art stuff

pretty pics for inspiration

• People’s Graphic Design Archive "A crowd-sourced virtual archive of inclusive graphic design history."
• Catalogues - The Cutters Guide Old Catalogues galore
• Make a time trip with IKEA catalogues 1951-2021 - IKEA Museum Even more catalogues!
• Public Work by Cosmos / Cosmos Huge collection of works in the public domain.
• A Rural Midwestern Outing - msx.gay These photos taken by Neocities user msx.gay are sooo satisfying to me.
• Artvee More public domain works, focus on classical and modern art.
• CARI | the Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute "...An online community dedicated to developing a visual lexicon of consumer ephemera from the 1970s until now."
• Media History Digital Library "...Millions of pages of books and magazines from the histories of film, broadcasting, and recorded sound."
• archives.design "A digital archive of graphic design related items that are available on the Internet Archives"
• Space Exploration Logo Archive What it says on the tin
• Same Energy | Visual Search Engine Strong contender for a Pinterest replacement

online painting!

• Wigglypaint by Internet Janitor SO MUCH FUN!
• JSKIDPIX v1.0.2021 | JS KidPix for the web AHHHHHH!!!

specific drawing reference

• Line of Action Figure drawing, animal reference, hands and feet and facial expressions.
• POSEMANIACS - Royalty free 3d pose reference for all artists What it says on the tin.

art publications

• Retronator // Daily pixel art and gaming news pixel art magazine

artists I think are cool af

currently on our plane of existence

• claire thompson paints 2000s celebs and makes amazing risograph zines
• simon hanselmann cartoonist behind megg mogg and owl, my fave comic series
• guy billout french absurdist illustrator. amazing art style and color pallette, i will always be trying to draw like him at the end of the day
• caroline cash cartoonist behind peepee-poopoo, great auto-bio comics and sense of humor

  no longer living

• caroline williams the most prolific artist of pen and ink cincinnati drawings. she drew for the enquirer for decades. i have tons of her prints, even an original! at some point I need to dedicate a page to her because her story is very cool.
• hergé the og, creator of tintin. his underwater scenes are my fave.
• hieronymous bosch dude was fucking metal what else is there to say
• pieter bruegel another metal dude
• glen baxter surrealist cartoonist way ahead of his time

animation

• SketchTube "The social media for animators"

• 11 Second Club - The Monthly Character Animation Competition I still haven't entered oop

  comic making resources

• Making Comics Tons of resources related to writing comics

• Comic Book Grammar & Tradition – Blambot Comic Fonts & Lettering Best style guide I've come across for word balloons and lettering
• Taking a Comic From Start to Finish - Google Docs Wildly detailed doc someone blessed the internet with
• A MOMENT OF CEREBUS: Wally Wood's 22 Panels That Always Work!! Great for thumbnail inspiration
• Comics Pages Printable templates!!!
• how to draw cartoons One of the most useful cartooning books I've ever read

  misc tools i like

• SearchTweaks Some different tools that help modify Google searches
• chronocat Really awesome day planner totally free
• textfixer *Bunch of useful tools regarding text formatting and conversion
• Free Online Image Editor What it says on the tin
• Free Online Photo Filters and Image Effects Editor - PhotoFilters.com What it says on the tin tin tin tin
• Dithermark Make photos crusty and easier for the web to process.
• pdf to booklet Useful for zines!
• Tools for better thinking | Untools Some really neat ways to visualize problems/decisions
• VERT.sh Bunch of dif type file converters
• delphitools SOOOO MANY GREAT TOOLS
• Just a QR Code Tin.

music

listen

• door.link A ton of nice long playlists. The music is pretty random genre wise but I've found some good stuff on there. No ads.
• New York Songlines: Virtual Walking Tours of Manhattan Streets There's enough songs about specific streets in NYC that this website exists to organize them. (I want this for Cincinnati. Can someone write some street specific songs please?)
• BIRP! Indie Playlists, New Music Blog, Music Videos, Latest News & More! One dude named Josh posting playlists of indie bangers for free on the internet every month
• mtv simulator What is says on the tin
• Vintage Obscura Radio Old and cool tunez
• CDwORLD :: home :: This one is so stinkin' cool omg. A bunch of folks reviewing albums and creating beautiful pixel art of each album cover!
• Cities and Memory - global sound map, field recording and sound art I don't totally know what's going on here but I like it
• They Might Be Giants at Cubby Bear Apr 15, 1988 — Aadam Radio This site has tons of concert recordings and it's searchable.
• One Album A Day - 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die Tin.

