May, 2008: Giraffe's Site of the Month

"The Lost Generation" - Is this the way you think of many young people today? Are they out for a quick fix? I don't think so. Watch this for a rebuttal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42E2fAWM6rA

Previous Winners of GIRAFFE'S SITE OF THE MONTH:
"My Stroke of Insight"
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/229(April, 2008)
"Hollywood for Ugly People"
http://tinkin.com/washugly.html(March, 2008)
"Nothing To Do", by Ann Jones
http://blog.theirc.org/2008/01/21/nothing-to-do-ann-jones-in-liberia/(February 2008)
"The Age of Rembrandt"
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/09/16/arts/20070918_REMBRANDT_SLIDESHOW_index.html (February 2008)
Haute Couture in Paris
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/video/2008/jan/18/paris.haute.couture.2008(February 2008)
The work of David Altmejd
http://www.lifeinthefastlane.ca/david-altmejd-sculptor-and-artist-extraordinaire/art. Interview with him:http://www.akrylic.com/articles/17/1/David-Altmejd-21st-Century-Werewolf-Aesthetics/C-International-Contemporary-Art-No-82-Summer-2004.html (January, 2008)
Life Inside the Cell
http://www.flixxy.com/biology-nano-visualization-cell-life.htm (December, 2007)
Photosynth
http://labs.live.com/photosynth/default.html (December, 2007)
Dove Onslaught
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaH4y6ZjSfE (November, 2007)
Dr. Randy Pausch
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07262/818671-85.stm (October, 2007)
Purple Hearts
http://www.jenbekman.com/artists/nina_berman (September, 2007)
"Hand Jobs the Arts"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eCxwvu1rP0 (September, 2007)
Animator vs. Animation
http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs13/f/2007/077/2/e/Animator_vs__Animation_by_alanbecker.swf (July/August, 2007)
CNet design innovations:
http://news.com.com/2300-1008_3-6177995.html?tag=ne.gall.rbcs (June, 2007)
http://news.com.com/2300-1042_3-6178425.html?tag=ne.gall.rbcs (June, 2007)
http://newscri.be/link/236698 (June, 2007)
Barbara Weissberger
http://barbaraweissberger.net/collagedrawings.html (May, 2007)
Neurozapping
http://www.lisboa20.pt/lx20/proj/neurozapping/.(April, 2007)
Tom Chambers
http://www.tomrchambers.com/dapjs.html (April, 2007)
Ernest Neto
http://www.designboom.com/contemporary/neto.html (March, 2007)
Susan Ressler: "At Owner's Risk"
http://www.rushcreekgallery.com/susan-ressler/index.html (February, 2007)
Stephen Wilson
http://www.stephenwiltshire.co.uk/rome_documentary1.aspx"(January, 2007)
Deborah Barrett
http://www.jackfischergallery.com/deborah_barrett/(December, 2006)
Rendering Jellyfish
http://graphics.stanford.edu/~kayvonf/cs348b/jellies/(December, 2006)
Joseph Nechvatal, the american jesus tOrture series
http://www.eyewithwings.net/nechvatal/jesus/JesusTortureSeries.htm(November, 2006)
The Art of DeTouch
http://detouch.org/de-touch/med.php(October, 2006)
Information Aesthetics
http://infosthetics.com/archives/2005/08/email_mountain.html(October, 2006)
The Videogame Art of Kathleen Ruiz
http://arts.rpi.edu/reiz/stunt/The%20CHAMBERS.htm(September, 2006)
The Mars Patent
http://www.mars-patent.org/ (September, 2006)
Dana Schutz
http://www.saatchi-gallery.com.uk/artists/artpages/schutz_Face_Eater.htm (August, 2006)
10 Ways, from Getty Images
http://interact10ways.com/usa/less_rain.asp" (July, 2006)
