Website of the month

againstthegrain.org

Mar 3rd, 2010 | By editor | Category: Our favourite allsorts of the month, Website of the month

Every month we pick a website to profile. This month it’s againstthegrain.org, a radio and web media project whose aim is to provide in-depth analysis and commentary on a variety of matters — political, economic, social and cultural — important to progressive and radical thinking and activism. We’re based at the studios of Pacifica station KPFA-FM in Berkeley, California.



Freedom.org.uk

Feb 3rd, 2010 | By editor | Category: Our favourite allsorts of the month, Website of the month

The Freedom Press (which includes Freedom Newspaper, Freedom Bookshop and Freedom Publishing) is a longstanding anarchist publisher based in Whitechapel, East London. Founded in 1886 it offered an outlet for radical ideas and a meeting place for the anarchist thinkers of the day. We seek to continue that tradition, along with promoting and supporting current […]



Crimethinc.com

Jan 1st, 2010 | By editor | Category: Our favourite allsorts of the month, Website of the month

History is not something that happens to people — it is the activity of people. In every moment, in every decision and gesture, we make our culture, our life stories, our world, whether we take responsibility for this ourselves or ascribe this power to executives, politicians, pop stars, economic systems, or deities.
The Future is UnwrittenIn […]



The interview project by David Lynch

Dec 1st, 2009 | By editor | Category: Our favourite allsorts of the month, Website of the month

 
In Interview Project’s mini-documentaries, filmmakers Austin Lynch and Jason S. sidle up to strangers and ask them piercing questions like “What were your dreams as a child?” and “When did you first experience death?”
For the 121-part online series, the pair logged 20,000 miles criss-crossing the United States over a 70-day stretch, searching for random people […]



The Telic Arts Exchange

Nov 1st, 2009 | By editor | Category: Our favourite allsorts of the month, Website of the month

 
Telic Arts Exchange provides a place for multiple publics to engage with contemporary forms of media, art and architecture. For five years TAE has been a platform for exhibitions, performances, screenings, lectures and discussions.  Currently they are engaged in a series of projects: EDITIONS, THE PUBLIC SCHOOL, DISTRIBUTED GALLERY, BERLIN and 975 CHUNG KING. For […]



The UHC Collective

Oct 5th, 2009 | By editor | Category: Our favourite allsorts of the month, Website of the month

Ultimate Holding Company (UHC) was founded in 2002 and in the same year gained nationwide critical attention when it opened a working replica of the US internment facility ‘Camp X-Ray’ on land earmarked for regeneration in Inner city Manchester. ‘This Is Camp X Ray’ has set the tone for the Collective’s subsequent projects in its […]



flaminglotus.com

Sep 2nd, 2009 | By editor | Category: Our favourite allsorts of the month, Website of the month

The Flaming Lotus Girls (FLG) are a female-driven group of artists formed in 2000 to create our first sculpture, the Flaming Lotus. Our sculptures are composed of steel , stainless steel, copper, glass, wood, light, and fire. Our flames blaze in sizes ranging from 2 inches to 150+ feet.
For the past seven years we have […]



argmyface.com

Aug 1st, 2009 | By editor | Category: Our favourite allsorts of the month, Website of the month

www.argmyface.com is the website of Leo Boyd, mutantspace member, a Dublin based artist, illustrator and a founding member of the Argist movement, a loose international conglomerate of weirdoes who share a love of art and twisted humour.
Here you will find some of his paintings and illustrations as well as links to other Argist sites.
Come, look […]



Platform 21

Jul 1st, 2009 | By editor | Category: Our favourite allsorts of the month, Website of the month

 
Platform21 is a platform for people curious about the future. An old, round chapel in Amsterdam is their public design laboratory. There they organise exhibitions, lectures and other events.
To Platform 21, design is a vehicle to dream about the future. What is possible, what will change and where lies the most exciting creative challenges? Every new […]



seemen.org

Jun 1st, 2009 | By editor | Category: Our favourite allsorts of the month, Website of the month

 
www.seemen.org is the collaborative effort of Kal Spelletich and some forty odd art drop outs and extreme technology inventors who enjoy building extreme machines and robots that they allow their audience to operate.
There is NO OTHER ART LIKE THIS IN THE WORLD!
This is an art that is a mix of robots, machines, sculpture, computers, science, […]