Links
-- 2008
A brief selection of links that interest me.
Art
- deviantART
- An online community for art and skin lovers.
- GFXartist
- Artist community with some highly talented members.
Artist websites
- Dave McKean
- Graphic artist.
- H.R.Giger
- The official website of swiss surrealist HR Giger. Creator of 'the bitch' from the film Alien.
- Liquid Fish
- Scott a. a. Bibus: Rogue Taxidermist.
- Mindsiphon
- Dark art and design by Rob Thomas.
- Sons of the Storm
- If you like Wold of Warcraft you'll love this site.
- Zdzislaw Beksinski
- Dark surrealist.
Commercial Art
- Dreamstime
- Wide range of royalty free photos and images.
- iStockphoto
- Large provider of stock images and videos.
- Stockxpert
- Quality stock images and videos.
Free Software
- Apophysis
- Freeware fractal flames creation tool.
- Blender
- GNU 3D content creation suite.
- Fedora Project
- GNU linux based operating system, with graphical user interface and software included. A great starting place for anyone new to the Linux OS.
- Gimp
- GNU image manipulation program, no way as powerfull as photoshop but has many of the fundamental tools you`ll need as a digital artist.
- Gnofract 4D
- GNU fractal creation tool.
- Inkscape
- GNU vector graphics editor.
- Notepad++
- GPL WYSIWYG editor for multiple programming languages.
- OpenOffice
- LGPL word processor, presentation program, mathematical function creator, vector drawing tool, spreedsheet and database.
- Terragen
- Scenery generator, free for personal non-commercial use.
- Uniform Server
- The Uniform Server is a WAMP package that allows you to run a PHP server on any MS Windows OS based computer. A fully powered webserver you can take with you on a USB Stick or even your camera's flash drive.
Mindcandy
- adenek: Pi The Movie
- Kewl site for a great film.
- Common Errors in English
- Alphabetical listing of many words which are often used incorrectly. Includes explanations and examples.
- Cook'd and Bomb'd
- Site centered around the work of British comedian Chris Morris and alike.
- Earth Impact Database
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- How Stuff Works
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- Visual Fun House
- Large collection of optical images and animations.
Photography
- Cambridge in Colour
- Digital Photography Tutorials.
Web Design
- AAA standards
- Not everyone has perfect eye sight and hearing, get your site to AAA standard and increase the accessibility dramatically.
- browsershots.org
- Free browser testing service, submit your website address and see how it appears on mac, linux or windows in various user agents.
- W3Schools
- Great place to lern all about web design, with some sweet referrence libraries.