapeli.fi/~best/dada1.html
Interactive, multi-user, post-modern, digitally networked piece 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, has promised to post
issues online a month after the paper hits the newstand. Its combination
of rather high fallutin' theory and digital art critique means this is one
of the few art sites where the 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 is actually pretty
poor. This is one of the most rewarding, quick to load 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 Dali to Dada.
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http://www.ntu.ac.uk/liveart
This is merely a text-based database containing material on art involving
a human being, being there. A guide book is available, not online, to help
with using the archive. The information is strictly specialist and, at the
moment, just the teensiest weeniest bit dull.
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http://artaids.dcs.qmw.ac.uk:8001/
The ArtAIDS Link is an Internet art project for digital artists to commemorate
and celebrate the fight against AIDS. If you would like to contribute a
piece of art the preferred formats are 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 marvellously mathematical 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 links is the basis
for Jake Tilson's interactive art. This is a study in techno-claustrophobia
from an artist-in-residence at the Laboratory, Ruskin School of Drawing
and Fine Art, Oxford University.
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http://marlowe.wimsey.com/~jamacht/Kate/Pictures/
Some people collect train numbers. Jeff collects scans of Kate and puts
them on the Web.
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http://www.xs4all.nl/~wanted/
Although these may appear to be pornographical portraits in the worst
possible taste, we're assured it's all in the name of art. 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 no special
equipment or safety clothing.
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http://white.nosc.mil/images.html
If you want traffic through your site, incorporate specialist links.
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 a break? Maybe
you'll find some help here. There's advice on putting your book together,
marketing tips, employment opportunities, discussion forums, as well as
listings of industry associations, business contacts, recommended reading
lists and design schools. If you're still stuck, maybe the student projects
from Pratt's design programme in New York will provide some inspiration.
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http://iguana.images.com:80/dupecam.html
If you want to see a lizard's futile struggle against captivity, this
remote camera will deliver the goods every few minutes. Otherwise, you can
email this small imaging house and request 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 and latest
developments, particularly its PhotoCD technology. There are digital images
in both JPEG and ImagePac formats, as well as the necessary viewing software,
for download. If you need further information, 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 believe this is
yet another Net mall. Perhaps it will be, but at this stage it's a commercial
digital art gallery with the most vivid backdrops 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, play the 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-layered psychedelic
collage to your favourite of 12,288,000,000 possible configurations.
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http://mambo.ucsc.edu/psl/cg.html
Here's a heavy page to load. It's a collection of links to numerous
computer-generated art resources, using distinct thumbnails as captions.
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http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~werdna/grotesque/grotesque.html
This exhibit of visual art sets out to expose and explore the principle
human anxieties such as fear, religion, paranoia, madness, torture, sex,
death and war. There's nothing cheery here.
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http://mmm.wwa.com/tab.html
The Art Book, a colour directory of British Illustration is available
free if you qualify, or for £20, if you don't. See here 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 a low-res version of
Quicktime. Pretty mediocre but worth a brief browse 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, mailing lists and
other paper folding stuff, but still no paperless alternative to this popularJapanese
artform.
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http://www.art.net/
Here's a well structured place to post your own art or view the creations
of others.
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http://olt.et.tudelft.nl/fun/pictures/oldpictures.html
The pornography section of this massive digital picture archive recently
closed down due to over demand, so now you'll have 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-tracing package which
appeals to those who, rather than drawing, prefer to create images as a
sum of their mathematical parts. By setting certain constraints such as
surface texture, reflection, refraction and light source positions, objects
can be replicated so 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 random dot 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 six weeks, 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 a semi-racy
photographic series by Hisayoshi Osawi featuring subjects in non-sensible
shoes.
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http://amanda.physics.wisc.edu/
An exhibition of prints, etchings and lithographs by physicist John
E Jacobsen, some of which are superb. Check out the Cybersex sketch, it
may not be what you'd expect.
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http://www.gatech.edu/desoto/graf/Index.Art_Crimes.html
This diverse collection of international graffiti art shows youths with
nothing to say, speaking their minds eloquently.
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FTP to: sunsite.unc.edu/pub/multimedia/pictures/OTIS
OTIS (operative term is stimulate) is an extensive, well planned, gallery
of photos, drawings, tattoos, raytraces, video stills, record covers, sculpture
and more. To subscribe to the mailing list, send a message to otis-request@cwis.unomaha.edu
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http://mistral.enst.fr/~pioch/louvre/
Before you can take this superb tour of Paris' Louvre, you'll need to
choose your closest mirror in the Webmuseum network. Once there, you'll
find exhibitions of famous pictures, a mediaeval art display, and a gallery
of classical music. Paintings are classified by artist and, although not
every work in the museum is 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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