See and Say

Conclave Obscurum - SEE site

Sat, 16 Jun 2007 22:09:13 -0400

http://www.conclaveobscurum.ru/

Woo... Interesting art site...

Newspaper Jewelry - SEE (and maybe buy some) site

Fri, 21 Jul 2006 20:24:55 -0400

Newspaper Jewelry - Unique Jewelry Gifts consisting of Comic Strips, Crossword Puzzles, Stock Listings, and Expired Coupons

I just saw this on "Unwrapped: Mixed Up" and this is just totally cool! I love the idea of things that are unique and one of a kind and this lady definitely has created a cool, fun, unique style of jewelry! Check it out!

I found over 600 spam messages left on these pages.*

Tue, 11 Jul 2006 18:29:58 -0400

And I HATE cleaning up spam, so sorry... I can't allow comments here anymore... :(
Again.

MoveOn.org Civic Action: Save the Internet = SAY site

Mon, 10 Jul 2006 00:44:10 -0400

MoveOn.org Civic Action: Save the Internet

Go there. Learn about it. Sign it.

I love the internet just the way it is.
Help keep it ours and not theirs.

Vintage Postcards and e-cards = SEE site

Wed, 7 Jun 2006 09:07:07 -0400

Vintage Postcards and e-cards - old antique post cards stock art Postcards Stock Images Photos Ecards Art

This place is fascinating! I used their ecard service once and it worked great. I could spend hours looking at the postcards there and reading the notes on the backs of them too. Interesting stuff. If you like old vintage photography and graphics you'll enjoy this site.

The Element and Friends Web Site - 2006 Honda Element = SEE Site

Wed, 31 May 2006 00:08:11 -0400

The Element and Friends Web Site - 2006 Honda Element

I'm not really a fan of the car... I really don't know anything about it, but I just love that darned crab.

The site's interactive so it fits with other interesting interactive sites I have listed here. Check it out.

Welcome to the Atari History Museum = SEE Site

Wed, 24 May 2006 08:05:40 -0400

Welcome to the Atari History Museum

I once had an Atari 600xl, an 800xl and eventually over the years picked up a 1200xl. Computers have come a long way, baby.

ToolbarVideos.com - SEE Site

Sun, 30 Apr 2006 20:15:11 -0400

Orphic Endeavors - The Lighthouse - ToolbarVideos.com

Hey, this place is pretty cool. I found it while running a routine search to see what coming up under "Orphic Endeavors" in Google. I ended up spending about an hour watching music videos by Depeche Mode, Enigma, Peter Gabriel, and of course, Orphic Endeavors. ;)

toothpaste for dinner = SEE Site

Sat, 29 Apr 2006 00:43:58 -0400

toothpaste for dinner - "the most addictive comic on the web"

my friends or should i say fiends like pizzage

-nathan

Check this one out! Odd little drawings and stuff!

::::site update::::

Mon, 24 Apr 2006 15:58:39 -0400

I've decided to allow comments here again. I noticed today that a couple of links are no longer working so if you know of any that don't work anymore please post a comment or send me an email. Thanks...

Flickr: Myst =SEE site

Sun, 23 Apr 2006 01:27:29 -0400

Flickr: Myst

Anyone who knows me well knows I adore Myst and Riven. Every so often I get in the mood to do a little 3d art and I listen to the Myst and Riven soundtracks and get a little nostalgic. Now, of course, I also have RealMyst and URU and Exile, etc., but those first two games are the joy of it all for me. This SEE site is full of photos of things that seem to resemble Myst and Riven in the real world. Take a look around... Short, but good fun.

tinselman = SEE site

Tue, 11 Apr 2006 09:08:48 -0400

tinselman

Oh my God! I had no idea this was here! I am a huge fan of Robyn Miller's soundtracks for Myst and Riven, sometimes listening to them every day for months at a time... His music is a large part of the inspiration behind my own Orphic Endeavors. This site has links to music he does now, art he has done over time and other cool stuff. If you are, like me, tired of the "Star Wars"/"George Lucas-type" monster that Rand Miller's MYST game series has become, go to Tinselman and see how the other half of the Miller brothers creates. Please listen to the music too. I'm not a fan of lyrics and singers (except for opera and choirs) but the music is unmistakably Robyn Miller.

Surreal Coconut = SEE site

Mon, 10 Apr 2006 08:31:12 -0400

atoposes, poetic spaces, and modern ruins: surrealist urban exploration, industrial archaeology

More great photos of urban exploration.

The Easter Egg Archive = SAY site

Mon, 3 Apr 2006 18:04:08 -0400

The Easter Egg Archive: Hidden secrets in software, movies, music and more!

Hey, Cliff's Dad found this site and sent it to me. First thing I saw was an entry talking about an easter egg in the first episode of Futurama that I didn't know was there! Now I'll have to go back and watch it again!

This place has lots of fun easter eggs in all sorts of things... Check it out.

Thingamablog - BloggerMap = SEE site

Sun, 2 Apr 2006 14:43:38 -0400

Thingamablog - BloggerMap

This a brand new site, and you'll have to give it a little time to really get going, but for those of us who use Thingamablog software (about 85% of my site is done in TAMB) this thing is darned cool!

worksongs : urban exploration photography = SEE site

Thu, 23 Mar 2006 21:32:32 -0500

worksongs : urban exploration photography

This is another place I spent a huge amount of time exploring... Not as many photos to see, nor was every shot something that interested me, but it inspired me to want to learn more about my own camera and try to find better ways to take pictures. Very enjoyable and apparently updated nearly every day.

opacity.us - Abandoned Photography = SEE site

Thu, 23 Mar 2006 21:29:41 -0500

opacity.us - Abandoned Photography

I thought I had linked to here before, but I hadn't. This place is just amazing. I spent three days here working on "Abandoned Hospital" and looking at the wonderful photography. Grab a snack, put on some creepy music and stay a while. (If you buy my album "Abandoned Hospital" when it comes out next month and play it while wandering around here, you'll get the exact feeling I had while making it.)

Am Geek - Will Travel = SAY site

Thu, 23 Mar 2006 21:25:08 -0500

Am Geek - Will Travel

I made an entry for this site yesterday but bpgisme.com was moved to the new server today (as scheduled) and I lost the last five days entries on all my MySQL based blogs. So, here it is again! :) Check out this informtative and interesting techie kinda computer info site! Lots of interesting info and links.

Locations - Abandoned Photography and Urban Exploration : opacity.us = SEE Site

Sat, 4 Mar 2006 20:59:03 -0500

Locations - Abandoned Photography and Urban Exploration : opacity.us

Wow... I can't tell you how much this site has helped me as I work on my new album "Abandoned Hospital". One photo even inspired the music for "Elevator Shaft". Anyway, if you're like me and you love urban exploration but can't actually go do any, you would really enjoy this site. Great photography and a few interesting stories... Good info about the buildings and their once and future lives. Check it out.

LoveHKFilm.com = SEE and SAY site

Sun, 12 Feb 2006 01:42:48 -0500

LoveHKFilm.com

I just watched the movie "Fulltime Killer" and was doing a little looking around to see what fun stuff I could find out about it when I discovered this page: http://www.lovehkfilm.com/features/hk_trip_3.htm
Then I looked around and what do you know, this site is interesting! So, now I have a new SEE and SAY link for the world. Check it out if you like Hong Kong cinema as much as I do. :)

Ruins = SEE Site

Thu, 26 Jan 2006 03:21:06 -0500

http://www5e.biglobe.ne.jp/~ruins/stone/stonetop.html

Though the navigation is a bit troublesome, the photos are well worth the work. Please spend some time here looking at these amazing photos.

milov.nl = SEE site

Tue, 24 Jan 2006 03:39:45 -0500

milov.nl

I always enjoy looking at other people's photography. It's funny to me that no matter where you are in the world, people tend to take pictures of the same things... At least artistic people do.

Here's a link to my own photography gallery...

-> Storynest <- =SEE site

Sun, 22 Jan 2006 20:17:43 -0500

-> Storynest <-

On closer inspection I discovered even more interesting stuff to look at. Amazing... This site kept my attention for over an hour. Closer to two or three... That's the mark of a great website.

Nest Lab = SEE site

Sun, 22 Jan 2006 18:42:26 -0500

Nest Lab

Amazing and a lot of fun... This place has very interesting and at times quite beautiful interactive art. You can spend some nice quiet time here for a while.

