Some cool stuff for you!
COOL WEBSITES
archive.org: Internet Archive. Here you can find books, music, shows, movies, videos, ROMs, and just about anything the internet provides. This site also has the Wayback Machine, where you can visit old and forgotten websites B)gifcities.org: Revival of GeoCities' GifCities, made by the Internet Archive. So so much cool stuff
vimm.net: A huge selection of emulation and ROM downloads. I got a lot of my files for DS modding here
romsfun.com: Another ROM site, with games and emulators for alll types of systems
macintoshrepository.org: Emulation for old Apple software, like cool games and applications
webdesignmuseum.org: History of internet design; organized by era, style, company, type of site, and more. I could spend forever looking at all of the different sites and how they (and the rest of the internet) change over time
tooooools.app: Awesome image effects tool
velvetyne.fr: Lots of cool, artsy-ish typefaces
sherwoodforestzinelibrary.org: Online library of zines you can read for free! You can print them from home if you want; some are already formatted for print, but for others you'd have to fix the formatting so it prints in a way that makes sense :-)
ebird.org: Observe, log, explore, and learn about bird species (woop woop)!
radio.garden: What's playing on the radio around the world
animatedimages.org: So many fun gifs for basically anything and everything
ditherit.com: Image dithering tool!!!
inaturalist.org: Website/app to identify and log nature observations :^)
gutenberg.org: Project Gutenberg- A bunch of books available for free on the web
buttonmuseum.org: The Busy Beaver Button Museum. An online button museum that also serves as an American history project, which is pretty cool
cooltext.com: Sit for making fun text pngs! Not sure if it's the safest but I did use it and my computer is fine... but do not track me down if something happens :x Anyways my point is it's really cool with a lot of options and you'll probably be fine
gigaglitters.com: Another fun text source, but exclusively glitter text! Again, maybe not the most trustworthy but you gotta take risks you know!?
COOL PERSONAL WEBSITES
equa.spacebrownthird.com
victorianweb.org
snackdata.com
COOL NEOCITIES SITES
COOL PEOPLE
Raymond Loewy: Designer of basically everything. He came up with great designs ranging from trains to Coke fountain dispensers, and everything he makes is just so nice to look at. He has an Art Deco style that feels both vintage and futuristic at the same time.
Judith Love Cohen: Aerospace engineer who worked on Apollo 13. She also contributed to many other projects like the Minuteman missile and the Hubble Space Telescope. She was a very neat lady with a big brain.
Susan Kare: Graphic designer of the Macintosh interface elements. She made all of the cute little pixelated icons. :-) A lot of her work contributed to today's emojis.
Mariko Mori: Futuristic artist focused on light. A lot of her work is abstract, iridescent, and colorful. I really like her use of form in her pieces, and a good amound of them are pretty big too. She creates both 2D and 3D artwork in the forms of photography, digital art, and sculpture.
Paul Rand: Graphic designer known for iconic corporate logos. He made the logos for IBM, UPS, ABC, and many more. He was also an art director, and was influenced by Swiss graphic design styles.
COOL THINGS
Longji Rice Terraces of Guangxi: I was sitting in the living room listening to music, and these came up as a screensaver. I thought the landscape was so beautiful and I had to learn more about them.
Pyrops insects: I was visiting an insectarium with my family, and we were looking at all of the displays of pinned bugs. I saw these ones and was amazed by all of the colors and patterns they have. They have become one of my favorite insects.
Phosphenes: The fuzzy dots and colors you see when you close your eyes or rub them. I picked this picture because it was the closest representation to what I see.
22,000 Animated Gifs: I originally came across this on Tumblr. Here is the original post. The gifs are compiled into a Google drive folder with so much cool stuff. :-)
Porpita porpita: Also known as the blue button, these guys float in warm, tropical and sub-tropical ocean waters. They can actually communicate with other porpita organisms via their central float organ. Their polyps on the outside can be a range of different colors, and can cause mild irritation upon contact with human skin. Porpita are not jellyfish, but are formed by a colony of polyps.
Namib Desert "fairy circles": I saw these originally on a nature show (don't remeber which one, unfortunately), and they intrigued me the second a video appeared on the screen. The scientists in the show spent the whole episode figuring out what was making these circles form, and they discovered that they were caused by the grasses competing for water in the soil, causing noticable differences in the soil's moisture between areas.
Wilson's Phalaropes: My namesake... My baby... They do little circles in the water when they are looking for food to disturb the surface so their little aquatic insect snacks can be concentrated and come up so they can eat them. Also even if it wasn't for foraging purposes why would you not spin around in the water. Everyone wants to be a cute little bird all happy spinning in the water. Oh my babies they are adorable!
Skeuomorphism: This is the technique of making 2D things seem 3D, like the early iPhone icons in this picture. There are plenty of examples of this style but I figured these icons were the most commonly known example! I just really love this style it's so fun :-o
1968 Autobianci Bianchina: Saw this cutie at an auction in summer 2024, and though it was so adorable so so much. Look at it aww and the little luggage rack above the back. Come ON it is hard to get cuter than that.....
hee hee hee
