• The Digital Gallery contains samples of my digital photography.
  (Last Update: Jan 1st, 2003)
• City Portrait is a changing single photographic portrait of San Francisco people.
• Speaking of digital photography, if you'd like to learn more about how it works take a look at The Digital Image.
• Making graphics for the web is terribly fun. For almost nothing you can get a pretty good graphics program and be on your way to making all sorts of things any time you feel so moved. This is a little graphics sampler that may be interesting. (Last update: Aug 16, 2002)

Other artists:

• Kim Scott: "My purpose for making art is to liberate viewers from their ordinary expectations."
• Steve Vanoni is a painter ala art brut who also runs the Gallery Horse Cow in Sacramento, California.
• Old friend Gene Oldfield, mathematician, physicist and former proprietor of Robot Repair in Sacramento, is a pioneering robot maker who has turned his explorations of mathematics and machine logic into collaborative art: Robot Workshop.
• Painter and teacher Larry Welden is the person who really opened my mind to art.
• What is ASCII Art you may ask? This site has a charming display of what can be done with but a few bytes.
• I meant Rick Solinas one day @ 7th & Brannan in the SOMA area of San Francisco as he was sitting on the sidewalk doing a painting. He does very lovely little paintings on paper and handsaws.
• Mendocino photographer John Birchard is another acquaintance who does wonderful wedding photography and landscapes.
• äda 'web is a collection of interesting and challenging web art pieces.
• Art made out of toast? Of course! Take a look at the Art of Maurice Bennett.
• My friend Stanley moved away about the time we both had got out of highschool. I lost track of him until one day recently when a little Googling clued me into what he's been doing- Stanley Rill's Work.

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• MIDI Music is a collection of my some of my musical compositions along with a few covers of other tunes.
• A Javascript Clock, that chimes on the minute and the hour, to remind you of how much time you're wasting online. The link on the page opens Google in a new window.
• The Black T-shirt Project is another rather obnoxious art-activist concept piece that makes noise.
• With the opening of the new film version of Lord of the Rings interest in this amazing story has resurged. Among the new generation of people inspired by Tolkien's work is composer Patrice Deceuninck who has composed some really stunning music based on the trilogy. The site is in french, the music is in MP3.
• Frank Zappa Midis is waiting for you! A large selection of MIDI tunes is at this terrific site for the dedicated Zappaphile.
• Andrea Dupree is a web-wise chanteuse. If you're prone to a bit of jazz vocalese, check out her site Jazzchops.com.

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• The Mathematics of Wisdom is dedicated to mathematics teacher Edward Dickerson. One is never too old to pay heed to his words.
• Zen Cue is a little piece I wrote for my dear friend David Halstrom, who is the one who taught me how to play pool while loving Sappho.
• Want really got me going as far as graphics is concerned was the Pacifica crisis at KPFA. After writing the little history the tables have turned. We won!
• Here's a little tutorial I put together for MIDI to WAV file conversion using Winamp. This may mean nothing to you, but if it does then you may be interested.
• The island City of Alameda is one of the most lovely places I've found in America. It's got real streets with real families filled with real kids who play in those streets and nobody gets hurt.
• My brother Brett died awhile back. He was my little brother, he had lots of problems in his life and I think about him all the time. When he was in the hospital, waiting for things to come to a head, I kind of felt that he wasn't really alone in there. Wrote a poem.
• A Nordhoff Family Story is a little piece I've been writing about my family history.
• Finally a poem by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, one of my favorites. There must be at least a dozen copies of this poem on the web. What more praise could one ask for. "i am waiting"
• Poems by my friend Douglas are kept in "poetry by the surreal mccoy".
• "nothing sacred but the truth" is my political journal page.

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• Webworks is my website design service. Links to other projects can be found here.
• I design and maintain the City of Alameda Green Party website.
• CSS Zen Garden is a page recently submitted to the CSS Zen Garden site, a terrific project designed to encourage web designers to learn how to use Cascading Style Sheets.
• Mariani's Meats is something I made for my friend Anthony who is our local butcher. I had fun composing the text.
• The Abbie Hoffman Brigade is an art-activist concept piece.
• Drift is a piece about where America has been drifting to since the appointment of our Deceiver-In-Chief.

