Advertising-Related

Ad Club Of The Triad
These are nice folks. And they seem to have it together, which is more than you can say for a lot of ad clubs.

American Institute Of Graphic Arts, Raleigh Chapter
More nice people. I'm certainly no designer, but they let me hang out every so often.

Forcefield Web Development
The hosts of this site. If it loaded up quick and didn't crash your computer, it's due to their hard work. If it caused you trouble, it must be something on your end.

Tomas Gardner
I've worked with Tomas for years and he's as good as art directors get. He's now in Indian Harbour Beach, Florida. (He hasn't retired, just gone freelance.)

Lightspeed Multimedia Design
The folks at Lightspeed put my site together, and I'll be forever grateful to them. Go peep at all the nifty stuff they've done.

The Samba
Not technically an Advertising site, but their gallery of Volkswagen ads and collateral from the DDB days is a must-see.

Mike Sellers
Mike's a freelance art director in Atlanta. He's done some really nice stuff and won a buncha awards, all without being an ass.

Soundtrax Recording Studios
The Raleigh ad community's lucky to have Soundtrax. If it's audio, I can't see why you'd take it anywhere else.

Other Stuff

317X
Boss site featuring all sorts of cool record covers, most from the Fifties and Sixties. Be sure to scope out I Dig Chicks! by Jonah Jones.

Aircooled Accessories
Here you'll find some vintage Seventies catalogs for EMPI dress-up and hop-up VW parts. These are great reference material for restoring an old Bug. And just plain cool.

American Widescreen Museum
Ever wondered what the difference was between Technirama and Super Technirama 70? I have. An amazing wealth of technical information about all those great movie processes.

Marshall Crenshaw
Crenshaw made some of the most listenable music of the Eighties, and he's still knocking off great pop songs. He's also a walking encyclopedia of Rock N Roll.

DoomBuggies.Com
"Your cadaverous palor betrays an aura of forboding..." A marvelous tribute to the Disney Haunted Mansions. If you can't make a run through the mansions this week, this is the next best thing.

Bob Dylan
No explanation necessary.

The Ghastly Ones
They call their music "haunted garage and cemetery surf." Whatever it is, their monster-themed, mostly-instrumental "A-Haunting We Will Go-Go" CD is a reverb-drenched masterpiece.

Hot Rods And Show Cars
Here's the scoop on all those crazy car models, stickers and bubblegum cards from the Sixties and early Seventies. I was all about this stuff. Be sure to dig around and find Tom Daniel's Garbage Truck kit, which came with a mod swinging trio complete with a Go-Go Girl vocalist!?

Odd Rods
Remember these hot rod monster stickers? They were in 7-11 stores everywhere from 1969-73, and I stuck 'em all over everything. There's now a set called Hot Rod Super Freaks, drawn by John Detrich (www.jdetrich.homestead.com).

Ed "Big Daddy" Roth
Big Daddy's gone, but Rat Fink's still a gone gasser. Mooneyes is the official place to get all your stickers, t-shirts and other junk. The Saks Fifth Avenue of Dumb.

Shag
Shag is Josh Agle. Some of his art hangs in my office (prints, no originals, sadly). Shag also played guitar in two of my fave surf/instrumental combos: The Tiki Tones and The Huntington Cads. Could Shag be the savior of Popular Culture? I think so.

The Smile Shop
"Columnated ruins domino." One of the best of the dozens of hyper-obsessive sites dedicated to Brian Wilson and the unreleased Beach Boys album Smile. BEWARE: collecting Smile bootlegs is a sickness.

Los Straitjackets
Heir to The Ventures' throne as America's Most Exciting Instrumental Combo! If these hombres come to your town and you don't go, you're a sap.

Sundazed Music
Sundazed has reissued some of the greatest music ever, from the super-rare Save For A Rainy Day by Jan & Dean to the mono version of Bob Dylan's Bringing It All Back Home. Their boxed set of The Trashmen ("The bird is the word!") is never far from my CD player.

Tiki News
Otto von Stroheim's tribute to all things Tiki. I've written for this fanzine, but don't hold that against them.

Where Eagles Dare
My all-time favorite movie. And two freaks in Sweden created a web site dedicated to it, which completely renews my faith in the Human Race.

The Wonder
Real neat site all about Television, one of the greatest bands ever, and leader Tom Verlaine's solo work. All bands should have a site this nice.