Arts
- Anime
- Anime is Japanese animation. Several anime titles are dubbed in English and broadcast in English-speaking countries, but many fans prefer to buy original anime videos (OAVs) or subtitled anime.
- Articles and Interviews - This is a category covering animation-related articles and interviews with individuals in the industry which either yet don't have their own category here at dmoz.org, or cover animation in general.
- Artists - Websites of a non-business nature related to animators and animation-related artists.
- Audio
- Awards - Category listing for annual animation-related awards ceremonies, both in the U.S. and internationally.
- Cartoons - Sites focusing on primarily on classic and contemporary television animation - not to be confused with comic strips, comic books, web cartoons, nor any other form of non-animated comic/cartoon art. If you have further questions, please see the FAQs .
- Chats and Forums - Category listing for the online discussion of animation and cartoons.
- Collectibles - Listing for collectors of general cartoon and animation memorabilia.
- Contests
- Experimental - Sites and biographies for both current, digital experimental animation and non-digital animators. There's animation that is less experimental, that seeks to perfect a form--technical, genre, etc.-- and animation that is seeking to move out of the strictures of existing modes of communication. It is the latter that is appropriate to this category.
- Festivals - Category listing for animation festivals in the U.S. and overseas.
- Magazines and E-zines
- Movies - This category is for general sites offering information and resources on animated movies - theatrical, direct-to-video and/or DVD and television. Online animated movies should be submitted to Arts: Animation: Cartoons: Web . Anime titles have their own categories, as do animated television shows.
- News and Media - Welcome to Arts: Animation: News. This category provides you with a list of top Websites that offer animation news on a regular basis.
- Organizations - Listings for organizations with a focus on animation.
- Resources - Listing for sites heavy with resources relating to animation in the entertainment industry.
- Stop-Motion
- Studios - Studio-related links and official animation studio websites (e.g. Warner Bros., Disney, etc.) with high entertainment value.
- Training - This category is dedicated exclusively to sites that can start you down the road to becoming an animator. All types of animation are welcome - traditional, computer, stop-motion and experimental. Sites with educational content are preferred.
- Voice Actors - This category is a resource for enthusiasts of voice actors in animation. Here you'll find hundreds of great links on voice actors containing photos, biographies, filmographies, articles, interviews, sound clips, bits of interesting facts and trivia, and even contact information. And all this on Voice Actors - those gifted individuals who provide the character voices for animated cartoons. If you have any questions regarding the directory, please refer to the category FAQs , or "Frequently Asked Questions".
- Web - Category listing for animated cartoons found exclusively on the World Wide Web and for sheer entertainment purposes.
- Web Rings
- Writers - Listing of individual writers and resources relating to writing for mainstream animation: animated television series/specials and animated films. All fan fiction submitted to this category will be rejected.
- Articles and Interviews - This is a category covering animation-related articles and interviews with individuals in the industry which either yet don't have their own category here at dmoz.org, or cover animation in general.
- Associations
- Organized (normally non-profit) bodies of people engaged in the practice or promotion of the art or science of planning structures.
- Directories - Lists, usually arranged in categories, of web-sites on the topic of the art or science of planning and building structures.
- Education - This category lists sites on the web which contribute general services, information, advice or inspiration to the process of educating the architect.
- Events - Notices and information on events related to the art or science of planning and building structures, such as competitions, conferences, exhibitions or lectures.
- Experimental - Novel approaches to the art or science of planning and building structures.
- Famous Names - Living architects of international renown whose works are commonly cited in architectural discourse. Architects who have received appreciation from their peers, in the form of awards, honorary degrees, depth studies or analyses.
- General - The art or science of planning and building structures.
- History - The study of structures built in periods earlier than the most recent past, including those who commissioned, designed, built, altered and used them.
- Landscape - The art or science of planning and building a structured landscape.
- Media - Books, magazines, e-zines and journals relating to the art or science of planning and building structures.
- Minimum Cost Housing - Non-commercial information on the theory and techniques of planning and building low-cost housing.
- Preservation - Non-commercial sites related to the conservation or preservation of historic buildings.
- Religious - Sites related to modern architecture for religious purposes.
- Directories - Lists, usually arranged in categories, of web-sites on the topic of the art or science of planning and building structures.
- Art Historians
- Artists - This category is for sites dedicated to artists who have Art Historical importance.
- Chats and Forums - Chat rooms, bulletin boards, discussion groups, and message boards for art history topics.
- Directories - Category for sites which are themselves primarily lists of sites related to art history.
- General - The Art History category covers all types of art: painting, sculpture, architecture, etc. All time periods and movements are obviously covered as well. Sites, or pages, that are listed here should have some historical value. Sites, or pages, should not be overtly commercial - those should be sent to the Shopping category.
- Journals - Regularly issued scholarly publications that deal with art history.
- Movements - Collection of sites about time periods and movements.
- Online Courses
- Organizations
- Artists - This category is for sites dedicated to artists who have Art Historical importance.
- General
- General entertainment awards sites can be listed here, but the category is primarily for @ links to awards categories in other areas of Arts.
- Articles
- Newspaper, periodical, magazine, and on-line articles pertaining to all types of Bodyart.
- Bodypainting - Bodypainting is the artistic application of washable paints being applied to the skin. This can be done in a variety of ways; by hand, using stencils or templates, with an airbrush system, or by using various other utensils.
- Chats and Forums - For the listing of e-mail discussion groups, newsletters, newsgroups, or subscription newsletters that are transmitted over e-mail and pertain to more than one form of bodyart. Lists may discuss tattooing and piercing, mehndi, bodypainting, scarification, or branding.
- Directories - Category for sites that provide body art-oriented directories, links, networks, and other resources, especially those which help people navigate the Internet.
- Games and Humor - This category is for sites pertaining to the fun side of decorative body modifications; comics, jokes, funny illustrations, and on-line games having to do with tattooing, piercing, mehndi, airbrush body art, bodypainting, facepainting, and any other form of body art.
- General - This category is for decorative body modifications of all kinds, such as tattooing, body piercing, body painting, traditional Indian mehndi (painted henna designs on the hands and feet) and decorative scarification and branding. Some sites may also discuss other temporary forms of body decoration such as extreme hair colors and irregular suntans. Bodyart covers a span from pure decoration to a deeply religious ritual rite of passage, from the modern fashion statement to a spiritual return to the thought patterns of our more primitive ancestors.
- Image Galleries - For sites that contain the work of one or more tattoo, piercing, or mehndi artists displayed primarily for the enjoyments of others. No Adult Content sites will be listed here. If your site contains pornographic or erotic content please go the Adult listings.
- Licensing and Regulations - FDA, professional agencies, State, and Federal licensing regulations and/or guidelines relating to all forms of bodyart. These include; piercing, tattooing, body and face painting, mehndi, scarification, branding, and any other form of body art or modification.
- Magazines and E-zines - Bodyart magazines and e-zines are informational publications that feature artistic and journalistic content regarding tattooing, piercing, scarification, branding, mehndi, and other forms of body adornment.
- Personal Pages - Homepages pertaining to a mixture of personal adornments either as a simple artform or in the context of its meaning within their lives. Including any TWO OR MORE subjects such as: tattoos, piercings, scarification, and branding, as well as all other types of body modifications.
- Piercing - Body piercing is the art of piercing or penetrating the skin with needles in order to add various types of body adornment items.
- Schools and Instruction
- Studios - Brick and mortar establishments that specialize in a combination of bodyarts such as: piercing, tattooing, mehndi, scarification, branding, and bodypainting.
- Tattoo - Tattooing is an age old art requiring the use of ink and needles to apply an artistic, permanent design onto the skin. Various colors can be used, and many different styles of artwork can be found all around the world.
- Web Rings - Listing of web rings that accept sites pertaining to all forms of Bodyart. (piercing, tattooing, bodypainting, mehndi, scarification, branding, etc.)
- Bodypainting - Bodypainting is the artistic application of washable paints being applied to the skin. This can be done in a variety of ways; by hand, using stencils or templates, with an airbrush system, or by using various other utensils.
- A
- This category is for celebrities from the various arts genres whose name begins with the letter A. Celebrities are defined as those people having at least one fan site.
- Addresses - This category is for sites that feature postal or e-mail addresses of celebrities, or other miscellaneous contact information. Sites may either be free or require a membership or access fee. Sites that are selling address information or a publication that you can order (not just access to a site), may be submitted to: Shopping: Antiques and Collectibles: Celebrity Memorabilia: Autographs: Services and Information .
- Articles and Interviews - This category is for sites that concentrate on multi-celebrity interviews or other types of articles including reviews and news. These sites may also contain profiles or other additional elements as long as the primary focus is on textual information on more then one celebrity. Entertainment or multi-celebrity news sources may also be listed here.
- B - This category is for celebrities from the various arts genres whose name begins with the letter B. Celebrities are defined as those people having at least one fan site.
- C - This category is for celebrities from the various arts genres whose name begins with the letter C. Celebrities are defined as those people having at least one fan site.
- D - This category is for celebrities from the various arts genres whose last name begins with the letter D. Celebrities are defined as those people having at least one fan site.
- Directories - This category is for multi-celebrity directories, web rings, and other types of large organized link collections. These sites may also contain celebrity profiles or other additional elements as long as the primary focus is on the presentation of links to other multi-celebrity sites.