Shogun Armory = SEE site

Wed, 18 Jan 2006 03:26:29 -0500

Shogun Armory-providing the finest in Samurai Armor, Gusoku, Menpo, Samurai Kabuto, Japanese sword, Samurai armour.

Wow... It's an amazing thing just to look around... I know most of us can't afford to buy Samurai armor for close to $30,000, but still, the photography of these objects is amazing and they include a history of the objects as well. It's well worth a little time to look around here if you have any interest in Samurai history at all.

Falling Sand Game - hosted by Chirag Mehta @ chir.ag = SEE Site

Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:32:50 -0500

Falling Sand Game - hosted by Chirag Mehta @ chir.ag

Wow... This thing is tremendous fun. I was searching for something relaxing to do for a short while and my daughter sent this to me. Very nice. Listen to some Tibetan Monks or soundscape-type music while you play with it and it becomes very relaxing...

Nice.

NORAD Tracks Santa 2005 = SEE site

Sun, 25 Dec 2005 06:06:17 -0500

NORAD Tracks Santa 2005

Awww... Gee.... I wish I had seen this every year the site's been up, but tonight I just happened to wonder if there was any way we could know right where he is. (I want to stay up too late and watch Southpark.)

Amazing how they do that!

INTERESTING IDEAS: Outsider art, roadside art, eccentric culture = SEE site

Mon, 28 Nov 2005 12:59:49 -0500

INTERESTING IDEAS: Outsider art, roadside art, eccentric culture

I spent a good deal of my evening here and part of my morning. This place is full of photos of old signs and interesting road side things. Grab a snack and take a long look around. It's fun!

Foon.co.uk - Hapland = SEE site

Wed, 23 Nov 2005 06:03:32 -0500

Foon.co.uk - Hapland

This one looks really cool. My teenage son has already played it and says it's hard but he did it. I guess I'll see for myself here in a minute. It looks really cute, though I killed a little guy once by letting out that thing in the box.... Pay attention to caution symbols!

Ruins deflation spiral? Place of my secret? = SEE Site

Mon, 14 Nov 2005 04:40:42 -0500

Ruins deflation spiral? Place of my secret?

After having just watched "Ju-On, The Curse" I was in the mood to see some abandoned buildings in Japan. Here's a great site filled with beautiful photographs of buildings and other things. Check it out.

(This site is in Japanese, but it translates very well in Babelfish. Photos really need no translation however if you choose not to translate. The Japanese characters in the title of the page were gibberish in this weblog, so I had to use Babelfish to translate the title. I apologise for that. I would prefer visitors being able to see the original title. Sorry. This is a limitation of this software.)

Aquaria: Flash Adventure Game = SEE site

Wed, 9 Nov 2005 19:12:42 -0500

Aquaria: Flash Adventure Game

Just starting this one... It looks pretty. The most Myst-like of any of the ones I've played so far.

Penance = SEE site

Tue, 8 Nov 2005 20:38:03 -0500

Penance - Point and Click Games - GamersHood.com - Online Games Paradise

I haven't played this one yet. I hope it's good!

SWAN'SROOM = SEE site

Tue, 8 Nov 2005 20:36:20 -0500

SWAN'SROOM

I haven't finished this one yet...

thedoors = SEE Site

Tue, 8 Nov 2005 20:20:04 -0500

thedoors

A little bit frustrating at the end, but fun anyway. Very short. Played it while waiting for Max's school bus.

Noob's Room - Escape The Room Flash Game = SEE site

Tue, 8 Nov 2005 04:33:13 -0500

Noob's Room - Escape The Room Flash Game - GamersHood - Online Games Paradise

Very brief, but fun anyway...

not pr0n = SEE (and think) site

Mon, 7 Nov 2005 22:47:32 -0500

not pr0n

I'm only on level 11... This place is so hard! My advice is make sure you keep notes! I've been saving all my answers in notepad as I go so I can get back to where I stopped and not have to resolve puzzles.

Another thing... It's really hard not to see spoilers when you search on Google. Doing that thing they suggest, putting "-www.notpron.com" in your search really doesn't help much. You still see dozens of sites working on this same puzzle. Be careful when searching!

My only complaint is that I have to use Internet Explorer to play through this thing. I am not an IE fan and don't like being forced to use it. There was a plugin you could download to be able to hear the sound in Firefox, but plugins sometimes really freak out my computer so I didn't want to take that chance.

****UPDATE****
Okay, I got up to like, level 33 or 34 or something like that. It had actually gotten easier. I think I was starting to understand better what I was supposed to be looking for. I must admit though, getting "help" from their forum was useless. I got more help from just my kids sitting here next me and brainstorming. It is a highly addictive and absorbing game, but, the creator is a bit well, creepy. I've read some of the other threads at the forum there and I have to say, I don't care much for the bunch. A game should be fun, right? And some people like walkthroughs, right? I wanted hints, not a walkthrough because a walkthrough destroys the fun of the game. But, when you go to the forum there and look in their directory by level of hints most of the time you get nothing. Not a thing. I had to go elsewhere to find true hints. Not cool. Now, when you search Google, I don't care how many different ways you do the search, you nearly always see Not Pron links come up. That means there are thousands of sites out there with answers emblazoned everywhere. So, the creator changes some of the answers. Okay. That's cool. No problem. I actually tried one of the "wrong" answers to see what would happen and I got a little image calling me a cheater and telling me to go back. But the more I think about it and the more I read what goes on over there the less I feel I can promote this "Not Pron" site. Frankly, I say go to Google and type in some random word and click image search. It's more fun. And you find really cool websites that way like this one: http://home.f01.itscom.net/spiral/ or this one: http://www.angryalien.com/. Anyway, if you still want to go to Not Pron, enjoy. I think I am done. I know I could solve the puzzles, but damn, I hate turning on IE for anything....

kao fu-sen = SEE Site

Mon, 7 Nov 2005 05:24:58 -0500

%u9854%u98A8%u8239

More like a game or a brain teaser and very very weird.

Flash � The ZoomQuilt = SEE site

Mon, 7 Nov 2005 05:01:30 -0500

Flash � The ZoomQuilt

This one is brief but fun. Check it out.

TheHOUSE = SEE site

Mon, 7 Nov 2005 04:57:01 -0500

TheHOUSE

Holy cow.... Weak heart? DON'T GO THERE! Geez! This place got me! Whoa! That completely freaked me out! Eeek!

Helen Harrison's Artwork = SEE site

Thu, 19 May 2005 11:25:18 -0400

Helen Harrison's Artwork

Nice... Fooled me. I thought the fruit was real when I did a Google search and stumbled on the site....

Ad Classix - SEE Site

Tue, 26 Apr 2005 04:25:27 -0400

Ads

Wow! Check out these vintage ads! They are for sale, but it's just a joy getting to browse through them! Click on the "view all ads" graphic and you'll see the site map with a complete list of every ad on the site. Great stuff for researching too. Lots of fun to look around...

BruceWillis.com - SEE and SAY site

Tue, 12 Apr 2005 02:47:57 -0400

BruceWillis.com

Wow! Now that's the kind of site I'd like to see everyone do! Bruce is so cool anyway but his site is fantastic! And look, he likes Strong Bad too!

Did You Ever Have A Dream Like This?" Fantasy Photographs -- American Museum of Photography(SM) = SEE site

Wed, 23 Mar 2005 02:21:55 -0500

Did You Ever Have A Dream Like This?" Fantasy Photographs -- American Museum of Photography(SM)

So, I was looking through a magazine and there was this article about engineered fruits and vegetables and there was this photo of two guys standing on top of a giant corncob on a cart being pulled by two mules. I thought, no way that's real... So I looked it up and sure enough there was this guy back in the early 1900's who was doing what is now refered to as "Photoshopping" waaay back then... Amazing.

The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Robot swarms invade Japan! = SAY site

Sun, 13 Mar 2005 01:15:43 -0500

The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Robot swarms invade Japan!

And if THAT wasn't enough, check THIS out!!!!!

"A government report in January predicted that every household in Japan will own at least one robot by 2015, perhaps sooner."

By 2015? Wow! So, here's a question, I know they're programmed with the fundamental 3 laws of robotics, right? But what about computers? Are they? Because while we aren't likely to get a robot any time soon, we do have five computers in this house....

Valerie in the press = SAY site

Sat, 12 Mar 2005 21:52:43 -0500

Valerie in the press

Okay... I admit. Mom told me about this one, and she read about it in the paper and I found the link through CNN, but anyway, it's a robot receptionist. Cool huh?

