Arts & Humanities
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- Literature & Writing (874)
- Webcomics (46)
- Music (173)
- Visual Arts (1778)
- Photography (196)
- Film & Animation (41)
- Poetry (88)
- Crafts & DIY (340)
https://greatsfandf.com/
A critically curated guide to science fiction and fantasy literature, this site offers detailed author lists, bibliographies, and discussions of speculative fiction works deemed worth reading. Highlights include specialty lists, overlooked gems, and deep bibliographic coverage of authors like Lord Dunsany and E.T.A. Hoffmann.
https://lukesnotes.mataroa.blog/
Luke's Notes is a thoughtful personal blog mixing music appreciation posts (highlighting favorite tracks by artists like Miles Davis, Patti Smith, and The Kinks) with book roundups, memoir-style storytelling, and essays on socialism and education. The ongoing 'Ina's Story' series, a serialized personal or family history, gives the site a distinctive literary heart that sets it apart from a typical music or politics blog.
https://sheep.nekoweb.org/links.html
Sheep's personal Nekoweb site features a fic recs section, media log, and collections alongside a curated links page connecting to friends and neighbours in the indie web community. The calendar-style navigation, dithered aesthetics, and last.fm widget give the site a distinctive handcrafted old-web charm.
https://wrender.neocities.org/
Wrendering is a colorful personal site by the creator Wren, built for sharing original art, fun gifs, animated pngs, and custom widgets with a vibrant old-web aesthetic. The site comes with a content warning for bright colors and swearing, and is lovingly coded for desktop in Visual Studio Code.
https://rabbitnet.neocities.org/
RabbitNET is the personal hub of a creator known as Rabbit, featuring original digital art, fan shrines, a free web graphics stash, and blog posts ranging from media commentary to semi-lucid ramblings. The site is a lively old-web style space with sections for art, shrines dedicated to things like U.B. Funkeys, a media log, and a curated collection of free-to-use graphics rescued from the Wayback Machine.
https://motherstone.neocities.org/about
Motherstone is Avery's personal Neocities site, home to her diary, fiction and non-fiction writing, and creative projects. A self-described writer, musician, and artist living in the upper Midwest, she brings a warm and witty voice to her corner of the indie web.
http://michaelspornanimation.com/splog
The "Splog" was the celebrated daily blog of Michael Sporn, a legendary New York animator whose studio produced acclaimed television specials from 1980 until his passing in 2014. Rich with storyboards, layouts, production art, and commentary on animation history and craft, it serves as both a professional archive and a tribute to one of independent animation's most dedicated voices.
https://jangobrecht.com/
Jan's personal internet playground, hosted in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he shares blog posts, photos, and reflections on life, cycling, and personal growth. The site blends a warm, welcoming tone with a distinctly old-web spirit, complete with a guestbook, GPG key, and a hit counter starting from the Unix epoch.
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http://128.111.69.4/~jevbratt/1_to_1/interface_iv/index.html
Hosted on a UC Santa Barbara server, this is a net art project by Lisa Jevbratt that visualizes the entire IP address space of the internet as a navigable image interface. The '1:1' project maps every IP address to a single pixel, offering a haunting and poetic portrait of the web's infrastructure as interactive digital art.
https://sensesofcinema.com/
Senses of Cinema is one of the web's earliest and most respected online film journals, established in Melbourne in 1999 and devoted to serious, eclectic criticism and discussion of cinema. Visitors will find in-depth feature articles, director and actor retrospectives, festival reports, book reviews, and special dossiers covering a wide range of international and arthouse film.