- Downloads - This category is for sites that concentrate on multi-celebrity downloadable files like desktop themes, wallpaper, audio and video clips, software skins, screen savers, etc. These sites may also contain profiles or other additional elements as long as the primary focus is on multi-celebrity downloads of some form.
- E - This category is for celebrities from the various arts genres whose name begins with the letter E. Celebrities are defined as those people having at least one fan site.
- F - This category is for celebrities from the various arts genres whose name begins with the letter F. Celebrities are defined as those people having at least one fan site.
- Fan Clubs - This category is for sites that feature multi-celebrity fan clubs. A multi-celebrity fan club is one which is for many or more than one celebrity or famous person.
- Fan Pages - This category is for personal sites or home pages created by a fan with content of more then one celebrity.
- G - This category is for celebrities from the various arts genres whose name begins with the letter G. Celebrities are defined as those people having at least one fan site.
- General - This category is for celebrities or famous people from the various arts genres. Celebrities are defined as famous people having at least one fan site.
- H - This category is for celebrities from the various arts genres whose name begins with the letter H. Celebrities are defined as those people having at least one fan site.
- I - This category is for celebrities from the various arts genres whose name begins with the letter I. Celebrities are defined as those people having at least one fan site.
- Image Galleries - This category, and its subcategories, are for personal and commercial sites that concentrate on the display of pictures for more then one celebrity. These sites may also contain profiles or additional elements as long as the primary focus in on multi-celebrity photographs. Image galleries pertaining to only one celebrity, should be submitted to that person's subcategory, or list under the first letter of their last name in Arts: Celebrities . Multi-celebrity galleries that feature only FEMALE celebrities may be submitted to Arts: Celebrities: Image Galleries: Female . Multi-celebrity galleries that feature only MALE celebrities may be submitted to Arts: Celebrities: Image Galleries: Male . Multi-celebrity galleries that feature both MALE AND FEMALE celebrities may be submitted to Arts: Celebrities: Image Galleries: Non Gender Specific . Please do not submit Image Galleries of non-celebrities here. The ODP defines celebrities as famous people having one or more fan sites. Image Galleries of models may submit to Arts: Design: Fashion: Models .
- J - This category is for celebrities from the various arts genres whose name begins with the letter J. Celebrities are defined as those people having at least one fan site.
- K - This category is for celebrities from the various arts genres whose name begins with the letter K. Celebrities are defined as those people having at least one fan site.
- Kids - This category is for sites which profile and provide information on more than one child actor or actress or other young celebrities. A child celebrity may be defined as one who is under 18 years of age.
- L - This category is for celebrities from the various arts genres whose name begins with the letter L. Celebrities are defined as those people having at least one fan site.
- M - This category is for celebrities from the various arts genres whose name begins with the letter M. Celebrities are defined as those people having at least one fan site.
- Matchmaking - Sites which provide match making tests, most often in a hypothetical setting.
- N - This category is for celebrities from the various arts genres whose name begins with the letter N. Celebrities are defined as those people having at least one fan site.
- O - This category is for celebrities from the various arts genres whose name begins with the letter O. Celebrities are defined as those people having at least one fan site.
- P - This category is for celebrities from the various arts genres whose name begins with the letter P. Celebrities are defined as those people having at least one fan site.
- Q - This category is for celebrities from the various arts genres whose name begins with the letter Q. Celebrities are defined as those people having at least one fan site.
- R - This category is for celebrities from the various arts genres whose name begins with the letter R. Celebrities are defined as those people having at least one fan site.
- S - This category is for celebrities from the various arts genres whose name begins with the letter S. Celebrities are defined as those people having at least one fan site.
- T - This category is for celebrities from the various arts genres whose name begins with the letter T. Celebrities are defined as those people having at least one fan site.
- U - This category is for celebrities from the various arts genres whose name begins with the letter U. Celebrities are defined as those people having at least one fan site.
- V - This category is for celebrities from the various arts genres whose name begins with the letter V. Celebrities are defined as those people having at least one fan site.
- W - This category is for celebrities from the various arts genres whose name begins with the letter W. Celebrities are defined as those people having at least one fan site.
- X - This category is for celebrities from the various arts genres whose name begins with the letter X. Celebrities are defined as those people having at least one fan site.
- Y - This category is for celebrities from the various arts genres whose name begins with the letter Y. Celebrities are defined as those people having at least one fan site.
- Z - This category is for celebrities from the various arts genres whose last name begins with the letter Z. Celebrities are defined as those people having at least one fan site.
- Addresses - This category is for sites that feature postal or e-mail addresses of celebrities, or other miscellaneous contact information. Sites may either be free or require a membership or access fee. Sites that are selling address information or a publication that you can order (not just access to a site), may be submitted to: Shopping: Antiques and Collectibles: Celebrity Memorabilia: Autographs: Services and Information .
- General
- Message boards or discussion forums where one can interact with other people interested in art topics by posting and replying to messages, on your own time.
- Academic Departments
- This subcategory includes links to the college and university programs and departments devoted to Classics or Classical Studies, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
- Chats and Forums
- Classicists - Sites about current and historical scholars in the field of classics and ancient history.
- General - Classics is the study and appreciation of the culture and wisdom of antiquity, in language, literature, philosophy, history, and related humanities. This category includes links to resources and organizations of classicists, English translations of works in ancient Greek and Latin, and crosslinks to related ODP subjects.
- Geography
- Greek
- Journals
- Organizations - Organizations of educators, scholars, and hobbyists of classical Greek and Roman language and literature, culture, history, mythology, and other classical studies.
- Roman
- Chats and Forums
- Comic Strips and Panels
- Conventions - Sites with information on conventions which mainly focus on comic-related subjects. Other conventions are mentioned if they don't just treat comics as a way of luring fanboys in.
- Creators - This category collects sites which are about comics creators. These sites mainly deal with the career and the works of the creator, and not with one or two of his titles. For sites about a particular book, please refer to Arts/Comics/Titles.
- Directories - Although dmoz.org/Arts/Comics tries to be the best comics sites directory around, it's by far not the only one. This category, therefore, lists other pointers to websites dedicated to comics. Only those lists that are not limited to a certain subject (title, genre, author, ...) are listed here, along with pointers to other resources on the internet (mailing lists, newsgroups, ...).
- Distributors - There are several ways of getting comics from the artist's drawing table to your reading chair, the most common being buying the book at a comic shop. They usually are provided with new reading material by distributors, who work as a liaison between publisher and retailer. And it's not just Diamond, you know...
- Fan Pages - What's a fan to do when he's reread all his favorite books for the hundredth time and the world just doesn't understand? He builds a website. Most of these sites are not authorized, which renders them all the more interesting, but also very often short-lived. Please point out any malfunctioning links to us!
- Magazines and E-zines - Web sites with regularly-updated information about comics -- news, reviews, discussions, etc. This includes official web sites for printed magazines, as well as webzines that do not exist in print.
- Manga - The term "manga" is used for Japanese comic books. That said, manga and American comics are very different. Manga usually comes in phone book sized anthologies, printed weekly, bi-monthly or monthly. 40% of all publications in Japan are manga and there are a wide variety of subjects. It is not uncommon to see a young girl sitting on a train reading shoujo (girl-specific) manga, sitting next to a business man reading adult manga. It is a very wide and diverse media, and now some American comic book companies are translating these works and making them available in the United States. The products of this fan following can be found here, in Arts/Comics/Manga.
- Online - In these cybertimes comics are not limited to paper anymore. This category lists sites that publish the real thing itself, not just information about it. Both sites with reprints and sites with original material are listed.
- Organizations and Institutions
- Other Media
- Publishers
- Resources - Whether you make comics yourself or collect them, here's stuff you might want to use : programs, fonts, guidelines, you name it.
- Retailers
- Reviews - Sites which review comic books and related items, both old and new.
- Titles - This category is for sites regarding specific comic titles. For generalized sites regarding multiple titles, please submit to Arts/Comics/Fan_Sites . For sites that deal with the life and work of a particular comics author, see Arts/Comics/Creators.
- Conventions - Sites with information on conventions which mainly focus on comic-related subjects. Other conventions are mentioned if they don't just treat comics as a way of luring fanboys in.
- Chats and Forums
- Education - College, University, or Vocation Technical School programs specific to costuming.
- Exhibitions - The Exhibitions category includes either historically accurate pictures of costumes, or exemplary individual costumes pictured, archived or exhibited in a museum or show with online representation.
- General
- Organizations
- Web Rings
- Education - College, University, or Vocation Technical School programs specific to costuming.
- Balloon Sculpting
- Basketry - Information pertaining to the craft of basketry including, instructions. resources and non retail exhibitions. Sites that offer baskets and basket goods for sale should submit to Shopping/Crafts/Baskets/ or Shopping/Crafts/Supplies/Basketry/ .
- Beading - The Crafts/Beading category is for and about crafters' sites. Sites that focus on selling crafts should be listed in the Shopping/Crafts category. This category is also for beading, not beaded jewelry. If the site is about bead jewelry, seed bead jewelry, or gemstone beads and DOES NOT sell products it should be submitted to Arts/Crafts/Jewelry/Beads. If the site offers beaded jewelry for sale it should be submitted to Shopping/Jewelry/Bead_and_Gemstone/ or if all the items are individually handcrafted by the site owner artist then submit to Shopping/Jewelry/Handcrafted/Bead_and_Gemstone or Shopping/Crafts/Beading/ .