  make

• Pink Trombone Vocal anatomy simulator/speech synth
• sonic garbage Fun sampling toy
• Samples From Mars - No Compromise Hardware Samples You can get tons of free VSTs on this site. Learned about it from Porches who apparently got his drums here.
• Freesound Loop Generator*Neat sound looper that uses effects from freesound.org
• klattsch - retro vocal synth in your browser What it says on the tin
• MIDI files - Free download :: MIDIWORLD.COM MIDI galore

  web development

  design and philosophy

• Web Design Museum – Discover old websites, apps, software & Flash Games Tin.
• The Cheap Web "The "cheap" web is a solarpunk philosophy of web design."
• Learning HyperText Markup Language Properly: The HTML Hobbyist Tin.

  reference

• Free Online Interactive HTML Cheat Sheet Tin.
• Resources List for the Personal Web - Community Wiki - 32-Bit Cafe 32-Bit Cafe is full of great stuff
• SYMBL (◕‿◕) Symbols, Emojis, Characters, Scripts, Alphabets, Hieroglyphs and the entire Unicode Tin.
• Handwriting your RSS feed Still haven't done this but maybe someday.
• Creating a custom 404 page on Neocities Tin.

  web design tools

• Free Markdown to HTML Converter Tin.
• favicon.ico Generator Design a little pixelated favicon!
• Accessible Color Palette Generator | WCAG Compliant Really helpful tool when you want to make your site accessible
• Catbox Image hosting
• Pasteboard — Easy Image Uploads Also image hosting.
• HTML Cleaner - Online Beautifyer and Word Converter Make your code sparkle
• Free Online Image Map Generator Tin.
• Resources Great list of tools from sadgrl.online
• Melon's GALLERY MAKER Photo gallery generator from melonking!
• CSS – Tiny Helpers Tons of useful web dev tools
• Scroll-driven Animations Tin.
• PurifyCSS Online - Remove Unused CSS Tin.
• Broken Link Checker Tool - Dead Link Checker Tin.

  code snippets

• Web Code Tools Nice CSS and HTML generators (based on form submissions, not ai prompting or whatever
• CSS Generators - CSS Portal Same vibe as above.
• code snippets Ribo.zone has some really beautiful little snippets, my fave is the image link text on hover
• scripted - Images Nice little CSS image effects visualized in a pleasing way
• Webdeck Player Bunch of neato music players
• Animate.css | A cross-browser library of CSS animations. Tin.
• CSS Hover Effects: 40 Engaging Animations To Try Tin.
• Winamp Skin Museum Tin.

  backgrounds

• Transparent Textures You get to choose the color!
• Background Archive Retro web backgrounds
• Backgrounds More retro web bgs, tilable!
• Melon's TextureTown If you haven't been to texture town get on it!
• DOODAD.dev Gradientsssss
• Pixel Space Background Generator by Deep-Fold Really cool background generator with a nice art style

  shiny stuff

• GifCities "The Geocities Animated Gif Search from Internet Archive"
• WELCOME TO GIFCITY There's a TON of stuff here
• coco's pixel safari Dividers, favicons, stamps, etc...
• Moving internet clip art animations and Animated gifs Super retro vibes here as well
• Exploring the Retro Vibes of 1990s Cliparts And here! Tin.

  fonts and word-art generators

• Home - Velvetyne Really nice contemporary fonts
• DaFont - Download fonts First place I search typically
• CDNFonts: Free Desktop & WebFonts [BETA] Even more fonts omg
• GlowTxt - Animated glowing text generator Tin.
• Textanim - Animated Text Generator Tin.
• Fancy text generator - Flake Tools Tin.
• Free WordArt Generator - Create 90s Text Effects Online | Make WordArt Tin.

  free layouts

• teppy's layouts & tips Tin.
• Rarebit | HTML Webcomic Template Best layout for webcomics. I use it on this site!
• CSS Testpages - EGGRAMEN Tin.

