The Link Pool

  • Ain’t It Cool

    THE site for movie rumors and news. With a sligh geek-bent, of course.

  • Alexandre Day

    French artist. Mostly graphite on coated wood. Beautiful stuff.

  • Allen Spiegel Fine Arts

    Uber artist representative… Absolutely stellar roster of incredible talent.

  • American Art Archives

    This other tripple A.

  • ARC International

    The Art Renewal Center

  • ArtRage

    From the good folks over at Ambient Design comes this fun, inexpensive, and super-cool painting application.

  • Ayatoweb

    Very cool site for Ayato Fujii, a Japanese designer/animator/musician. Lots of cool After Effects tips and tricks. Mostly in Japanese, some English.

  • Bagger43

    Artist Dennis Brown. Very Nice stuff. Bonus blog link here.

  • Bardo Records

    Home of Jonas Hellborg, Swedish ultra-bassist. Bonus interview here.

  • Barron Storey

    Legendary artist/illustrator/cacophonist/instructor/you name it… and perhaps the single most creative genius I have ever met. Bonus link here. And another here.

  • BayProg

    Much things progressive music related, mostly specific to the SF Bay Area.

  • Bearskinrug

    The professional webspace of illustrator and designer, Kevin Cornell. Very nice stuff.

  • Becky Cloonan

    Fantastic comic book artist… with a bonus blog: Ink and Thunder.

  • Bill Clements

    Meet bass player Bill Clements. He does more with one hand than most bassist with two. This is a litteral statement. Bonus video link here.

  • Bill Sienkiewicz

    Another of my all-time favorite artists. Heavy-hitter on the graphic novel scene.

  • BK Studio

    Exquisite illustration and concept art. Be sure to check out the screen-cap movies.

  • Blambot

    Comic fonts and lettering.

  • Blue Seven Audio

    Studio of one Christopher Scott Cooper, worker of audio magics.

  • Dave Brinda

    Rockstar Interactive and Motion Graphics Designer. Cohort at DR.

  • What the Tide Brings

    Avast ye landlubbers! My sister Britta… this be her blog… ahhhr.

  • Buckethead

    Peer into strange and wonderfully macabre world of “free-style devastation rock” guitarist Buckethead.

  • Authentic Boredom

    Web site of Cameron Moll, designer.

  • CD Baby

    THE best place of independent music on the web. If you’re a musician releasing your own music, you should be selling on CD Baby!

  • CG Society

    The CG Society and the CG Talk Forums are a great repository of useful information for those in the business of digital art.

  • Christopher Steininger

    Talented artist… with a very cool Joe Frank graphic novel.

  • CIVA

    Christians in the Visual Arts

  • Cocoatech

    Fresh and tasty concoction for Mac OS X.

  • CollyLogic

    Simon Collison’s excellent site… XHTML, CSS, CMS… creative stuff.

  • Coming Up for Air

    Matthew Forsythe’s site: “A catalogue of sketches - graphic, typographic, photographic, & aural”. Home of Ojingogo.

  • CSS Zen Garden

    A site for displaying the power and flexibility of CSS.

  • Dan Kimball

    Author and pastor of Vintage Faith Church in Santa Cruz. Likes Rockabilly.

  • Dave Mckean: Dreamline

    A great (unofficial) Dave Mckean site with loads of his artwork.

  • David Crowder Band

    Awesome worship band from TX.

  • Digital Painting Tutorial

    A quick one-pager. Very useful tips on digital painting.

  • Drawn!

    The Illustration Blog.

  • e338

    CG artist - l’alternative. Blog and portfolio home of artist Loic Zimmermann.

  • EllisLab

    Rick Ellis’ blog. CEO of pMachine.

  • Enchant

    Friends and fellow prog-rockers.

  • Evan Spiridellis Life Drawing Blog

    One half of the Jib-Jab team.

  • Expression Engine

    The back end system that runs this particular site. Super cool.

  • Galactic Boutique

    My brother Karl’s store… now, an actual store up in Seattle!

  • Games Workshop

    Battle anyone? I got addicted to the Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game a few years back, but I’m still way behind on my figure painting.

  • Gustaf Tenggren

    They just don’t make illustrators quite like they used to. Also check out his Grimm illustrations here.

  • Hog Bay Software

    User-powered software. Makers of Mori and Writeroom.

  • Illustration Friday

    Very cool illustration challenge site… super spiffy.

  • Image After

    Cool image resource web site. Free images and textures!

  • Imaginism Studios

    Home of the digital-bobert himself… Bobby Chiu.

  • Isabelle Arsenault

    Canadian illustrator. Whymsical style. Muted colors. Nicey nicey.

  • ISO50

    The Visual Work of Scott Hansen. Extremely cool stuff. Excellent music as well. In the infuriating pursuit of balancing art/design and music, Scott simply excels.

  • James Jean

    Illustrator based in LA. Fantastic work. Fantastic blog, too.

  • Jeff Miracola

    Web site, portfolio, and blog of super-cool illustrator Jeff Miracola.