- Book Arts
- Candles - This category is dedicated to the craft of candlemaking. Practically anyone can make candles. With a method for every level of skill and ability, candlemaking is an activity for people of all ages, from kids to seniors. If you can complete a basic cooking recipe, you can make candles!
- Ceramic - Database of information for hobby ceramists, including tips, tutorials and artist exhibitions. Sites offering handcrafted ceramic products for sale should submit to Shopping/Crafts/Ceramics/ and Ceramic suppliers should submit their sites to Shopping/Crafts/Supplies/Ceramics/ .
- Classes and Projects
- Craft Swaps
- Crochet - This category is for sites that focus on the art and craft of crochet. Here you will find listings for web sites offering how-to information, stitch guides, yarn recommendations, hook conversion charts, and free patterns for a plethora of items ranging from clothing to fridgies to holiday decor. In the sub-categories, you'll find personal pages for hobbyist and professional crocheters, along with information on charity projects, guilds and organizations, and other crochet resources. If you're looking for crafters who sell their creations and offer online ordering, or e-stores that sell crochet supplies, then please visit the appropriate sub-category of Shopping .
- Decorative Painting - This category is for informational sites and all things having to do with the actual skills, techniques, and processes associated with both Decorative and Tole painting in all of its various forms.
- Directories - Web sites that don't focus on providing content themselves, but instead list links to other Web sites that provide the Crafts content. Something like this category page itself, in fact. Directories for a specific Craft will be found listed under the category for that Craft, this category lists directories that try to cover links to all, or at least many otherwise unrelated Crafts sites.
- Doll Making - This category is for sites offering doll making instructions, advice, non retail exhibitions and resources for the doll maker. Dolls for sale and doll making supplies should be submitted to Shopping/Crafts/Dolls or Shopping/Crafts/Supplies/Doll_Making/ Sites about repainting or making over Barbie or other fashion dolls should go in Recreation/Collecting/Toys/Dolls/Barbie/Redeaux_Dolls
- Enameling
- Events - Craft shows are events where craft hobbyists, professionals and suppliers can exhibit their products. This category is to provide art and craft professionals with exhibitor information and access to lists of shows where they might choose to exhibit their products. Also to help consumers locate shows to attend. If the site focuses on consumer information about a specific show which is a specific local or regional show, it should be submitted to the appropriate Regional category in the Arts and Entertainment sub category.
- Flowers
- Glass - This category is a place for glass artists and crafters to offer information and to display their work. Sites offering goods for sale should be submitted to Shopping/Crafts/Glass/ or one of the other more specific shopping categories.
- Guilds - Listings for organizations of Artists and/or Craftspeople.
- Jewelry - This category is for general jewelry sites that Do Not sell their products from their web pages. If you sell your jewelry on the internet you should submit to one of the Shopping/Jewelry/ categories. Pick the one category that best fits your product line and submit only once. Duplicate submissions and mirror sites will be deleted.
- Knitting - 'Knitting is the art/craft of making an object by joining loops of yarn, either by hand or machine.' Knitting as a category contains knitters, magazines, webrings, free patterns, design sources, educational sources, yarn and fiber information, and cultural and regional sources. Personal home pages on knitting and non-selling sites.
- Lacemaking
- Metal Craft - This category is for craft workers in the metal arts field. It includes exhibitions, instruction and information relating to the craft, but is not for listing sites that offer metal craft for sale. Sites that offer metal arts for sale should submit their sites to Shopping/Crafts/Metal/ or Shopping/Crafts/Supplies/Metal_Craft/ or Shopping/Home_and_Garden/Garden_Accessories/ .
- Modeling Compounds
- Mosaics - Mosaic art is created by assembling small pieces into a larger creation.
- Needlework - Contains sites for crafts involving a needle and thread such as cross stitch, embroidery, and needlepoint.
- Origami - Origami is known as the art of paper folding, developed first in Japan thousands of years ago. In the most traditional sense, simple to intricate models are made from a single square piece of paper, entirely by folding. Non-traditional paper sizes are used in such off-shoots as Letter and Envelope Folding and Money Folding. Multiple pieces of paper are used in Modular models, while cutting is a part of Origamic Architecture. Models can even take flight as with Paper Airplanes.
- Papermaking
- Personal Pages
- Pottery - Hand thrown and hand build functional pottery showcasing craftsman/artists and their work and wealth of resources for the maker and anyone interested in this multifaceted craft. Please see Shopping/Crafts/Supplies/Pottery/ for suppliers or one of the other Shopping/ categories for listing sites that offer ceramic and pottery items for sale.
- Publications
- Quilting - This category is for web sites that offer general information, advice, exhibition or instruction to the recreational or professional quilter. Web sites offering finished quilts for sale should be listed under Shopping: Crafts: Fiber Arts: Quilting . Web sites offering quilting supplies for sale should be listed under Shopping: Crafts: Supplies: Fiber Arts: Quilting . Please examine the subcategories in this Quilting section to see if one of those categories more closely describes your web site. For example, if you provide information or advice only on the subject of appliqué, then you should list your web site under the Appliqué subcategory rather than the general quilting category. Or, if your site is a quilting guild site, then you should list it under the Clubs and Guilds subcategory. This Quilting subcategory was moved from Recreation: Crafts: Textiles: Quilting to avoid duplicate subcategories.
- Rubber Stamping - This category lists sites about using rubber stamps for recreation and artistic expression, including instruction and exhibitions. Sales sites are not listed here.
- Scrapbooking - The art of preserving family memories through collating photographs, journalling, and memorabilia in an archival quality scrapbook and using only acid free and lignin free materials. Websites that sell scrapbooking supplies or offer scrapbooking services for payment should be submitted to Shopping/Crafts/Supplies/Scrapbooking/ . Scrapinasnap agents/affiliates/representatives will NOT be listed in ODP. The main url for the program is found at Scrapinasnap.com and is listed in Business/Opportunities/Networking-MLM/S/ and is the only listing for such sites. LeavingPrints "instructors" will NOT be listed in ODP. The main url for the program is found at Leavingprints.com and is listed in Business/Opportunities/Networking-MLM/L/ and is the only listing for such sites.
- Soaps - Information and resources for soap makers. Sites offering goods for sale should submit to one of the various shopping categories such as Shopping/Crafts/Toiletries/Soaps/ or Shopping/Crafts/Supplies/Soap_and_Candle_Making/ .
- String Figures - String figures or string games are popular with many indigenous cultures throughout the world, from the Arctic to Australia, all around the Pacific, and in Africa. They are typically performed by one person, or two, as in the game of "Cat's Cradle", using a single loop of string. Often they are made one following another, while singing or telling a story. Many of the figures are made the same way in different cultures, but are known by different names or go with different stories. They may be used in competition, where the first person to complete a figure is the winner. Some people consider it improper to make string figures during certain seasons or certain times of the day. (This is possibly partly due to the addictive nature of this pastime.) Many of the figures are made the same way, but are known by different names or stories, or have different endings. Once you learn the glossary of conventional shorthand terms that describe the simplest procedures, you can follow written step-by-step instructions for making even the most complex figures. Pictures do help, however. With practise, you may find that you can make a particular figure almost without thinking about the individual steps, much as you might tie a shoelace. After a while, it is possible to begin making one without remembering how it ends up, and then be surprised at the results. This category is intended primarily for those sites which provide instructions for making string figures, whether traditional or newly invented. Other sites may be about people who perform the figures, or the stories associated with string figures.
- Textiles - This category lists sites offering information, resources, instruction and non commercial exhibits relating to fabric, yarn, and to textile crafts including spinning, weaving, dyeing, felting, braiding, and multi-media textile arts.
- Wildcrafting
- Woodcraft - Those sites that display works, handmade from wood, for the primary purpose of visual expression, artistic appreciation and/or education.
- Basketry - Information pertaining to the craft of basketry including, instructions. resources and non retail exhibitions. Sites that offer baskets and basket goods for sale should submit to Shopping/Crafts/Baskets/ or Shopping/Crafts/Supplies/Basketry/ .
- Education
- Information on schools, colleges, courses and programs that provide instruction in design.
- Fashion
- Furniture - This category contains sites that discuss the theory and practice of furniture design and show illustrative examples.
- General - Information on the general theory and philosophy of the design process.
- Industrial - Industrial Design is a creative activity whose aim is to determine the formal qualities of objects produced by industry. These formal qualities include the external features but are principally those structural and functional relationships which convert a system to a coherent unity both from the point of view of the producer and user. Industrial Design extends to embrace all aspects of human environment which are conditioned by industrial production.
- Interior Design - Information on the aesthetic and technical aspects of conceptualizing interior residential and commercial spaces.
- Magazines and E-zines - Print and electronic publications devoted to a discussion of the process of design and its related disciplines, as well as the exhibition of the resulting products.
- Fashion
- Events
- Evolutive - Evolutive digital works are artistic objects that change and evolve by themselves, without the direct action of the author or the users.
- Installations and Performances - Artistic objects and experiences where digital support is the core but physical elements are used in a physical space.
