reduxA collection of small icons in several categories such as "shopping cart", "email", etc, to illustrate the variety of ways of producing such icons.
[2004 Jun 01] [/images] [#]
Tick Tock Toys - Archives and Galleries
A collection of galleries of images from the mid-twentieth century. Mostly commercial art, such as a gallery of gumball machine cards -- the labels in front of the product that tell you what it is and try to entice you to buy it; and scans from a 1949 candy salesman book, even then Necco was able to claim more than 100 years of candy making. Interesting retro images.
[2003 Sep 04] [/images] [#]
Gallery of "Tart Cards" -- British phone booth advertisements for adult services, arranged by year of observation and categorized by type of service: medical, educational, international, vanilla.
[2003 Dec 08] [/images/advertising] [#]
Step right up and see this exclusive engagement of Johny Meah, the Czar of Bizarre. See decades of work painting signs for freak sideshows! Learn the stories! Download the desktops! Buy originals!
[2003 Nov 04] [/images/advertising] [#]
Ray Patin Studios Commercial Art
Medium sized collection of stills from animated commercials produced by the Ray Patin Studios during the 1950s and 1960s.
[2003 Sep 04] [/images/advertising] [#]
Cut and folded A4 (metric equivilent of the US 8.5"x11 sheet) paper making very elaborate models and duality statements. One example is "The Short Distance Between Time and Shadow", where the paper cut resembles a big city skyline and the folded shape is a pagoda.
[2008 Mar 10] [/images/art-sites] [#]
Arther Ganson is an artist who makes elegant machines which do no real work but are fascinating to watch. There are still pictures and movies of his work here.
[2005 Mar 11] [/images/art-sites] [#]
A beautiful collection of photos centering on commuting in NYC. Mostly subway related, but a few people on the street.
[2004 Jun 22] [/images/art-sites] [#]
Jeff de Boer is an artist whose metal sculpture includes sets of armoured neckties, helmets for small animals such as dogs and cats, full body armour for rodents, and imaginary organic forms. Cool stuff.
[2004 Mar 09] [/images/art-sites] [#]
Photography: Soulcatcher Studio: Karl Blossfeldt Photogravures
"Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932) was a German instructor of sculpture who
used his remarkable photographs of plant studies to educate his
students about design in nature. Self-taught in photography, he
devoted himself to the study of nature, photographing nothing but
plants for thirty-five years."
Many of the photos show plants resembling architectural elements.
[2003 Dec 16] [/images/art-sites] [#]
Very odd fullscreen html and javascript art.
[2003 Nov 13] [/images/art-sites] [#]
Gluebooks, girls with guns, web page collages and other eyecandy can be found at this art site. (Flash required.)
[2003 Nov 13] [/images/art-sites] [#]
Krazy Kat: The Coconino County Homepage
A website devoted to George Herriman's best known comic, the classic "Krazy Kat", perpetually "bricked" by "Ignatz" and protected from "bricking" by "Offissa Pup." [Editor's note: early strips often used "quoted" words extensively.]
[2004 Sep 27] [/images/comics] [#]
Low-res, pixelated goodness. Fat bits, light sex, robots dating humans, robots who want to kill humans, old computer game references, Uncle Grandpa the early Mac. Lots to enjoy.
[2003 Oct 03] [/images/comics] [#]
This site has many quicktime movies taken at 2000fps and slowed down. There are clips of food items being shot, guns firing, eggs breaking, etc. Small frame size, but fun.
[2004 Jan 28] [/images/highspeed] [#]
A huge collection of old postcards, some used, some not, apparently all for sale. It would be nicer if the pictures were larger, but a fine collection.
[2004 Sep 07] [/images/history] [#]
A ten image collection of extreme closeups to parts of ENIAC, the first electronic computer.
