Glamour Beast

Come click on some links!!

Below are links to places elsewhere on the web! Explore to your hearts content!

Personal Sites!

Please go and visit these wonderful people's sites!

My Button!

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Queerness

Queering the Map: "a community generated counter-mapping platform for digitally archiving LGBTQ2IA+ experience in relation to physical space. "

Queer Liberation Library: This organization "fights to build a vibrant, flourishing queer future by connecting LGBTQ+ people with literature, information, and resources that celebrate the unique and empowering diversity of our community."

Music & Sound

Radio Garden: A website for listening to music playing right now all over the world

Radiooooo: A musical time machine

Gnoosic: A search engine that helps you to find new music

Listen to Wikipedia: "Listen to the sound of Wikipedia's recent changes feed."

Art

"Anatomy Quick Tips" by Sinix Design: A Youtube playlist if videos with quick tips for drawing various parts of the body. Made it much easier for me to draw the human form!

Map Crunch: A website where you are dropped in a random place on earth and can explore via street view! This can be a fun way to practice drawing landscapes and environments!

Film Grab: This site hosts a large catalogue of stills from a wide range of films. Great for using as reference images or generally finding insipration!

Skills & Learning

Keybr: This website helps you learn touch typing by "employ[ing] statistics and smart algorithms to automatically create typing lessons that match your current skill level." I am a pecking-typer and am currently using this to learn how to touch type!

A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden: An Essay by Maggie Appleton regarding web gardens!

Reading

Terms of Service; Didn't Read: Summarizes different terms of service for didfferent platfroms and websites!

Weird Fiction and fiction that happens to be weird: As the title suggests. Weird fiction is described by John Clute as "used loosely to describe fantasy, supernatural fiction and horror tales embodying transgressive material."

The Library of Babel: "a place for scholars to do research, for artists and writers to seek inspiration, for anyone with curiosity or a sense of humor to reflect on the weirdness of existence - in short, it’s just like any other library."