Below you will find some of the more interesting sites I had found on my travels round the internet, so I thought yeah why not see what people think. Let me know if you find them useful or interesting, if it seems popular I'll post some more .....
If you know of or come across any sites on your travels feel free to post in to here ... also if you do like what I have here ... now I have split this off from my front page you can always provide a link to it for people who may not come across my home page on DA ... sorta like spread the love LOL .....
Note Due to the size limitations set on Journals for DeviantART I have now had to split off the links page into two pages .. Part 1 can be found here -
[link] I have split them into catagotries so artists, designers and photography and the like will be in one place where as Architecture, History and more industrial things will be else where.
INSPIRATION - (Mainly urban exploration sites)
Abandoned places European Urban and industrial abandonment -
[link] Dark Passages NE USA Urban exploration site -
[link] Shaun O'Boyle NE US urban exploration -
[link] Buffalo NY Exploration Does as it says on the tin -
[link] Lost America General US Urban Exploration site -
[link] Cemetery section or Derelict London Says it all really -
[link] Wingfield manor 12th Century Manor house, Derbyshire, England -
[link] - Thanks to
[link] for posting a picture from here Ta S.
Woodchester Mansion Supposed to be very haunted but a beautiful place all the same -
[link] Sintra, Portugal Thank
[link] for this link but if your ever on holiday in Portugal get over here and get photos
[link] Check the link to Quinta da Regaleira sure you'll be impressed .. I'm packing my bags now.
European Castle Database - You think I have some nice pictures from round England .. take a look at this my new found shopping list .. some lovely places -
[link] Ghost Towns Many old gold mining towns still exist ... somewhere -
[link] Opacity more abandoned hospitals from the US and the UK with a nice wallpaper section to download and enblazon your desktop -
[link] Hauntings galore a really cool hauntings website where you can find haunted locations by state .. also have a cool links page or 2 -
[link] Arizona Highways Its not just England that has some stunning views -
[link] LUNATIC ASYLUMS THE WORLD OVER
Simon Cornwell UK abandoned asylums -
[link] Danvers -
[link] you want more ? Go get Session 9 on dvd its set in this place
Mountain sanatorium More American abandoned asylums -
[link] RESOURCES
More tutorials than you can shake a stick at. 3d, digital, natural -
[link] Panorama's Some stunning Panoramic pictures from the world over -
[link] Gnomon Workshop Any one into 3d should know this site but has some interesting stuff for none 3d artists too -
[link] Adobe For any one of you lucky enough to have got your hands on the new CS3 and wanna know some finer points -
[link] Character design A lil blog about character design, quite a few character sheets to mooch over -
[link] {E}vermotion A 3d community with forum, tutorials, news archives and much much more -
[link] Biro-Art Get a biro put it together with art and what do you have ? a really cool web community with some impressive pen drawn doodles and stuff -
[link] Lines and Colour A blog about drawing, sketching and other visual arts -
[link] TutorialVault A vault of tutorials
Max, Photoshop, Illustrator, Photography and web design ... plus more -
[link] Character design another blog I found about character design -
[link] The New York Carver Cool site full of information on stone masonry ... Lots of explanations of castles, Churches and Abbeys including information about Gothic Architecture -
[link] Art, Design & Visual thinking Ok you wouldn't be here if you weren't an artist but this can make some cool reading and may make you think a lil bit -
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Concept Ships A really cool blog dedicated to spaceships and aircraft artwork .. some stunning works and with links off to the artists site's -
[link] I Do Believe If you like the art of Brian Froud, Duirwaigh, Amy brown and others, then this is the website for you .. go look up and buy loads of cool fairy and fantasy art books -
[link] PHOTOGRAPHY
Photo tutorial site -
[link] Guide for nature photographers Some interesting information for the photographer -
[link] Nikon Tutor OK so I'm a Nikon User so I know this site .. if any one can point me a Canon or Pentax site I will put it here too -
[link] Strobist Really cool and informative website for camera lighting .,. with DIY's and tuts -
[link] Photo.net Another cool lil photo instruction site cleverly sectioned off to cover specific topics separately -
[link] GreatLandscapePhotography.COM Well what is left to say about the website ? -
[link] HISTORICAL
Victorian London May find inspiration -
[link] Internet Medieval Source book Good source of medieval info -