Pinhole Pictures = SEE Site

Sun, 23 Jan 2005 08:00:30 -0500

Pinhole Pictures

Wow! I just spent quite a while here. These are just fantastic pictures taken using a pinhole camera, but it's not just the camera that's cool. These little worlds, all handcrafted, are the cool part. Some are disturbing. Some are whimsical. All are great fun. Check it out for yourself!

poetry, photos - Ashabot & SkyRiverPress - reddog review, readable theatre, errata, zines, travel = SEE Site

Sat, 15 Jan 2005 01:41:45 -0500

poetry, photos - Ashabot & SkyRiverPress - reddog review, readable theatre, errata, zines, travel

I am a sucker for photo sites. I love them. I love looking through other people's eyes at the world. It's the reason why I have such a huge collection of photos on my own site: bpgisme's photography gallery. I just love cameras. Anyway, there's some cool and interesting photos here. Have a look around.

Neon Art Gallery of neon sculpture & neon art Installations by neon artist Ehlenberger = SEE site

Sat, 15 Jan 2005 01:36:06 -0500

Neon Art Gallery of neon sculpture & neon art Installations by neon artist Ehlenberger

Interesting neon objects of art. I've always liked neon, but I've never had any neon lights myself. I've passed them up before because they were beer signs or whatever. Now if you could find one cheap that spelled out bpgisme, I'd buy it!

Minimalistic Wallpapers = SEE site

Sat, 15 Jan 2005 01:32:50 -0500

Minimalistic Wallpapers

Well, really, I've had this link in my "Add to See and Say site" folder for a long time because I wasn't sure I really should add it, but the images are really cool, so why the heck not? It's just a site of wallpapers you can download.

Great Lakes Carbon Foundry Exploration = SEE site

Sat, 15 Jan 2005 01:27:30 -0500

Great Lakes Carbon Foundry Exploration

Sorry I've been away so long! Finally I'm getting back to my projects! So here I am, at last, and this is a link to an "Urban Exploration" site, though it appears to be far from an urban area....

Welcome to Ugly Christmas Lights.com! = SEE Site

Sun, 12 Dec 2004 18:59:31 -0500

Welcome to Ugly Christmas Lights.com!

I had intentions of posting this site about a week ago but Max starting driving me crazy and I had to quit. Unfortunately, Max is STILL driving me crazy but I think it always going to be that way, so I figured what the hell, so here it is. Check it out. Lots of cool Christmas lights. I, for one, happen to like flashy Christmas lights. In fact, the more the merrier.

Here's a photo of our house from out front this year:

And one of our neighbors on a different street:

See? Cool.

Ducky = SEE site

Fri, 3 Dec 2004 00:34:04 -0500

Ducky

Did you ever see the movie Amelie? There is a side story along the way in this movie where Amelie makes her father think about travelling by stealing his gnome and sending it on a trip around the world with a friend. (The idea's been stolen (poorly done though) by Travelocity and I don't know but I certainly hope that Jean-Pierre Jeunet was paid for the use of the idea.) Anyway, here's an idea along those same lines, but this time it's a duck and I believe he's travelling via a motorcycle? In any case it's a fun place. Take a look at the album and wish you were there.

Venetian Carnival Masks = SEE site

Tue, 30 Nov 2004 13:40:39 -0500

Venetian Carnival Masks

I know Halloween is over, but these masks are works of art. And priced that way too. They are really pretty though.

Online Museum of Shopping Lists = SEE site

Tue, 30 Nov 2004 13:29:28 -0500

Online Museum of Shopping Lists

Smaller than Grocery Lists but fun anyway.

Forgotten Towns Pinelands Pine Barrens = SEE site

Tue, 30 Nov 2004 13:22:08 -0500

Forgotten Towns Pinelands Pine Barrens

I have a fascination with forgotten places and things. Towns that no longer exist, homes decaying and rotting away, factories growing vines and weeds, etc. This is a site about forgotten towns full of photo and a little bit of history. Very nice photography.

Forgotten Roads Photography = SEE site

Tue, 30 Nov 2004 13:18:41 -0500

Forgotten Roads Photography

Photos of roads and roadside attractions left behind in time. Fairly short, but fun anyway.

explodingdog 2004 = SEE site

Tue, 30 Nov 2004 13:00:19 -0500

explodingdog 2004

I found this place a long time ago and I actually sent in a title. I don't know if he ever did anything with the title I sent because I lost the link to the site and the email I sent. (I'm not particularly well organized.) Anyway, it's a bit, um... strange for lack of a better word but interesting.

F u n d a m e n t a l m a d n e s s = SEE Site

Tue, 30 Nov 2004 12:56:05 -0500

F u n d a m e n t a l m a d n e s s

I am a 3d artist myself, and I've played around with Truespace before (the demo version), but in the end I learned on Moray and Povray so I kind of stuck with them. Maybe I should have tried harder to learn something else? Oh, wait... It was the $395 price tag that made me not learn it... Yeah. Oh well, anyway, these images are beautiful.

Jan Ternald - Featured ArtsForge Gallery = SEE Site

Tue, 30 Nov 2004 02:03:08 -0500

Jan Ternald - Featured ArtsForge Gallery

Yet another interesting artist. I don't remember how I stumbled on this one. I just remember I really liked the work and thought I should link to it. Please check it out. There's a lot of surrealism which is one of my favorite things.... maybe it's because I just finished working on building the Cable Cars of Zander robots, but I really like "Cyber 3".

Welcome to the LaRoche Gallery = SEE site

Tue, 30 Nov 2004 01:55:52 -0500

Welcome to the LaRoche Gallery

The more you learn about me as you look at my huge website bpgisme.com the more you will find I have a tremendous love of art of all kinds. Every time I find a site filled with art that interests me I put a link to it here on SEE and SAY. I found this actually from looking for sculpture sites, and though I like the sculptures shown here, I believe it's the paintings which captured my attention. For some reason the color red seems so full of depth in these paintings. I think of wolves and the color red when I think of this artist. See for yourself.

Shizue's Picture letters in English = SEE site

Tue, 30 Nov 2004 01:48:51 -0500

Shizue's Picture letters in English

Beautiful. Simple elegance. These "Picture Letters" are lovely. They remind me a little of the Griffin and Sabine books.

Pat's Backyard Bird Cam - Wild Bird Cam - Oklahoma City = SEE site

Tue, 30 Nov 2004 01:41:21 -0500

Pat's Backyard Bird Cam - Wild Bird Cam - Oklahoma City

I've had this sitting in my bookmarks for some time meaning to post a link to it here. I found it while trying to relocate LivePiipShow. I watched a squirrel come and have lunch one day.

Japanese Snacks.com - Pocky and other popular Japanese Snacks - Created by Elaine Barlow = SEE site

Tue, 30 Nov 2004 01:35:16 -0500

Japanese Snacks.com - Pocky and other popular Japanese Snacks - Created by Elaine Barlow

I really have no idea exactly what to think about this place. It makes me want to try some of the snacks though. Anyway, the site is an experience in BIG and LOUD and BRIGHT and DYNAMIC! In fact it reminds me of a photo I saw of a street in Tokyo. Brightly colored signs everywhere... Almost too much to take in all at once. Fun. And it makes me kinda hungry....

The catalogue of UK Entrances to Hell = SAY Site

Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:03:02 -0500

The catalogue of UK Entrances to Hell

Okay... Why is this listed as a SAY site when it's a site of photos of "Entrances to Hell"? Well, I went here from a list of links on Urban Exploration which I have a huge armchair kind of passion for. I expected scary disturbing doors. What I found was a bunch of anything that looked remotely door-like. In other words, this was NOT what I was looking for: http://www.entrances2hell.co.uk/page277.html I was looking for stuff more like this: http://www.artm-friends.at/
The flip side of this is that the little blurbs under each picture are pretty funny in a dark and twisted sort of way and THAT's the reason why I list it as a SAY site rather than a SEE site.

Ruin - Japan = SEE Site

Mon, 29 Nov 2004 02:02:01 -0500

Ruin - Japan / Enter

I was wandering around the internet when I stumbled on a page of photos of Tokyo. It was interesting, but what was more interesting to me were the decayed backsides of some of the buildings. So, that led me on a search to find decaying buildings in Japan and from there I discovered this site filled with ruins. I used a translator and read every page and examined every photo. It's avery interesting site. Take a look.

By the way, the abandoned ferris wheel was the creepiest!!!!

