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This list of Links was last updated and verified on:
April 28, 1999

 

These links are a collection of sites I frequent; they have all been personally found and verified (not simply borrowed off of an existing links page). I tend to favour sites that have have high graphics content (quantity and/or quality) and that are reliable and firmly established. The vast majority of these sites have been in existence reliably for at least 6 months, and many for over a year.

 

Link Categories:
Image Archives, Virtual Galleries & Museums
Imaging Software and Design Resources
Search Engines
J.R. "Bob" Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius
Music
Movies
TV and Other Media
Theatre
Friends of Mine and other Personal Links
Miscellaneous Remnants


Image Archives, Virtual Galleries & Museums
CGFA - http://sunsite.unc.edu/cjackson/index.html - Simply the most complete medium to high-resolution collection of on-line  fine art available. Believe me, I've looked around. Everything from Madonnas to blurry churches.
*****Unable to verify, April 28************

The BC Archives - http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/index.htm - Great historical photos and much more.

EarthStation1 - http://earthstation1.simplenet.com/homepage.html - Excellent picture and sound archive, updated often. Kind   of a museum of recent historical media. From WWII propaganda posters to TV themes. Also links to great share and freeware. Well worth the visit.

Tolkien's Oxford - http://users.ox.ac.uk/~tolksoc/TolkiensOxford/ - Photos of Oxford that feature places from Tolkien's life. Noteworthy because all the graphics come in three sizes - small, large, and holy-shit-that's-large.

Close-ups of Rotting Spam - http://www.fright.com/spam/closeups.html - And other foods. If you just gotta have some images of mold and bachelor pad sickness....

The Squashed Bug Zoo - http://squashed.roach.org/zoo.html - The name says it all.

Beej's Pirate Image Archive - http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~beej/pirates/#ships -Arrrrrrr, have you ever been to sea, Billy?

The Molecular Expressions Photo Gallery - http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/micro/gallery.html -A really close look at everyday objects and other stuff.

Medieval Art - http://www.cua.edu/www/hist/netserf/art.htm - Links page to a multitude of medieval art resources and archives - manuscripts, frescos, tapestries, etc.

WebMuseum, Paris - http://sunsite.unc.edu/wm/ - I believe this guy (Nicholas Pioch) used to refer to his site as a "Louvre" site until the museum bitched and he had to change the name. Frankly,  his site is much more comprehensive that the official Louvre site, anyway.

Shakespeare Illustrated - http://www.cc.emory.edu/ENGLISH/classes/Shakespeare_Illustrated/Shakespeare.html - Paintings of Shakespearean scenes. Cool from an intersecting paradigm perspective, kind of "the brush meets the quill."

Laparoscopy.com - http://www.laparoscopy.com/ - Taking a camera places it was never meant to go. Ewwwwwwwwww.

The Cabinet of Dr. Casey - http://www.drcasey.com/index.shtml - This is an excellent horror resource. Lotsa graphics, lotsa info, attractively designed. Spatter, splatter, gore, and more.

San Fransisco 1989 Earthquake Photos - http://www.best.com/~sfmuseum/1989/89photos.html - Links to a great many different earthquake photos. Also links back to the San Fransisco Museum which is well worth a visit (many other categories of info and photos).

Art Crimes: The Writing on the Wall - http://www.graffiti.org/ - Graffiti, murals, paintings, artists, etc.

Ames Imaging Library Server - Nasa Image Websites - http://ails.arc.nasa.gov/websites.html - As extensive as you could possibly need.

Earth from Space - http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/categories.html - Satellite views, searchable by category or image map. Each image has a number of resolution choices, from thumbnail to mind-bogglingly big.

Hubble Space Telescope Public Pictures - http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/Pictures.html - The absolutely best HST picture resource. The latest images, thumbnails if you want 'em, categorized, different formats and resolutions.

Views of the Solar System - http://www.hawastsoc.org/solar/eng/homepage.htm - Very good educational resource with many images of and facts about our stellar neighborhood.

Oceanography on the Net - http://scilib.ucsd.edu/sio/dataserv/part2.html - This is part 2 of a larger resource. Pretty scientific, but has a fabulous selection of map links.

Every Icon - http://www.everyicon.com/ - A very very extensive collection of clip art, icons, bullets, and you name it. I'm impressed.

