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The Galactic Geographic
Karl Kofoed is a front-rank Science Fiction illustrator who has created a visually stunning and intellectually fascinating glimpse of other worlds in the form of the Galactic Geographic from the year 3097. The richness and detail of both the art and the concepts he has worked out for alien life are dazzling. Only a small portion of the project is on display here. If we're lucky, he'll put it out as a book soon. Excerpts will be printed in Heavy Metal magazing starting in March.
Doc Ozone
Brilliantly eccentric artist/designer with a frequently changing, always fascinating set of sites, personal and professional. His material ranges from clean sharp design work to bizzare eye candy. His set of "Hands-on tutorials" are great for anyone into web design and graphics. Doc is also a wonderfully off-kilter cartoonist. Speaking of off-kilter cartoonists, Doc also maintains pages devoted to Matt Howarth's wonderfully twisted Those Annoying Post Brothers. Not to be missed.
 
Spike Webb, Net Detective
A wonderfully pulpy web-based, web-centric detective story. Told in browser-size chunks with snappy graphics, and sprinkled with links. It's not being updated at the moment, but there are several complete stories here.
 
Reboot
Before there was Toy Story, there was ReBoot! A wonderful fully computer-animated show, full of computer puns and references, dazzling design work, and good stories. They have fun doing their takes on anything from Mad Max to Raiders to It's a Wonderful Life. It used to be on ABC Saturday mornings, disappeared for awhile, and is now airing in syndication on Thursday mornings in 100+ cities. Check the listings. The above link is to an unofficial ReBoot page.  The Official ReBoot Page is a litle heavy on initial load time, but nice. Here's the MAinframe site: http://www.mainframe.ca/HOME/index.html
The Firesign Theater
The very first reference in ARGON ZARK! ("How can you be in 27,000 places...") is to The Firesign Theatre, a hilarious, bizzare, surreal, and wonderfully inventive comedy group that mixed 40's radio drama style with modern recording technology to produce something extraordinary. Their stuff is laced with referencs to everything from The I Ching to James Joyce to Cole Porter and The Beatles. They predicted a saxaphone-playing president back in 1967! Check out their CD's of "How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All?" and "I think We're all Bozos on this Bus." This is a link to an unofficial site. The official Firesign Theatre WWW Home Page is a little less flashy, but to the point. Just send a photograph of yourself (or someone who looks just like you) to The Department of Redundancy Department and don't take off your shoes!
Mystery Science Theater 3000
Speaking of "laced with references", take a ride in the Satellite of Love with Mystery Science Theatre 3000. If you ever sat around making fun of those wonderfully cheesy old 50's science fiction movies (and who hasn't?), this is the TV show for you.   Hey, Servo, Cybert wants to know where you get your gumballs.
The Giantess
Stephanie Evans beautiful collages of giantesses in various settings. She was there well before the Rolling Stones video and certain beer commercials made this kind of imagery more common. She still does it better.

 

 
Dinosaurs! Top
I have an abiding fondness for all things dinosaur.
You check out some of my Dinosaur Cartoons.
Or visit some of the Dinosaur related Web sites that I've designed:
DInofest
The World's Fair of Dinosaurs!
Giganotosaurus (With Tess Kissinger)
"Dino" Don Lessem's site devoted to the largest carniverous dinosaur ever found. Bigger than T-rex!
Walters & Kissinger'e dinoart.com
A full-service dinosaur art studio. All three of these sites feature art by Bob Walters, who does some of the most stunning dinosaur art you're ever likely to see. Great stuff!
 
Deep Weirdness: Top
The Surrealism Server
They don't make 'em weird like they used to!
Allen Toney's Home Page
Or do they? It's the real unreal thing.
Ellsworth Gallery
Bill Ellsworth. Digital non-objective objects at their hypertextural eye-tickling, mind-goosing, eidetic-vision provoking best. One of my favorite digital artists. Get the book.
The Salvador Dali Museum Web Site
Ah! The persistance of Dali!
Magritte
"This is not a home page."
MkzdK
Pack a lunch.  Leave a trail of breadcrumbs.
The Grotesque in Art
Pack a barf bag.  Leave your will in a safe place. 
The World of Escher
Pack both sides of your brain.  Leave your preconceptions behind. 
Paul F. Jones's Tracespace
Nice raytraced weirdness. 
 
Web Page Design: Top
IMAGEX
High intensity graphics and web design.
Apocolypse Studios
The always inventive Doc Ozone.
EmeraldNet
Cutting edge technologically. Check out their site for Skold Requires Netscape 4 or better.
Brad Johnson Presents
Always clean, imaginative and sharp.
The High Five Award Page
David Seigel's awards for Web Design. Some may suggest that he's too conservative, but I think he covers a certain place in the spectrum extremely well. Also see his Creating Killer Web Sites pages.
The Global Awards for Excellence in Web Design
Conservative, but worthwhile choices.
 
Where is this guy coming from? Top
I live in the Philadelphia area. Net Access, is my local internet provider.
 
I'm a member of MacBUS, the Macintosh Business Users Society of Philadelphia. A users group devoted to business and professional Mac users.
 
Other MacBUS members with interesting web sites include:
Bob Hires, and his experimental HTML Helmet.
Michael Craig Amper, AKA Benzene, who does work for d8 magazine, of particular interest to role-playing gamers.

Star's End is an excellent Philadelphia radio show devoted to Space Music. It airs Saturday nights (technically Sunday morning) from 1AM to 6AM on WXPN from the University of Pennsylvania.
 
Also on on WXPN is The Compududes Hour on Thursdays from 8 to 9PM. The Compududes are Scott Manning and Peter Cook, two knowledgeable and extremely patient computer geeks, er,... I mean enthusiasts, who diagnose computer problems over the phone on live radio! Amazing and informative. They also do the same for kids during the 7 to 8PM hour on Thursdays on Kids Corner.
 
The zark.com site originates from Houston, Texas courtesy of the good folks at FlexNet. They've been with me since very early on and have been extremely helpful, responsive and generous.
 

 
And more... Top
Here are the Comics links.

If you haven't found them yet, you may want to visit my Headscape Hesitator pages...

You can also click around on ARGON ZARK! pages 36 and 37 for jumping off points to other sites.