Are you tired? = not a SEE or SAY site

Mon, 22 Nov 2004 16:45:57 -0500

Are you tired?

Yes. I am. More than I could ever say.

Hours Of Darkness - Night Photography = SEE Site

Sun, 14 Nov 2004 05:51:50 -0500

Hours Of Darkness - Night Photography

This link came to me in email! I am a member of the yahoo group "Abandoned North Carolina" (abandoned_nc), and these folks just emailed the group to let us know they have some new photos up! This stuff is great! Night photography! I wish I could do stuff like this! Spend some time here, in the dark... I am right now!!!!

Nationally awarded Compelling Illustration, Photography, Assemblage and Photography Workshops = SEE Site

Wed, 10 Nov 2004 03:52:25 -0500

Nationally awarded Compelling Illustration, Photography, Assemblage and Photography Workshops

Wow! Still looking around here. Nice photography. Nice art too.

This Is Broken = SEE Site

Tue, 9 Nov 2004 03:12:05 -0500

This Is Broken

I have an interest in signs and machines and things like elevators and odd staircases that go nowhere and such, so this place is quite a find! I was actually researching ghost ships, or rather vessels that have been abandoned on the ocean and such and are or were still floating. (Mostly because I just saw that movie about the Mary Celeste.) In this search I found this page through the Google image search: http://broken.typepad.com/b/place/ Now that's not exactly a happy playground. I notice there's no children about either. Anyway, I looked around and this looks like a site I can spend some time examining. Check it out!

Philip John Evett Homepage = SEE Site

Fri, 5 Nov 2004 20:12:03 -0500

Philip John Evett Homepage

One thing I have always wanted to try but have never really had the chance is sculpture. In some ways my messing around with 3d rendering is part of that. I guess even building the website itself is an extension of that.

These pieces vary wildly to me. Some of them I don't like, an example is: MILLENNIUM. I just look at that and I see a small hunting knife with legs. But then there are some of these that I think are fantastic like: PASSENGER #3. The female forms that are more "complete", meaning they have heads and bodies and legs (though most don't seem to have arms) are very reminiscent of fashion drawings particularly of the 1950's and 1960's. I used to handcraft high fashion dolls and sell them to fashion doll collectors and I went through hundreds of fashion books from those time periods as well as the the 1920's and before for ideas for my dolls. But, alas....though some sewing probably IS sculpture, mine was unfortunately just to make a buck.... Kills the joy and the beauty, I think... Anyway, enjoy looking at these pieces.

Ron Chespak Paper Sculpture = SEE Site

Fri, 5 Nov 2004 14:52:50 -0500

Ron Chespak Paper Sculpture

Excuse me, but AAAAAAGGGGGHHHHIIIIEEEE! While I don't deny that this sort of art can be difficult I really think that $10,000 for a wrinkled piece of paper cut to look like a tank top is ridiculous! Give me $10.00 and I'll do the same thing. Geez. And though I'll admit the grand piano is beautiful, I don't think I'd pay $75,000 for it. That's what we owe on our HOUSE. Good lord. Tell me people have better ways to spend their money... It's just really unfair. I can't get anyone to buy a $10 T-shirt with an original painting on it and yet this guy can cut up a wrinkled piece of paper and earn half of what we live on in a year. Ugh.

Glacier Girl - The Lost Squadron (Recovery of a P-38 from beneath a Greenland ice cap) = SAY Site

Fri, 5 Nov 2004 14:13:56 -0500

Glacier Girl - The Lost Squadron (Recovery of a P-38 from beneath a Greenland ice cap)

Wow! What a story! The initial crash and rescue of the men was interesting alone, but then the thought of those planes ending up beneath 268 feet of ice is just amazing. And just think, there are still a whole collection of planes they left behind including a B-17. Imagine in the future... Someone finding those one day... This may sound stupid, but I kept thinking about the X-Files movie and that giant UFO that was hiding under the ice. Amazing.

Weird Art = SEE Site

Thu, 4 Nov 2004 07:18:03 -0500

Weird Art

More of the same.... Bad art... Or at least, um... different art...

The Museum Of Bad Art (MOBA) = SEE Site

Thu, 4 Nov 2004 06:21:36 -0500

The Museum Of Bad Art (MOBA)

I'm getting good at related sites....

Anyway, I just thought I'd add this, since I was just talking about "bad" art. I haven't looked around yet but I'll be this is gonna be fun. I'm gonna go grab a snack and settle down for this one.

ARC International - The Art Renewal Center = SEE Site

Thu, 4 Nov 2004 06:01:40 -0500

ARC International - The Art Renewal Center

I don't think much of the site design in Firefox. I'm not sure how it behaves in IE but the popup menu gets in the way and refuses to go away at times, but the art is beautiful and the reading is interesting.

I do not agree with some of the views expressed here, as I am a fan of most art and include Modern Art in that, but other things I do agree on so I guess you take the good with the bad and get what you want out of the articles. Otherwise though, the fantastic quality of the images is very pleasing to this artist's eye and I enjoyed that very much.

In regards to one of the articles, I will only add that my only complaint with modern art is random art... I once watched an episode of "That's Incredible" (showing my age again) where a man stood behind a jet plane while the engine was running and splashed paint on a canvas. It was stupid and ugly then and still is, but what this man at the ARC was speaking of as being "bad" is not the same thing. Though I am not a "fan" of Picasso I can see that what he did was art. And there is a school of thought that says realism isn't art, so there. Again, I do not subscribe to that myself, because I was ridiculed by my teacher in art class for my pencil drawings being too realistic and not "arty" enough. I can see both sides to this argument on both and I have to disagree. Realism is art, and Modernism is art. I guess what I feel is this: An artist mentally conjures up an image in his mind. He creates that image in a physical form. That is art. When a man splashes random paint on a canvas letting it be blown off by the wind of jet engine that is not pure art. That is an experiment with paint. That is like rolling paint covered marbles on pieces of paper in grade school. Then it becomes a "craft project" and not really a piece of pure art. That's what I think anyway... As Dennis Miller would say, "I could be wrong."

Unusual Museums of the Internet Web Ring = SEE Site

Thu, 4 Nov 2004 05:43:28 -0500

Unusual Museums of the Internet Web Ring

This is more like a "you gotta see" site. I found the last two sites here. Fun.

Now... Back to something more serious.

The Virtual Toilet Paper Museum = SEE Site

Thu, 4 Nov 2004 05:41:38 -0500

The Virtual Toilet Paper Museum

Yep. You guessed it. Okay... I really have to get off the "potty" humor for a bit and back into serious website listing!

Unusual Museums of the Internet - Toilet seat museum = SEE Site

Thu, 4 Nov 2004 05:38:30 -0500

Unusual Museums of the Internet - Toilet seat museum

Just make sure you lower the seat when you're done. Hee hee... Here's a site that's in no small way related the that last one on toilets....

Which, in turn will lead me to my next SEE Site....

Sulabh International Museum of Toilets = SEE Site

Thu, 4 Nov 2004 05:35:44 -0500

Sulabh International Museum of Toilets

Why not follow up a museum of moist towelettes with, you guessed it, toilets. I was looking for a different site I saw a long time ago on toilets to put here when I found this one. This one is fancier, so there. Plus there's some learning to be had here as well. I'm all for that....

Moist Towelette Online Museum = SEE site

Thu, 4 Nov 2004 00:56:47 -0500

Moist Towelette Online Museum

AAAGGHHIEEE! I found this place a long time ago and forgot all about it! So much fun! Check it out!

grocerylists.org | The Grocery List Collection = SEE site

Thu, 4 Nov 2004 00:54:09 -0500

grocerylists.org | The Grocery List Collection

First the UK and now the US! I love grocery lists!

Online Museum of Shopping Lists = SEE Site

Thu, 4 Nov 2004 00:41:51 -0500

Online Museum of Shopping Lists

Being a person who writes lists like these and later crams them while in the checkout line in a handy pocket and finding them much later, sometimes a few months, sometimes a whole year later, I can appreciate this site. Grocery lists. Really. Fun!

George and Audrey DeLange Homepage, Egypt, Europe, Scotland, Israel, Mexico, Guatemala, Hondorus, Arizona Travel. = SEE Site

Wed, 3 Nov 2004 06:25:12 -0500

George and Audrey DeLange Homepage, Egypt, Europe, Scotland, Israel, Mexico, Guatemala, Hondorus, Arizona Travel.

