SoHo

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Art, writing, poetry and photography.

SoHo is where the artists live. Sketchbooks, darkrooms, poetry slams and potters' studios open their doors here.

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	Charcoal & Coffee: A Sketchbook Online by Ines R., art student · SoHo/Loft An art student's notes on drawing from life, her materials, and what she's learning this semester.
	The Darkroom Diary by Ray T., amateur photographer · SoHo/Darkroom Black-and-white film developing and printing at home, from a bathroom darkroom.
	Poetry Slam Tuesdays at the Blue Door by The Blue Door coffeehouse · SoHo/Gallery An open mic and poetry slam night: rules, the fall 1999 schedule and the current champion.
	Bramble Pottery BUSINESS SoHo/Studio Handmade stoneware mugs, bowls and dinnerware from a two-person studio, and fall sale dates.
	Watercolor Wednesdays by Iris Coleman, retired art teacher · SoHo/Easel Weekly watercolor lessons for beginners: paper, brushes, washes, and a lesson-by-lesson course.
	Street Photography Notes by Marcus Greene, Chicago · SoHo/Canvas Shooting the city with a rangefinder and Tri-X: technique, manners and a September 1999 contact sheet in words.
	Plein Air Painting Diary by Robert Sutton · SoHo/Easel Painting landscapes outdoors in oils: the kit, the light, the wind and a season of small panels.
	The Comic Strip Page by Danny Piccirillo, cartoonist · SoHo/Canvas An original weekly comic strip, described panel by panel until the scanner arrives, plus how to draw cartoons.
	Corner Frame Shop BUSINESS SoHo/Gallery Custom picture framing, matting and conservation framing, with prices and the fall special.
	The Glass House JOURNAL by Vivian Arden · SoHo/Loft A romance novelist has kept her journal in public since 1996, and runs the Glass House Journals WebRing.
	Negative Space JOURNAL by Iris Quinones · SoHo/Darkroom A Puerto Rican photographer in the Bronx writes about her brother on methadone and the pictures she can't stop taking.
	Paint It Out JOURNAL by Theo Ruckert · SoHo/Studio A painter with bipolar disorder writes about lithium, the highs he misses and the work.
	self-portrait in words by Nadia Berman · SoHo/Easel A painter tries to describe herself in words, and is not sure words are her medium.
	Monospace: Pictures Made of Letters by Nora Villanueva · SoHo/Loft Pictures made from the characters on your keyboard: a cat on a radiator, a cup of tea, a lighthouse. A new one every other Sunday.
	LOOSE LEAF e-zine by Anjali, 16 · SoHo/Gallery A monthly e-zine written by teenagers, for teenagers: stories, poems, rants and reviews. Issue #10 is our back to school issue.
	The Official Page of Nothing by Gina Leitch · SoHo/Darkroom There is nothing here. You found it. Questions, a log of recent events, and a small gallery of nothing.
	TILEWORK - A Library of Seamless Backgrounds by Dorothy Prettyman · SoHo/Darkroom Twelve background tiles that actually tile: grass, water, flames, denim, lace, leopard, camo, tie-dye, parchment and more, with matching colors.
	216 Safe Colors by Tom Ulmer · SoHo/Easel All 216 browser-safe colors on one page, in six plates, with their codes and an old sign painter's notes on what reads.
	Same Face Twice: Fonts for Macs and PCs Both by Charlotte Purvis · SoHo/Gallery Which fonts your visitors have on Macs and PCs, how to list them in a FACE tag, and a specimen sheet to test yours.
	Flip! Making Animated GIFs by Deb Brodie · SoHo/Easel An animated GIF is a flipbook. Two lessons from a cartoonist: drawing the frames, then timing, looping, transparency and keeping it small.
	The Tool Chest by Marc Fite · SoHo/Darkroom The editors, paint programs and FTP tools I build web pages with, eight tricks I swear by, and the swear jar.
	Sunday Painter: Remembering Bob Ross by Beverly Cambron · SoHo/Canvas A retired school secretary in Muncie, Indiana, remembers Bob Ross and The Joy of Painting, and keeps a log of the 211 pictures she has painted along.
	Journal Mechanics by Tina Sechrist · SoHo/Loft How I kept an online journal for a year and a half: anchors, archives, the notify list, privacy, and knowing when to stop.
	West of House: An Infocom Shelf by Gwen Cagle · SoHo/Studio My shelf of Infocom games, feelies and all, gentle hints for the famous puzzles, and the new interactive fiction people are writing now.
	Bonita's Paint Shop Pro Classroom by Bonita Shealy · SoHo/Studio Paint Shop Pro 5 lessons for real beginners: your first button, bevels and drop shadows, and saving GIFs that look good on the Web.
	the boarding house: a hypertext by Virginia Moree · SoHo/Darkroom a story in pieces. six roomers, one house, one hot summer in 1957. click any word that's a link and read your own way through.
	Four Years Without Calvin and Hobbes by Larry Volz · SoHo/Canvas The last Calvin and Hobbes ran four years ago. An art teacher on the strip, the stories I loved, the books, and my classroom's Calvinball rules.
	Smiling on the Inside by Walter Licon · SoHo/Canvas Born with Moebius syndrome, I can't smile or move my eyes side to side. I'm 45, happily married, and I run an e-mail list for Moebius families.
	The Copy Desk by George Blackburn · SoHo/Canvas Its and it's. Click here. Three exclamation points. A night-desk copy editor's rules for proofreading your home page before the world does.
	PUENTES / BRIDGES - An E-zine in Two Languages by Kristin Castaneda · SoHo/Loft Poems, stories and essays in English, Spanish, and both at once. Issue #3 is out, with back issues and how to send your work.
	The E-Mail Comic Jam by Ronald, 15 · SoHo/Studio Four cartoonists, four states, four panels, and nobody sees anybody else's panel until it's done. Twelve finished jams, panel by panel.
	The EaselCam - A Marsh Painting from Start to Finish by Renee Heimbach · SoHo/Studio A five-by-eight-foot oil of the salt marsh at low tide, painted on camera. Watch it grow every ten minutes, or check back once a week.
	Over the Back Fence - Cartoons by Odessa Kohn by Odessa Kohn · SoHo/Easel For 35 years I drew a cartoon every week for our county paper. Now my grandson has put me on the computer, and there is a new one here every Sunday. Small towns, cows, Y2K and the mouse.
	Wet-on-Wet in the Garage: Remembering Bob Ross by Jerald Grigg · SoHo/Easel I never painted a thing until I was sixty. Then I found a man with a big afro and a fan brush on Channel 49. Two hundred and twelve paintings later, here's my tribute, my supplies and my first fifty.

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