El Circo
http://vispo.com/uribe/2000/circo/index.html"(June, 2006)
Andy Dick's Screening Circle
http://artcontext.org/act/05/screeningCircle(May, 2006)
Zoe Zimmerman - Elements of Containment
http://www.photoeye.com/Gallery/forms/index.cfm?image=1&id=37510&imagePosition=1&Door=1&Portfolio=Portfolio2&Gallery=1&Page=(April, 2006)
Cara Bearer - The Book Project: or Words, Paper, and Shapes
http://www.photoeye.com/Gallery/forms/index.cfm?image=1&id=190091&imagePosition=1&Door=2&Portfolio=Portfolio1&Gallery=2(April, 2006)
Magdalena Taber - The Muses
http://www.transartmt.biz/muses.htm(April, 2006)
Ingres at the Louvre
http://mini-site.louvre.fr/ingres/flash_en.html(April, 2006)
Experimental Superstrings
http://www.lorrainewalsh.com(March, 2006)
Anna Ulrich's Photography
http://www.annaulrich.com/PORTFOLIO(March, 2006)
Amanita: Samorost
http://www.samorost2.net/samorost1(February, 2006)
Ben Fry: Distellamap
http://benfry.com/distellamap/(February, 2006)
The ASCII Unreal
http://www.unrealart.co.uk(February, 2006)
Art After Science - Op for Pop
http://www.artafterscience.com/op_for_pop/index.htm"(January, 2006)
Art After Science - Gears for Sound
http://www.artafterscience.com/gears_for_sound/index.htm"(January, 2006)
Art After Science - Minimal Interaction
http://www.artafterscience.com/minimal_interaction/index.htm"(January, 2006)
The Bot Shop
http://www.space.com/php/stf/botshop.html (December, 2005)
The Shape of Whale Songs
http://www.asci.org/artikel732.html (November, 2005)
Be Your Own Designer
http://www.leoburnett.ca (November, 2005)
Aaron as Screensaver
http://www.kurzweilcyberart.com (October, 2005)
Take Me Back to the Fifties
http://oldbluewebdesigns.com/TakeMeBackToTheFifties.htm (September, 2005)
Remembering Netscape: The Birth of the Web
http://www.fortune.com/fortune/technology/articles/0,15114,1081456-1,00.html (August, 2005) (Unfortunately this excellent article is no longer available online.)
Zoomquilt
http://www.eviltree.de/zoomquilt/zoom.htm (August, 2005)
Kenneth Huff's Organic Constructions
http://www.kennethahuff.com/Works" (July, 2005)
Archimedes at the Walters Art Museum
http://www.thewalters.org/archimedes/frame.html (July, 2005)
Michael Takeo McGruder
http://www.takeo.org (June, 2005)
Zoacodes
http://www.nervepool.net (May, 2005)
Shirin Neshat
http://www.iranian.com/Arts/Dec97/Neshat (April, 2005)
Ashes and Snow
http://www.ashesandsnow.com (March, 2005)
Walker Art Center Billboards
http://calendar.walkerart.org/canopy.wac?id=1070 (March, 2005)
Museum of Computer Art
http://moca.virtual.museum/donnie2005/gallery/galleryindex.htm (February, 2005)
Matthew Ritchie
http://www.newplace.projects.sfmoma.org/mockUp1204 (January, 2005)
Imagination Cubed
http://www.imaginationcubed.com (December, 2004)
Pentagram
http://www.pentagram.com (December, 2004)
Create a silkscreen online
http://www.warhol.org (November, 2004)
Nechvatal's robotic assisted acrylics
http://www.nechvatal.net (November, 2004)
Inconvenient Evidence: Iraqui Prison Photographs from Abu Ghraib
http://www.icp.org/exhibitions/abu_ghraib/index.html (October, 2004)
Touch and Temperature: Art in the Age of Cybernetic Totality
http://www.bitforms.com/summer (September, 2004)
Gear That Gives
http://www.gearthatgives.com (August, 2004)
Scorecard - check your neighborhood air, water, and soil quality
http://www.scorecard.org (July, 2004)
Explore Mars