  MISC Web Surfing Fun

webrings/directories/search engines

• ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you Tin.
• Marginalia Search "Prioritizes non-commercial content"
• Ye Olde Blogroll - Because blogs are the soul of the web "humanly curated list of 1283 fine personal & independent blogs and sites"
• Clew "We focus on writing by independent creators. There's no point in indexing Wikipedia; it has its own perfectly serviceable search bar."
• url.town Hundreds of links. Retro type directory.
• Gateway to the calm web Directory of "calm" websites (mostly HTML)
• Early Web Links Tin.

maps

• MapCrunch - Random Street View Tin.
• Waymarking - A scavenger hunt for unique and interesting locations in the world Tin.
• OpenStreetMap "A map of the world, created by people like you"

free media

• padma still not totally sure what this is but there's a lot to look at here
• IMG_0001 Watch random videos taken between 2009-2012
• 4,000+ Free Movies Online: Great Classics, Indies, Noir, Westerns, Documentaries & More | Open Culture Tin.
• Documentaries - watch free online documentaries - ihavenotv.com Tin.
• IPTV.garden - Watch Free Live TV Online Tin.
• Favoree - Discover and review YouTube channels Tin.
• Far Out Company — Countercultural visual overload Bunch of documentaries from the 60s and 70s
• UbuWeb Film & Video "Founded in 1996, UbuWeb is the internet's largest archive of free avant-garde materials."
• rarefilmm | The Cave of Forgotten Films – The Cave of Forgotten Films Tin.

  cincy specific

• Warren Lemay (amazing photos of cincy architecture in every neighborhood)
• Ronny Salerno - Photographer & Writer My friend Ronny's awesome blog; great photogrpahy and writing about specific Cincy locations
• Cincinnativiews Vintage postcards from Cincinnati
• Creepy Cincinnati – Cincinnati Hauntings & Urban Legends Tin.
• @handeaux on Tumblr My fave Cincy history blog
• Cincinnati-Transit.net - Visual guide to the railroads, highways, and bridges of Cincinnati. Tin.
• Digging Cincinnati History Tin.
• The Writing on the Walls: Cincinnati Blog dedicated to fading ads on Cincy buildings
• CINCINNATI - A GLIMPSE FROM THE PAST | pictures of Cincinnati, old photos Tin.

games

• Clues By Sam Daily logic puzzle, takes a sec to learn and then you can't stop playing
• Top games made with bitsy - itch.io List of games made with the bitsy game engine. I love the art style this engine produces!
• Sound Memory Game, How Good Is Your Ear? | Dialed Tin.
• Today's Puzzmo A bunch of daily, aesthetically pleasing puzzles
• Real Bird Fake Bird - A Daily Trivia Game Another wonderful art style
• Spellcheck Relive the anxiety of spelling tests
• fridgle Daily fridge poetry!
• Cellar Door "We're on a quest to find the most beautiful word in the English language. We'll show you two words; choose the one you like the most"

surf the net with elbow (misc links)

• Temp Mail - Disposable Temporary Email Tin.
• Whale following mouse Tin.
• Conversation Starters World | Questions, Topics & Games Tin.
• sketchy.boats "A living database of ships, each scored using a custom “sketchiness” scale"
• be water my friend - Coub My favorite vine
• Adel Faure ‒ Games, music, tools, fonts, ASCII art Tin.
• webcurios My fave weekly updating random link blog
• Monoskop a wiki for arts and studies
• urban exploration resource Tin. Check out the Cincy "Glencoe Hole" panorama taken by site user Trap
• https://www.ragecheck.com/ analyzes any social post you give it to see if it's rage bait
• petpet Makes a little gif of a hand petting any image you upload
• WeatherStar 4000+ Retro on the 8's Gives you the weather wherever you want with retro weather channel vibes
• The Death Generator Not as ominous as it sounds. Customizable end screen graphics from video games.
• T E X T F I L E S D O T C O M "...A glimpse into the history of writers and artists bound by the 128 characters that the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) allowed them."
• runme.org - say it with software art! Huge list of free tools people have codes and provided for you to play with
• Random Tarot Card Tin.