Ralph Steadman Home Page - http://www.ralphsteadman.com/ - The official Ralph Steadman site. Not the greatest, I must admit, but at least it's official.

Kurt Vonnegut Home Page - http://www.vonnegut.com/ - An excellent page from one of favorite authors - it has a great personal touch, and includes works by Vonnegut in a number of media (ever seen his illustration of an asshole in "Breakfast of Champions"? Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!)

The World Wide Web Virtual Library - Theatre Images - http://www.vl-theatre.com/images.htm - Links to a number of resources that feature images from the theatre.

 

Imaging Software and Design Resources
Adobe - http://www.adobe.com/homepage.shtml - A.k.a. Drool City Central. Ahhhh, for a gold card and a reckless nature...

Alien Skin Software - http://www.alienskin.com/ - The quintessential makers of filters. Responsible for more flaming titles and logos than I care to think about.

Aphids Communications, Resources for Icons, Images, and Graphics - http://www.aphids.com/susan/imres/ - Useful categorized collection of links to icons, graphics, and other graphic resources.

The Ultimate Electronic Publishing Resource - http://www.desktopPublishing.com/open.html -This site has access to many graphics engines, archives, and other resources. Very, very useful.

Digitopolis - http://www.digitopolis.com/frame.htm - Queens Sue and Marian rule their graphic design kingdom in Vancouver with benevolence and humour. Their site is well worth the visit as an example of site design that breaks the mold.. ****************UNABLE TO VERIFY April 28*******************

Elated Web Toolbox - http://www.elated.com/toolbox/ - UK based design group that offers a quality selection of  free graphic "kits" for buttons, pages, actions, and textures. Way cool, especially the actions.

Download Getright - http://www.headlightsw.com/getright.html - A fabulous, fabulous piece of shareware. A must have for anyone with connection problems and big files to download. Lets you do resumable transfers, can hang up when the dl is done and turn off your computer, prioritize dls, and more.

Common Internet File Formats - http://www.matisse.net/files/formats.html - Handy reference.

The ASAP Geek Glossary - http://www.asap.net/glossary.html - "The purpose of this collection is to provide real-world definitions of  common terms that come up in the fields of desktop publishing, multimedia, and the Internet. The definitions are all intended to  provide enough information to allow you to drop any of these words into conversation without fear of embarrassment."

Peer's Web Home - http://www.iae.nl/users/pouweha/ - Peer has a good collection of links to free web-oriented graphic sites (including mine - see, told you it was good).

Yale C/AIM Web Style Guide - http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/index.html - A goldmine of info about the nuts and bolts of designing web pages.***********DOWN on April 28th****************

Photoshop.Org - http://www.photoshop.org/ - A must-visit for anyone working with PS.

Laurie McCanna'a Complete List of Photoshop Tutorials - http://mccannas.com/pshop/photosh0.htm - A decent list of tips and tricks.

The Transparent/Interlaced GIF Resource Page - http://www.best.com/~adamb/GIFpage.html - Handy and informative, even though I personally care very little for GIFs. Damn limited colour palattes!

Jpeg FAQ - http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/jpeg-faq/top.html - Everything you ever wanted to know about those ubiquitous jpgs.

DaveCentral Shareware, Freeware, Demos and Betas - http://www.davecentral.com/index.html - You want it? It's probably here.

 

Search Engines
Infoseek - http://www.infoseek.com/ - Very useful! Can search the contents of newsgroup postings.

Lycos Pictures and Sounds - http://www.lycos.com/lycosmedia.html - I often use this when looking for a specific image.

Yahoo Image Surfer - http://isurf.yahoo.com/ - Another way to look for specific images. Not spectacular, but you can get lucky. Search results are in the form of thembnails, which is helpful.

Sympatico Newsgroup Search - http://www.bc.sympatico.ca/cgi-bin/searchnews.pl?keyword= - Looking for a specific newsgroup but don't know what it's called? This site searches the names of newsgroups.

Clip Art Searcher - http://www.webplaces.com/search/#lycos - Gives links to clip-art areas of HotBot, Lycos, Filez, and 1-Click. Handy. (But not currently working, it would seem)

Usenet Hypertext FAQ Archive - http://www.faqs.org/faqs/ - Looking for a place to start looking? It's probably here.

The Mining Co. - http://home.miningco.com/ - Good top-down search resource.