[link] Dissolution of the monasteries You've seen the pictures now if your interested in the history behind the monasteries of England -
[link] Cistercian in Yorkshire The 5 main Cistercian abbeys in North Yorkshire -
[link] Knights Templar What with the Da Vinci Code and all my abbey stuff thought you may like to take a look at the history of The Templar's -
[link] Castles on the web A nice recourse of castles and abbeys etc across Europe ... far from complete but really nice -
[link] Online Books Sounds boring but when you consider you can thumb through the Lindesfarne Gospels (written in the 7th century), and other historic tomes, its actually cool -
[link] Book of Kells Like the book above again written in the 8th cent .. a few pages to look at. This is amazing considering its like 1400 years old -
[link] Online Classroom Found this lil link to an online virtual class room offered by Boise State University., Subject - The Crusades -
[link] Rules of heraldry all you need to know about the science of making a coat of arms -
[link] The Celts All you needed to know about the painted wode wearing mad men of western Europe -
[link] Norwegian medieval places of worship a rather good resource detailing the background to Norwegian stave churches -
[link] Medieval Times An amazing collection of all things Medieval, swords, food, castles, life, dragon's, punishment, battle's, painting, music and much much more .. well worth a visit -
[link] Tudor History Personified by Henry VIII The Tudor period of history saw drastic changes in the makeup of life not only in England but probably across the whole of Europe. The dissolution of the monasteries and the break from Rome, the reformation and the Spanish Armada. Read more about the Tudor's here -
[link] Antique maps and prints A nice selection of old turn of the century lithographs and engravings -
[link] Curious Expeditions Travelling and exhuming the extraordinary past -
[link] Regia Anglorum Anglo-Saxon, Viking, Norman and British Living History -
[link] Middle Ages A cool website giving information on loads of aspects of the early medieval period -
[link] Fleur de Lis Probably THE best site I have found to do with the science of heraldry -
[link] The UK Monarchy The history of the British monarchy back to before the Norman invasion in 1066 -
[link] Media Storehouse You think my gallery is cool ? Take a look at some of the interiors of our historical buildings (and places I not got too yet) ... follow the gallery's and browse -
[link] Heraldic Arts Check out the artist section .. some really stunning and cool art and ideas -
[link] Follies list UK Some people have asked me what a folly actually is .. here is a web database of some of them round the UK .. and how cool would they be as stock -
[link] DRAGONS ! ! A cool little website that discusses the historical meaning, legends and usage of dragons among other things, Lots of information -
[link] HISTORICAL RE-ENACTMENT
Herstmonceux Europes biggest medieval fayre -
[link] Abbey Tournament For all them Australians out there who wish they had places like my gallery -
[link] Bodelwyddan Medieval Fayre We do actually get medieval shows up north
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[link] European historical combat guild For those who don't just want to watch -
[link] ARCHITECTURE
Great Buildings Does as it says on the tin, Architects, Buildings and even 3d Models .. and it has a map of the Palace of Knossos
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[link] Structurae Cool database of global architecture through out history, in English, German and French -
[link] Frank Lloyd Wright Cool little site that gives you the basics behind what Architecture is all about and also allows you to build some cool little houses on line, fun for a wet Sunday LOL -
[link] Santiago Calatrava What section on architecture would be complete without a link to this man ..... -
[link] Web Urbanist Urban design, Architecture, and other weird and fascinating stuff to do with buildings -
[link] CARS
Conceptcarz O.K. Cars but they do some cool concept stuff ... one for the 3d guys -
[link] Car Designs - A cool lil concept car site I found while looking for tutorials on the design process ... Yep they have tutorials on there
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[link] Car Design News More web joy for car and future design peeps -
[link] Conceptcar UK More of a UK baced site for designers -
[link] Cartype More car shenanigans but this site has a cool concept car section -
[link] MOVIES
Renaissance - You seen 5th Element, may not have seen Immortel but now another French, stylish, cyberpunk type movie, 3d cgi but like you've never seen before. Worth a mooch even if its just for the visuals, looks interesting -
www.renaissance-lefilm.com Appleseed Ex Machina Forget all this piffle about Ghost in the Shell and get a load of the real Shirow master piece -
[link]COOL SITES