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• Mary Bell lived in San Francisco at the turn of the 20th century. She was an intellectual stalwart of the community and a practicing astrologer.
• StarIQ.com provides very cool & FREE astrology for "every day of your life." Log in, sign up and receive little emails from time to time about the happenings in your chart. No SPAM or BS, just straight-up astrology. V. Cool!

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• Paintshop Pro is where it all started for me as far as graphics is concerned. It's got all the bells and whistles you could ask for, including tools for digital photography, and at a fair price to boot.
• State of Entropy Webgraphics and Design -has terrific Paintshop Pro tutorials to show you how to open all the stops in this great graphics program.
• Jan's Guide To HTML is one of the best HTML primers on the web! At least that's what I think. If you've ever wanted to learn HTML take a look and see what you think.
• Really Big is a terrific webmasters resource. Huge collection of graphics, fonts and tutorials on all aspects of web design.
• CSS Zen Garden is a project designed to introduce you to the use of Cascading Style Sheets. If you are a web designer unacquainted with CSS the works listed here will inspire you to learn more. Take a walk in the Garden.
• More CSS help can be found @ the WDG Guide To CSS. It's a good place to begin your ascent of the learning curve.
• The final CSS resource is WestCiv's CSS Guide, an exquisitely detailed tutorial certain to allow you to master the technique.
• The UC Berkeley Search Engine Page is Surf City! Included are most of the most popular engines as well as others that might be news to you.
• Milan Trams is a collection of photographs of public transit pictures taken from around the planet by my friend Peter Ehrlich, rail enthusiast and San Francisco streetcar driver.
• Adbusters has the remedy for those who are sick of advertising. If you've had enough of this awful stuff check out their site.
• Global Exchange is where you can find out how to change Free Trade into Fair Trade by taking personal action.
• A Critical Decision, the work of William C. Gladish, is for those of us who need to learn more about the insidious nature of globalism.
• The Psychedeliscope is a rather interesting java thingy best viewed with Internet Explorer.
• The Merriam-Webster site is absolutely wonderful. I know this because I abuse it all the time with my paltry vocabulary.
• Low Brow offers up sound bytes left by visitors to their site. You can read them and even leave one of your own.
• The Sodaplay constructor is like nothing you've ever played with before.
  Trust me. Click it.
• City Lights Books, created by Mr. Ferlinghetti, is a living San Francisco landmark. He asks, "what destroys the poetry of a city?"
• Frank Zappa left a large hollow place in American music when he checked out yet I have yet to here news of a performance of his work by a local symphony.
• Frank Zappa Midis is waiting for you! Large selection of MIDI tunes here for the dedicated Zappaphile.
• Speaking of MIDI, AnvilStudio is a free MIDI program that can turn your computer into an orchestra or ensemble. Release your inner composer!
• While we're in the musical vein, if you've ever wanted to make joyous noise with your computer check out Hammerhead Rhythm Station, a FREE drum machine that is utterly fun!
• What is ASCII Art you may ask? A charming display of what can be done with but a few bytes.
• Absurd.org is a labyrinth of puzzling interactions and strange consequences. Don't worry. it's safe to look.
• Andrea Dupree is a web-wise chanteuse I ran into over a cup of Winamp (inside joke.) If you're prone to a bit of jazz vocalese, check her site Jazzchops.com.
• If you're looking for an alternative to corporate web access check out: LMI.net. They're a small provider whose been around for a long time.
• Looking for a one-stop place for taking progressive action on the web? Check out progressiveportal.org
• The Nation has provided "unconventional wisdom since 1865" -and they're not fooling. Terrific articles and regular columns on a mix of political and social issues.
• Common Dreams is another excellent resource for the progressively minded, with tons of articles on all sorts of issues. This one's a keeper!
• Thomas is the ticket if you want to keep up on wassup with bills before Congress. Search for bills by their numbers or with keywords. Very cool!
• GWBush Art is the antidote. Guess what the disease is.
• Island-life.net is a place online to gain an interesting perspective on life in Alameda, California.
• politicalcompass.org To gain insight into your political sensibilities take this interesting test.
• If you love words and learning about their origins check out etymologic.com Great fun!

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