Show HN: Artpip – 4k fine art for your desktop
1–10 of 77 posts
Re: Show HN: Artpip – 4k fine art for your desktop
#2Creator here!
Artpip started off as a side project to help me learn a bit more about art in general and has grown from there. It's been great fun making it and I have learnt A LOT about art history in the process. I can now recognise a lot of painters and have got pretty good at dating/categorising paintings (compared to before, at least!).
Happy to answer any questions.
Re: Show HN: Artpip – 4k fine art for your desktop
#3I was really excited for this, but it is just a wrapper for the Google Art project. I am not really sure how you got the rights to be able to sell prints of these, or why you want to charge $9.99 a month for a pro version, but good luck!
Re: Show HN: Artpip – 4k fine art for your desktop
#4I was really excited for this, but it is just a wrapper for the Google Art project. I am not really sure how you got the rights to be able to sell prints of these, or why you want to charge $9.99 a month for a pro version, but good luck!
Ah, okay you are able to print them because some are public domain. But it doesn't look like all of them are? Looking at the category that I am guessing you pulled these from (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Google_Art_Proje...), some have pretty restrictive rights.
One of your recently featured artworks (https://www.artpip.com/artwork/57a4cf0970f12152abacdf78) seems to be owned by the Van Gogh Museum and needs a license to be printed. If I wanted to order a print of that, do you have the correct license?
Re: Show HN: Artpip – 4k fine art for your desktop
#5I've been using Muzei on Android for years. A pleasant surprise every single day.
Re: Show HN: Artpip – 4k fine art for your desktop
#6Creator here! Artpip started off as a side project to help me learn a bit more about art in general and has grown from there. It's been great fun making it and I have learnt A LOT about art history in the process. I can now recognise a lot of painters and have got pretty good at dating/categorising paintings (compared to before, at least!). Happy to answer any questions.
Could it update the lock screen picture as well? I find that a lot more interesting than the desktop which I barely ever see.
Re: Show HN: Artpip – 4k fine art for your desktop
#7Creator here! Artpip started off as a side project to help me learn a bit more about art in general and has grown from there. It's been great fun making it and I have learnt A LOT about art history in the process. I can now recognise a lot of painters and have got pretty good at dating/categorising paintings (compared to before, at least!). Happy to answer any questions.
Any resources you can suggest to learn more about art history? Preferably some books as well.
I like the idea, though. I don't really look at my desktop very often, but this might give me that push.
Question on the project, though. Whenever I step away from my laptop for a minute, I have a hot corner to display a screen saver. Any way of using this as a substitute for the screen savers, so it'll just cycle art?
Re: Show HN: Artpip – 4k fine art for your desktop
#8I was really excited for this, but it is just a wrapper for the Google Art project. I am not really sure how you got the rights to be able to sell prints of these, or why you want to charge $9.99 a month for a pro version, but good luck!
Ah, okay you are able to print them because some are public domain. But it doesn't look like all of them are? Looking at the category that I am guessing you pulled these from ( https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Google_Art_Proje... ), some have pretty restrictive rights. One of your recently featured artworks ( https://www.artpip.com/artwork/57a4cf0970f12152abacdf78 ) seems to be owned by the Van Gogh Museum…
Most of the images have been sourced from wikimedia and are all considered in the public domain.
See [1] for an example of wikimedia's position on licencing:
'The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".'
Also, it's a $9.99 one-off payment, not monthly. Serving tens of thousands of high-res images a day adds up, so there's some extra paid features there for those that particularly enjoy the app and feel like supporting the project.
[1] https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Van_Gogh_-_Starry_...
Re: Show HN: Artpip – 4k fine art for your desktop
#9Love it! Great idea having the different periods available, it'll help for recognition next time I'm in a museum :)
Re: Show HN: Artpip – 4k fine art for your desktop
#10I was really excited for this, but it is just a wrapper for the Google Art project. I am not really sure how you got the rights to be able to sell prints of these, or why you want to charge $9.99 a month for a pro version, but good luck!
A tangential thought while we're on the subject: NASA imagery can actually be used commercially and even sold for profit. The only caveats are that you can't use the likeness of any employee (e.g. astronauts) without their permission, you can't use anything with current employees in it, and the usage cannot implicitly or explicitly convey endorsement by NASA.[0]
I've seen countless scummy stock photo sites selling NASA imagery for ridiculous prices (think $200 per image) when it's all completely free in the first place.