[2004 Aug 10] [/images/history] [#]
Motorcycle rides through the Chernobyl dead zone. Broken English, but poignant content. Alternate URL: UIUC mirror
[2004 Mar 29] [/images/history] [#]
A 1930s catalog of Masonic pratical joke gadgets. Lots of electric shocks and blanks exploding here.
[2004 Jan 26] [/images/history] [#]
A collection of photo postcards of the 'strange fruit' than are left from a lynching. Each includes notes, where known, about the identities, dates, locations, and stories of the hangings. Also technical details like print type, card size, notes, and inscriptions.
[2004 Jan 22] [/images/history] [#]
A history of Chrismas decorations, particularly lights.
[2003 Dec 23] [/images/history] [#]
Old typewriters, pencils, pencil sharpeners, ink bottles, pen stands, and what not. The big obvious missing thing is pens and nibs.
[2003 Dec 19] [/images/history] [#]
Mainspring Press 78rpm Record Label Gallery
American record labels to about 1943. Mostly just pictures.
[2003 Dec 11] [/images/history] [#]
Before there were vinyl records, there were shellac records. This English language site has a history in images of labels from Russian shellac phonographs.
[2003 Dec 11] [/images/history] [#]
A bunch of "robots" protesting on a college campus. Photos, video, and newspaper clipping.
[2004 May 20] [/images/humor] [#]
There is So Much to Love About China
Just one black and white image, but a fun one.
[2004 Jan 14] [/images/humor] [#]
Illustrated Catalog of ACME Products
Everything ACME sold to Wiley Coyote and other WB cartoons. Some really useful stuff here.
[2003 Oct 02] [/images/humor] [#]
NYC graffiti stickers 1992-1995
From the Nonist, a collection of stickers found on the streets of New York in the early nineties. The image of granny with the tommy gun is one I found and incorporated into a piece of art myself around the same time. I cannot remember where I found that image, though.
[2005 Mar 03] [/images/image-blogs] [#]
Tractors and the odd truck, stuck, burned out, flipped over, etc. See for example the CAT7939 dumptruck on top of a pickup truck.
[2004 Aug 05] [/images/image-blogs] [#]
A photo blog with rich, color saturated shots of Japan.
[2004 Jan 23] [/images/image-blogs] [#]
Heather's work is done with Lomos, pinhole cameras, etc. Cool stuff.
[2003 Oct 23] [/images/image-blogs] [#]
Hunkabutta: Tokyo Photos, a stranger's life in pictures
Primarily a photoblog by an "expat-in-Tokyo", but there are text postings, too. The photographer has a good eye for picking interesting shots.
[2003 Sep 03] [/images/image-blogs] [#]
PhotoBreed is a source for "high quality stock photography" and Photoshop paint brushes. It claims to be a collaboration between artists for other artists, but the details of that are vague, as are the terms of use for the images.
[2004 Mar 29] [/images/open-source] [#]
A source for "free high resolution digital stock photography". The site is a bit vague about who took the photos and the exact usage terms.
[2004 Mar 29] [/images/open-source] [#]
OpenPhoto Project Next Generation
OpenPhoto.net is a site for Creative Commons licensed photographs. The original only had photographs from the prject founder, this next generation version is open to all.
[2004 Mar 29] [/images/open-source] [#]
Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur images with a Creative Commons image mask.
[2004 Mar 19] [/images/open-source] [#]
Someday this may become a source for open licensed images, but for now it is just a plan to create such a site.
[2003 Dec 30] [/images/open-source] [#]
Open photo is one person's project to create a Creative Commons licensed stock photography source (license is attribution required). All photos are apparently taken by Michael Jastremski, and the site requires attribution for the photos go to "openphoto.net".
[2003 Dec 30] [/images/open-source] [#]
This University of North Texas Site has images and movies available for free under the Creative Commons licensing (attribution required; non-commercial use; share-alike). The site is aimed at media for educational use.
[2003 Dec 30] [/images/open-source] [#]
Juggle is a java image mosaic maker.