Cool Links:

D. Steele's Analog Audiovisual Experiment: I met Steele at the 2024 Small File Film Fest and had a good chat with him about what he was studying the fest for.

Monoskop "is an independent web-based educational resource and research platform for arts, culture and humanities founded in 2004. Monoskop features wiki pages with multilingual genealogical bibliographies of contemporary themes and movements in art, culture, and society such as Fediverse, technofeminism, decolonial aesthetics, the Anthropocene, community radio, free software, artists' publishing, performance, sound art and experimental film and video, accompanied by personal bio-bibliographical profiles of their exponents. Many of the titles in the bibliographies are linked to electronic versions of publications made available on Monoskop or other free/libre libraries."

Do Not Research "is a publishing platform for writing, visual art, internet culture research and more."

Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute "is an online community dedicated to developing a visual lexicon of consumer ephemera from the 1970s until now."

Web Design Museum "exhibits thousands of screens and videos of old websites, mobile apps and software"

Grist "is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to highlighting climate solutions and uncovering environmental injustices."

Popular Front "is a grassroots media organisation that focuses solely on war and conflict."

The China Project was a media platform (now archived) that gave "an accurate, comprehensive, and contextual understanding of China — a country whose rise has been reshaping the entire world order."

Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism "is the leading non-profit organization dedicated to investigative journalism across the Arab World."

afikra is "a pioneering global media and educational platform - a leader of curiosity, intellectual, and cultural understanding about the Arab world."

Africa Is a Country is a journalism organization that "offers a critical perspective on various social, political, and cultural issues affecting Africa that push back on continental legacies of colonialism and exploitation."

Bellingcat "is an independent investigative collective of researchers, investigators and citizen journalists brought together by a passion for open source research."

The Cyberpunk Project: "A cyberspace well of files, related to those aspects of being, formed by modern life and culture."

Lainchan: "(It's) easy to label (it) as just a cyberpunk image board, but (...) that label is incomplete at best and a restriction at worst. (...)The lainchan community is (what) you want it to be."

Entervoid "is a competitive and collaborative comic drawing website. After getting your original character accepted to the site, you can collaborate with other artists to create comics, or challenge other artists to comic battles featuring your characters. Draw in any style and genre that you’d like. Improve your skills through community, helpful feedback, and friendly competition"

Do Art Daily is a space that helps motivate drawing for at least 30 minutes a day. I eventually want to aim for a 15 day streak so I can join their discord server.

"Solarpunk : A Reference Guide" formulates a definition for the "solarpunk" phenomenon based from the historical use of the term on the internet.

UbuWeb "is a pirate shadow library consisting of hundreds of thousands of freely downloadable avant-garde artifacts."

The Internet Speculative Fiction Database "is a community effort to catalog works of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. It links together various types of bibliographic data: author bibliographies, publication bibliographies, award listings, magazine content listings, anthology and collection content listings, and forthcoming books."