Graphotism Magazine The worlds greatest Graffiti mag -
[link] Fulltime Artists Another Graff site -
[link] KidRobot Wacky designer action figures -
[link] Urban Legend reference Ok not looked through it all but worth a mooch if you wanna spend a quiet Sunday LOL -
[link] Qee's Similar stuff to KidRobot but the home page of the lil bleeders -
[link] Silent hill anyone ? - thanks to
[link] for this one .. a cool site about an abandoned town in Penn State .. cool links page from it, go check it out -
[link] random fun mindless blog of cool stuff ... check it out
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[link] Lyzard's Stomp You may thing WTF ? But they have some cool tutorials on model making for all you prop designers and Gundam heads out there -
[link] Ashes and Snow one of those simple but beautiful sites go check it out , I've known about it for a while but got re-reminded recently by
[link] so posted here -
[link] The Isle of Albion A cool lil web site all about this fair Isle I reside in .. lots of information about the celtic history and folk lore -
[link] Mysterious Britain A cool lil website about the strange goings on in the UK including, legends, folk lore, mysteries and UFO's -
[link] Will it blend ? Utter stupidity but cool all the same ... Ever wanted to see what it looks like from a cameras point of view to be blended ? -
[link] Free web arcade Does as it says on the tine .. a big box of free web games ... just don't blame me or Lanny if you get addicted -
[link] MiniClip Games More free games to play -
[link] Cool old maps some interesting, turn of the century maps of the US of A -
[link] The Devils Tramping Ground take some flash anims and mix with US legends and what do you get ? -
[link] Legends of America Its not only cool British stuff I find -
[link] Ghost's and ghouls Spooky stories and the like -
[link] Roller coasters again not art but anyone interested in a global database of roller coasters ? -
[link] The force is strong with this one the ultimate Star Wars webbie -
[link] Can you say dude ? the coolest rendition of Star Wars ever ... and all in 5 mins each -
[link] FREE GAMES ! ! ! Anyone up for free on line MMORPG games ? the definitive site for them -
[link] Free 3d Software Free organic 3d modelling software -
[link] Home Star Runner Wicked flash cartoons, games etc ... Sure you will find something to entertain -
[link] Happy Tree Friends Make Itchy and scratchy look like best mates .. Uber violence in cartoon form -
[link] Animation Arena Cool blog with useful information on 2d and 3d and computer game design -
[link] Classic Space predominantly a Lego space site but the gallery has some cool pics in -
[link] Toy Break I seem to be a junkie for designer toys atm ...Check out the video blog these guys are bonkers
I wuff dem -
[link] The Hubble Site Loads of cool info and images from the worlds largest orbiting telescope -
[link] LOLCats the Cheezburger way An incredibly funny blog of more LOLCat pictures -
[link] Aeria Games Bored of paying for WOW ? there is more out there and some are free
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[link] GPotato More like the above, the home of the wonderful Rappelz -
[link] Chernobyl - Probably one of the most awesome websites ever -
[link] Something we should NEVER forget. If there is one link on here you look at please make it this one... If you can read this without shedding a tear or having a lump in your throat you don't deserve to call yourself human ......
LAST BUT NOT LEAST
My world Wigan the town I exist in -
[link] My Space Finally got me a MySpace Page pop and say hi -
[link] Amazon UK -
[link] MUSIC
O.K. nothing to do with art but a few groups I find cool :- [WEB] = Web Site [MS] = MySpace site
The Azoic -
[link] Collide - [WEB] -
[link] [MS]
[link] Seabound -
[link] Regenerator -
[link] Hungry Lucy - [WEB] -
[link] [MS] -
[link] Chandeen -
[link] BT -
[link] ERA -
[link] I:Scintilla - [WEB] -
[link] [MS] -
[link] The Birthday Massacre - [WEB] -
[link] [MS] -
[link] Loreena McKennitt Amazingly atmospheric Celtic new age .. and Canadian :S
[link] if you do nothing today .. go to the site, select the Music menu and then The Visit, from here listen to Lady of Shallott ...
Martine Lund Hoel A beautiful and extremely talented lady .. if you like inspirational music go check her out - [WEB]
[link] [MS]
[link] Clara Sanabras Some really nice jazz vibes here Reminds me of playing the computer game Mafia
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[link] [MS]
[link] Celtic Legend Inspirational celtic and medieval music [MS]
[link] DISCLAIMER
I have no professional connection to any of the above sites, they are purely ones I have found while traveling the internet and I thought "hell that’s cool.". If you are the owner of any of the above and you have an issue with it being displayed here please contact me and I will remove it from the list.
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