Category: blogs & websites
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Wiki-Art, and The Johnny Cash Project
Neal Gabler has a very interesting essay in the LA Times today about communal culture in art – from collage and Andy Warhol’s Brillo Boxes to music and film sampling, and the fine line between collaboration/sharing and appropriation. He fears the loss and intangibility of authorship, while recognizing the seemingly limitless freedom allowed through new…
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WorldImages offers thousands of images
WorldImages database, hosted by San José State University, provides access to almost 80,000 images that are global in coverage and include all areas of visual imagery. The database is accessible anywhere and can be searched by specific fields or browsed by subject “portfolios”. Images are continually added and organized and all images may be freely…
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Travel the world via QTVR panoramas
Panoramas.dk, created by Danish photographer Hans Nyberg, is a site dedicated to offering a variety of interactive QTVR panoramas of cities, sites, or events. You can browse by the year a panorama was created or (farther down the page) by the location it depicts. To download the latest QuickTime player (free), click here. Additional travel…