Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Fifteen (count 'em) more interesting people with websites:

Bernard Haisch (theoretical physicist)

Robert J. Sawyer (author)

Jane Goodall (primatologist, activist)

Paolo Soleri (architect)

Kenn Brown and Chris Wren* (illustrators)

Patrick Huyghe (author, editor)

eWarrior (Web designer)

Ray Caesar (artist)

Bill Griffith (cartoonist)

Syd Mead (visual futurist)

H.R. Giger (artist)

Jimmy Descant (artist)

Mary Anne Mohanraj (author)

Cory Doctorow (author, activist)

Rita J. King (columnist)

To be continued . . .

*OK, so actually that makes it sixteen.
Posted by Mac at 4:50 PM

4 comments:

Tim Footman said...

Is there a definitive list of people who should have their own sites, but don't? To kick off" Stephen Fry (writer, actor, director), Paul Morley (writer), Terry Gilliam (director), Jake & Dinos Chapman (artists)....

...unless anyone knows any different.

3:27 AM
magnidude said...
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4:44 AM
magnidude said...

Beeing an architect myself I stumbled again upon Soleri's site and again read his brief summary of arcology theory. Maybe I'm missing sth (surely I'm missing sth - it's only a summary after all) but isn't it just another attempt to design heaven on earth? Such neat and thoughtful plans usually end up as hells. Thanks to Le Corbusier and his mad notion to bring to live designs of Italian futurists me and many other people are doomed to live in ugly blocks of flats scattered across even uglier space of nobody's lawns, squares and chaotic paths of pavements. Let Soleri and his followers convince people to freely decide if they want to live in this arcology thing. If it succeeds as common enterprise, without any governmental aid, so be it. Otherwise I'm for 'wasteful urban sprawl'. And if we are indeed running out of land and energy the answer is expansion, not curling up inside. There are so many other suns and so many other earths out there.

4:48 AM
Mac said...

Tim--

I'd *love* to see an authorized Gilliam website!

Magnidude--

Soleri dreams big. Personally, I find his forms aesthetically (and practically) appealing. Whether they really work is another matter -- but until we start colonizing space our best bet is benevolent experimentation.

1:24 PM