videotorium.hu 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:
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
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
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.
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.
#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. theconversation 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.
Free Cliparts - ClipArtBest #77 Culturally Specific Content / Teaching ( Int.) I used to teach Adult ESL for the Canadian government. Besides lots of functional language, my curriculum had to also teach about Canada. One of the best/most interesting lessons was to make an acrostic poem about Canada. First, I'd prepare/engage by having the students watch the Canadian anthem video. These are readily available and contain lots of great images of the country. Then give them a graphic organizer and in groups they can organize their content into semantic categories. Next - give students the handout and they fill in and make their own poem about their own country. After that - have some of the students or all, read their poems to the class. Finally - collect them and edit/correct them. A great lesson that all levels/students will enjoy!
Originality in photographs according to US Court of Appeals What is original (and is thus protectable) and what is not in a photograph? Questions like these have troubled copyright lawyers (and possibly courts, too) since the invention of photography itself. As this blogger learnt from The Hollywood Reporter, the First Circuit Court of Appeals has just delivered a decision addressing this Hamlet's dilemma, in little more than 6,000 words. The case is Donald A Harney v Sony Pictures Television, Inc, and A&E Television Networks, LLC, a fascinating appeal from the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts with an even more intriguing factual background. Background On a sunny spring day in 2007, freelancer Donald Harney snapped a photograph of a blonde girl in a pink coat riding piggyback on her father's shoulders while leaving a Boston church on Palm Sunday. In 2010, Sony produced a TV film based on Rockfeller's identity deception and entitled Who is Clark Rockfeller? What the Court of Appeals said
תמונות חופשיות לשימוש – רשימת מקורות | לופה בלוג כל מעצב צריך להיעזר מדי פעם בתמונות / רקעים / פונטים או קבצי גרפיקה אחרים המגיעים ממקור חיצוני. רוב מאגרי המידע האיכותיים באינטרנט גובים תשלום עבור שימוש בקבצים אלה, חלקם גובים מחירים שמעצב מתחיל או סטודיו קטן יתקשו לעמוד בהם. ניסינו לאסוף עבורכם מספר רב ככל האפשר של אתרים המציעים קבצים גרפיים לשימוש חופשי (למילה שימוש חופשי משמעות שונה בכל אחד מהאתרים הללו) – קבצים שיעזרו לכם עם העיצוב הבא שלכם, בין אם מדובר בעיצוב אלבום דיגיטלי או חולצות. המקור הטוב ביותר לטעמינו למציאת תוכן שזכויות היוצרים עליו פגו הוא פרוייקט ויקימדיה. ויקמידיה הוא ארגון אב הכולל מספר פרוייקטים בתחום התוכן החופשי ובראשם האנציקלופדיה המקוונת ויקיפדיה. הרשימה למטה כוללת מספר מקורות נוספים המאפשרים הורדה חופשית של תמונות וקבצים אחרים. אתרים המאפשרים הורדה או שימוש בתוכן (בעיקר תמונות) ללא זכויות יוצרים: ויקימדיה: מנוע חיפוש ייעודי לתמונות חופשיות. מנוע החיפוש של CC נמצא בכתובת: אחד ממאגרי התמונות לשימוש חופשי הגדולים ופופולריים בעולם.