Bookmarks
May 2005
I maintain a long, robust list of websites I want to visit again and again. Here is my current list of of reused and reusable links. I've grouped them by category this time, more or less conforming with my current pages. I'll consider adding descriptions for the new entries and breaking Expression into more manageable sections.
EXPRESSION
- San Francisco Center for the Book. This is a school for book artists. They have great galleries!
AlternativePhotography.com - A site for artists and photographers working with alt. photo. and processes: Galleries, forum, technical information, articles and more. I love this site. This site is packed with examples and information on alternative photographic processes, especially cool old antique processes which you can do at home with the right chemicals and some patience. I am giddy to announce that alternativephotography.com has given me gallery space to display samples of my work which utilize antique printing processes. The images can be found at Alternativephotography.com - Elizabeth Graves Gallery. [Yes, I'm using my middle name for my photography pursuits. The value of this for mail sorting cannot be underestimated. Those of you who know me by my 'school' name (Arlene) have permission to roll your eyes. Those of you who know me as Beth can wonder what the fuss is about. :-)] I will be a 'new/featured artist' in June 2005.
- Lomography.com (also lomo.com). This is a company in Europe that sells plastic cameras made by a variety of companies, especially Eastern European companies. Some of these cameras have achieved cult status here in the U.S. among artists. The Holga and Diana, for example, are plastic, light-leaking cameras that allow anyone with $25 - $50 to shoot enormous 120 mm film with surprising, artistic results. Many of the other cameras are novelties also, especially the multi-eyed cameras which result in multiple, time-lapse exposures on each frame of film. I'm fascinated by many of these, even while realizing that more solidly built cameras are my thing. The website includes searchable databases of users' work - a really clever project to 'map' the world using toy cameras. The compulsive organizer in me is thrilled by this.
- Stock Artists Alliance - photographers' galleries. Not only do I love seeing what other photographers working in stock are doing, I also love the simple, straightforward layout and functionality of the pages. This is an advocacy organization for stock photographers.
- Slowpoke Comics. These are great! I need to add her to my list of favorite comics.
- Cafe Andre 2005 photo contest. TCB Cafe Publishing is holding a competition for two books they plan to publish, one of which is about orchids. Oh yes. If there's anything I have photos of, it's orchids. So I entered. The deadline is the end of March, for those of you reading prior to the deadline.
- Communication Arts magazine/competition.
- Shutterbug's list of photo contests. See a pattern yet?
- Center for Fine Art Photography's call for entries. LOOK at the galleries associated with this place. OH MY GAWD. Some of these artists are GENIUSES. I am unworthy to look directly at their shoes. Wow.
- Napa Valley Mustard Festival Photography Contest. Pretty mustard. Pretty Napa.
- Women In Photography - competition.
- Artdeadlineslist.com. I need to spend more time looking at this one.
- California Coastal Commission photography contest. Yes, California IS beautiful enough even for government agencies to solicit promotional photos.
- Workbook.com's calendar "&" contests. I am becoming predictable...
- Library of Congress Prints and Photographs. RB sent me this link, which is to the collection of on-line images maintained by the LOC, mostly from historically significant photo projects. It's great stuff.
- Camera Club of New York: competition. You can stop yawning at my boring, repetitive interests now.
- Alamy.com. My stock photography agency. Yes, I picked one in England. It's a long story, but not an interesting one.
- aegraves.com. My photography gallery website. Yes, of course I'm still toying with it. These things are NEVER finished.
- 28 mm. A great, semi-defunct photography magazine.
- Photographer Tina Maas.
- Cianotipos - cyanotype toning. Great toning recipes.
- Q Photo: toning cyanotypes. More recipes AND examples of all of Suzie Q. Varin's clever recipe tests! This gives a great idea of what can be achieved through toning.
- PhotoArts Santa Fe - 3rd Biennial Festival of Photography. I am unworthy...
- Bryant Laboratory. My local photography chemical supplier for alt process work.
- SandPit. S' defunct band's page.
- San Francisco Bay Area Book Arts.
- KCSM 91.1 FM | The Bay Area's Jazz Station. Our best local jazz radio station.
- UMFM Web Radio | downtempo internet radio stations | Universal Metropolis. This is how I found my current favorite net radio station, Limbik Frequencies.
- Mike Ware: A Defence. Yes, he's British, so he's allowed to spell defense that way. This is about using older photographic processes without nostalgia.
- Christina Edwards - other processes. A gallery.
- Health warnings for alt photo process chemicals from jtbaker.com: POTASSIUM DICHROMATE and AMMONIUM DICHROMATE.
- About alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca. This is THE big mailing list for photographers working in the 'alternative' processes.
- Health & Safety in the Arts: Photography Chemicals (ci.tucson.az.us).
- pinhole.org, a pinhole community.
- APUG.ORG: Analog Photography User's Group.
- Photoblogs.org - The Photoblog Resource.
- alternative photos from digital negatives.