- Magazines and E-zines - This category is for magazines and e-zines concerned with digital art.
- Net Art - Net.Art is a conceptual , signal based art form with its roots in the early video art of the 1970's. Net.Artists investigate the conventions of the Internet and its users. This often involves structural changes: The artist creates a system that can be extended by users , possibly dispensing with hyperlinks , or using them in such a way that any orientation is lost . There is still dispute over how, and if, net.art should be defined: Steve Dietz of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis suggests ``computability, connectivity and interactivity'' as definitive qualities of Net art. ``Network, screen and mouse do not define Net art,'' digital artist Fabian Wagmister of UCLA . But it's apparent, after four years general use of the term 'Net.Art,' that this type of work has reached a critical moment in its development. It has found a place in major galleries and is now appearing on other information devices, such as WAP phones and PDAs.
- Resources - This category is designed to contain all websites which provide information, services or supplies which assist or support in the production of digital arts.
- Virtual Reality - Threedimensional objects and spaces created with artistic purposes.
- Evolutive - Evolutive digital works are artistic objects that change and evolve by themselves, without the direct action of the author or the users.
- Artist Listings
- The sites in this category function as active art directories and artist listings. Collectively they amass biographical and other information about tens of thousands of artists and their work. Our most gifted contemporary artists emerge through these directories.
- Artists' Resources
- General - Category for sites that provide art-oriented directories, links, networks, and other resources, especially those which help people navigate the Internet.
- Market Guides - Sites dealing with the business side of the arts: auctions, marketing research, and advice.
- Networks and Communities - This section is for artist networks and communities, interactive sites that include forums, resources, information, networking and other services.
- Regional - Regionally-specific directories, links, networks and other resources that cover several types of arts.
- Artists' Resources
- Colleges and Departments
- Information on accredited institutions at the tertiary level and beyond which offer formal education in multiple disciplines of the arts.
- Educators - Educators are those in the position of teaching, instructing or otherwise guiding students of any age towards greater understanding of the arts.
- General - Information on learning opportunities in multiple disciplines of the arts. These include Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Music, Literary Arts, Design, Art History, Architecture and education for those who wish to become art teachers.
- Language Arts - Language arts includes general resources in English, journalism, speech, and drama. It addresses such skills as reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
- Learning Resources - Sites with materials and information which individuals may use for self-education in the arts.
- Organizations - Arts education organizations are generally not-for-profit groups established to support, promote and/or disseminate information on the subject of the education in arts fields.
- Publications - Electronic or print publications, manuals, newsletter, journals, and related media providing information on arts education.
- Schools and Academies - Independent art education institutions which are not colleges or universities.
- Educators - Educators are those in the position of teaching, instructing or otherwise guiding students of any age towards greater understanding of the arts.
- Chats and Forums
- This category is for chats and forums about general entertainment topics. Chats and forums about specific TV shows, movies, celebrities should be submitted to the appropriate category.
- Directories - General Entertainment directories are listed here as well as @ links to topical directories in other areas of Arts.
- General - The Entertainment category has links to major entertainment sites from the top level, subcategories for specific Entertainment areas and @ links to top level Arts categories related to entertainment and an @ link to the Games category. We are not accepting other editors for the top level of Entertainment.
- Online Media - This category is primarily @ links to broad categories in the directory that offer the user online listening, watching, or reading. In general, we would not list sites in this category. Exceptions can be made for broad spectrum sites such as www.virtuecast.com that span a variety of media. Sites that are artist, author, or genre specific should be listed in the appropriate category. We will not @ link to each artist, author, or genre category.
- Publications and Media - Providing selected web sites and links to other sections of the Open Directory that contain listings of news and information sources on the Arts.
- Reviews - Sites in this category have reviews for several media. Sites with reviews for a specific type of media (e.g. Television) should be placed in the appropriate category.
- Directories - General Entertainment directories are listed here as well as @ links to topical directories in other areas of Arts.
- Automotive
- Environment and Nature - Arts representing or inspired by Earth, the human environment, and nature.
- Horror - This category is for all sites that deal with many different aspects of horror. Horror being Clive Barker, Stephen King, the Mummy, Frankenstein.
- Military
- Pulp
- Science Fiction and Fantasy - Science Fiction and Fantasy related sites that are independent of specific media, or that deal with media which aren't represented in other categories.
- Sports
- Environment and Nature - Arts representing or inspired by Earth, the human environment, and nature.
- Collectives
- Collectives refers to an ad hoc group of graphic designers who are collaborating on a project.
- Education - Information on formal education in colleges, universities, workshops, training programs and accredited schools of graphic design.
- Employment - Includes resources for finding employment in the field of graphic design.
- General - Graphic design relates to the process whereby text, photos, illustrations and/or other graphic elements are presented in a way which communicates a message. It has to do with form and function in executing a concept.
- History - The history of graphic design category is for sites pertaining to the people, processes and events of the past which have impacted the profession and study of graphic design. This category may include sites that have examples, analysis, or descriptions of notable printed designs, influential art movements, typography, multimedia, illustration, photography, advertising, commercial art, publishing, and related visual communications.
- Magazines and E-zines
- Organizations - This category is for international English-based Graphic Design Organizations, primarily comprising nonprofits and membership organizations.
- Personal Pages - This category is for personal, non-commercial pages about graphic design.
- Resources
- Typography - Typography is the art of creating and using letterforms as a graphic design tool.
- Education - Information on formal education in colleges, universities, workshops, training programs and accredited schools of graphic design.
- General
- This category lists academic and research resources for the study of the human condition, excluding the physical sciences. For submissions: please locate the specific category and then submit your sites for review.
- Great Books Indices - Sites which direct users to lists of commonly accepted (but not necessarily accepted) masterpieces with related author/works content.
- Literature in Art - Art and Artists devoted to depicting major pieces of Literature, Mythology, Folklore, Fable, and Fairy Tales.
- Mailing Lists - This sub-category lists links to email discussion groups related to Humanities subject matter.
- Scholarship and Technology - Sites devoted to utilizing or being electronic tools for education, especially as related to Humanities subject matter.
- Great Books Indices - Sites which direct users to lists of commonly accepted (but not necessarily accepted) masterpieces with related author/works content.
- Advertising
- Airbrush
- Beginners
- Caricature
- Cartoons
- Children's
- Editorial Illustration
- Fantasy and Science Fiction - Illustrators specializing in fantasy and science-fiction themes, including horror, visionary art and other related genres. Sites submitted should be for artists who specialize in providing illustrative art to accompany other material. Other artists should submit to /Arts/Visual_Arts/Genres/Science_Fiction_and_Fantasy/ . If your site primarily offers original works for sale, please submit it to /Arts/Visual_Arts/Genres/Science_Fiction_and_Fantasy/Commercial_Sites/ .
- Graphics Illustrators - Illustrators who specialize in creating graphic elements, such as logos, icons, creative letter illustrations, etc.
- Historic Illustrators
- Illustration Galleries - Includes exhibition spaces that show primarily works of illustration.
- Illustrative Painting
- Illustrator Portfolios - Information on professional illustrators that provide samples of work.
- Line-Art and Ink Illustrations
- Realism
- Representatives
- Resources
- Sculptural and 3D
- Specialized - This category is for illustration that supports science, medicine or industry with techniques of realistic depiction and technical detail. This category should include mechanical, architectural and engineering illustration, medical, chemistry, botanical and other scientific descriptive work. CAD drafting and computer modeling/animation and other forms of architectural/engineering rendering, regardless of media, will be welcome here.
- Stock and Clip Art - Information on artists who offer stock illustration for licensing or purchase.
- Studios
- Whimsical and Humorous
- Airbrush
- Authors
- This category primarily serves as a placeholder for the subcategories that are dedicated to individual, recognized authors. Updated by jschwart on 1/24/00.
- Awards and Bestsellers
- Biography
- Chats and Forums - Chats and Forums are an interactive element on many websites. The presentation and delivery formats may vary slightly, from threaded discussion boards, to online mailing lists and live chat, but all facilitate the exchange of ideas and information in an online community setting.
- Children's Literature - This category is for sites that offer information about literature for children. Sites which sell literature for children do not belong in this category. They should be sent to Shopping/Books/Sellers/Children. Do not add duplicate URL's.
- Cultural
- Directories
- Drama - Drama here refers to a play, or a literary composition intended to portray life or character or to tell a story usually involving conflicts and emotions exhibited through action and dialogue, designed for theatrical performance. The resulting literary traditions reflect the full spectrum of thought as history allows us to know it. A dramatist, or playwright, is one who writes plays. Dramatist can also refer to a person involved in the art of composing, writing, acting, or producing plays. In this category are found sites and categories relating to playwrights, their literary works, and the artistic environments and traditions in which they worked.
- Electronic Text Archives - This Open Directory Project category is for printed literary texts available on the Internet--links to Internet literature archive projects such as Project Gutenberg, for example, can be found here. If you are looking for--or wish to submit a site with or related to--literature originally published to the Internet, you may wish to browse the Arts/Online_Writing category.
- Festivals - Literature festivals vary tremendously in their formats, but all have in common a wish to celebrate literature and literacy. Typically, a festival will be spread over more than one day and will include readings from authors, book sales, workshops and signings. Some festivals concentrate on "great" literature, others focus on the literature of a particular part of the world, others again may focus on children's literature or more accessible, everyday books.