 

J.R. "Bob" Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius
The Church of the SubGenius - http://www.subgenius.com/ - BRAIN TOOLKIT AND SURREALITY REBOOT - Lookin for some Slack? Wanna gaze in wonder at the face of "Bob"? This site is all you need to shed your Pinkness. Huge, convoluted, and exhaustively managed and updated by the Rev Ivan Stang. Features pipefulls of graphics, sounds, multimedia, software, links and the Short Duration Online Wedding.

Universal Life Church - http://ybi.com/ulc/ordain.html - Online Ordination Page. The ULC has apparently agreed to happily endorse those Subgenii (and anyone else) who want their annointed status officially recognized by the State.

Sputum - http://www.sputum.com/ - The tireless stormtroopers of Slack, spambusters extraordinaire. Think you're helpless against spam? Check out these guys.

The Eyes of "Bob" - http://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/eyes/eyes.html - This link takes you straight to the Subsite's graphics overload. Tread carefully, footing unstable.

http://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/pics2/pics3/justushayes/ - A plethora of my "Bob" work on the Subsite (Tunnel Fork 11).

http://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/pics2/pics4/justus/ - Some not so recent anymore examples of my tributes to "Bob" (Mine Cave-In 12).

 

Music
The Official Phish Web Site - http://www.phish.com/ - Tour dates, dry goods, news, etc.

Rheostatics Homepage - http://www.xe.net/drog/catalog/bands/rheos/start.html - The official site.

They Might Be Giants - http://www.tmbg.com/  - The official site of those two wacky Johns.

Zappa.com - http://www.zappa.com/ - The Real Frank Zappa site. Lotsa everything on a great and prolific musician.

Creatures of Comfort - http://home.bc.rogers.wave.ca/ketro/creatures.htm - I do graphics for these guys. Check them out.

The Big Rip-Off - A Denial of Genre - http://www.audionet.com/shows/thebigrip-off/default.asp?info=radio - "A glorious mix of jazz, underground, funk, prog rock, movie clips, and anything else we felt like throwing in there..." Audio feed that requires RealAudio. Great surfin music - just run the feed in the background and go.

Tales from the Hip - http://www.thehip.com/thehip.htm - The official Tragically Hip site. A Canadian classic.

The Official Sloan Site - http://www.webgate.net/~maenon/sloan/ - One heavily cyber-enmeshed band. This site has everything.

The Official Everclear Website - http://www.liberty-lyle.com/everclear.html - Gettin into these guys in a big way lately. Oh, the angst!

 

Movies
The Big Lebowski - http://www.lebowski.com/main.html - Official site from the Coen brothers. Entertaining, lots of links and info. Well worth a visit.

Fargo - http://www.reellife.com/fargo/fargo-home.html - Just watched the Director's Cut of this movie and the Coen's describe it as Siberia with family restaurants. Bwa ha ha!

The Stevens Online World of Bladerunner - http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~stvens/stvens_br.htm - Much info about the movie and the game, including a game walkthrough page. Also has an online ballot that allows to vote for whether or not Deckard is a replicant.

LynchNet - http://www.mikedunn.com/lynch/ - The David Lynch Resource - Includes scads of stills.

Kubrick Multimedia Film Guide - http://www.lehigh.edu/~pjl2/kubrick/ - Lots of graphics.

Dreams: the Terry Gilliam Fanzine - http://www.smart.co.uk/dreams/ - A good source of info, interviews, and stills.

David Cronenberg - http://www.netlink.co.uk/users/zappa/cronen.html - One sick and twisted guy.

Spotlight on Tim Burton - http://www.oocities.org/~gen18/index.html - Very complete.

Alien Legacy - http://cse.unl.edu/~jraises/aliens/malien.htm - Much info on all four movies.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - http://www.fear-and-loathing.com/ - The official site. The graphics are on the weak side, but what the hell.

Film Noir Classic Images - http://www.moderntimes.com/palace/noir.htm - Half decent collection of stills.

 

TV and Other Media
PythOnline - http://www.pythonline.com/ - Official Monty Python site.

Red Dwarf Central - http://www.hmu.com:8001/gilchrist/Red_Dwarf/Red_Dwarf_Central.html. - Just one of many Dwarf pages out there, but it has many stills and photos.

