Over the past 12 months or so I have been collecting some of the more interesting sites I have found on my travels round the internet, and presenting them as a links page [link] to my viewer's. A few comments of "hey this should be a news article" have been uttered from time to time ... So I finally decided to share it with you .....

The links reflect my random travels around the internet and cover artists and designers .. random cool sites of stupidity .. and my main passion of Architecture and ruination, abandonment and history.

I hope this comes as use to some of the people who have not been privy to my links collection in the past.

Disclaimer -
I have no professional connection to any of the 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.

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 ruin, Derbyshire, England - [link]
Woodchester Mansion Another ruined mansion in Wiltshire England, supposed to be very haunted but a beautiful place all the same - [link]
Sintra, Portugal If your ever on holiday in Portugal get over here and get photos. Check the link to Quinta da Regaleira sure you'll be impressed - [link]
European Castle Database A rather nice collection of European castles grouped country by country .. some lovely places - [link]
Castles on the web A nice recourse of castles and abbeys etc across Europe ... far from complete but really nice - [link]

Lunatic asylums the world over

Simon Cornwell UK abandoned asylums - [link]
Danvers MA - You want more ? Go get the movie Session 9, its set here - [link]
Essex Mountain Sanatorium NJ More American abandoned asylums - [link]

Artists & designers

Carylann Loeppky The girl who does the design and photography for Delerium album covers - [link]
Thomas Barbey Awe inspiring photo manipulations - [link]
Chad Michael Ward Manson, Collide and more macabre than you can shake a stick at - [link]
Eolo Perfido Italian photographer, damn he's good - [link]
Damned in Black Mucho strangeness & a damn effective website .. find the gallery nice & dark - [link]
Dorian Cleavenger Nice fantasy work in a rather risque sense - [link]
Darkview Awe inspiring photography from Germany - [link] & [link]
GrayDecay Dark and Gothic ... the way some of you like it - [link] & [link]
Victoria Frances Stunning Gothic artist from Spain, go check - [link]
Celtic Art & Photography - Angela Jayne Barnett This will go down well with D.A. people and especially people who sneak around my gallery - [link]
Keith Thompson Really cool artist and author of how to books ([link] & [link] ) - [link]
Howard David Johnson Another random find but some really nice fantasy and historical artwork - [link]
Corlen Kruger Bit of an artists blog but some nice pictures in there - [link]
Maverick Arts the artwork of Monte Moore - [link]
Stephan Martinere Excellent artist including lots of sci-fi and concept drawings - [link]
Rob Alexander The web site of the artist .. lots of fantasy work - [link]
Matteworld A really cool webbie full of Matte paintings - [link]
Mattepainting.ORG The quintessential matte painting site ... some stunning works to get you salivating - [link]
Polynoid Simple but effective ... Cyber snails any one ? (click on the video) - [link]
D*Zine King in his own right - [link]
Jon Burgerman Wacky doodles from this pen - [link]
Peskimo More designer strangeness - [link]
Manga art by Dock Cool manga inspired art work of Dock - [link]

Resources

Photo tutorial site - [link]
More tutorials than you can shake a stick at 3d, digital, natural - [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]

Book Publishers & Magazines

ArtzMania cool FREE downloadable pdf art magazine full of cool stuff go check out (downloadable PDF format files) - [link]
Ballistic Press If any one has read any issues of ImagineFX you will have seen the adverts there for these amazing art books ... I shall say no more other than follow the link and be totally amazed - [link]
Design Studio Press A really cool art book site full of concept art books for Sci-Fi and fantasy, Computer game, character and creature design and transportation - [link]
ILEX Press Very good computer art books 3d, ps etc. - [link]
ImagineFX Fantasy & SF art magazine from Future publishing - [link]
2dArtist An amazing magazine for all cg artists ... and damn cheap too (downloadable PDF format files) - [link]
3d Creative Sister magazine to 2dartists above ... Some stunning and in depth interviews and tutorials .. also includes an impressive gallery (downloadable PDF format files) - [link]

Historical

Victorian London May find inspiration, or just something to read - [link]
Internet Medieval Source book Good source of medieval info - [link]
Dissolution of the monasteries You may have seen the pictures in my gallery if your interested in the history behind the monasteries of England - [link]
Cistercian in Yorkshire The 5 main Cistercian abbeys in North Yorkshire - [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]
Knights Templar What with the Da Vinci Code and all my abbey stuff, you may like to take a look at the history of The Templar's - [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 this time 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]

Communities - Theres not just DeviantART.

More for the 3d artist, - [link]
Pen and Paper art gallery Cool RPG orientated art work and inspiration - [link]
Epilogue Some stunning fantasy work here go check - [link]
CGSociety Another really cool Computer Graphics society - [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 - [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 - [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]

Cool Sites

Graphotism Magazine The worlds greatest Graffiti mag - [link]
Fulltime Artists Another Graff site - [link]
Panorama's Some stunning Panoramic pictures from the world over - [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 - [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]
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 tin .. a big box of free web games ... Just don't blame me if you get addicted - [link]


Chernobyl - Probably one of the most awesome websites ever. 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 ...... - [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.