Artists (favorites & friends):

Eric White: Distorted moments and personalities, beautifully executed on canvas.
Joe Sorren: Expressive and emotional paintings with fantastic characters.
Camille Rose Garcia:The dark side of human nature - played out by cuties.
Chris Mars: Engaging imagery influenced by an exposure to mental illness.
Tiffany Bozic Unique and gorgeous new nouveau. also at burningartist.com
Dave Cooper: A whole mess a strange characters. Amazing work, a variety of output
Ric Stultz: Eerie and vibrant imagery. madman. also at burningartist.com
Mark Ryden: Pop Cartoon Surrealism (whatever the hell that is) at it's best.
Alex Gross: Wonderful imagery, with a variety of influences.
Liz McGrath: Twisted puppets and creepy characters. Scary beautiful.
A. Bill Miller: Drawings. Paintings. Grids.
Andy Ducett: Assemblages of sorts and great line drawings.
Shannon Sunshine: Photography. Unseen beauty. Great imagery.
Todd Schorr: Lots of popular characters are mixed up in Todd's stew of imagery.
Annie Owens: Annie's Ouch Club has the twisted adventures of a strange little girl.
Esao Andrews Creepy gorgeous girls you want to squeeze, and weird sidekicks.
Peter Harper: Sculptor. Also check out the Artist of the Month section.
Todd Marrone: Fun imagery created in one sitting.
Alison Bryant: lovable abstract art, with a Miro flavor. From sweet home Australia.
Lynette Yencho: Illustration (fantasy-nature). Lynette also made my Giclee prints.
Art, Design and Creative Culture Websites that are really nice to me:
The Burning Artist Co-op web site features the work of four comrades, including myself, and plenty of other great featured artists. The site is also jammed packed with quality content such as...journals, exhibit news, history, press, info and many links.
Sumo Shop has set out to take over the art world. We will systematically weed out all the skinny until we are left with the best and most creative artistic minds on the planet.
DRIVING THE GLOBAL CREATIVE COMMUNITY
TAXI has grown to be the most informative and extensive resource for the creative community that delivers and promotes creative talents via the most important medium of today-- the World Wide Web. Featured MarqSpusta.com on thier Web Site of the Day.

HOW is the graphic design community's trusted source for creative inspiration, business advice and tools of the trade.Featured MarqSpusta.com in thier Top Ten Web Sites.
world wide artists' community. (check out the B.A.C. interview!)
My antipoda gallery also features a bit of an interview.
creative resistance designed for the emancipation of the human spirit.

Design is Kinky: A portal to all that looks good on the web.

Beautiful Decay
: Interior/Exteriuor Subculture Zine out of L.A.
Artist Directories, Link Pages and Such:
mnartists.org churnmag.com ArtBeatStreet.com LaughingSquid.com
Galleries (an artist's best friend):
Rogue Buddha
Minneapolis
Anno Domini
San Jose, CA
Soo Visual Art Center
Minneapolis
Receiver Gallery
San Francisco, CA
Ox-Op Gallery
Minneapolis
the Tart Gallery: Vancouver Overtones:
L.A.
Low Gallery
San Francisco, CA
Art:
What is a Print? great interactive explanations of various printmaking techniques.
 
Our Political Mess:

visit this site we made to voice our concerns with the 2004 election. I think this situation is really scary - read the site, hear me out.

Dubyaspeak.com: A record of the idiocy that spews from our president's mouth.
Music :
Black Crowes Ben Harper Neil Young's Garage
 
Tzadik
(John Zorn's Label)
Ipecac Records
(Mike Patton's Label)
Charles Mingus MilesDavis.com