Information Highway 101

Here is my collection of resources I use, or have used, that I view as valuable so I don't want to loose track of them. All links πŸ”— open in a new tab or window depending on your browser settings.

Artists I like/follow for reasons

David Brady: Collage, Assemblage, Oil, and Drawing bradyart.com πŸ”—

Danny Gregory, author, artist & tea drinker. A creative guy who helps other creative people. dannygregory.com πŸ”—

Danny also sends out a weekly essay. Sign up at dannysessays.com πŸ”—

David Revoy: Artist, Instructor, using only Free/Libre and Open-Source software. I find his artwork and philosophy intriguing. davidrevoy.com πŸ”—

Boris PleΕ‘a: Croatian graphic designer, artist and author who makes really cool posters. borisplesa.com πŸ”—

Jason Chambers: Cubism, Abstract jasonchambersart.com πŸ”—

Martin Singer: Contemporary French artist. I found him on Instagram in 2023 but have since left IG so I won't link to him there, because its Meta. I can't find a website for him other than a few online stores, but there's a nice writeup on him here -> photographize.co πŸ”—

Nikke Naeme: a multidisciplinary β€˜do-it-myselfer’ based in Amsterdam nikke.nl πŸ”—

Pete Doyle: based in Asheville North Carolina pd-2k.art πŸ”—

Darcy Borgart: based in Arizona, her art is a fusion of animal-inspired organic shapes and geometric patterns. Very cool! darcyborgart.com πŸ”—

Jerstin Crosby: Very cool abstract art, from Winston-Salem, NC jerstin.com πŸ”—

Tim Novara: San Diego CA, mixed media, acrylic paint, ink and pencil, and digitally altered photographs timnovara.com πŸ”—

Terence L. Smith: Los Angeles CA, self taught artist, watercolor, pen & ink, acrylics terencesmithart.com πŸ”—

K. Dewayne Mercer: Slaughter, LA, self-taught artist works with oil and cold wax medium kdmercer-art.squarespace.com πŸ”—

Linda Rossiter: amazing hard edge glass art glassartbylinda.com πŸ”—

Kelly Wilder: mixed media artist based in Milan, Italy kellywilderart.com πŸ”—

Pamela Nigro: San Diego CA, very cool abstract work pamelanigroart.com πŸ”—

Sara Lamond, Cape Breton Canada, nature inspired abstract driftwoodgallery.art πŸ”—

Art Education Resources

ART OF THE ZERO CATEGORY: A facinating story of a collection of highly questionable paintings and a journey through the darkest corridors of the art world. artofthezero.com πŸ”—

Artlyst: A London-based art information website. artlyst.com πŸ”—

Miscellaneous Resources: Stuff I haven't decided on how to catagorize yet.

Blogroll.org is a human curated list of personal blogs and websites. blogroll.org πŸ”—

Search My Site is a currated search engine of indieweb / small web / digital gardens. I haven't use this much yet but still wanted to put it on this page for easy access. searchmysite.net πŸ”—

Indie Web Camp: a community of independent and personal websites based on the principles of: owning your domain and using it as your primary online identity, publishing on your own site first (optionally elsewhere), and owning your content. indieweb.org πŸ”—

Getting Started on the Indie Web: We should all own the content we're creating, rather than just posting to third-party content silos.Publish on your own domain, and syndicate out to silos. This is the basis of the "Indie Web" movement. – IndieWeb.org IndieWebify.Me πŸ”—

Developer Education Resources

Dev Terms is a great resource for learn relevent jargon devterms.io πŸ”—

32-Bit Cafe offers de-corporatized alternatives to popular services to help unplug from the corporate internet and help guide folks to express themselves on the web. 32bit.cafe πŸ”—

Webiste Build Recources I Use(d) to Build StevenPreston.im

This site is built and hosted on neocities.org πŸ”—

Site analytics: goatcounter.com πŸ”—

Most of the CSS used on this site is from W3 Schools πŸ”—

Site Map pro-sitemaps.com πŸ”—

Contact Form letterbird.co πŸ”—

I made this list of links with textfixer.com/html πŸ”—

When you need a super secure password passwordsgenerator.net πŸ”—

I'm learning Markdown from markdowntohtml.com πŸ”—

I'm planning on putting this on some pages here. htmlcommentbox.com πŸ”—

Sometimes you need a document converted. cloudconvert.com πŸ”—

Great for masonry grid image galleries. w3bits.com πŸ”—

A Simple CSS for simple sites. simplecss.org πŸ”—

Blogs I like/follow for reasons

Heather Cox Richardson: Historian, Professor, Author substack.com/@hrichardson πŸ”—

Alex & Parker β€œA mind like a roomful of starlings.” write.as/alexparker πŸ”—

JanerationX janerationx.com πŸ”—

People and Blogs: Interview series where people talk about themselves and their blogs. peopleandblogs.com πŸ”—

Coffee Publications I follow

Text Document Writing/Editing

News Resources