"Then what is magic for ?"
"What use is wizardry if it cannot save a Unicorn ?"

(Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn)

Unicorn News, June Edition
(last updated 3/6/2000)

Note : If you missed last months edition or wish to see it again,
then click here

New Websites

As usual there are a number of new sites to look at this month
that have been added to the unicorn links page which was
moved to a separate page a few months ago.

A recommended site to visit is Where Do Unicorns Go which is a very well
designed site with good graphics and a lot of information, together with the
authors poetry and personal thoughts on unicorns. It has a message board too.

In Myth and Reality has an excellent and growing series of pages
with historical information and pictures, together with information
on "The Last Unicorn" movie. Unicorns (Moonchilds Page) is a
nice site with some good midi music and links to other pages too.

Welcome to the Unicorn Queens Lair has a unicorn picture gallery,
and an especially large number of animated unicorn,
pegasus and other pictures (including horses).

A Fantasy art site that delighted me recently was the Nene Fantasy Art Gallery
which within it has some original unicorn artwork by the sites author.
Check out the Romantic Fantasy Art section at
http://www.nenethomas.com/galleries/RF_0.html
The equine artwork there is really excellent too !

Kleo the Misfit Unicorn is the website page for a Canadian TV
cartoon series featuring a unicorn character. I'll have to see if
I can get the video's here in the UK too <grin>

Other new pages on the list here for this month are Mystical Creatures
which has a lot of factual information, A place of Magic, Golden Unicorn,
Sapphire's Unicorn Page and The Unicorn's Forest.
Don't forget to take a journey through Unicorns Glade too

And if you ever wanted to ask the question 'Do I spend a lot of time
looking for unicorns sites ?', the answer is YES 8-).
Just don't ask how big my monthly phone bill is !

And there are even more links from previous editions on the next page too !

Other Website News

Mystical Unicorn (by Unicorn Lady) has moved from it's abac.com URL recently.
It is a very attractively designed site indeed with a number of interesting
pages including information on unicorns, stories and pictures.
The author has designed some desktop themes too, which are
available on the site. It's obvious that a lot of hard work has gone into
all this. Do check out this website, it's worth the time to visit.

Pages of Special Merit

This is where I review pages worthy of special merit each month.
These are pages I've visited or revisited that have something
unique and original about them, or really do show that the author
has put a lot of effort into writing and designing the site.

This month the special merit site has been around for a long time
(although it has moved it's URL a few times). The Unicorn Webpage
is the place to go to for factual, historical information about the
unicorn. It is where you can see many depictions of the unicorn
that the site's author, Bruno Faidutti, has found within art, historical
works of literature and within museums. This is a unique collection.
The author has spent over five years of study, consulting manuscripts,
engravings, paintings and books, and has even written a phD thesis
on the subject of unicorns from the Middle Ages to the 19th Century.
This website is unique, and an important resource to all those who have
both a serious interest, or just a passing fascination for unicorns.
Written in both French and English, it deserves a visit and
the author deserves congratulating for sharing his
years of study with all of us on the internet.

The artwork of Gissel E.

This artist from Uruguay has recently done some wonderful Unicorn drawings.
They are being kindly being hosted by Neysa on her Unicorn picture page.
I must also thank Gissel E. for a wonderful picture she sent to me.
Do take a look at the Gissel E. collection, they're beautiful and inventive.

Neysa's Unicorn Picture Page has also been re-designed and moved
recently to a new URL. This must be the best Unicorn picture
collection on the net and it's always worth a visit.

Well this really interesting item here which was sent to me by Meinoedske’s Homepage

Goa / Der Zauberwald

This is a stage play with horses, and the story involves unicorns !
It's a German production, but I think it was also shown in Holland too.
Meinoedske’s Homepage has an excellent review of it on her Goa page.

Der Zauberwald is the German website for this show, and is full of information
and pictures of the show, and details on when and where it is being shown.
This page sems to only be in German, but you will probably find the
babelfish online translator page at http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/
useful to help to translate the text on this website, it's worth the effort !