I'm probably going to be here a few hours! What got me here was the "Old Man Of Copan" showing up in a Google image search for "old roads". I am a fan of all things old generally and archeology specifially so this site is just fantastic! Lots of beautiful photos of places I'm not likely to ever see myself. Stunning stuff...

Forgotten NY = SEE site

Wed, 3 Nov 2004 06:07:48 -0500

Forgotten NY

Wow! This place has all sorts of cool stuff to see... I found it while doing a Google image search on old roads. To call it a "SEE site" isn't really fair because it's really both a "SEE" and a "SAY". History lessons abound! Of course I had to go look at the clocks first.....

www.JaneAndrews.co.uk - Home Page. = SEE Site

Tue, 2 Nov 2004 14:57:07 -0500

www.JaneAndrews.co.uk - Home Page.

By now I guess you can tell I like art. Well, here is a site that's actually a collection of works by someone named Jane Andrews. I found it while doing a Google image search on the word "Sideways" and the resulting painting, "The Art of Looking Sideways" inspired me to see more. Why was searching the word Sideways? Well, I noticed during my Dr Pepper image search that a lot of folks put photos up on their sites without changing the orientation. I don't know why. It's not that hard to do. But anyway, I thought I might find someone's site with nothing but sideways photos. Instead I found these nice works of art. Still looking for sideways photos though...

Roadside Architecture = SEE site

Tue, 2 Nov 2004 14:46:30 -0500

Roadside Architecture

I found this one while doing a random Google search on Dr Pepper. (There's photos of a giant Dr Pepper sign on here.) The site really looks like fun though I haven't finished looking at it yet. It's full of photos of a lot of roadside stuff; signs and such. Check it out. Lots to see!

bottlediggers home = See site

Sun, 31 Oct 2004 07:16:21 -0500

bottlediggers home

I stumbled on this place just now while eating a bit of a late night snack and typing in random words in Google. Can you believe this? People dig up bottles in old trash piles from the Victorian era! Amazing! And what a lot of cool stuff they find too! Makes my adventures in the thrift store seem too easy by comparison!

HTML Kit for more than editing HTML = Software I use

Fri, 29 Oct 2004 21:36:06 -0400

HTML Kit for more than editing HTML

I still use Netscape composer the most, but I love HTML KIT! It will edit everything all in one page. It can find and replace text and it color codes everything so you can find stuff easier. So useful!

Thingamablog = software I use

Fri, 29 Oct 2004 21:33:57 -0400

Thingamablog

I use Thingamablog for one third of this website. Honestly, the only reasons why I even found Thingamablog are because my webhost was going through some frequent downtimes while setting up new servers and I wanted to be able to write entries and save them offline to be posted later, and the other reason was because I didn't want to go through uploading each image one by one when doing my galleries. I wanted to be able to upload it all via ftp and use a table to display it in the blog. Thingamablog can do that. I edit the html and get it how I want it using Html-kit and Netscape composer and then I upload the code in my Thingamablog. Works like a charm.

Nucleus CMS = software I use

Fri, 29 Oct 2004 21:29:29 -0400

Nucleus CMS

Very cool. About a third of this site is built using Nucleus. See my next entry to find out what one of the other thirds is built in.

Alone a Nucleus blog is okay, but with all the available plugins and the massive documentation Nucleus is definitely a cool thing to use and probably the best CMS out there.

Now if I could just figure out how to get it look like I want it to....

(I'm a high maintenance user.;) )

Thunderbird - Reclaim Your Inbox = Software I use

Fri, 29 Oct 2004 19:27:00 -0400

Thunderbird - Reclaim Your Inbox

Used to use Foxmail which is a good program, but I recently had to change and found myself with Thunderbird and so far it is absolutely great! No complaints at all!

Firefox - Rediscover the web = software I use

Fri, 29 Oct 2004 19:24:53 -0400

Firefox - Rediscover the web

The best browser in the world. Customizable and cool.

Piero Rombi (PIERRE) Exhibit - ArtAreas.com = SEE Site

Mon, 25 Oct 2004 00:29:18 -0400

Piero Rombi (PIERRE) Exhibit - ArtAreas.com

Okay, I found one! I like these.

Maybe you should visit the entire site: ArtAreas.com. Very cool place.

Irene Christensen Exhibit - ArtAreas.com = SEE Site

Mon, 25 Oct 2004 00:24:58 -0400

"Irene Christensen"

Irene Christensen Exhibit - ArtAreas.com

Now why can't I paint like this? I think these are fantastic. I'll go look around the parent site and see if there are any other great things to share.

Mordvin Aethnofuturism - Y.Dyrin's Aethnofuturistic Paintings = SEE Site

Sun, 24 Oct 2004 20:19:52 -0400

Mordvin Aethnofuturism - Y.Dyrin's Aethnofuturistic Paintings

Discovered this one during a Google image search while looking for that road trip page. I really like Mermaid, Mordvin woman, Forest Deer, Big village's fish, Disguised, The Hobgoblin, Cognizer of the Self, Pegasus, and dreamfirst. Okay. I pretty much like all of them. See if any strike your fancy....

Grandma Knapp's '37 Road Trip = SEE Site

Sun, 24 Oct 2004 19:57:15 -0400

Grandma Knapp's '37 Road Trip

I saw this site a year or two ago and I hunted it down just so I could post it here. This is a little window into one woman's world as she goes on a road trip with her husband and his sister and her husband in 1937. One of things I found so interesting about this besides the great photos and the little tidbits of info you learn as you go were the pages of expenses that she kept as they went. She kept track of how much everything cost the whole way and how much they spent as they went. To go completely through the trip takes a while, so settle down with a glass of something and a snack for this one.

LivePiipShow = SEE Site

Sun, 24 Oct 2004 18:09:19 -0400

LivePiipShow

This is a "peep" show that's not what you'd expect. It's beautifully decorated bird "boxes" that host various small birds and their families in exchange to filming them and turning them into an internet reality show. The live feed isn't on currently, but there's recorded segments from the last live shows online. This place is just so cute. You can't help but smile and go "awww". My Mom would like the miniatures too.

B.R.a.i.n.S.h.o.w = SEE Site

Sun, 24 Oct 2004 04:39:34 -0400

B.R.a.i.n.S.h.o.w

Yay! I really like this site and I wanted to link to it for some time, but everytime I would come back nothing worked. Today, however, I came back and look! It's working again! This place is fun! Too short, but fun anway!

Eterea Estudios (Artwork of Cristobal Vila) = SEE Site

Sun, 24 Oct 2004 04:35:45 -0400

Eterea Estudios (Artwork of Cristobal Vila)

Please watch "Snakes"! You won't be disappointed! I am a fan or Escher so it's not surprising I would like that i guess, but still, it's beautiful. The movement, everything. Then check out the rest of the artwork. Astonishing. I wish my 3d art could look like that.

------------- naive --------------- = SEE SIte

Sun, 24 Oct 2004 04:30:31 -0400

------------- naive ---------------

I thought I had already reviewed this one but I can't find the entry if I did.

The art is very good and the jokes are funny, but somehow the cartoons felt sad. Although a lot of people apparently really like "Max and Isa", I found it depressing. "Words" was cute, and of course, I don't really play games, so you'll have to try them for yourself.

safeplaces.net = SEE Site

Sun, 24 Oct 2004 04:21:48 -0400

safeplaces.net

It's short and sweet really. Just what you see as far as I can tell. Click on things. Make trees grow, flowers sing, mushrooms jump for joy, and the little guy listen to some music. Fun.

esao = SEE Site

Sun, 24 Oct 2004 04:17:46 -0400

esao

Another artist's website. I found it while looking for photography, I think. The interface is really neat, like you're looking in a dollhouse. The paintings aren't so cute! The paintings are more... dark? Anyway, check it out!

conclave obscurum = SEE Site

Sun, 24 Oct 2004 04:13:25 -0400

conclave obscurum

This is the site of an artist. The site design is interesting, but the art is the reason for the site I think. The art reminds me of the painted parts of 99Rooms. I'm not sure if there's any connection, but I don't think there is.

Afterlife | the 4 seasons of Steatham Cemetery ---------- site by Jonathan-Clark.com, Montreal web design = SEE Site

Sun, 24 Oct 2004 04:08:25 -0400

Afterlife | the 4 seasons of Steatham Cemetery ---------- site by Jonathan-Clark.com, Montreal web design

This one is so cool. And this time of year, around Halloween, it's just really appropriate! Make sure to visit here when you can have a little quiet in the house and not be disturbed. There are nice sounds as well as nice visuals.