- PhotoMigrations Community for Nature Photographers.
- S.F. Black & White Gallery Fine Art Photography, "Photography, Local Artists, Black and White, B&'W Photography, Photography Gallery, San Francisco Images, Digital Printing, Corporate Art." What is corporate art? Fancy gas company logos? :-)
- PhotoAlliance.
- zeroimage pinhole calculator.
- lens culture: photography and shared territories.
- Photo-Libris Photography Book Publishing Symposium.
- Pacific Center for the Photographic Arts.
- Fotovision.
- anseladams.com.
- San Francisco Public Library Home Page.
- Photoethnography.com - Photoethnography Equipment.
- Kodak Professional: Technical Publications List by Pub Number.
- post-factory photography.
- PBase Photo Database - Photo Hosting - Photo Sharing - Web Photo Galleries.
- OMG3.COM - Sites and Sounds observed by Oliver Graves. My talented cousin.
- HP Digital Photography center - Article - Creating a photo book.
- Star Wars Fan Film Awards -- Only on AtomFilms.
- Albumen.
- The Kamakura Print Collection Home Page.
- Barefoot College Programmes - Solar Power.
- IUOMA - Ruud Janssen - TAM. Mail art.
- Obey Giant.
- Mail Art : A Pathfinder.
FOOD
GEEK
- BOINC FAQ. For those of us running distributed computing systems using the BOINC software system. (I am running climate models for Oxford via climateprediction.net, to help scientists understand possible weather systems resulting from global warming. I leave my computer on day and night for this purpose.)
- mail2web.com. This is a page for those of us with PPP e-mail accounts to access them from any web connection. I prefer the secure option (there's a link for it on this page), but the W3 has issues with the ampersand in that address, no matter how I encode it.
- HTML coded character set. This is where you look up how to do cool foreign characters, copyright symbols, and other things that don't turn up in HTML without encoding.
- Epson Stylus Color 600 working in OS X. This is a message on the macosxhints.com forum about how to get my printer to work with Apple's latest operating system, DESPITE the fact that those lazy freaks at Epson failed to write drivers for any of their machines that aren't currently being manufactured. I understand why - they want me to be part of the disposable society. But that is wrong.
- Sourceforge: gimp print. This is the non-Epson, geek-love-manufactured driver for my Epson printer that works beautifully with OS X. The only thing that's missing is my ability to print exclusively with black ink.
- VueScan Release Notes - OS X. This is a third party scanner driver for my Epson scanner, which is a lifesaver because again, the slackers at Epson don't support their older products anymore. (I am not actually running this, because I haven't budgeted for the adaptor required to connect my ultrawide SCSI scanner to my USB2 or FireWire ports. It's $80+!!!)
- FireWire UltraSCSI converter. A product which, if I spend the money, will make my scanner work with my new Mac.
- Web Page Design for Designers - Editorial July 2004 and a related Mac OS X font set list. Because I was actually losing sleep over which fonts to use on my new site. Yes I was. Yes, it is sad.
- The W3C Markup Validation Service. If my hopeless geekdom had not yet firmly cemented itself in your mind, the fact that I frequently have my sites validated as HTML 4.01 Transitional tells you something. Though my cousin thinks I should switch everything over to XML. Oh dear.
- Transparent Backgrounds in Photoshop. A how to from mediacollege.com.
- Hex Hub Color Codes. Because I lost the bookmark to the site I used to use, and Google recommended this one.
- ClimatePrediction.Net gateway. Climate research on global warming by Oxford. I'm participating in this. Or, more precisely, my new dual processor computer is crunching numbers for them all the time.
- Technorati: Using Technorati Tags
- Basics of Spaces, on how to make spaces in HTML and other web publishing languages and tools.
- Avery Print - produce PDFs for use with your Avery labels.
- MacLinkPlus Mac File Converter allows you to convert Windows to Mac, and back.
PEACE
WORLD
WORLD - LOCAL
- Campaign to Save the Golden Gate Park Windmills. I recently visited the windmills, one of which is a little holey, the other of which is headless, and was bummed to learn that the plan to restore them was supposed to have been completed two years ago.
- Conservatory of Flowers. My favorite building in Golden Gate Park, an often destroyed Victorian greenhouse.
- Chineseparade.com. Information on San Francisco's Chinese New Year parade.
- -=* 17 Cent Bags *=-. This is a local maker of reusable cloth bags, named after the fact that SF spends big bucks cleaning disposable plastic grocery bags out of trees, sewers, etc. and might impose a bag fee to cut down on, or change, the way people handle the bags.
- Valley Spokesmen Bicycle Touring Club - Cinderella Classic. My favorite local ride. There's nothing like rolling through the countryside and 'burbs with 2,500 women and frequent stops for food!
- Carnaval SF parade.
- NoCal Cherry Blossom Festival.
- Western Neighborhoods Project. This is a site about the development and history of western and southern San Francisco.
- PIER 39 web Camera.
- Nihonmachi Street Fair.
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