Over 14 Million Public Domain Images to Use with Students in Class

July 24, 2015 After posting about the voluminous amounts of historical footages uploaded and provided for free on YouTube, we are sharing with you another excellent resource but this time for historical images. Internet Archive Book Images Flickr page provides over 14 millions of historical images extracted from 2 million Internet Archive public domaine ebooks. This huge project, realized by a Yahoo researcher from Georgetown university named Kalev Leetaru, enables the general public to visually search content spanning over 500 years. Each image comes wrapped with a brief textual description providing the readers with a title of the book from which it was extracted, year of publication, authors, publisher, text snippets appearing before and after the image and many more. To search for any image on Internet Archive Book Image, type in a key word in the search box as shown below and sift through the results. Here is an image we uncovered using the search query’ Telephone' .

Saving Money And Still Being A Successful Creative – An Artist’s Perspective | Suncorp Bank Blog In popular psychology, art and money don’t mix. In addition to my work for Insight, I also have a not-unsuccessful career as an interdisciplinary artist. Most recently, I wrote and directed a one-woman play for Brisbane’s 2015 2High Festival. In my experience, it’s genuinely difficult for anyone to simultaneously discuss finance and arts without falling into unhelpful wallowing, clichéd empowerment or silly mythology. Depending on your participants, a conversation will inevitably shift to ‘our society doesn’t value creatives’, ‘if you try hard, you’ll be successful’ or ‘poverty/suffering makes you a better artist’ – all of which, while intermittently true, aren’t really productive attitudes. Even ‘try harder’ is too vague and universal to really be of any genuine assistance. So, generally, I steer clear. We live in an era where there are more creatives and artists running around than ever before – and more audiences engaging with their work than any time in human history.

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