Artistic Endeavors and the Artists who conceived them

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Language Arts

Speech

• iLoveLanguages

~ Language Creation Society

• Speech Database
• Dictionary of Cliches
• Hebrew Alphabet Hand Gestures
• Web Spanish Lessons
• National Library Services for the Blind and Print Disabled

Writing

• i.e. or e.g ?
• Guidelines for Using Apostrophes Correctly
• Single or Double Quotation Marks?
• Preface or Forward ?

• Standard Proof Correction Marks
• Dictionary of Victorian London
• Flowers in Ancient Literature
• Anagram Server^$

~ Solved Anagrams Archive

• English Names as Egyptian Hieroglyphics
• English Text to Runes Converter^$

• Stuff People Wite on Money
• How to Make Your Own Invisible Ink
• History of the Drafting Pencil
• Ancient Roman Writing Tablets

~ Test your Typing Speed^$

• ----- writing examples -----
• History of Canadian Pulp Fiction
• History of the Women's Dime Novel
• Don't Bite the Sun
• History of Pop-Up Books

Publishing

• The Anatomy of Type
• Thinking with Type
• Safe web fonts
• Type in Map Design
• Lorem Ipsum

• Typical Self-Published Book Costs

~ Common BookBinder Materials

• eBook Publishing Specifications
• An example of a "pay-per-word" magazine author offering

~ Typical New York City Publishers Royalty Offerings

• Audiobook Primer
• Typical Major-Studio Audiobook Publishing Costs

~ CoolBeat Audiobook Publishing

Audiobook Publishing Aids^$

• Distribution Costs for Publishers

~ Book Distributors

• About SAN and Its Functions
• CPSC Tracking Lables
• ONIX Explained

~ Onix Users Directory

• Aquire an ISBN (for EAN Barcodes)
• The Bookland EAN Barcode Standard

~ Generate your own EAN Barcode^$

• GS1 Barcode History

Aquire a GS1 Company Prefix (for UPC Barcodes)^$

• Cover Art Repository
• freedb Submission FAQ
• The Care and Feeding of Sales People

• ----- publishing examples -----
• History of Magazine Art
• Astounding Magazine Covers
• Annual of Advertising Art

Cataloging

• DIY Book Scanning

~ Report a defective Google Book^$

• WorldCat^$
• Library of Congress Online Catalog^$ (catalogs less than 22% of US books)
• Federal Depository Libraries
• State Public Libraries

• Cataloging Glossary
• Book Identifier Related Resources
• The Book Industry Study Group

~ BISAC Subject Headings

~ BIC (UK) Subject Categories

~ Dewey Decimal System

• Dewey Services

~ BISAC to replace Dewey in the future?

• Audience Codes
• Understanding MARC

~ The Grim Outlook for Cataloging

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Three-Dimensional Arts

Paper Craft

• Origami

~ Origami Boulder Company (just for fun)

• Exotic Paper Airplane Instructions
• Paper 3D Surface

~ GRAFICA Obscura

• Free downloadable paper crafts

~ Downloadable Yamaha paper crafts

• Download a working camera made of paper

~ Pinhole camera exposure guides

Architecture

• Futuristic Pre-Fab Houses
• Modern Monumental Architecture
• Biography of Architect Albert Speer
• Fallingwater

~ The Guggenheim Museum Building

• Eichler Homes

~ Sarasota School of Architecture

• Praire School Architecture
• Great War Home Front Worker Communities
• History of Art Deco and Streamline Moderne Architecture
• Architecture of Wilshire Blvd.
• Tour of the New York Tenement Museum
• World's Weirdest Hotels
• History of Grain Elevators
• Silohome
• Monolithic Dome Homes
• Shipping-Container Homes
• i-House
• Earthship
• 10 overlooked low-tech ways of keeping your home cool
• Implications of Urban Sprawl
• Oceania : The Atlantis Project

