Dead

http://www.dead.net/

Local Web Hosting

Great Big Graphics does offer hosting for their clients in partnership with Vermont Web Host in Rutland. Here are the plan structures; very reasonable:

http://www.vermontwebhost.com/

http://obeygiant.com/

Hmm..

I found this site and the loading time for the flash involved was kind of annoying. I also didn't like how the intro. page didn't have a skip button. For users who've been frequenting the site it must be bothersome to have to sit through the same intro. each time they arrive at the site.

He is a good photographer though, so I feel that his work is worth it to check out. He makes simple, everyday things seem a little more interesting.

The link: http://www.robertkato.com/

Layout that works

I like this layout because you can look any where and find a little something. Practical use of css and news system. Also good reviews.
www.xlr8r.com

Local Photographer

http://www.saintphallephoto.com/#

Blathering Blatherskyte!

lol

I left a comment on Bethany's post that turned into a three page paper... more of  a rant rather, does anyone agree with anything I say or am I a blathering blatherskyte?

Culture Jamming brings new functionality to old ideas, like a cultural I.E.D.

BOOM! Visual imagery explodes through the internal world of the viewer, causing massive acculturation or slices through an individual's perceptual filters like a surgeon's knife, to insert new ideas, new values. Either way, art is a weapon! 

Check out these links.

http://www.adbusters.org

http://www.abrupt.org

http://www.woostercollective.com/culture_jamming/

internal revolution engines, check them out

Nagi Noda

http://www.naginoda.com

Nagi Noda is a versatile artist specializing in sculpture, fabrication, design, and illustration. 

My wife turned me on [to this site] and I'm crazy [about the content].

^^

I love her work but H8 her site. 

All her content loads onto pages that have no navigable aspects and if you close the window you land back on her home-page, pages away from the content you were viewing ><.  

The secret is that if you click on the page's content, it acts as a back button to the content menu, sneaky but not intuitive. It works though once you get the hang of it and learn to read the baroque fonts she used...

:P 

Check out her hair hats if you can read her fonts and navigate through her page (a daunting task) and remember, don't design a page like this because there are too many design quirks that disrupt the navigation flow. ^^

How To Win › with Steve Duncombe and Steve Lambert

"This is a work in progress created by Steve Lambert, artist provocateur and Stephen Duncombe, theorist provocateur. We both consider ourselves engaged citizens and both think that using art and culture to transform the world is a good idea. But we are both haunted by the same question: How do we gauge the success of our projects? Hell, how do we even think about success when our goal is utopia? This site is a place to explore this and related questions."

http://howtowin.visitsteve.com/

Numerous interviews with artists and activists; some great ideas to think about here. I personally love the concept of the artist-as-citizen, and the role of/goals of artists as bringing about positive social change. Take a look—it's a neat project with intelligent conversations. Very inspiring.

Basement Medicine

APRIL 15 This is your deadline to submit j-pegs of your artwork to Basement Medicine.

This is a great way to get your work seen by a wide audience, as the paper is distributed around Johnson as well as some surrounding towns. I would highly recommend giving this a shot—inspire your peers, beautify our school paper, make the world a better place!

The final issue is dedicated to art and they may even add additional pages, in color!

Include a caption with artist info/title of piece, and make sure jpegs are large enough for decent reproduction. Send to:

basementmedicine [at] gmail.com

Clean CSS

Here is a link to clean css. http://www.cleancss.com/

Army making paper out of combat uniforms

I thought this was cool. Read a little about it.
Www.combatpaper.org

father and son photographers

See the photographs of Paul Caoponigro at http://www.andrewsmithgallery.com and http://www.joesphbellows.com and the work of his son at http://www.johnpaulcaponigro.com ,a great family tradition of photography. Nice thumbnails and navigation.

blum&poe

http://www.blumandpoe.com

Nice L.A. art gallery page.

I like the color scheme, the invisibility of the site, and the navigation. The reason I went here was following the work of Chiho Aoshima, who creates whole environments by installing vinyl prints of her digital illustrations right on the gallery wall.  

blogger comments

I've been leaving responses to people's posts. 

Look in the comments section to read them. 

I'm surprised there isn't more of a dialogue going on in the comments section responding to people's posts. 

I've been learning to apply my art criticism skills to web page criticism and have been learning to look at web pages in terms of art analysis: composition, color theory, content. 

web_value

Found a site that appraises the value of any web page published on the net by evaluating a number of criteria including the site's history, popularity, friendliness, interest, recognition, and depth potential. The site gives the current and potential value of the site. I'm not sure how valid the estimator is. Are the variables universally acknowledged by the W3 Consortium? Anyway, play around with it. I looked up a couple of artist's pages and they were valued at $12,645. and $16,500. 

http://www.yourwebsitevalue.com 

Kommunikation

Found this site accidentally, a pleasant surprise. Not much to it at all, but the design is simple and effective.

http://blacke.com/

VIK MUNIZ

Don't play with your food kids unless you're making Art. Vik Muniz is a very unique artist who creates imagery with traditional and not so tradition methods. His website keeps his audience up to date with his recent works at the home page. He has a sophisticated roll overs within the dot painting that introduce different contents of his website. I also like the scroll effect that happens when you scroll fast. This is an awesome website! Check out the video titled "Worst Possible Illusion", its a video about Vik explain how he makes his art and why he makes it. Click the gallery, scroll down to 2001, then click on "pictures of clouds", AND THEN click "Worst Possible Illusion". Great video!

http://www.vikmuniz.net

http://katefiano.com/

This was a simple website. I am more a fan of the artist then the website. however, i liked how her pictures were displayed.