a great online art community. a place to look for inspiration or converse with "amateurs" and professionals from all over the world on the latest software and techniques to philosophy and current global issues.
when you sign up as a user [free] you get your own gallery space to upload and the ability to communicate with a large cross section of visual creative's. if you pay however, you will receive much more sophisticated features within the site.
while you are there you may as well stop by
my gallery where i am inclined to upload new art before i post it here.
an interesting interactive exploration
group, working with macromedia's director application.
they have interviews with some great design groups and artists as
well as plenty of interesting source code and tutorials for working
in director