Vaike -- Alex in Welderland's Pet Urns

Vaike (User #63027) is also known as Alex in Welderland who, with other artists, makes custom pet urns and a lot of other nifty looking metal stuff.

Alison Conard—Voodoo Economics

nosila (user #60765) has a website that... that... well, what does it do? Nothing that I can control, it seems, but it's a screenfull of spooky, shifting imagery and random echoey bleats of musical snippets. The figures and the sounds seem to respond to mouse motion, and clicking on the absurdist words and sentences in the upper left corner only exacerbate the situation. It's quite disorienting; I feel sorta dizzy and oogy. The only meaningful words on the screen are "Download Album." So I click on that, and the site spits out a .zipped album, by her band Voodoo Economics, which turns out to be actually quite interesting and quirky and snakey--and Alison has a cool voice! To think I almost missed this music due to frustration at the artsiness/incomprehensibility of the containing website. Afterward, I notice further down on nosila's mefi profile page that there is a warning: "creepy, uncanny sounds play automatically." d'oh!

Greg Nog -- gregnog.com

Greg Nog (User #36852) draw comics. I heard about his site during the podcast where the thread about his comics about him being a host at Olive Garden were discussed. If you like the powersuit comic, you'll love this page where you can dress Greg Nog. He does other comics too.

woodblock100 -- woodblock.com

woodblock100 (User #53371) has one of the nicest looking user sites I've seen since I started this blog. David Bull is a woodblock printmaker living in Tokyo. His blog shows off his work (too many examples to list, but I like the scroll project and the Hanga Treasure Chest). David also has a woodblock webcam and a lengthy subsite about the progression of his work.

wallstreet1929 - john taylor ships

wallstreet1929 (User #30785) - in his own words, John Taylor "obsessively resurrects forgotten vessels of America's maritime fleet." He's got a one-post blog, but his main site has great photos inlcuding my personal favorites, the penguins and Ark 3.

tking—kinghamilton

tking's (User #6426) kinghamilton is a slideshow of fashion photos. It's nice.

grapefruitmoon -- nervousmotion

grapefruitmoon (user #19856) is an artist who likes cold places. She's been to some of the same places as me, including Vermont and Hampshire College. She has an art site up called nervousmotion with the Projekt30 people and she's been showing her work at AS220 in Providence this month. She does collage work including two sets of Iceland-inspired pieces.

curtis-barrett—Insubordination.com

curtis-barrett (User #2242), member since November 2000 but with no comments or posts on the site, has a website that's a picture of a cat contemplating havoc upon a miniature Christmas tree. The picture is blurry, but the colors are outstanding.

interrobang—A Year in Comics

Does anyone not know that interrobang (user 14200) is doing a comic a day for all of 2007? That's cool enough, but the comics are fun to look at, fun to read and he actually draws one every day. Really. You can catch up with the comics on Vox or as a Flickr set. My favorites are the ones that either feature Potato the cat, or the "I wake up with one eye at a time" (and here). They have also given me a hankering for saffron ice cream.