- Fiction
- General - Arts/Literature includes links to websites dealing with a wide range of subjects and interests which span the entire length and breadth of the literary arts: webpages devoted to specific, recognized authors, sites on book-collecting, sites covering specific genres and types of literature, and even online editions of specific works by numerous recognized authors and poets of the past as well as no few of the present.
- Genres - This category in the Arts/Literature category of the Open Directory Project contains listings of websites which are related to fiction--its sub-categories are sorted by genre, form, mode of publication, and so on.
- Journals
- Magazines and E-zines - This category at the Open Directory Project is for listing websites of print literary magazines, or online literary magazines with a print edition. Online magazines (e-zines) that have printed literature as the subject may also be included in this category. E-zines with writing that exists only online, whether in the form of a webzine, available by email or by downloading in a format such as PDF, can be found in the Online Writing category .
- Myths and Folktales - This category is the top level home for subcategories dedicated to traditonal and classical folktales, fairy tales, myths, fables, and legends (including urban legends). Please do not submit new URL's for review to this level but choose an appropriate subcategory.
- Online Reading - Online Reading web sites are those that contain complete works that are accessible to the user online. The category includes both fiction and non-fiction, poetry, original (non published) works and classics previously published in the traditional manner. Sites are not author or genre specific. The sub-category Book Previews contains sites that offer online excerpts of traditionally published books both new and old. Web sites that contain purely fiction can also be found in Online Writing/Fiction.
- Performance - This category is for listings of websites dealing with literary performance--readings, non-theatric (strictly speaking) dramatizations, and so on.
- Periods and Movements - This category contains listings of internet resources related to the history of literature--literary movements, periods, eras, and so forth.
- Poetry - Links to poetry literary resources online. Please note that while some recognized poets may indeed build and maintain their own homepages, and many individuals voluntarily contribute their time, enthusiasm and talent to the appreciation and study of the literary art of verse on the internet, this category and the categories under it are not for personal homepages containing poetry or "amateur" poetry published to the internet.
- Reading Groups
- Reviews and Criticism
- Short Stories - Contains sites which are concerned with the short story literary form, including articles and essays on the short story form as well as story texts by classic and contemporary writers.
- World Literature - World Literature web sites listed by region with author subcategories.
- Awards and Bestsellers
- E-zines
- This category is for online publications that cover several types of arts. It is not for general online publications or ones that specialize exclusively in one art form alone. Sites that are published on a regular schedule, which accept submissions, or have the works of several authors can be submitted to here - provided they deal with more than one art form.
- Magazines - This category is for websites of print publications with content related to the arts, but not strictly literary in nature.
- Magazines - This category is for websites of print publications with content related to the arts, but not strictly literary in nature.
- Awards
- Category listing for movie and film related award presentation events, programs, and ceremonies.
- Characters - This category lists sites about fictional characters known from one or several movies, such as Godzilla or James Bond. Sites about actors should be submitted to Arts: Performing Arts: Acting: Actors and Actresses .
- Chats and Forums
- Contests
- Cultures and Groups
- Databases
- Directories
- Education
- Film Festivals - Descriptions for individual film festivals should not contain dates. Editors, please see http://dmoz.org/forum/threaddisplay.cgi?t Forum4/HTML/000751.html
- Filmmaking
- Genres - Contains sites that deal with movie genres, and movies in general.
- Guides - Movie guides are sites that provide information about a large number of movies (more than 100). Contents should include cast lists, reviews (on site or external links), plot summaries, ratings, and user comments. The site should provide some search function to find related films.
- History
- Home Video - This category is for sites devoted to home video movies - these include films available on VHS tapes, VCD, Laserdisc or any other mainstream home video media. Sites about DVD home video can be found in the DVD subcategory. This is not a shopping category, but online catalogs of titles for sale will be listed provided that no online ordering is available.
- Large Format - This category covers all of the large-format film industry, often known by the trade name 'IMAX' or 'Giant Screen'. Large format films use a film area up to 10 times bigger than conventional 35mm film, and are projected onto screens up to eight stories high.
- Memorabilia
- Multimedia
- News and Media
- Organizations - Information on associations, collectives or groups whose primary purpose is to advocate, support, disseminate information on, or in some way further the art of filmmaking and movies.
- Personal Pages - This category is for personal pages covering a collection of movies. Fan sites devoted to a particular movie should be submitted to the appropriate movie in Titles .
- Quotations
- Release Schedules
- Reviews - A review is a critical examination of a film, with remarks. Reviews can focus on a variety of angles. Reviews are different from theoretical criticisms, because reviews are the result of the critic's subjective opinion rather than objective evaluation. This category is for sites dedicated to reviewing modern feature films, including Hollywood blockbusters and independent features. For objective evaluations of films based on their merits in modern film theory, see Arts/Movies/Theory_and_Criticism
- Screenwriting
- Scripts
- Showtimes - Comprehensive databases that offer showtimes for a variety of cities worldwide. Regional/local showtime sites should be categorized under the appropriate city/region category in the Regional branch.
- Soundtracks
- Studios - This category is for sites that have details of at least one feature film already produced, in production or at the planning stage.
- Theaters
- Theory and Criticism - Film theory seeks to develop concise, systematic concepts that apply to film and video. Classical film theory provides a structural framework to address classical issues of techniques, narrativity, diegesis, cinematic codes, "the image", genre, subjectivity, and authorship. More recent analysis has given rise to psychoanalytic film theory, structuralist film theory, feminist film theory, and theories of documentary, new media, third cinema, and new queer cinema, to name just a few. Film criticism is, on some level, encapsulated within this rubric, and includes questions about how and why film works, and what effects it has on viewing subjects. These techniques can be applied to individual films, but it is usually aligned with theoretical concepts of the medium. Notice how this is distinct from film review (or film commentary ), which is usually written for a general audience and is generally not theoretical.
- Titles - For sites that deal with a specific movie title. If you can't find a movie you're interested in, try searching the directory for the title, looking through some of the sites listed in Arts/Movies/Databases for more information about the title, or submitting a site about the movie to the appropriate alpha or numeral subcategory.
- Trivia - Interesting and funny facts pertaining to movies.
- Characters - This category lists sites about fictional characters known from one or several movies, such as Godzilla or James Bond. Sites about actors should be submitted to Arts: Performing Arts: Acting: Actors and Actresses .
- Anti-Music
- This is the highest point in the "Anti-bands/music" categories.
- Arranging - Composing and arranging music are loosely related, in that somebody sits down and writes out the music, but they are completely different concepts. Basically, composition is an act of bringing something into existence. Arranging is reinterpretation, expansion, or the movement of a piece of music into a different context. Music that has been copied from the original into a different instrumentation are considered transcriptions. This category is for general information about arranging. Make sure of the legality of your arrangements before marketing them.
- Awards - Here are the web sites of organizations that honor musicians for their talent and success. Preference is given to the offical sites but others are welcome as well.
- Bands and Artists - This category is for bands and artists.
- Charts - Sites in this category contain information on the ranking of songs, albums, artists, and so on. Some examples would include Billboard, MTV Countdown, etc. Charts in this particular category should be global in nature: either a collection of charts for several different nations or a chart covering music worldwide.
- Chats and Forums - Chat rooms, forums and bulletin boards that are about music.
- Classifieds - Sites offering classified advertisements for musicians and music lovers.
- Clubs and Venues - This category lists places to listen to music, whether it's by a live band or played by a DJ. Whenever it has a bar and a dance floor, it's likely to be listed here.
- Collecting - This category is for web sites about the hobby of music collecting as well as for Internet resources that would be useful for music collectors.
- Composition - Sites in this category are related in some way to the art (and sometimes science and business) of composing music.
- Computers - Organizations and people (researchers, professionals, and hobbyists) who focus on computer music and want to present their recommendations, discoveries, or advice.
- Concerts and Events - This category is for one-time or reoccurring/annual concerts and musical events.
- DJs - For DJs, mixers, producers, vinyl lovers.
- Directories - Directory n 1: an alphabetical list of names and addresses 2: (computer science) a listing of the files stored in memory (usually on a hard disk) 3: (internet) a user-contributed categorized listing of sites on a related subject Insofar as Music/Directories are concerned, the sites contained herein will be independent of any given music style. In other words, general directories only.
- Education - Sites about different musical instruction techniques or for different age groups are listed here.
- History - Sites about the history of music, including persons, works, and styles, are listed here.
- Instruments - General and instructional resources about musical instruments and instrument making.
- Karaoke - This section is for the Karaoke enthusiast, professional or amateur. Here you will find places to sing and sites to purchase equipment and other needs relating to Karaoke.
- Lyrics - This category features sites that focus on song lyrics.
- Magazines and E-zines - Magazine and E-zine sites for different music styles are listed here. Also magazines for music professionals.
- Marching - This category is for websites related to marching. Subacategories include marching bands, Drum Crops, Winter guard.
- Movies - Resources for music used in motion pictures and the people behind it: film composers.
- Music Videos - This section contains websites relating to music videos, with a focus on promotional short-form videos, like the ones you may see on MTV or other music networks. The category is divided into many different subcategories - this particular category is for the miscellaneous websites that don't fit anywhere else.
