Intellectual Curiosities and Provocations

April 1999

Beat News: April 4 1999

There's nothing like a good, well-managed and highly bizarre personal web content site. The following are some of my recent favorite sites, all of them run by individuals who embody Ralph Waldo Emerson's ideal of the 'self-reliant' artist. They create their web works for no reason other than to express the uniqueness of their own personalities. And none of them seem to care much if anybody likes what they do.

This article is part of the Beat News series. The next post in the series is Beat News: June 20 1999. The previous post in the series is Beat News: February 28 1999.