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2004/mar/HQ_04097_mars_web.html (June, 2004)

Make prints at MOMA
http://www.moma.org/whatisaprint/ (May, 2004)
Giver of Names
http://www.artinteractive.org/shows (May, 2004
An audio-visual tour of the Brooklyn Museum
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/heml/arts/20040416_MUSEUM-AUDIOSS/index.html (May, 2004)
Visual Composer
http://www.typorganism.com/visualcomposer/visualcomposer.html(April, 2004)
Errata/Erratum
http://www.moca.org/museum/digital_gallery/pmiller/opener.html(April, 2004)
Phonemer
http://class.sva.edu/~eric/phonemes/phoneme.html(April, 2004)
"Pool" (Experimenta Media Arts)
http://www.experimenta.org/gallery/pool/pool_experimenta.html" (March, 2004)
Meet the Composer
http://www.meetthecomposer.org" (March, 2004)
The Decline of Fashion Photography
http://slate.msn.com/features/010510_fashion-slide-show/01.htm(February, 2004)
Eyetap
http://www.eyetap.org(February, 2004)
"North-South-East-West"
http://www.graham.gs/news/index2_start.html(January, 2004)
Donor's Choice
http://www.donorschoose.org/(December, 2003)
British Libray - Turning the page on the Web
http://www.bl.uk/collections/treasures/digitisation.html(December, 2003)
Poetry as Animated Typography
http://vispo.com/uribe/index.html(November, 2003)
Egyptian Galleries
http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/exhibits/galleries/egyptian.html(October, 2003)
Interviews with New York's Graffitti Artists
http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/003638.html(October, 2003)
Au Fond du Fleuve
http://www.turbulence.org/Works/lefevre/index.htm(September, 2003)
Contemporary Foibles as seen by Banksy
http://www.banksy.co.uk(August, 2003)
Clown Generator (no longer online)
http://www.scottsmind.com/evil_clown.php(August, 2003)
Amorphoscapes
http://www.amorphoscapes.com(July, 2003)
Complex City (no longer online)
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/geog/gessler/167-2001/complexcity.htm"(June, 2003)
Lots of Robots
http://www.lotsofrobots.com(May, 2003)
"Paper Sky"
http://www.moai.it/centro/gab.html(April, 2003)
The NEAT Comet
http://216.120.96.70/news/modules.php?set_albumName=sol&op=modload&name=gallery&file=index&include=slideshow.php"> (March, 2003)
The Digital Photography of Karin Kuhlmann
http://www.internationaldigitalart.com/guests/Art40/art40.html (March, 2003)
VanGogh and Gaugin
http://www.vangoghgauguin.com (February, 2003)
Eric Myer's Photography (no longer online)
http://www.ericmyer.com/stereotypes (January, 2003)
NASA's Astronomy Photo of the Day
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod (December, 2002)
Archive of Free Online University Courses
http://www.dspace.org(December, 2002)
MIT's course offerings, free
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html (November, 2002)
Scientific Photography at RIT
http://www.rit.edu/~photo/iis.html (November, 2002)
Anticipation
http://www.anticipation.info (October, 2002)
Nadin interview
http://www.technos.net/Cafe_Technos/112gillespie.htm(October, 2002)
Message on a Satellite
http://www.keo.org(October, 2002)
Columnist Mark Fiore
http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/fiore/archive (September, 2002)
Natural Car Alarms (no longer online)
http://www.sculpture-center.org/pe_ce_des1.html (August, 2002)
Meadowsweet Dairy
http://www.meadowsweet-dairy.com(July, 2002)
Bitforms
http://www.bitforms.com(June, 2002)
Andy Fould's Portfolio (no longer online)
http://www.foulds2000.freeserve.com/uk(May, 2002)
The Photography of Karl Grimes
http://www.karlgrimes.net (April, 2002)
International Space Station
http://www.turbulence.org/Works/iss (March, 2002)
The Miniature Earth (no longer online)
http://www.luccaco.com/terra/terra.htm (March, 2002)(No longer online)
Scrap Pile
http://www.scrap-pile.org (February, 2002)
Levitated
http://www.levitated.net (January, 2002)
Body Art
http://www.amonline.net.au/bodyart (December, 2001)
The Ink Spots
http://www.group-harmony.com/ink_lbls.htm (November, 2001)
Sodaplay
http://www.sodaplay.com (October,2001)
E Pluribus Unum
http://www.ylem.org/artists/jpallas/EPU/EPU.HTM (September,2001)
Avotaynu
http://www.avotaynu.com/postcards (August,2001)
Thunderbaby
http://www.thunderbaby.com (July,2001)
Virtual Fish Tank
http://www.virtualfishtank.com (June, 2001)
Superbad
http://www.superbad.com (May, 2001)
Bitstreams, at the Whitney Museum
http://www.whitney.org/bitstreams (April, 2001)
Roman Verostko's Epigenetic Art
http://verostko.com(March, 2001)
Is Anyone There? (Steve Wilson)
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~swilson/art/isany/isany.des.html (February, 2001)
The Total Museum of Contemporary Art: Web Project 8
http://www.totalmuseum.org/webproject8.html(January, 2001)
Paradise Now (no longer online)
http://www.geneart.org/pn-home.htm (December, 2000)
Lissajous Figures
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/!history/Java/index.html (November, 2000)
"Sperm: The New Digital Art"
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,38454.00.html (October, 2000)
Turbulence, espcially "Empty Velocity" by Eng and "Here and Now" by Crawford
http://www.turbulence.org (September, 2000)
Amy Young's Interactive Installations
http://www.ylem.org/artists/ayoungs/index.html (August, 2000)
The Jewish Museum
http://www.jewishmuseum.org (July, 2000)
Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles
http://www.lauswd.k12.ca.us/janm/main.htm (June, 2000)
Walker Art Center
http://www.walkerart.org(May, 2000)
Noise (no longer online)
http://www.kettlesyard.com.uk/noise/ (April, 2000)
Eye4U Active Media
http://www.eye4u.com/home/index.html(March, 2000)
Judy Garfin Gallery (no longer online)
http://www.judygarfin.com/gallery.html(February, 2000)
The Font Foundry
http://www.fontfoundry.com (January, 2000)
Snarg Web Fun
http://www.snarg.net(December, 1999)
The Hunger Site
http://www.thehungersite.com(November, 1999)
eToy (October, 1999 - no longer on line)
French k.i.s.s.
http://www.afrenchkiss.com(September, 1999)
1200 Years of Italian Sculpture (August, 1999)
http://www.thais.it/scultura
International Sculpture Center (July, 1999)
http://www.sculpture.org
from Spain: the art of German Bandera(June, 1999)
http://apex-es.com/art/bandera/home.htm
Digital Landfill (May, 1999)
http://www.potatoland.org/landfill
Russian Art(April, 1999)
http://www.stria.ca/Brochetain/permanent.html
Hitachi NanoExplorations (March,1999) No longer online
A Healthy Heart: Women's Fitness and Sports (February, 1999)
http://www.phys.com
American Treasures in the Library of Congress(January, 1999)
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/tr00.html
Web Museum(December, 1998)
http://sunsite.unc.edu/louvre
Hubble Heritage Project (November, 1998)
http://heritage.stsci.edu

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