A new scan of original painting by a sea lion from Sea Life Park, Hawaii.
A second new scan of original sea lion painting.
Clicking the above original scan of a post card takes you to the web gallery of the artist, the famous signing gorilla Koko.
Michael Theroux has produced a 30-minute cassette of various plants hooked up to electrodes and stimulated [pictured above],with the output converted to sound. Click the photo to go to his site for ordering. He has an mp3 sample on his page that is often down, but the sample below was working as of 6/8/99.
Here's
realaudio plants turning their output to sound.
An interesting book tracing the history of monkey art with analysis
that doesn't seem all that unreal and 69 photos, mostly of chimp art, 15
in color. You can buy the book by clicking
here
Click the picture to go to the Why Cats Paint website which currently has paintings not in the book, movie clips of cats painting[!], and related items. Unfortunately the book's text is totally bogus and instead of providing real information is just a not-very-interesting satire of art criticism. Thus it's unclear whether all the photos of cat art are authentic [as they do seem to me] or if some are merely part of the authors' satire. Please e-mail me if you have more info and I'll update or remove this item. To buy the book click here
Click on the picture to visit a gallery of First Grader art.[Updated with a new class 9/4/99]
Click the image to visit the Refrigerator Art site, with weekly postings of kids art [in a contest you can have kids submit to or comment on] and a Hall of Fame gallery.
You can visit a gallery of computer and traditional media art done by a girl over her life ages 3 to 6 by clicking here.
The most wonderful writing by children I've read are in the three anthologies by Richard Lewis: "There Are Two Lives", "Miracles", and "Journeys". They are all out of print. One fascinating book which remains in print is Kenneth Koch's "Wishes, Lies, and Dreams". Here's a short excerpt by primary schooler Andrea Dockery:
I used to be a fish
But now I am a nurse...
You can buy the book by clicking here
Unfortunately most of the wealth of children's .art, fiction, and poetry
on the web and in print seems to be chosen for how closely it emulates
the productions of adults. If you're aware of sites which give space to
the marvelous and truly child-like work of children, please e-mail
me.
Click the picture to visit the Stone Pages, a guide to European megaliths, with lots of pictures and info.
Click on the picture to go to the Rock Art website which can lead you to many photos and all sorts of info [try clicking Tracce or "links" in the top navigation bar once there]. Unfortunately the only cave art books I'm familiar with enough to recommend are out of print.