Barb's Kids in the Hall Page - http://wwwvms.utexas.edu/~barbcarr/index.html - One of the better KITH sites.

The Larry Sanders Show Intranet - http://www.hbo.com/larry/ - Hey now!

The NewsRadio Station - http://www.oocities.org/Hollywood/Academy/8183/ - One funny show.

House of Firesign Links - http://www.benway.com/firesign/fst-links.html - Ok, not really  a TV link, but a damn good one all the same. Links to all that is Firesign Theatre, including the official site(s) and a number of WAV sites. Jolly good, disrespectful, subversive fun!

The Onion | America's Finest News Source - http://www.theonion.com/ - A long-running tradition of parody news. Very witty, very topical, very cutting. Are those tears in your eyes?


Theatre
Samuel French Theatre and Film Bookshops - http://www.samuelfrench.com/ - Looking for a script? They probably have it.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern: Better Next Time - http://www2.ucsc.edu/people/aspect/rng/index.html - A play written as a sequel to R & G are Dead, one in which the hapless nitwits are given full knowledge of "Hamlet." Ok, I haven't actually read the thing yet, but I will.

The Techie Page - http://www.valley.net/~fort8/Techie/ - Amusing and informative, with quotes, jokes, and many links.

The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Theatre and Drama - http://www.brookes.ac.uk/VL/theatre/index.htm - Excellent collection of links to a great number of theatre resources.


Friends of Mine and other Personal Links
D.R., a.k.a. the Doctor, a.k.a. the Scottish Bastard - http://www.interchange.ubc.ca/dwatt/index.html - I've known this guy since we were six and getting stuck in a creek on Saltspring Island.

Keith Smith, a.k.a. Ketro, a.k.a. Omadon - http://home.bc.rogers.wave.ca/ketro/creatures.htm - Mac user, bassist for Creatures of Comfort, scenic carpenter, bearded long hair and generally cool guy.

Woodies, Woodies, Woodies - http://www.woodiesrunabouts.net/ - An Archive of classic wooden boat images. Also marine oriented services (boat ads, etc). Some great examples of sexist 50s Americana. I initially designed this page for the big Lou himself, Jim Knowles.

Hiya's Hideaway - http://www.dm.net/~hiya/ - Cheryl works at the Metro Theatre (where I work) and has a very pink page here.

URUKU, Demons of Darkness - http://www.oocities.org/Area51/Labyrinth/2013/ - Bob Barton, set decorator extraordinaire,  gets evil. Really evil. Brimming over with evilbility.


Miscellaneous Remnants
SETI at Home - http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ - The site will offer a free downloadable screensaver that will analyze an accompanying chunk of radio telescope data for signs of alien communication (because it's part of the screensaver, the analyses only proceed when your computer is on but inactive). If your computer happens to be the one that uncovers such a signal, you get the credit. A must for all Mulders.

Elizabethan Curses -  http://robin.ml.org/~tstone/curse/ - Curse generator that abuses you in the language of Shakespeare.

Beyond the Black Stump - http://www.blackstump.com.au - A very, very, very, very useful collection of links. Categorized, regularly updated, far-ranging - very useful.

Michael Friedman Publishing Group - http://www.webcom.com/~friedman/ - These are the people who are publishing the coffee table book I'm working on with Jim. ************DOWN as of April 28***************

Burns Bog Conservation Society - http://www.burnsbog.paconline.net/index.htm - The largest undeveloped urban land mass in North America. Home to bears, coyotes, garbage dumps, pot growers, and police shooting ranges. It's big, it's peaty, it's beset on all sides by encroaching development.

Faux Like a Pro - http://www.fauxlikeapro.com/ - Sandra Kiss-London (love that name) has a very useful site here for people who don't have much faux finishing experience. Includes some step-by-step recipies.

BC Ministry of Transportation and Highways - http://www.th.gov.bc.ca/bchighways/jump3.htm - A link for we locals. Includes ferry schedules, road reports, avalanche warnings, and photo radar locations.

CBC Radio Home Page - http://www.radio.cbc.ca/ - What can I say? Our national identity all nicely wrapped up with Real Audio to boot.

Safety by Education Not Speed Enforcement - http://sense.bc.ca/ - So you went and got a photoradar ticket, didja? Pretty pissed off about it? Well, fight back, dammit! This site has everything you need to know.
 



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