~ Ark Two

• Implosion Archive
• Future by Design

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Visual/Musical Arts

Cartooning

• The Webcomic List^$
• History of Romance Comics
• History of Romance Comic Covers
• Archive of Public Domain Comic Strips

• Database of Comic Book Characters
• Glossary of Superheroes and Supervillains

~ Database of SuperHero Hostess Ads

• Religious Affiliation of Comic Book Characters (just for fun)

• Looney Toons

~ Database of ACME cartoon products

Decorative

• How Colors Influence
• Color Symbolism

Color Calculator^$

• Pigments used by Artists

• Closeup Face Tones

~ Max Factor, the inventor of closeup cosmetics

• Clothing Color Analysis
• The Seasonal Clothing Palettes
• Exactitudes (just for fun)
• Finding a Flattering Face Mask
• Color Match Clothing and Outfits
• Shades of Beige in Menswear
• Cool Summer vs Soft Summer

• Top 25 Art movements and styles throughout history
• Examples of Modern Art Movements
• History of Paint By Number
• Tessellations
• Zoom Quilt
• Art Museum Virtual Tours
• ASCII Art Academy

• Fantastically Funky Modern Furniture Designs
• Obscene Interiors (just for fun)
• Archive of Stained Glass Windows
• Unusual Mailboxes

Performing

• Study in Performance Dance
• Strandbeest
• Reading Castle
• Female actress and model database
• History of the Aspen Multimedia Magazine

• Know Your Genre
• Most important American Music of the 20th century

~ The ASCAP

• Petrucci Music Library

~ Archive of Public Domain music

• Music for Maniacs
• Every song you love was written by the same two guys
• Appalachian Green Parks Project Documentary
• The Hampster Dance from 1997 (it was even featured on a TV commercial)
• The Popcorn Song
• "I Put a Spell on You"
• Musical Version of The War of The Worlds

• Why only five black keys?
• Keith Jarrett and the Koln Concert
• Marble Machine
• Matryomin Theremin Concert
• Glass Armonica Demonstration
• Teacarina Demonstration
• Ocarina Fingering Charts

Photographic

• Photographs of liquid splashes
• Extreme Resolution photo gallery
• Stereoscopy
• History of Cameras
• Photobooths
• History of the Brownie Camera
• How POLAROID beat Eastman Kodak
• Copyright friendly images
• Making slides of digital images

• Digital Format Logos
• Video File Comparison

~ GRAphical System for Presentation (GRASP)

• VESA drivers
• information and software for manipulating video
• Worlds oldest live webcam^$

• Video Glossary
• Performance Testing of Monitors

~ Contrast Sensitivity Chart

• An Explanation of monitor Gamma

• Cinerama and other movie aspect ratios
• Build an inexpensive fisheye camera lens
• Build an inexpensive high-quality XGA Video Projector
• Drive-in movie theatre information

• Alice Guy-Blache, first woman film maker
• Ray Harryhausen, master of stop-motion
• Why C-3PO Is the Secret Hero of Star Wars (just for fun)
• The Silent Movie Multiplex

• The Internet Movie Database^$
• Archive of Public Domain movies^$

~ Listen to a Movie

• Comparison of censored and uncensored movie versions
• 20 Subtitle Download Sites

• Star Trek New Voyages

~ Star Trek New Voyages Set Tour

• Star Trek Continues

• Where to find free movies online
• Vaughn Live^$
• VideoSift
• TopCartoons
• MoviesFoundOnline
• GOmovies^$
• Fawesome
• BMovies

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Artists

• Biography of the artist Piet Mondrian
• Biography of artists Charles and Ray Eames
• Biography of the designer George Nelson
• Biography of the designer Eero Saarinen
• The Noguchi Museum
• Biography of the designer Alvar Aalto
• Biography of the designer Alvin Lustig
• History of the Bauhaus
• Biography of Raymond Scott
• Biography of Alex Steinweiss

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