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I've been looking for more CC0 resources as I've started doing more video editing. This is pretty awesome. Some other CC0 art/photo websites I've used a lot lately: https://pixabay.com/ https://unsplash.com/
I actually created a meta search engine for high quality cc0 photos, its called librestock. check it out :) http://librestock.com
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Also hard to see the depth of some of those brush strokes in the flat scan. Some of them are quite thick.
This. No 2D image of most of van Gogh's paintings can match the real thing because the 3D texture of the paint is such an integral part of the experience. I discovered this when I visited the van Gogh museum in Amsterdam. The 2D representations look lifeless to me now that I know how much more visceral the paintings are when viewed in real life.
I think the reproductions were for sale, but they were pretty expensive (~$25K???).
Hackaday did a story on it in 2013: http://hackaday.com/2013/09/24/priceless-paintings-scanned-a...
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How did you get the watermarks. Programmatically and if so how. Or did they come that way
There's many ways to skin that cat - assuming Unix, immediate options include: the images are stored locally, you have some mapping from filename to title, and you create new images with watermarks using ImageMagick in a bash script or the images are hosted online, and you write a small C/Python/whatever code that gets the URLs and associated titles from the host, and then uses Imlib2 (maybe with some wrapper) to dis…
I've been looking for more CC0 resources as I've started doing more video editing. This is pretty awesome. Some other CC0 art/photo websites I've used a lot lately: https://pixabay.com/ https://unsplash.com/
I actually created a meta search engine for high quality cc0 photos, its called librestock. check it out :) http://librestock.com
Is there a torrent or dump of all the images? I wouldn't mind seeding / helping to keep an archive of all this. This is pretty great!
It's really a shame that it simply gives you the original files, not allowing very high res images (ie greater than 10.000 x 10.000). We built a tool for this that's being used by for instance Rijksmuseum and Van Gogh Museum http://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/ , which allows for ultra-res images. The Met should also consider using http://micr.io/ or any similar technology.
I've been looking for more CC0 resources as I've started doing more video editing. This is pretty awesome. Some other CC0 art/photo websites I've used a lot lately: https://pixabay.com/ https://unsplash.com/
When it comes to Unsplash I feel a bit skeptical[6]. I don't share every sentiment expressed in that post, but essentially I think they've stripped away many of the pros that made it a win/win for both photographers and users. I would much recommend trying to establish Wikimedia Commons as a platform. At least it offers a license with attribution as an option for their contributors.
[1] https://www.loc.gov/pictures/
[2] http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en
[3] https://www.flickr.com/commons
[4] https://commons.wikimedia.org/
[5] https://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
[6] https://medium.com/@TailsOfWonders/why-unsplash-hurts-photog...
It's really a shame that it simply gives you the original files, not allowing very high res images (ie greater than 10.000 x 10.000). We built a tool for this that's being used by for instance Rijksmuseum and Van Gogh Museum http://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/ , which allows for ultra-res images. The Met should also consider using http://micr.io/ or any similar technology.
Yes truly a shame that they gave us a ton of files for free use but they aren't as ULTRA HD as you would like..
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Am not someone who can claim to "get" art. Is there some description someplace that will help interpret the work of art - for the one you've linked to, for example?. A background of the context perhaps?
A simple starting point for contemplating any art is to ask yourself the questions: What is the artist trying to say? Have they said it well? Was it worth saying? These are of course highly subjective. Your answers may be very different from those of others and even from the artist themselves. And that's fine. These questions can also springboard your curiosity if you allow it. What was the artist trying to say? How…
An economist once argued that it would be worthwhile for museums to sell the bottom 1% of their collections (stuff that's destined to moulder in the archives and would never be displayed anyway) and set up trusts that would fund free admission. Then, people would feel freer to visit for just an hour and enjoy small tastes of art more frequently.
(Unfortunately, selling anything is taboo in the world of art museums. This plan "can't" happen.)
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2015/05/michael_ohare_o.htm...