RSS Rundown

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I've added a lot of new RSS feeds to my reading list since the last time I posted about them, so I figure it's time to once again share a list of them for everybody who's interested. These are going to be only new ones I didn't talk about last time, so if you don't remember looking at the last post feel free to check those out too.

• 70s Sci-Fi Art Blog - Starting off with the oddball here; I did talk about this person before, but at the time I only knew about their Tumblr account. They also have a blog on Ghost, as it turns out, and there they do a lot more in-depth breakdowns based upon themes instead of single-picture posts.

• I Support Street Art - Regular spotlights and showcases of mural, graffiti, guerilla, and other "street" art. Very impressive work from across the globe.

• Street Art Utopia - I really do like street art. There is something magnificent about art which is freely available for all and might not even be paid work, instead simply representing an artist's decision to take something everyone walks past every day and turn it into something beautiful. As such, I follow multiple places sharing it. Both are great, and I have yet to see them "repeat" one-another by showing the same work on the same day.

• It's Nice That - Technically this is a "graphic design" blog and not an "art" blog, but I am firmly of the opinion that "design art" is art and the only difference between whoever it is that actually envisioned Duchamp's urinal and Marcel Duchamp himself is that the latter put the former's work in an art show. If you can get past the way the blog often focuses on things like marketing and branding, you'll find it also has a lovely collection of art and photography.

• Kottke - One of the first "professional" bloggers, Jason Kottke has a lifetime achievement award for blogging for a reason. Not only is he great at aggregating interesting news and content in general, everything he posts is broken down by tags and (once again) he has a great collection of art and photography for those who are (like me) interested in those topics.

• No Brash Festivity - A Tumblr focused near-exclusively on sharing art from around the world. I am consistently awe-struck by some of the pieces arriving on my feed from this humble Tumblr.

• Ocula Magazine - Ocula describes itself as "the leading online contemporary art platform for the Asia Pacific region." Not only does the site itself curate galleries and pieces throughout the area, but the online magazine offers in-depth explorations of art exhibitions and artist profiles from around the world.

• Picture Box Blue - Creator Claire Armstrong is an "upcycler," using abandoned or waste materials to craft new items. As a large part of this process is covering old surface-damaged objects with something else that's nicer to look at, she's assembled a large collection of public domain and copyright-free imagery... and she's been generous enough to share it with everyone else as well.

• Sapiens - A digital magazine for anthropology, Sapiens is remarkably wide-ranging in what it features because... well, anthropology is the study of humanity. As such, everything from art to gender study to environmentalism to archaeology falls under its purview. I have been fascinated by every article I've read from them so far.

Any of these links work to subscribe direct from your dreamwidth account, but as a reminder - you can also make your own "feed" pages to follow! All you need is a RSS or Atom feed link to put into the Feeds page here, and if it doesn't yet exist dreamwidth will create a new page for the site for you to subscribe to. Just remember: it takes some time for this site to pull the content from the feed, so don't worry if the feed page looks blank to start with. I worried that I'd done something wrong at first, but it shows up relatively quickly.

If you have your own feeds you'd like to share, please do! I'm always looking for something new and interesting.