Flying Puppet = SEE Site

Sun, 24 Oct 2004 04:04:09 -0400

Flying Puppet

There are many interesting interactive artworks here.

noodlebox = SEE Site

Sun, 24 Oct 2004 04:00:50 -0400

noodlebox

Settle down and stay a while. There's a lot of interesting things here to play with and/or watch.

NobodyHere = SEE Site

Sun, 24 Oct 2004 03:56:37 -0400

NobodyHere

I enjoyed this one. It's weird and very, uh... personal? This guy seems very lonely and maybe... uh... paranoid? It's cool though! Check it out!

Yogatori / ヨガ鳥 = SEE Site

Sun, 24 Oct 2004 03:53:44 -0400

Yogatori / ヨガ鳥

I found this place because I stumbled on Kikkoman from a links page on someone else's site, back tracked the URL and here I am! Anyway, these are really weird! Check them out!

box7box = SEE SIte

Sun, 24 Oct 2004 03:48:35 -0400

box7box

There isn't a whole lot here to play with, but if you click the yellow box and then click "works" you end up at a page with two interesting interactive things. One is called "Tiny Grow" and the other "6+=1". Both are neat, but I really like "Tiny Grow" the best.

D:N/10.8 = SEE Site

Sun, 24 Oct 2004 03:44:23 -0400

D:N/10.8

Similar to Superbad again. Neat. With some sound.

Mantlepies = SEE Site

Sun, 24 Oct 2004 03:42:01 -0400

Mantlepies

Lots of interesting things here. Some funny stuff too.

Vectorpark = SEE Site

Sun, 24 Oct 2004 03:41:01 -0400

Vectorpark

I go back here every now and then just to play around. It's a playground really and very fun.

AOOA = SEE Site

Sun, 24 Oct 2004 03:33:12 -0400

AOOA

This one has a slight Matrix feel about it, what with the phone and all....

{ maniacs.nl } = SEE SIte

Sun, 24 Oct 2004 03:31:17 -0400

{ maniacs.nl }

HA HA! I forgot about this one! Oh the poor little birds! And the kitty!

lecielestbleu.com : week-end = SEE Site

Sun, 24 Oct 2004 03:28:05 -0400

lecielestbleu.com : week-end

I'm not sure why, but for some reason this one reminds me of M. C. Escher. I backtracked to the home page, but I'm pretty sure this page is the reason why I saved the link.

Secret Garden = SEE Site

Sun, 24 Oct 2004 03:22:16 -0400

Secret Garden

This one is apparently a game. I haven't tried to finish it all the way through though. It's one of those almost cryptic games that you need a walkthrough to get through. Okay, I need a walkthrough to get through it! I admit it. I'm not much of a game player unless it's made by the Adventure Company or it's one of the Myst series.

Check out the home page too... Yenz. Turns out Secret Garden won awards! Very nice! The music is quite beautiful...

(sic)culture = SEE site

Sun, 24 Oct 2004 03:15:20 -0400

(sic)culture

This one is filled with music and a kind of poetry as well as interactive art.

S C R I B B L E R = SEE Site

Sun, 24 Oct 2004 03:12:43 -0400

S C R I B B L E R

I needed a stained glass window for a story I was working on and in the search for that I stumbled on this. Play with this thing for a while. It's so cool! I back tracked the URL to the home page, but I haven't really checked it out yet.

samorost = SEE Site

Sun, 24 Oct 2004 03:07:21 -0400

samorost intro

This one is like an interactive movie. Very cool. If you back track the URL you find yourself here: http://www.amanitadesign.com/. If you click "Flash Games", there are a couple more interesting things. Samorost is my favorite though.

XXXXXXXX = SEE Site

Sun, 24 Oct 2004 03:03:13 -0400

XXXXXXXX

Another interactive and constantly moving playground. Fun. A little noisy at times.

-- il mondo del Fubbs -- = SEE Site

Sun, 24 Oct 2004 03:00:45 -0400

-- il mondo del Fubbs --

Another beautiful site. Interactive and interesting and very clever.

----- 夜光虫 ----- = SEE site

Sun, 24 Oct 2004 02:57:50 -0400

----- 夜光虫 -----

This is like musical fireworks. Beautiful.

otogai = SEE Site

Sun, 24 Oct 2004 02:06:21 -0400

otogai

Uh.... Okay. Uh... What can you say about this place? I really have no idea. I like the opening with the two guys and the bird costumes. Everything else? Weird and sometimes incomprehensible. Enjoy.

Bilbana = SEE site

Sun, 24 Oct 2004 02:02:35 -0400

Bilbana

Build a toy race track and race against a bird. Really.

lecielestbleu.com : magic world = SEE site

Sun, 24 Oct 2004 02:00:48 -0400

lecielestbleu.com : magic world

Very weird. Had to fiddle a little to get used to moving around. Pay attention to the square holes. I didn't notice them the first time. The annoying clicking noise right at the start is the butterflies. Get away from them and the clicking stops. Interesting and weird. I'll have to go back and look around more.

M-A-G-I-C-R-O-B-O-T = SEE Site

Sun, 24 Oct 2004 01:55:40 -0400

M-A-G-I-C-R-O-B-O-T

Slow but at times very cute. Maybe a little cryptic. Strange background!

86 the onions = SEE site

Sun, 24 Oct 2004 01:46:50 -0400

86 the onions

Oh boy.... I'm not sure exactly what to say about this site. Check it out and decide for youself. Whew!

flow = SEE site

Sun, 24 Oct 2004 01:38:51 -0400

flow

This place is so strange. It has a surreal quality about it. Be sure to go to the home page and check out all the links including the archives. Some of it is a bit too... gross(?) for my tastes, but if you like really strange flash movies, you might enjoy this.

euh? = SEE Site

Sun, 24 Oct 2004 01:18:06 -0400

euh?

This is another one I linked to on my weblog back when I discovered it. (Before the days of SEE and SAY.) Interactive links that do things. After a while of clicking it starts to get repeticious, but there's a map in the corner on the home page, so just get to the pages you haven't through there if you prefer. Fun for a while.

yugop.com = SEE Site

Sun, 24 Oct 2004 01:14:44 -0400

yugop.com

I linked to this on my weblog back when I first discovered it. It's another "toy" site filled with cool interactive gadgets. I really liked "Video Logic" the best and hooked up my own camera to test it out. So cool! Enjoy!

Moonflowers by Don Barnett = SEE Site

Sun, 24 Oct 2004 01:09:58 -0400

Moonflowers by Don Barnett

(Getting the feeling I mostly look at websites rather than read them? I am too...)

This place is beautiful. It's been a while since I've been here and wandered around, but it seems like I was a little disappointed when I ran out of things to look at. Beautiful, imaginative artwork and very interesting original design. Very nice. Eye candy. Enjoy.

unosunosyunosceros = SEE SIte

Sun, 24 Oct 2004 01:05:23 -0400

unosunosyunosceros

This place is like Superbad, but louder. I'm not fond of the sounds at all, but the interaction is interesting. Sort of. It's okay. Not one of my favorites, but interesting anyway.

Tsunami Text Translator = Non SEE or SAY but useful anyway!

Sun, 24 Oct 2004 00:59:14 -0400

Tsunami Text Translator

This thing is just so useful. I go to sites all over the world and though I've used Babelfish a lot (out of love for Douglas Adams I might add) this place will translate Japanese characters! Including Kanji! Very cool!

jon's delusions of talent = SEE site

Sun, 24 Oct 2004 00:54:37 -0400

jon's delusions of talent

I found this a while back during a Google image search for a lamp Cliff bought me at a thrift store. I was trying to learn more about my lamp which turned out to be from the 1950's and in the process stumbled on one of this guy's illuminated art pieces. I think they're really neat. I think my favorite is the Zen Box but I also like The Cure and Composition No. 2 and Cage Lamp.... Okay, I like all of them. I have a thing for lamps....

