The British Library Puts 1,000,000 Images into the Public Domain, Making Them Free to Reuse & Remix
Earlier this week, Oxford's Bodleian Library announced that it had digitized a 550 year old copy of the Gutenberg Bible along with a number of other ancient bibles, some of them quite beautiful. Not to be outdone, the British Library came out with its own announcement on Thursday: We have released over a million images onto Flickr Commons for anyone to use, remix and repurpose. These images were taken from the pages of 17th, 18th and 19th century books digitised by Microsoft who then generously gifted the scanned images to us, allowing us to release them back into the Public Domain. The images themselves cover a startling mix of subjects: There are maps, geological diagrams, beautiful illustrations, comical satire, illuminated and decorative letters, colourful illustrations, landscapes, wall-paintings and so much more that even we are not aware of. The librarians behind the project freely admit that they don't exactly have a great handle on the images in the collection. Related Content:
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Tim Roda’s Hidden Father: A father draws from his past to create images with his family (PHOTOS).
Tim Roda, courtesy DanielCooneyFine Art, New York The black-and-white family photos that make up Tim Roda’s series “Hidden Father” were, for the most part, taken with an old Minolta 35mm camera, the same model Roda’s father had used. It might not seem to be an important detail, but it is significant since Roda’s work is often rooted in family history and domestic life coupled with his attraction to more traditional forms of photography, specifically the film negative. Like Roda’s other work, “Hidden Father” explores the role of the father and the son’s relationship within the family. The title of the work is a reference to the “Hidden Mother” portraits of the Victorian age when mothers would disguise themselves as props within the portraits so only their baby would appear in the final image. Roda said that when he was a child his introduction to making art began with his imagination and creating things with whatever happened to be around.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 400,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use
On Friday, The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that "more than 400,000 high-resolution digital images of public domain works in the Museum’s world-renowned collection may be downloaded directly from the Museum’s website for non-commercial use." Even better, the images can be used at no charge (and without getting permission from the museum). In making this announcement, the Met joined other world-class museums in putting put large troves of digital art online. The Met's online initiative is dubbed "Open Access for Scholarly Content," and, while surfing the Met's digital collections, you'll know if a particular work is free to download if it bears the "OASC" acronym. Happy rummaging. via Kottke Related Content: Download Hundreds of Free Art Catalogs from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Download Over 250 Free Art Books From the Getty Museum
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53+ Free Image Sources For Your Blog and Social Media Posts
Here at Buffer, we think a lot about visual content. We’ve explored tools that help anyone create visual content. Our social media management tool incorporates image posting because we know how important that element is to engage your followers and fans. But there’s one question we get asked quite often: Where can you find free images that are high quality and cleared to use for your blog posts or social media content? It’s a question with a lot of different answers and caveats. In this post, we’ll share more than 20 different sources and tools for free images, covering searchable image sites, create-your-own-image tools, and more. Free image terms FAQ The following terms will come up often as we discuss free image sources. What is Creative Commons? Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools. What is the public domain? What is royalty-free? Royalty-free images aren’t necessarily free. Now, on to the list!
The Travelling Teachers
Are you planning a trip abroad? Do you need English to communicate? Let's revise some vocabulary! For many of us it's time for travelling, some are going abroad and need to revise some vocabulary and expressions... In this post I have just put together some resources about the basic English vocabulary for travelling. Vocabulary about travel: Talking about travel Airport vocabulary: At the airport Vocabulary and expressions about hotels, rooms and accomodation: At the hotel Checking into a hotel Vocabulary about restaurants and eating out: At the restaurant Ordering at a restaurant Vocabulary about shopping: Going shopping Vocabulary and expressions about directions: Asking for directions
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Kim Kardashian has made headlines again for a selfie. And this time it’s not in the Daily Mail – no, instead it’s Jonathan Jones, the Guardian’s art critic, whose recent piece celebrates Kardashian and “the power of the nude”. This “selfie would turn Titian on”, gawks the headline. Meanwhile an unpeeled Kim stands pregnant and pouting in the halflight, trapped forever in a smudgy kaleidoscope of sloping lines and smartphone angles, peering into a tiny digital reflection. “Ours is the most misogynistic age in history,” decries Jones: Only in our time does every image of beauty tell women to get thin, thin, thin … Rich, ample, curvy, rampant flesh is, for Rubens, simply and obviously sexy. After rhapsodising about how Titian loved a curvy gal and that Kardashian too “really does love her own body” – making her almost the same as Titian, then – he concludes that Kardashian “is raising questions about the nude today”. That’s right. More. So I can do no more than offer words of caution.
A Resource of Over 100.000 Free Images to Use in Class
August 1, 2014 Here is another great resource of free images for teachers and students to use in class.Welcome Library made freely available more than 100,000 high resolution images. These materials include a wide variety of historical manuscripts, paintings, etchings, early photography and many more. All of these images are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license which means that you can use them for free as long as you acknowledge Welcome Library as being the sources. You can also make free copies, distribute, edit, manipulate, and build upon them as you like. Welcome Images provides 6 main collections of images : Life, Genes & You, Mind & Body, Sickness & Health, Time & Place, Science & Art, AND Education.
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Download any or all of the following forms to enhance your business ABSOLUTELY FREE! These are yours to use, keep, and distribute as you see fit. This intake form covers all the basics and then some. This SOAP Note sheet has the basic SOAP format with 3 entries per page. This SOAP Note sheet has all the basics plus a more detailed approach to each segment. The following Bookkeeping Forms are simplistic but effective in helping keep track of your income and expenses. This bookkeeping form allows you to track all income per transaction. This bookkeeping form allows you to track your total monthly income. This bookkeeping form allows you to track all expenses per transaction. This bookkeeping form allows you to track your total monthly expenses.
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#5 Mr. X's Amazing Day (Low)
5 - Mr. X's Amazing Day. This truly is a Canned lesson. About daily routines and basic verbs expressing daily habits. The goal is for students to create a minibook at the end. Colour and show some self expression and "product pride" in their own learning. It's called Mr. 1. 2. Then in some other classes (but this might take a few classes) SHARE. There you go, you have Mr.