If anyone has any more information on this show, or has
seen it then please let me know more about it

Unicorn Projects and Campaigns

There is a new website which each month has inspirational stories featuring
unicorns. It's called Unicornucopia.com, click here to get there

Lady Rhiannon has started a 'Save the Unicorns campaign' on her website
Click on the button above to visit the story page
Or click here to visit Lady Rhiannon's Realm

Have you ever seen the word "Alicorn" in any publication referring to a unicorns horn ?
If so, you may be able to help someone by joining in with ..............

The Alicorn Project
If you think you can help, please visit the site above.
You can add this banner to you own site too, visit the site to find out how.

There's some great news for any of you out there who collect unicorn figures,
especially the Enchantica 'Fables' series by Holland Studio Craft.
They have a website, with the entire range of figures and lots
of other interesting information too ! Take a look at ;
http://www.enchantica.demon.co.uk/

Other useful information

Unicorn pictures (where to find them)

There are some sites with large and growing Unicorn picture collections.
There is a new site with an excellent unicorn picture collection at Danielle's Unicorn Page,
Unicorn Dreams has a growing collection of pictures, good quality scans too.
Holly's Unicorn Meadow has been recently updated and enlarged,
Theresa Farrell's site has some very good original fantasy artwork in her gallery.
Welcome To Wild Unicorns has an extensive collection, and
Paladin's Last Unicorn Page has a large collection of 'The Last Unicorn' movie images
Both of these are excellent web sites too, Paladins page has a bookstore too.
However, I still think Neysa may have one of the largest collections of unicorn
pictures on the internet, several artists exhibit their work there.

Other Artwork Sites

For more Unicorn artwork, try Novel Art Images of Fantasy and Reality
There is some excellent fantasy artwork on this site by Linda Gruber,
and some good tutorials on drawing techniques too ! (I've tried them).
And of course, there's the really beautiful and excellent work of Sue Dawe
Tonia's Fantasy Art Page has a number of original pictures of unicorns.
The website can be found at http://members.tripod.com/~toniad_2/StartPage.html
If you know of a unicorn artists site or are one, then please email me.

Miscellaneous topics

Anyone who likes flying Unicorns and Pegasi, there is a great site
with a lot of beautiful original artwork. Take a look at ;

The Pegasi Nest

And for what must be the largest and most detailed source of
information on Pegasi, try :-

Rich's Pegopedia

Unicorn Dream

Unicorn Dream has been 'twinned' with this site.

The brilliant artist who's building this site has revised it recently,
Please note that it is still very much under construction.
It is most definitely worth visiting, you won't be disappointed.
 

More Unicorn Pictures

This is one of the first unicorn pictures I've done myself.
Its based on a photograph of a horse I took which
I've reworked. Click on the picture for the full size version.
There is an animated version of this I did on the index page

Another unusual unicorn picture.
These two impressive stone unicorn carvings are
on a factory wall in Stafford near my home.
They were erected when the building was
constructed which was sometime around 1937-1938.  

Recently several more people have sent to me some wonderful unicorn
artwork they had created, which with their permission
I am showing on these pages

This picture, created using Photoshop, was sent to me by Mare Astra
as a self portrait. She is significant for having one of the first Unicorn
websites I ever found on the internet, and her site helped to
inspire the creation of this website over three years ago.

These two pictures were sent to me by an artist called Gennale.
I liked them so much I requested permission to put them
on my page, so here they are. The picture on the left is
called Tatianna, and the one on the right is called Wild.

Gennale now has her own website, to go there, just click here
where you can find out more about Gennale and these pictures.

This was one of two pictures sent to me by an an artist called Shar.
Again, as I liked it so much, I asked if it could be displayed here.

This wonderful unicorn snowglobe was sent to me by Meneka Acosta
You can visit Meneka's website at http://homepages.go.com/~meneka/

Content and Originality

Original work is becoming rarer, and certainly should be valued. But too many
websites recently though are copying others ideas and then claiming
sole right to it themselves ! They also often use annoying Java code that
stops the right mouse button from working. It's not easy to review pages
easily for mention on this page or bookmark them when half the
browsers functions have been disabled by unfriendly Java code !

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