Angry Alien Productions, Sase and Topsie = SEE site

Sun, 24 Oct 2004 00:33:01 -0400

Angry Alien Productions, Sase and Topsie

Ah.... Simply too short... I really wish there were more of these. I could think of about a thousand movies they could do too. In any case though, if you like "cliff notes" you love these bunnies. I've never really had any interest in "The Shining" or "Jaws". (Especially "Jaws". We live on the beach! You just don't watch "Jaws" when you live on the beach and are terrified of the ocean in the first place!) So, this website gives you the gist of a small collection of "classic" films, "Alien" (one of my favorites), "Titanic" (overblown and hyped ridiculously... I admit it, I just can't stand Leo... Besides he looked about ten years younger than her. Not to mention shorter.), the aformentioned "Jaws", "The Shining", and "the Exorcist" (which you would think I would have seen, but I haven't). Each one is less than 30 seconds as portrayed by bunnies. Fantastic!

My husband found this site and sent it to me.

- Kings Park Psychiatric Center - = SEE Site

Sun, 24 Oct 2004 00:14:02 -0400

- Kings Park Psychiatric Center -

I feel a little dumb about this one on two counts. First, I couldn't figure out how to get in from this main page. I've just been to so many websites where you click the door or the doorknob or whatever the image is that it didn't occur to me for quite a few long seconds that maybe I should click the words under the image. Click and there you go. Right in the door. This is where the words "click to enter" might come in handy to us dummies.

Anyway, dumb count number two is, I can't remember why I found this place. It had to do with a conversation with Nathan? Or a reference in a movie review I read? Or both? It had something to do with a movie. I do know that. Crap. I just can't remember. In any case though, it's another site filled with photos of an abandoned asylum. The history is interesting as well.

undercity = SEE site

Sun, 24 Oct 2004 00:06:56 -0400

undercity

Another really cool underground "city spelunker" site. This stuff is just so cool. Having never lived in a truly big city myself (the largest I've lived in was Wilmington, NC) I really have no concept of what it must be like for there to be all these cool tunnels and streets under your feet in big metropolises! I read where in some really older cities that there are layers and layers of these underground worlds beneath the streets and the buildings. Visions of Anne Rice's vampires flicker in mind while gazing at these dripping places. Permanent darkness. I wonder if there are blind mice?

Abandoned Asylum = SEE site

Sat, 23 Oct 2004 23:56:08 -0400

Abandoned Asylum

Appropriate for Halloween I guess, but I found this link some time ago and as I have a back log of sites to review and post here I figured I better get going on it. I keep adding places to the list. Anyway, check this out if you like dark creepy torchered places. Lots of photos and other interesting things.

It's very white for a photo site. Most of the time photo sites like this are dark... It gives the viewer a creepy hospital like feeling, unintentionally I think. You can almost smell the antiseptic tinge in the air...

Standing But Not Operating = SEE site

Sat, 23 Oct 2004 23:49:36 -0400

Standing But Not Operating

Lots of closed or abandoned amusement park photos. Fun.

Kibo : Kibo : Virtual Reality Tour: Menu = SEE site

Sat, 23 Oct 2004 23:36:42 -0400

Kibo : Kibo : Virtual Reality Tour: Menu

The truth is, there's lots to see and lots of stuff to read here too. I chose not to link to the top page because this was how I found this place. I had just typed in some random words and got this link and I thought it was really funny. The Orange Cones pages are my favorite, but the idea of going to an aquarium and not taking pictures of the fish is perfect so I highly recommend this site to peruse and wander for refreshing enjoyment.

And speaking of refreshments, check out this page! Kibo's Fake Dr Pepper Roundup. As a Dr Pepper-holic I laughed my head off at this page. I actually subject my kids to Dr. Thunder from Walmart because it's only 50 cents a 2 liter. They and my husband always try to tell me it tastes just like Dr Pepper, but I guessed better and now I know better! Ha!

Dirk H.R. Spennemann, Modern Shipwrecks in the Marshall Islands-- Photo Essays = SEE Site

Tue, 19 Oct 2004 04:35:28 -0400

Dirk H.R. Spennemann, Modern Shipwrecks in the Marshall Islands-- Photo Essays

Just pull up a mouse and have at it. This stuff is fascinating. If you have an interest in abandoned buildings there is nothing more surreal than a huge section of a ship just sitting there decaying on an island beach. Check these oddly creepy photos out. It's almost as if you are looking at humanities' end.

the World as a Blog = SAY site

Thu, 7 Oct 2004 02:33:46 -0400

the World as a Blog

Well, it's sort of a "SEE" site too, but since the content comes from random weblogs all over the world I feel I really have to call it a "SAY" site.

Anyway, click the link and watch the tiny dots pop up. It's neat to think the world can fit on this screen and you can actually see and interact with someone on the other side of the world at this exact moment. Anywhere. Man, the internet is just so cool.

maruto - once upon a forest = SEE site

Thu, 30 Sep 2004 19:06:26 -0400

maruto - once upon a forest

This one is over too quick, but the art is very nice.

superbad = SEE site

Thu, 30 Sep 2004 19:03:25 -0400

KSBD-TV40

This is the one that started it all for me. This place made me want to build my own webart. Unfortunately, I'm just not as good at making random pages and my own version falls kinda flat.

Lightning and Tornado Photography by Stormguy = SEE site

Wed, 29 Sep 2004 22:59:30 -0400

Lightning and Tornado Photography by Stormguy

Lots of fantastic storm photos!

Optical Toys = SEE site

Wed, 29 Sep 2004 22:41:11 -0400

Optical Toys

This place is really neat. Spend some time and really look around. This isn't the link to the home page and there's lots of other things to look at as well.

COAST to COAST on US 50 = SEE site

Wed, 29 Sep 2004 22:37:54 -0400

COAST to COAST on US 50. A Journey Across America on Route 50, also known as Highway 50. Travel by car from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

Here's another interesting one if you like travelling. I found it at about the same time as the North Carolina one.

All things NC = SEE site

Wed, 29 Sep 2004 22:28:45 -0400

All things NC, Road Photos From North Carolina

This place is just kind of fun. I've lived in North Carolina all my life and discovered this site while planning a trip to Virginia some time ago. Lots of photos and information here.

Hollenthon's Vienna = SAY site

Wed, 29 Sep 2004 22:26:24 -0400

Hollenthon's Vienna

I found this some time ago while searching for information about "the city of the dead". I think this is actually a metal music site, but this particular section has interesting information and some nice photos.

Tokyoplastic v.2 = SEE site

Wed, 29 Sep 2004 22:22:31 -0400

tokyoplastic v.2

Drummachine. Very very cool. Turn up your speakers and hold on.

Kharon4a = SEE site

Wed, 29 Sep 2004 22:16:17 -0400

Kharon4a - Online 3D adventure game in flash

It's really more of a "play" site. The music is nice and the visuals are nice too and I understand it's a game, but I really have no idea what I'm doing and I'm not much of a game player, so if you like cryptic games you might enjoy this place.

Refrigerator Mothers = SAY site

Wed, 29 Sep 2004 22:06:05 -0400

P.O.V. - Refrigerator Mothers . The Mothers . That was Then, This is Now | PBS

This doesn't really fit in with the collection so much, but as a mother of an Autistic son I stumbled on this while doing some research. Times have changed for people with Autism and the people who love and care for them, but there's still a long way to go.

Julia Solis | New York Underground = SEE site

Wed, 29 Sep 2004 22:02:51 -0400

Julia Solis | New York Underground

Yes... Another abandoned places type place. This one is mostly underground however. Really beautiful photography.

FASCO-CS = SEE site

Tue, 28 Sep 2004 22:32:21 -0400

FASCO-CS

This one is HARD. It took me a while to figure out "Crimson Room", but once you get it everything else is easier.

Dark Passage = SEE site

Tue, 28 Sep 2004 22:30:28 -0400

Dark Passage

Another abandoned building site. More urban explorers. If I was younger and thinner and didn't have a family to take care of I think this is what I'd be doing. I would love to climb around in creepy old forgotten places and take pictures. Fantastic!

Ninjai: The Little Ninja = SEE site

Sun, 26 Sep 2004 04:42:34 -0400

Ninjai: The Little Ninja

This is like watching an unfinished film. It is truly incredible. The music is beautiful, the scenery in beautiful, the art is fantastic. I am a fan. I can't wait to see the rest of it. I hope they'll quit trying to find some easier way to finish it and just do it. I've found the best way to do something is to quit looking for the easier way out and just do it. I hope they just do it soon!

Berthold Steinhilber Photography = SEE site

Sun, 26 Sep 2004 04:15:46 -0400

Berthold Steinhilber Photography

After I went to the ghost towns site, I was hungry for more and I discovered this site. There is a collection of ghost town photos here along with others. Great work.

Not a surprise since he's a Smithsonian photographer.

