Fairylandxo's Link Directory

Link Directory (this page under construction)

I decided to create and maintain a link directory to further my own (utopian) post-social media vision of the Internet - a human-driven sphere of discovery based on mutual respect and collaboration.
Artists, writers and musicians shouldn't have to rely on the whims of the algorithm to get 'discovered' - we should all take it upon ourselves to act as 'tastemakers,' promoting and recommending work we like to create new areas of cultural growth that aren't algorithm-dependent.
Big Tech is massive, but I firmly believe that even if only a thousand people create and promote alternatives they will change the world in a very meaningful way. Please check out this list and recreate with your own discoveries if it appeals to you!

Artists & designers

Ceramicists
- Stephan Goodwin - colourful and geometrically-intriguing sculptures with cool glazes, possibly some ancient Chinese influence?? Also watercolourist/musician/linocut artist
Installation
- Caitlin Hazell - one of the coolest girls I looked up to on Tumblr back in the day, nobody else had such a big impact on my taste in film/art/etc. Now does exciting and funny installation work and also metalsmithing/casting with inspo from early Christianity. Based in London
Graphic designers
- Nicholas D’Apolito - American graphic designer using analogue-style typography
- Kristyna Kulikova - Czech graphic designer and art director with incredible maximalist ‘found imagery’ style.
Painters & draughtsmen
- Birdmelt - glyphic charcoal drawings with incredible sense of rhythm
- Gitte Maria Moller - Cape Town-based painter - lots of symmetry, pastels and medieval dungeon landscapes, reminds me of late 19th-c German children’s book illustrations
- Oda Iselin Sonderland - based in Oslo. Intricate, surreal fairytale illustrations in watercolour - and wood carvings (!!!)
Papercraft
- A.T. Pratt - NYC-based artist making pop-up papercraft mechanisms and comics. Incredibly-conceived and very impressive inking style
Printmakers

Film

Film blogs you should check out
- The Best of Everything - Joan Crawford archive, with rare scans and vintage merchandising details
- Matte Shot - all about matte paintings and other Classic Hollywood SFX
- Phantom of the Backlots - memories of trespassing on various disused film sets around Los Angeles. My favourite bit: he recently found a real Silent Era dressing room in someone's back garden!!

Music

Interesting RYM users
- goldenflower - for Asian pop girls 90s-present
- sonjeff - especially for world music

Psychoanalysis

Large-scale resources
- ARAS - Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism (really cool Jung archive)

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