Mesta Machine Company employee, 1913
The Carnegie Museum of Art, (One of the four Carnegie museums in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) has put up an online collection of photographs containing 752 images from 1874 through 1958 showing scenes from mills and factories, street scenes, portraits, and aerial shots of downtown Pittsburgh.
The series is composed of photographs by internationally [...]
Just Peachy’s photos of a Japanese Garden in Portland, Oregon.
Just Peachy says:
Portland’s Japanese Garden is located in Washington Park, at the western edge of downtown.
It is a beautiful and tranquil place encompassing five different garden areas that include ponds, streams, waterfalls, sand, stones, trees, and flowers.
Famously, when Nobuo Matsunaga, Ambassador from [...]
Permit me a teensy weensy rant, if you will.
I’d like to share some of the difficulties I’ve met while trying to research painters on the web.
Now don’t get me wrong, I really appreciate the fantastic breadth and depth of the many sites that have sprung up over the past few years, and enjoy the huge [...]
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Here’s some fun you can have…. Open up Google Images, type in the letters DSCN, add four or more random numbers, then end your search string with “.jpg”
This will open up a world of amateur photography for your visual delight. The key thing is, that by using the first four [...]
Good news for all you avid picture hunters!
zoo-m.com have released FlickrStorm
They call it a Flickr search tool with some *Magic*
A few screenshots: (Click to enlarge)
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I entered the search term: “Japanese lanterns”
The “Advanced” search option allows you to filter results by the type of repro Licence.
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OK, now go and [...]
House With Bicycle, Havana 2000
Elaine Ling presents a folio of black and white photos: Cuba Chronicles
Amazing work.
I came to work on this portfolio through shouted invitations to visit people’s homes as I wander down the streets carrying my 4×5 camera on a tripod.
Each home lead to the neighboring home and each one-room casa holds [...]
Artnatomy is a Flash based interactive educational tool for artists wanting to learn the anatomy of the human head.
By adjusting sliders, the user can control the balance between the bone structure and the musculature on display.
Artnatomy is limited to the face’s structure and muscles, and, while the use of Flash is exemplary, it still provides [...]
The web presentation of Flora Brasiliensis is a class act on all fronts.
It shows the crowning achievement of the career of Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, who was chosen by the Austrian Emperor, Franz I, as one of the members of a team that accompanied the Archduchess Leopoldine to Brazil in 1817.
Martius was only 23 [...]
Tossa Mosque, Tossa, Mali
The photographer Sebastian Schutyser says in the documentation of his remarkable project The Mud Mosques of Mali, “As a photography student, traveling by bicycle for several months in 1996 and 1997 through the inlands of Mali, I was working on a series of portraits. On my way, the beauty of small adobe [...]
When they say Cartoon Database, they mean Press Cartoon Database.
The website itself contains enormous quantities of cartoons, but the clunky (think Old Skool Web “1990’s stylee”) interface makes them difficult to get at. The Search box is only available on the front page, so keep it open in a separate tab or window.
It’s [...]
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