- Musicology - Musicology is a systematic study of music in all of its forms of appearance. Musicology exists as an academic discipline that studies primarily composed music, and is taught in universities across the world. One prominent discipline which grew out of traditional musicology is ethnomusicology, or the study of music as culture. Whereas musicology tends to study works of music that are notated on scores, the individuals and history that created such works, ethnomusicology studies the music of the world, as an act of cultural expression. Another offshoot discipline is popular music studies, which takes conventional musicology methods and applies them to modern popular music. Popular music studies also borrows methods from other academic disciplines such as critical and media studies.
- News - Daily news about recorded & live music, music technology, and musicians -- with general and niche sites covering genres as diverse as country, hip-hop, classical, and industrial.
- Organizations - Associations, organizations, and societies specializing in some aspect of music. Most music organizations are non-profit in status, and all have regular meetings and / or conferences and a board of directors who oversee operations.
- Personal Pages - Personal pages where the main focus is on music.
- Record Labels - Here you will find businesses whose primary work is the creation of CDs, LPs, or other audio media, and who represent a number of different artists, in one or more styles. Because of the number of very small labels which appear, and disappear, overnight, businesses listed here are selected because they represent multiple artists, conduct business in a particular city, and distribute their CDs in stores as well as from their web site. If you are interested in finding listings of labels which arose to promote individual work, the category for such labels is: Shopping/Music/Recordings/Individual_Promotions For companies that promote artists, and represent the independent CDs created by the artists they promote (but are not record labels for other reasons), also check out Arts/Music/Business/Producers For companies which distribute music, both through the web and to stores worldwide, check out the category Arts/Music/Business/Distributors mp3 labels, and places which offer web resources for artists are listed partially under Arts/Music/Business/Web_Promotion Please submit record labels to this main category, and up to 1 style which best suits the work on the label. Thank you! -the record label editors
- Resources - Reference information for musicians and music lovers is listed here.
- Reviews - Reviews for different music styles are listed here.
- Songwriting - Contests, online discussions, ezines, magazines, workshops, associations, and other resources for songwriters about the music business and the art, craft of songwriting.
- Sound Files - This area is for web broadcasting stations (streaming) and sound file collections, full-length songs only, please. If you offer short clips to promote sales of your recordings, those aren't "sound files," they're advertisements, so please submit your site to the appropriate "record company" or "bands and artists" category. Sites with roughly equal numbers of files in several formats usually end up in the main category, so please don't submit to every category that you have file types for. Sites with more of one file type than another usually go into the category for the predominant file type.
- Styles - This category's main purpose is to hold subcategories for various styles of music.
- Theory - Sites offering music theory, both specific and general, are listed here.
- Trading - Links for people interested in trading live recordings for various groups/artists. Sites about the trading of copyright commercial recordings or about the selling (not trading) of recordings do NOT belong in this category. Media may include analog tape, CD-R, MP3 files, or DAT.
- Vocal - Dictionary definition of Vocal: "for or produced by the voice: the vocal organs, ie the tongue, lips etc. Speaking, singing and whistling are examples of vocal activities.
- Women in Music - Find information, news, pictures, organizations, and personal pages about women in music. Also, explore sites about many women bands and artists.
- Arranging - Composing and arranging music are loosely related, in that somebody sits down and writes out the music, but they are completely different concepts. Basically, composition is an act of bringing something into existence. Arranging is reinterpretation, expansion, or the movement of a piece of music into a different context. Music that has been copied from the original into a different instrumentation are considered transcriptions. This category is for general information about arranging. Make sure of the legality of your arrangements before marketing them.
- Chats and Forums
- For those pages which promote discussion of online writing. These may include discussion boards, chat rooms, or other forums.
- Drama - This category is for sites containing electronic texts of original, unpublished works for dramatic presentation.
- E-zines - E-zines in the sub-categories of Arts: Online Writing: E-zines publish various forms of writing online. The category is split into several Genres.
- Fiction - The Fiction category in Online Writing is for sites that feature or discuss fiction that exists solely on the Internet.
- Journals - The ODP Arts/Online_Writing/Journals section is for and about online personal journals. This includes journals by a single author; several categories of themed journals; collaborative journals with multiple authors; collections of journals; and resources for journal writing. For an online journal to be accepted for inclusion, it must have a series of dated entries already on the site.
- Mixed Genre - This category is for sites that include a mixture of types of writing and may not fit in one of the other subcats. Sites may include Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Journals, etc. In order to be listed in this category, please make sure your site includes more than one of the types of writing.
- Non-Fiction - Online Non-Fiction is for original non-fiction (Online Journals, Rants and News Columns) which has been published on the Net.
- Poetry - This is a showcase for poetry published independently on the web by the author. Poetry ranges from wacky to morose, depending on the mood of the web page programmer. This category is dedicated to sites in the English language. If your site is not in English, please submit it to the proper language category under World. You can find a list of non-English language categories by visiting this link: http://dmoz.org/World
- Web Rings
- Drama - This category is for sites containing electronic texts of original, unpublished works for dramatic presentation.
- General
- Information on associations, collectives or groups whose primary purpose is to advocate, support, disseminate information on, or in some way further the Arts.
- Regional - Information on associations, councils, grant-making foundations, collectives, or ad hoc groups that promote and/or support the activities and goals of visual and performing arts.
- Regional - Information on associations, councils, grant-making foundations, collectives, or ad hoc groups that promote and/or support the activities and goals of visual and performing arts.
- Acrobatics
- Acting - This category will act as a repository of information and resources for aspiring actors.
- Circus - Add pages about circuses, circus performers, aerial acts, contortion etc.
- Comedy - This category is for sites related to the live, performing art of comedy and the comedians that perform it. Other welcome sites include comedy clubs or other venues, comedy or improvisation troupes, and comedy or improvistion courses and schools. This includes the teaching of comedy writing. It is not for humorous stories, satire sites, animation/cartoon sites, gag gifts, or chat room sites.
- Dance - dance n 1: an artistic form of nonverbal communication 2: a party of people assembled for dancing 3: taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music [syn: dancing, terpsichore] v 1: move in a graceful and rhythmical way 2: move in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment; do or perform a dance [syn: trip the light fantastic] 3: skip, leap, or move up and down or sideways; "Dancing flames"; "The children danced with joy"
- Directories - Directories are internet site guides that provide links to a variety of information on the performing arts.
- Education
- Festivals - Information on gatherings that celebrate multiple forms of the performing arts.
- Magic - Sleight-of-hand, illusion, magic tricks, etc. Information about professional magicians as well as sites aimed at amateurs are welcome here. Please locate the most appropriate sub-category for your submissions. Reviews will conducted in those areas first. Sites listed in this general category will eventually be moved to the appropriate sub-category.
- Organizations - Information on associations, councils, grant-making foundations, collectives, or ad hoc groups that promote and/or support the activities and goals of the performing arts.
- Performers - Information on individuals or groups who practice multiple forms of the performing arts.
- Publications - Information on print publications or electronic text with content that includes news, feature stories, reviews, editorials, opinion pieces, columns or other items of specific interest to the performing arts.
- Puppetry
- Reference - Information on libraries, museums, glossaries, dictionaries, bibliographies and online text relevant to the performing arts.
- Resources - Includes tips, email lists, webrings, chat, bulletin boards and services for performing artists.
- Storytelling - If you tell stories out loud, in front of an audience, whether around a campfire or in a classroom, at a board meeting, or in the car, you're a storyteller. Storytelling is part of the oral tradition. Tales are told-- which is why this category is part of the Performing Arts Directory. If you WRITE stories, you're a writer. Check out the Arts: Online Writing category. Yes, filmmakers and novelists and the creative folks in advertising are storytellers, too-- but they aren't performing artists. You'll find them listed elsewhere.
- Stunts - Performers/Coordinators of action in features, television and commercials
- Theatre - Theatre is the imitation/representation of life, performed for other people; the performance of dramatic literature; drama; the milieu of actors and playwrights, the place that is the setting for dramatic performances. Here are found sites and categories that focus primarily on interpretation and style of the production, direction, performance, and stagecraft, or the effectiveness of the performance itself, as well as the building or buildings in which plays are produced and offered for viewing by an audience, and the dramatic arts and the people who work in, advocate, or study them.
- Venues - Information on places that offer dance, opera, theatre, music, storytelling or other forms of the performing arts.
- Acting - This category will act as a repository of information and resources for aspiring actors.
- Art Nouveau
- A movement away from imitation of the past starting c.1890, and characterized by undulation, natural or abstract forms.
- General - For genres, eras, styles, periods, or movements that cover multiple different types of art, including music, literature, drama, poetry, architecture, and visual arts.
- Islamic - The arts related to the religion of Islam. In the 8th and 9th centuries a specifically Islamic style developed, which spread across the Middle East, India, North Africa and Spain with the Muslim conquests.
