I love personal websites and art
It takes me back to my childhood of going on websites plural. Not sinking three hours into a social network site. This list is partly for me to keep track of them. To avoid link rot I have included sreenshots and internet archive back up links. The higher on each list: the more recently I have added them.
And this is a personal site. All the coolest sites have a page of cool links. It might be the only way to really find human made writing. I love people's about pages. I love neocities pages where they have a list of items in their plush collection or whatever they love. I should make a shrine page or something. Anyway: my cool links page.
Sections
Interesting Web Design // Zine Collections // Web Comics // 18+ Web Comics // Twitter Comics (incl. 18+ entries) // Tweets // Artists // Writen works // Other // Sites to explore
Interesting web design
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Solar Protocol - Beautiful use of a limited colour pallet and shape. Contains art projecst and more. "This website is hosted across a network of solar powered servers and is sent to you from whichever server is in the most sunshine."
Virgil Abloh - Late Off White fashion designer's guide on creating a brand. Great bold use of type.
Real Life Mag - Neat ordered design.
Flesh.Direct - Minimalist directory style with wonderful illustrations. Also links to other websites they have made.
K. M. Claude 18+ art - Faux desktop interface site on Neocities.
MelBirnkrant.com - HTML4 portfolio site from a toy designer of the toys that never got made. archive
Diymuir.com - Doyala Muir, animation director portfolio site. Bold site with huge animations when hovering on icons. Breaks on archive.org
Blake Planty's personal site catboy.club and sister sites catboys.exposed and elfboys.com are doing a neocities kinda thing. archive archive archive
ALIENMELON, unicornycopia, and Tetrageddon - Maximalist hell. Also makes all kinds of cool stuff like Electronic Zine Maker, a 'flash' style game Mackerel Media Fish, and ASCII Paint.
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Zine archives / collections
Punk Planet Archive - 1994 - 2007 Chicago punk subculture zine.
- Razorcake - archive.org collection of a punk zine 2001 - 2020.
- Iron Feather Journal - Long running zine. Started with BBS and Phreaking info.
- Yesterweb Zine
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Great Comics
I love (web)comics. This is separate from the main art section because there (will) be so many of them. There is also an 'adult' section later down the page.
- What is a Glacier? - Sophoe Yanow's quiet comic about grief for relationships and climate change.
- Rigsby, WI - Teens messing about.
- A Softer World - A classic. Poetry rather than narrative.
- Hark! A Vagrant - History and literature jokes I researched to understand when I was 17. Many you may recognise. Kate Beaton more recently wrote Ducks, which is the best thing I have read so far this year.
- "Lenny" by David Cooper - Simpsons' characters stuck in time
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Adult Comics
When I was making the comics list I realised there were a lot of these.
- SUS.SPACE - SUS standing for SEX.ULTRAVIOLENCE.SNUFF means this is not for everybody. I'd reccomend "Rotten, Or: Gorehound's retrospective" as "an autobio comic about repeated exposure to irl gore in the era of web1.5's internet." which I have been thinking about since it came out two years ago.
- Starfighter - I was obsessed with this in 2014. Sci Fi Gay Erotic Romance. It is rough and dirty and beautifully drawn.
- Mickey + Jessica - Same authour as above. Lesbian romance with dark themes. Currently ongoing.
- Oglaf - started as smut, now smut comedy. The archive page marks the SFW entries.
- Chester5000 - Man builds steampunk robot to 'entertain' his wife.
Great comics on Twitter
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The thing with everyone being on social media means some of this stuff is only on social media. There are good comics on Twitter. Here are some I remember/bookmarked.
- Italy with Bà Ngoại by Trung Lê Capecchi-Nguyễn. Travel comic with Grandma
- Black Tears by Fanfi - A zine about the times my mother cried.
- Untitled body horror comic by Wes
- More Splending than Ever by Lucy Knisley. 2 pages. It is about putting her cat down. The Justice by LAI KAI. What makes a murderer?
- AN IMPISH ESCAPE - Fun little b&w comic about an imp. Incomplete?
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Tweets/Threads
- Game boy camera web cam
- Transparent video screen as PC case screen
- Jordan Peterson Haunted Bust Video
- unable to find the source.
- DALLE-2 AI Variant Animation #1 (2022)- Rare good AI art. Surreal video artist Alan Resnick discribes his process of curation in the twitter thread below it. A serise of images starting from the prompt "a bad photo" and continuing via requesting variations. Also on YT.
- "the best-selling single of every decade all the way back to 14,000BC" - Thread of short fake tracks. Gets odd.
- Grand Design. Small. - Model railway style figures make their own version on Grand Designs. Twitter thread in 16 posts.
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Multidiciplinary artists
Inspiration for myself as that is what I want to be.
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Writen works
- We, the Girls Who Did Not Make It - Short story that rules. The women who did not survive the serial killers.
- The story of how I screwed up a dose calculation and gave myself gender dysphoria for two days. - Cis Male Dr mixes himself Estrogen face cream for skincare but takes a 200% dose. archive
- 404 Page Not Found by Kate Wagner. "The internet feeds on its own dying dreams"
- Heaven or High Water - Selling Miami's last 50 years. Sarah Miller pretends to be househunting in a flood zone. archive
- Air pollution rots our brains. Is that why we don’t do anything about it? by James Bridle. "Mental pollution comes in many forms."
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Other works
- POTTERGAME - Kate Barret's hacked together Harry Potter game. Collect those magic beans.
- Ready Player Fuck - same dev as above. Explore a world of pop-culture references and stolen assets.
- Self-Induced Hallucination (2018) - Incredible 'found-footage' essay(?) full of youtube clips about slenderman to tell the story of the cultural phemomenon of slenderman. Dir. by Jane Schoenbrun and linked on her twitter one time.
- CANON EF LENS MOUNT FOR GAME BOY CAMERA 3D printed lens mount and example photos.
- Discernment.CRX - browser extension makes a music video out of news sites.
- You Are Jeff Bezos - Fantastic choose how to spend billions Twine. Maybe made a point about bilionaires when I showed it to my dad?
- Twitter post - This is a clip of American Psycho where Bateman is wearing headphones but it blasts Mr Brightside.
- MONSTERBREEDER.COM - Free browser game of catching and combining monsters to sell to collectors from King of throwing art online Neil Cicierega.
- Rhymes with Orange comic of the future - "A cartoon that you can virtually jump into and explore." set in an art gallery.
- Blackout Poetry Generator
- Google Maps Hacks 2020 - 99 smart phones walked around in a cart to simulate a traffic jam.
- GIFAANISQATSI - A random Koyaanisqatsi
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Cool sites to visit/explore
- World Writing Systems - View scripts by time or region or status. Beautiful simple site.
- One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age - Digging through the Geocities Archive with a Tumblr for screenshots
- Winamp Skins Museum
- National Diet Library Image Bank - 100s of public domain artworks from Japan.
- Below the Surface - Catalog of thousands of items dredged up from a Amsterdam canal. Decend the page to go from 2005 (Mobile phone, metro card, tear gas canister) past 1700s belt buckles and 1500 chain mail fragments to 2800 BC (Beaver bone and pottery fragment). Or search by keyword, material, size, use, origin...
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2021-2023