Western Ghost Towns = SEE and SAY site

Sun, 26 Sep 2004 04:12:49 -0400

Western Ghost Towns

I'm actually listing this under "SAY" mainly because the text is as fascinating as the photos are here. I am intriged by ghost towns in general but most ghost town sites I find are either all text with few or no photos or all photos with little or no text. This place has alot of both. This is another place you can settle down and spend some time. It took me a few days to read through the whole site.

Michael Madsen - the official website = SEE site (I guess)

Sun, 26 Sep 2004 03:56:48 -0400

Michael Madsen - the official website

It's funny. It was rather violent, but I loved Reservoir Dogs and the guy I liked the most, Michael Madsen, I just didn't know much about at the time. Later I found myself taping every movie that came on that had him in it, and believe me, he's been in quite a few stinkers, but some gems as well. So, why do I include a link to his official website as a "SEE site"? This tough guy writes poetry! Geez. Who'da thunk it?

By the way, check out the photo gallery and have a peek at the shots of the cowboy version of Madsen! Amazing! You know, here's a guy I'd like to see do something besides cop or crook more often.

Pricelessware = other site

Sun, 26 Sep 2004 03:18:45 -0400

Pricelessware - About Pricelessware

This place is great for freeware. I am a supporter of open source and freeware just like I am a supporter of free music and art. There's bunches of useful software here.

The Elfwood Project = SEE site

Sun, 26 Sep 2004 03:06:50 -0400

[ELFWOOD] Start Page / Welcome to the Elfwood Project!

Spend hours and hours here. Some of the art is, um... okay. Some of it is fantastic! And, oh look, a link to my page there!

Homestar Runner = SEE site

Sun, 26 Sep 2004 02:59:23 -0400

Everybody! Everybody!

If you haven't been here before, go here, now. Spend days here. Nights. Weekends. Click EVERYTHING. If you do, you will become addicted. I know I have.

Seriously.

THE HOSPITAL = SEE site

Sun, 26 Sep 2004 02:17:20 -0400

THE HOSPITAL

Similar in feel to 99rooms, this place is quite creepy and moody. Come explore this one and then watch a movie like "House on Haunted Hill", or "Session 9" and then come back and go through it again. Creepy, yeah?

Homemade Religion = SAY site

Sat, 25 Sep 2004 20:30:16 -0400

Homemade Religion

I read Richard Bach's Illusions in 1979 when I went on a trip to Washington, DC with my special "gifted and talented" summer class. I had some money, but being afraid to spend any of it, all I bought were two books. One by Carl Sagan (Cosmic Connection) and the other was Illusions. (I really didn't think about buying gifts or touristy trinkets for my family and I was actually berated for not doing so when I got home. The truth is that I was so stressed out just being there I thought I had done good just by making it through the trip in one piece. I was even proud of having spent very little of the money. I see now, that was almost an Ian-like way of dealing with the trip and I wonder how much of my growing up was perhaps in some ways like his. I wonder if my childhood was tainted a little by NLD or maybe even some mild autistic tendencies. For years I didn't understand what I had done wrong. To this day I don't buy touristy things for anyone when we go on trips, but I think about that incident in Washington, DC every time I go or anytime someone brings ME something from a trip.)

Anyway, this link really came from me doing a little research on collective consciousness. My son thinks, based on a discussion on world religions in his class at school, that I would be a good Taoist. Then I read my brother Nathan's latest dispatch and his views on his own beliefs (in his case disbeliefs) and that made me think about what I really do believe. I keep a small collection of Buddhas in my livingroom. They face the rising sun for prosperity. Maybe that's a little superstition creeping out in me, I dont know. I also have a Jesus statue (Buddy Christ) above my computer, but it's from the movie Dogma which I think was Kevin Smith's story to tell. (Which brings me to another belief - I think each of us has one story we are supposed to tell. One thing that is the centerpiece of all that we will ever do. The masterpiece that is the single most important of all. It's the book that takes 30 years to write, the screenplay that sits and festers in the back of your mind for years until you finally force it alive on the big screen, the song that keeps playing and playing in your head until you get it recorded, the sculpture that you see in every block of wood, every chunk of stone, until you carve it out, a house that must be designed because you see pieces of it in every building you like, etc. But, that's another story....Now back to this post, already in progress...) The closest might be Pagan, because some of the Pagan stuff I have an easier time believing, but in the end, I just really believe there is collective consciousness. I don't even know if there's a religion out there for this or what, but this particular website actually voices what I have discussed with my husband many times before. A collective consciousness would explain so much, from the reason why ten people in various parts of the world get the same idea all at once but only a couple of them actually do anything with the idea, it would explain the presence of ghosts (not the silly seance kind, but the kind that appear regularly to people who know nothing about them or their history until after they've seen them and do some research - for instance, the Maco lights) psychic ability (suspend your disbelief for a few minutes please - Most of these are fake too, but occasionally in history one comes along that you have to wonder about) and even dreams. Also the whole "God" concept can be explained as a collective consciousness thing, although I think the truth about religion is that it was needed to keep the peace, to keep people from stealing and killing their neighbor and all the other bad things that come from a lawless society. I think society itself created religion to make people behave. Pretty simple if you think about it.

By the way, I still have that same copy of Richard Bach's Illusions...

FLY GUY = SEE site

Sat, 25 Sep 2004 03:55:23 -0400

FLY GUY

I LOVE this thing. For some reason there's a calming effect from playing it. Maybe it's the music.... I think it has something to do with the flying too. Soothing. Relaxing. Nice.

The Shadowlands: Ghosts and Hauntings = SAY site

Sat, 25 Sep 2004 03:52:28 -0400

The Shadowlands: Ghosts and Hauntings

I'm not sure exactly what to say about this site without offending it's owner. If the guy had left his own tale as just a ghost seen many times over the years, I probably would have somewhat believed him, but adding the "imps" and later the "7 foot tall man shaped black figure" just really added to my disbelief. If I was to tell a ghost story, I would say I can see a boy, not really a boy so much as a young man, standing in the grassy field where he died oddly enough of a heart attack and is still standing there waiting for someone to explain where he needs to go, but to add imps and tall figures and other such "apparitions" coming along to "help" because they were accidentally "invited" to just screams "No way".

Anyway, just read some of the stories and judge for yourself.

Urban Legends Reference Pages = SAY site

Sat, 25 Sep 2004 03:44:30 -0400

Urban Legends Reference Pages

Yeah. I label it a "say" site and really it says alot of bull, mostly. Mister Ed was a zebra? Geez. Some of the legends are interesting and some you can research on your own to find out if they are really "true" or not, but it does make for an interesting read for a while if you're eating leftovers for dinner in front of the computer as I do, quite often.

National Register of Historical Places = SAY site

Fri, 24 Sep 2004 21:18:49 -0400

National Register of Historical Places

Okay, this one is really both a Say and a See site. It's fascinationg to learn about historical places both abandoned and occupied. I like to think of the layers of history in a place. There's a lot of that locally. For example, Brunswick Town no longer exists and yet was once the county seat....

Allow To Infuse = SEE site

Fri, 24 Sep 2004 15:26:09 -0400

Allow To Infuse

This one will take some time to view. I haven't finished yet myself. Interesting animation. Interesting art.

TerraServer 6.0 = other site

Fri, 24 Sep 2004 15:19:30 -0400

TerraServer 6.0 Homepage

So useful. Especially when you are looking for something like an abandoned school that you saw while coming home down an old highway...

Abandoned NC = SEE site

Fri, 24 Sep 2004 15:15:39 -0400

-Abandoned NC: Urban Exploration In North Carolina-

Living in North Carolina and traveling around the back roads and forgotten former major highways one finds just hundreds of abandoned buildings. Just around us here on Oak Island are at least four large buildings that are now vacant and decaying. I don't understand the reasons for the waste, but they are quite beautiful to photograph. Check this site out and view some great old forgotten buildings in other parts of North Carolina.

Tobias Schalken = SEE site

Fri, 24 Sep 2004 15:07:01 -0400

Tobias Schalken

I really love Tableman the best, though all of these are really interesting. I like the idea of the art of this guy. There's a mystery there, almost like a story that hasn't been told yet. Very cool.

99rooms = SEE site

Fri, 24 Sep 2004 05:53:58 -0400

99ROOMS.COM

This is one of the coolest, most inspiring sites to me. It made me start my own creepy project, House of Dreams. Check this link out... In the dark.... Late.... When the moon is black.... By yourself.... Yeah.....