- Surrealism - Influenced by Freudianism, dedicated to expressing the imagination as revealed in dreams, free of the conscious control of reason and convention. Founded (1924) in Paris by André Breton with his Manifesto of Surrealism, it can be traced back to French poets such as Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, and Guillaume Apollinaire and to the Italian painter Giorgio de Chirico. In literature, surrealism was confined almost exclusively to France, and was based on the associations and implications of words. Its adherents included Paul Éluard and Jean Cocteau, famous for his surrealist films. In art the movement was dominant in the 1920s and 30s. Salvador Dali and Yves Tanguy used dream-inspired symbols such as melting clocks. Max Ernst and René Magritte used incongruous elements realistically painted. These verists differed from absolute surrealists, such as Joan Miró, who used images from the subconscious. From encyclopedia.com
- General - For genres, eras, styles, periods, or movements that cover multiple different types of art, including music, literature, drama, poetry, architecture, and visual arts.
- Cameras
- Cameras are the defining tools of photography, the science which the art could not exist without. Descended from the ancient camera obscura , all cameras share three basic traits: an aperture to focus light, an imaging media (usually film) to record the focused image, and a body to keep unfocused light away from the media. Cameras exist in an variety of forms, ranging from "single-use" disposable cameras to professional SLRs and large format view cameras, while supporting media formats ranging from 19th-century glass plates to 21st-century digital media. The Open Directory organizes its listings of camera resources primarily by imaging media -- the type of film (or non-film) used by the cameras discussed.
- Contests
- Education - Information on schools, colleges, university departments, workshops, travel tours and other opportunities in which to learn the creative or technical aspects of photography.
- History - This category is for history pertaining to photography, such as history of black and white photography.
- Organizations - This category is for sites about non-professional photography clubs and groups, other than online clubs, which are listed in Arts/Photography/Photographers/Group_Exhibitions/Communities . The category concentrates on sites offering resources for hobby clubs, or links to them. A small number of local club sites of exceptional interest may also be found here, and in regions where there are few English-language club sites, all may be listed.
- Photographers - If your site is primarily an exhibition of photographs with little or no mention of professional services, then this is the category for you. The primary focus of your site has to be on Photography. It should be evident that you consider yourself to be a photographer. Collections of snapshots, or sites featuring images of poor technical quality will NOT be listed anywhere in Arts/Photography. If the identity of the photographer or studio is secondary or of no importance, and the intent of your site is simply to show pictures of a particular topic, please submit your site to that topic's category and not to Arts/Photography.
- Resources - This category is home to directories, link sites, chats and forums, and other general reference sites that offer broad coverage of photography, or cover several different photography topics. More specific reference sites that cover more narrow photography topics can be found in the categories they refer to. For example, camera reviews and technical information can be found in Arts/Photography/Cameras . Darkroom equipment reviews and tutorials can be found in Arts/Photography/Techniques/Darkroom . Directories of photographers can be found in Arts/Photography/Photographers/Directories . Digital resources are found under Arts/Photography/Digital/Resources .
- Techniques and Styles - General Photography Techniques. Sites in this category should provide tips and techniques or include photographs with an explanation of how the photograph was taken. This may include using of equipment, composing the photo, visualizing the shot, interacting with subjects, or interacting with clients. This does not include pictures of models or subjects without explanation or commercial sites which do not include a tutorial section.
- Contests
- Advocacy Organizations
- Organizations that advocate for public access and other changes and alternatives to the present media system.
- Formats - Listings for radio programs and shows classified according to genre.
- History - Listings for educational and informational sites relating to the history of radio.
- Industry - This category is for Web resources pertaining to the radio industry.
- International Broadcasters - This category is for web sites of `on-the-air' shortwave radio stations. An on-the-air station is one that transmits signals physically through antennae, into the ionosphere. Internet broadcasters that stream audio broadcasts do not belong in this category. Typically, signals from International Broadcasters are heard by the listener who uses a radio receiver, though many will also make their signals available via sattellite and through the Internet. International Broadcasters are categorized in the following ways. a) Those shortwave radio stations, which target listeners in other countries. They include state-operated, private and religious stations, and include such stations as The BBC, HCJB Radio and Radio Korea International. Such stations are found on frequencies in the 49, 41, 31, 25, 19 and 16 meter bands, which are known as International Broadcast Bands. b) The second category includes shortwave radio stations that target national or regional audiences (i.e. within their own borders or to areas immediately adjacent.) Often called Domestic Shortwave Broadcasters, they use frequencies in the International Broadcast Bands and also in the 120, 90, 75 and 60 meters, which are called Tropical Bands. Broadcasters in this category include stations like CFRX Toronto, CX20 Montevideo, Radio Mosoj Chaski Bolivia and The Voice of Hope Lebanon. Because these stations are often audible to an International audience, they may be included here. A broadcaster that is available worldwide via the Internet, isn't automatically considered an International broadcaster. Appropriate categories for web casts, bit casters and live audio/video streaming exist in other categories, and are not appropriate here. Updated 2000.10.24 by editor funk
- Internet - This category houses sites related to online radio stations generally focused on more than one genre, including music and/or talk. For example, this may include a site with one broadcast covering news and playing music, or a site featuring several streams with a variety of talk and music content.
- Jingles - Listings for radio jingles for archive and entertainment purposes.
- News and Media - Listing for radio-related news and media.
- Personalities - Listings for individual radio disc jockeys (DJs) and other on-air talents/performers. Includes both local, national and international celebrities, as well as relative unknowns.
- Production Services - Companies which produce audio materials for radio and related use, either offering complete radio production services, or offering multiple services.
- Regional - Listings of Radio & Internet Broadcasts from around the globe.
- Resources - Listings for resources related to radio.
- Tributes - Listings for tributes to radio stations from yesterday and today.
- Formats - Listings for radio programs and shows classified according to genre.
- Awards
- Listing for award presentation programs on cable and network television.
- Cable Television
- Chats and Forums - Chat rooms, mailing lists, message boards or other means of discussing a variety of television topics and/or shows.
- Closed Captioning - Closed captioning is the process of adding textual information to programs to make them accessible to individuals who can't hear or translate the audio portion. Most closed captioning services are available only to viewers who subscribe to them, which is why they're called "closed."
- Commercials - Primarily sites about television commercials, advertising characters from television commercials, fan sites for specific TV campaigns, and collections of audio / video commercial clips.
- Episode Guides - Episode guides provide titles and plot summaries for segments of television programs, and may provide additional information about individual episodes, such as airdates and guest stars.
- Guides
- History - From its origins in experiments with mechanical rotating discs to its modern takeover of the world, television has been considered to be many things, but never uninteresting. Sites listed in this category are dedicated to the history of television, presentation, programmes and the technical achievements of the medium.
- Infomercials
- Interactive - Broadcast and broadband based entertainment and information systems that integrates with streamed content. The group focuses on 'lean back' media mostly.
- Memorabilia - Listings for Television Memorbilia sites with a non-commercial collector's focus.
- Networks
- News - Television news is often a major undertaking involving hundreds of people. For most television networks, their own in-house news division handles the production of the network's news programs. This category lists the English-speaking news divisions of national-level television networks around the world.
- Programs - Arts: Television: Programs is designed for commercial and fan sites related to specific television shows.
- Satellite - Production, programming, and distribution of television that is available exclusively via satellite.
- Schedule and Programming - This category is devoted to television schedules and programming information. If it is on TV, look for it here. Thank you for visiting.
- Stations - Official sites for broadcast television stations.
- Theme Songs - Almost every television show has one. In fact, some have more than one! Here is where we pay homage to those catchy little tunes and lyrics that you find yourself humming all day long.
- Tickets For Shows
- Trading - Sites that facilitate exchanging recordings of series or episodes, either on tape or computer disc. Traders usually are fans of the show who exchange copies to complete their own collection, rather than selling them for profit.
- Trivia
- Video Production - This category covers all aspects of professional, broadcast video production.
- Web Rings
- Cable Television
- Alternative Video
- Alternative Arts and Experimentel video.
- Community Video - Community Video, along with Community Television and Public Access Cable TV, promotes and supports independent programming that is produced by local or otherwise non-affiliated TV and video makers, is targeted to local or grassroots communities, and intends to give a voice to members of the community at large.
- General
- Magazines and E-zines
- Resources
- Training
- Video Editing - Video Editing involves the putting together of individual images or shots to form a capsule which tells a story, like a serial, or an ad-commercial, or the video for a song. The story can be put together by the video editor by using a script given by the producer and/or working with a director or journalist. Sound might be laid out as well as part of this process, to synchronize with the action in the edit.
- Community Video - Community Video, along with Community Television and Public Access Cable TV, promotes and supports independent programming that is produced by local or otherwise non-affiliated TV and video makers, is targeted to local or grassroots communities, and intends to give a voice to members of the community at large.
- ASCII Art
- ASCII Art is signatures, pictures, smileys and figlets made with the standard keyboard characters. ASCII art needs to be viewed with a fixed width font like FixedSys or Courier New. I prefer FixedSys. \_/ --(_)-- / \ > v-v-v-v > , , /_\ /_\ \_/ ''''''''''' \ (q p),- _ '-._ )) \_/_(/ # ) '-.___// --w-w---'-'----'-'----'-'----------'-----------ldb--- </font></Pre>
- Assemblage Art
- Calligraphy - Calligraphy is the art of Beautiful Writing. It encompases alphabetic and pictographic languages. Examples of alphabetic languages include Latin, Hebrew, Arabic, and Sanscrit. Principle pictographic languages include Chinese and Japanese.