  • Jeremy Enecio

    Portfolio of Jeremy Enecio… fantastic illustrator.

  • Jewelboxing

    High-end, short-run, cd/dvd packaging system.

  • Joe Frank

    Master Storyteller. Spooky and atmospheric monologues and dramatizations

  • Jon Foster

    Fantastic artist-illustrator-type.

  • Jon Hopkins

    UK electronica artists. Apparently responsible for my favorite part(s) of Coldplay’s iva La Vida.

  • k10k

    Cutting edge web uber-design site.

  • Ken Wong Illustration

    Illustration & Design Portfolio. Bonus and super-cool digital painting walk-through here.

  • Keri Smith Illustration

    Whimsical and fun illustration with no shortage of inspirational little bits.

  • Kreativ Sounds

    Excellent source for sounds and refills for Reason.

  • Kurzweil AI

    Big brained site. I mean extremely massively huge brained site. Biotechnology, nanotechnology, molecular electronics, computation, artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, virtual reality, human brain reverse engineering, brain augmentation, robotics, you know… the usual stuff.

  • Laika

    Animation House. They’re making Coraline.

  • Lee Rudnicki: Blog 7

    The random off-topic blog of an entertainment lawyer/movie mogul/band manager in LA.

  • Linda Bergkvist

    Extremely talented digital artist. Incredible digital paintings.

  • LoopBox

    Another nice source for loops, beats, and sounds.

  • Looperlative

    Insanely great hardware audio looper. If I were really into looping I’d have to have one.

  • LouLou’s Illustrations

    Wacky, whimsical illustrations… from the Land of Nether, I hear.

  • The Net is Dead

    Marco van Hylckama Vlieg’s blog. Stellar designer and developer, creator of the Pivot Blacklist, which has saved my other sites from evil comment spam.

  • Mattias Adolfsson

    The man loves to draw. And we loves what he draws. Bonus sketch blog link.

  • Maximum Indifference

    My band. Cinematic Instrumental Rock Music. Bonus link: Check out our stuff on iTunes.

  • The Mermen

    San Francisco’s own… fine purveyors of instrumental surf/noise/ambient rock

  • Mi7 Libraries

    Great online resource for sounds and sound effects.

  • Michael Manring

    The penultimate in solo bass.

  • Michael Mullen

    Aboslutely fantastic fiddle player… of the Scottish and Irish persuasion. Plays in Tempest, too.

  • Mick Karn

    Extremely distinctive bassist and sculptor. Did I mention extremely distinctive?

  • Minart

    Australian concept artist. Loads of figurative work… great stuff.

  • Motionographer

    A spiffy joint for things motion graphics related.

  • MOTU

    Mark of the Unicorn. (huh?) Makers of Digital Performer, my current digital audio sequencing application.

  • Muse

    Absolutely stellar band from the UK. Think Rush vs. Radiohead.

  • Natascha Roeoesli and Henning Ludvigsen

    A pair of superb digital painters. Between the two of them: lots of art and art resources. Splendid.

  • Neil Gaiman’s Journal

    Keep up on the very latest with author Neil Gaiman’s very own blog. 

  • No Straight Lines

    Paintings by Kevin Story, former cohort at DR.

  • Nooma

    Rob Bell’s thought provoking videos.

  • On My Desk

    “Creative folk share the stuff on their desks”. I love this kind of stuff.

  • Orisinal

    Large collection of very, very spiffy (and extremely well-deisgned) flash games. Careful. May be addictive.

  • Panic

    Makers of supremely cool Macintosh applications.

  • Patrick O’Hearn

    One of my longtime favorite recording artists… beautiful, moody, atmospheric music.

  • Pixelsurgeon

    Online creative digest… movie, music, and game reviews, interviews, etc…

  • Pork Tornado

    The mental drippings of one Dusty Scott. Occasionally infrequent, but absolutely hilarious.

  • Prometheus Spawning Grounds

    Niklas Jansson’s site. Drawings, paintings, modeling/sculpting, coding, designing, creating. Very helpful digital painting tutorial, too!

  • Propellerhead Software

    The creators of Reason… possibly the single most useable and cost-effective piece of music software ever created.

  • Raphael Lacoste

    Beautiful matte paintings and concept artwork.

  • Rebecca Kimmel

    Self-described “perpetual art student"… very nice figure drawings and paintings.

  • Ron Moore’s Blog

    Creator of the new Battlestare Galactica. Si-Fi nerds only.

  • RUSH

    The Foutainhead. The best band in the known universe. Seriously. Bonus link: Oddities.

  • Saint and Mather

    Makers of the incredibly unbelievably astonishing short film, Prey Alone.

  • Scott Anderson.

    Illustrator. Bonus blog link here.

  • Scott McCloud

    Comics giant (and author of Understanding Comics) Scott McCloud’s site… and his blog.

  • Stef’s Sketches

    Stephane Kardos Art: Sketches, illustrations and more… nice stuff

  • Stephen Silver

    Draws every day.

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