Gerard Ferrandez continues to turn out some of the most amazing JavaScript demos on the Internet. His latest work, Autumn II, combines superb fluidity of motion, subtle transparency and great mouse-over responsiveness. As always, this technology is set against an evocative selection of images and a very pleasant musical riff.

A new feature on the site is a very extensive selection of links. To get to the links, move your mouse over the orange arrow at the bottom of the page until the workd “Links” appears then click. Any link recommended by Gerrard is certainly going to somewhere worth investigating. An on-going feature - very rare with most artist’s sites - is a forum where you can ask Gerard questions or (as most people do) sing his praise.

I visit Gerrard’s site frequently. He is one of the most talented artists working on Web Art. He is also one of the most open. All the source code, images and music he writes or uses are available with a click of a button under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License.

Learning to navigate through the site has a tiny learning curve. But all your efforts will be extremely rewarding.

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Ellen Pronk has created over six hundred ‘presents’ just for you at lfs.nl.

In the process of opening these presents you will get to know Ellen. You will see that she lives a normal urban life and at the same time she has this pernicious streak to create stuff for you to play with.

Ellen’s work could be considered as a blog not of words but of graphically oriented code.

Some presents, like the days of Ellen’s life, are better than others and looking through all your presents can take a long time. A handy shortcut is to take a look at Ellen’s favorites.

DHTML Demos links to a number of projects created by Gerard Ferrandez. Mr Ferrandez is a programmer who excels in writing JavaScript applications. The common usage for JavaScript is to enable web pages to do things that cannot be done with HTML. A skillful programmer can take JavaScript into very sophisticated interactive manipulations. Mr Ferrandez is one of the skillful ones.

Mr Ferrendez’s web site is a showcase for his programming abilities. Unlike most such sites, his sites are attractive and his demonstrations involve creative use of images, text and sound.

trapped - an interactive zooming and panning photo gallery. Would it be possible for Mr Ferrandez to change the just the images and music and thus create a new web site that is a new work of art? Is the web site just a new soft of picture frame or is there something more here?

Yoshi’s Island - A 3D diorama of a cartoon land. Having so much activity controlled by a JavaScript program is quite special.

infinite loop - another very attractive zooming photo and text gallery.

i panicked - one of the greatest photo galleries ever in that from each image you can zoom into one or more images.

rubble - A strange way of looking at things with the wide angle view appearing where you might normally expect the zoomed view.

lately - a strange puppet on a string.

prometheus - Move your cursor and click your way through a gallery floating in 3D space.