- Ceramics
- Collage - Collage entered the realm of the fine arts in the early 20th Century with the Cubists and has had a lively growth through various art movements and styles including Dada, Surrealism, Pop, Constructivism, etc. Collage is a process of attaching various elements together to create a work of art. The concept of collage has spread into literature and music as well.Other constructive styles of working include in the visual arts include assemblage, photo montage and digital montage which shall become sub-catagories of "Collage Artists"
- Collectives - Links to sites representing work by more than one artist.
- Computer Graphics
- Drawing
- Education
- Galleries - Physical galleries around the world, and "virtual" galleries that do not sell art on-line. This is not the category for single artist sites... even if you call it a gallery.
- Genres
- Installation Art - Installation art or site-specific art is work that utilizes/transforms the entire environment in which it is presented. Use of materials are completely unrestricted and can include sound, video, found objects, traditional materials, live performance and more. In an installation the totality of the environment is the piece of art.
- Mail Art and Artistamps - Mail art is also often called correspondence art. Mail art is, basically, art sent through the mail, including faux postage, postcards, ATC's (Artist Trading Cards), copy art, handmade books, etc. Not all mail art is rubber stamped, though rubber stamps are used on mail art quite often and there is a strong overlap among stamp artists and mail artists. Much mail art is dadaesque, but another common school of mail art is a lush, collaged style similar to the work of Nick Bantock in the Griffin & Sabine books. An artistamp is something on a piece of paper or card that looks suspiciously like a stamp of some form. It is usually attached to another piece of paper or card and many regard it as much more attractive and interesting than the "real" postage stamps. Also called Faux Postage.
- Multiple Media Artists
- Native and Tribal - Tribal arts comprise items made by tribal peoples, usually with utilitarian or ritual purposes, with artistic qualities reflecting the cultures in which they were made. Sites included in this category have significant information about such items, their aesthetics, and/or their functions.
- Object-Based Art
- Painting - Works of art made with paint on a surface. Often the surface, also called a support, is either a tightly stretched piece of canvas or a panel.
- Performance Art - Performance Art, analagous to Live art, is a nontraditional art form that consists of or features a performance by the artist. "At the cutting edge of ideas and expression, live art is a rejection of single artform practice and a challenge to received ways of seeing, thinking and doing. Live art poses questions of not only what art is and can be, but where it is and what it is doing there." -Lois Keidan Encyclopedia.com defines Performance Art as: art form in which live performance is the essential feature of the artwork. With roots in DADA, it originated in the happenings of the 1960s. Performance art incorporates elements from the visual arts, dance, music, pantomime, drama, and other forms; stresses spontaneity, evanescence, and originality; and often exhibits a keen sense of absurdity, humor, or pathos. Performance artists are varied in background and style, and include such figures as Laurie Anderson, Eric Bogosian, Bill Irwin, Reno, the Blue Man Group, and John Kelly.
- Personal Pages - This category has been created to house all those non-commercial sites that escape any other classification under other artists categories, because they are personal, esoteric, original, or even individualistic, irreverent, crazy, misguided, mixed-up, morose, and could be malevolent, critical, self-centered and sullen, non-conformist and belligerant... as long as they relate to the subject of Visual Arts. ONLY personal homepages belong here.
- Printmaking - Printmaking is any of several techniques for applying ink to (usually) paper, typically with the goal of producing original images in multiples. The idea of an "original print" may, at first, seem contradictory, but it means that the resulting image itself did not exist prior to the process of printing it. There may have been sketches or preliminary studies done beforehand, but as far as the printmaker is concerned, they are not the "original" works. The process of creating the plate (or whatever), applying ink and pulling a print can influence the outcome. Ideally, a printmaker will work with the medium, rather than attempt to force it to some pre-determined result. "Reproductions", on the other hand, are prints which attempt to resemble, as closely as possible, an image which is already a finished drawing or painting in its own right. The original work is photographed or scanned, and then either color separation plates are made or the file is printed on an inkjet printer. Some reproductions may be produced in numbered limited editions and signed by the artist, but they are not, in the strict sense, original prints. It is, however one means by which a popular image may be shared by many people, and usually at a lower cost than a one-of-a-kind work, or even an original print. Some prints may be produced on plastic film or fabrics, or other materials than paper. Some may use pigmented materials other than traditional printing ink. Some prints may not be intended to be produced in multiples. The artist may wish merely to use a press and printmaking techniques to achieve a particular texture or visual effect that is unique to the process. Each subsequent impression may involve selective applications of ink, or be the result of modifications to the plate, and so on. A printmaker may not be the person who actually does the printing. Many original prints are the result of a close collaboration between the artist who provides the image for a print, and a master printer who prints the edition. An example of this type of collaboration may be where an artist applies an image directly on a prepared plate or stone, and selects colors; then a printer will etch the plate or stone, mix the inks and pull some proofs for review by the artist. The artist may want to modify the plate or stone, after which the printer will pull some more proofs. Ultimately, a final look is decided upon, and the master printer prints the pre-determined number of prints. The degree to which the artist "gets their hands dirty" could depend on their familiarity with the technical aspects.
- Public Art - Sites about art projects, commissions, installations and exhibitions in public spaces.
- Resources - This category is designed to contain all websites which provide general information, directories, FAQs, chats and forums, or publications which assist or support the production of visual arts.
- Sculpture - This category attempts to accommodate and list sites associated with the study and practice of sculpture.
- Assemblage Art
- Book Writing
- Sites about writing books/ novels. This is not for those in the business of publishing books or novels, etc.
- Chats and Forums - Sites for chatting with other writers. This includes message boards, web chat, IRC and anything else of the chatable kind. Email lists and ezines can be found in the Publications category.
- Children's Writing - Resources for writers who write for children. See Young Writers for resources for young and teen writers.
- Conferences - Writers Conventions
- Contests - Writing contests, competitions, awards and prizes of all kinds. Contests do NOT have to have monetary awards, but that is what is most likely to be found in this category.
- Copy Editing - More than proofreading copyediting is a profession in itself. It even has its own language. Here are sites with tips and resources for copyeditors.
- Creative Writing - Creative Writing is for sites with writing exercises and creative writing tips and resources.
- Directories - Sites which offer, mainly, a directory of online resources.
- FAQs, Help, and Tutorials - Tips for writers. This category includes articles and websites which have tips for writers of fiction and non-fiction. Check the Directories and Indices category for sites which offer a variety of resources and links.
- Fiction - Resources and information about the art, craft and/ or business of writing. Please submit any fiction to Arts/Online Writing/Fiction.
- Freelancing - Information and resources for the freelance writer. This includes tips for beginners, web writing verses print writing, and connecting with other freelance writers to share knowledge.
- General - Welcome to Writers Resources at Dmoz. The Arts/Writers Resources category is for sites with resources and information about the art, craft and/ or business of writing. This category includes, writing tips, markets, workshops, organizations, chat, ezines and newsletters, email lists, webrings, style guides and research. Here you will find information for fiction and non-fiction writers as well as young writers, songwriters, screenwriters and poets. Also freelancing and self publishing. NOTE: Submit your original writing and personal author's pages to Arts/Online Writing. Business services should be submitted to Business/Industries/Publishing/Services.
- Markets - Lists of writers markets. Also links to publishing related job boards and etc. For more markets look at some of the Writers ezines listed in Publications/Ezines and the Directories and Indices category.
- Non-Fiction - Resources and information about the art, craft and/ or business of writing. Please submit any non-fiction to Arts/Online Writing/Non-Fiction.
- Organizations - Organizations and associations for writers, listed by location and genre.
- Personal Pages - These are not personal pages of writers and/or authors. This category is for writers who have included resources, advice and personal experiences in their pages. General pages for authors should be submitted to Arts/Literature/Authors.
- Playwriting - Resources for Playwrights.
- Poetry - Resources for poetry writers about the art, craft and/ or business of writing. Please submit any poetry writing to Arts/Online Writing/Poetry.
- Publications - Magazines, ezines, email lists and newsletters geared to writers both offline and online.
- Research - Sources for writers and fact checkers to look for information and resources.
- Screenwriting - Resources for novice to professional screenwriters. Not a business listing, see Business/Industries/Publishing/Services.
- Self Publishing - Resources for writers who publish their own work. This category is geared to writers who self publish on the Net. You can find more publishing information and businesses who proofread, edit and publish in: Business/Industries/Publishing/ Business services are listed in Business/Industries/Publishing/Self-Publishing. Please do not add publishers and publishing services to this category. This is information for writers who publish WITHOUT a publisher.
- Software - Computer software geared to helping writers keep track of submissions and write stories and articles. Look for other kinds of software in Computers/Software.
- Style Guides - Style guides are used by writers to keep up with changes to the language. Also for improving their own use of the language (words, phrases and grammar) in their writing. Often newspapers put out a style guide for their writers and editors.
- Web Rings - Webrings are sites linked in a ring on the web. Starting from any site you are able to link from one to the next and so on. Sites here are for writer's webrings. This means sites with resources, information, support, etc for writers. Sites with original writing belong in Arts/Online Writing.
- Workshops and Courses - Listings of workshops, conventions and training for writers.
- Young Writers - Resources for teens and kids who like to write for fun or profit.
- Chats and Forums - Sites for chatting with other writers. This includes message boards, web chat, IRC and anything else of the chatable kind. Email lists and ezines can be found in the Publications category.