Where to Announce Free Graphic Art?

Where to Announce Free Graphic Art? 31

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday May 26, 2004 @06:30PM from the finding-the-right-SIG dept.

BrynM asks: "I have a good portion of my deceased father's artwork scanned and up on a personal website (294 images with everything from sketches to finished work). I have been adding more in batches and should end up with around 1,000 images when done. My sister and I have released the art under the Free Media License, which is much like a GPL for art. We have also set a date on paper that the art falls into the public domain regardless of what laws may change in between (avoiding the eternal copyright stuff). My hope is that people will utilize the art, since the only gain I desire is to share the pride in the work my father did. Where can I announce that the site is open to the graphics and stock art geeks out there? Since the server can't take a full slashdotting (DSL), that's out. Are there any sites that specialize in public domain or commons type art sites without having to submit every piece to an unknown body?"

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Did you try... (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday May 26, 2004 @06:32PM (#9263182)

Ask Slashdot? They'll post anything there.

- Re:Did you try... (Score:1, Flamebait)
  
  by Marxist Hacker 42 ( 638312 ) writes:
  
  RTFD- He said his server can't handle a slashdotting, therefore he's reluctant to post here.
  - Re:Did you try... (Score:1, Flamebait)
    
    by jpmkm ( 160526 ) writes:
    
    Oooh. An AC posts a joke and you come back with "Read the fucking D." Whatever the hell a D is anyway. You're a big man now, charlie brown.
    - Re:Did you try... (Score:2)
      
      by Marxist Hacker 42 ( 638312 ) writes:
      
      Description! As in, the description of the article says that he didn't post the link directly on slashdot because his DSL line couldn't handle it.
      
      As for jokes- this is an autistic medium- emotion is not recognized without appropriate emoticons.
    - Re:Did you try... (Score:2)
      
      by phrasebook ( 740834 ) writes:
      
      Do you, like... totally produce death?
      
      Or what?
  - Re:Did you try... (Score:1, Interesting)
    
    by Anonymous Coward writes:
    
    Ask Slashdot != Full Slashdot
    
    Look at the comment load for Ask Slashdot stories not on the main page. Very few people visit these sections of the site very often.
Archive.org (Score:5, Insightful)

by GeorgeH ( 5469 ) writes: on Wednesday May 26, 2004 @06:34PM (#9263191) Homepage Journal

The Internet Archive [archive.org] seems to dig on this kind of thing. They put up the Prelinger archive [google.com] when Rick Prelinger put it into the public domain, and they do a lot more than the Wayback Machine.

Themes? (Score:3, Interesting)

by billn ( 5184 ) writes: on Wednesday May 26, 2004 @06:34PM (#9263193) Homepage Journal

What about one of the common themes sites used heavily by open source geeks?

- Re:Themes? (Score:2)
  
  by BrynM ( 217883 ) * writes:
  
  I hadn't thought of that at all. That's a great idea. Those types are always looking for some kind of stock art. Thanks! I'm going to give that a try along with the other sites mentioned.
opart.org (Score:5, Informative)

by _aa_ ( 63092 ) writes: <j.uaau@ws> on Wednesday May 26, 2004 @06:37PM (#9263212) Homepage Journal

http://opart.org [opart.org]

Note to future "Ask Slashdot"ers (Score:5, Insightful)

by PhyrePhox ( 218873 ) writes: on Wednesday May 26, 2004 @06:44PM (#9263263)

If you are so concerned about the potential bandwidth impact from such a posting that you omit a link to the site in question from your post, also remember to use an email account in your slashdot user profile that is in a different domain than the site you don't want slashdotted. Not being malicious, but we are a curious (and clever) bunch...

- Re:Note to future "Ask Slashdot"ers (Score:1, Offtopic)
  
  by denisb ( 411264 ) writes:
  
  No you got it all wrong, we are a "networkoftheapes".
  - Re:Note to future "Ask Slashdot"ers (Score:2)
    
    by itwerx ( 165526 ) writes:
    
    No you got it all wrong, we are a "networkoftheapes".
    Well, you might be a "theape" (whatever that is) but I'm not...
    
    (Hmm, how else can that be misread? :)
- Re:Note to future "Ask Slashdot"ers (Score:2, Interesting)
  
  by galaxy300 ( 111408 ) writes:
  
  Ouch! And yes, as I checked the site (as Slashdotters are wont to do) I noticed the ticker going up...14 users...16 users...20 users...
  
  I smell silicon burning somewhere...
  - Re:Note to future "Ask Slashdot"ers (Score:2)
    
    by Carnildo ( 712617 ) writes:
    
    It's up to 60 and only a little slow.
- Re:Note to future "Ask Slashdot"ers (Score:4, Insightful)
  
  by nelsonal ( 549144 ) writes: on Wednesday May 26, 2004 @06:54PM (#9263329) Journal
  
  How many people will read the comments, or will be that intuitive. You might have solved his little problem. Significantly less needless clicking (ohh something new in the internet must go) but he gets a nice amount of publicity.
  
- Re:Note to future "Ask Slashdot"ers (Score:5, Interesting)
  
  by BrynM ( 217883 ) * writes: on Thursday May 27, 2004 @02:45AM (#9264681) Homepage Journal
  
  You know, it's funny. This Ask Slashdot question sat around for a long time on my account. I even waited for database maintenance at Slashdot (just kidding - but I've never seen it before, posting it now may have been a favor from Cliff). It sat there so long, I thought it was dead. When I originally posted it, I didn't have my website listed in my profile. There isn't a mention of my site in the post either, but I figured that a few intrepid /.ers would figure it out. Ah well... The server is holding up OK. I think my slow ass DSL connection is keeping it at bay... so far... ;)
  
Deviant Art (Score:5, Informative)

by manual_overide ( 134872 ) writes: <slashdot@duder.net> on Wednesday May 26, 2004 @06:50PM (#9263298) Homepage Journal

deviantart [deviantart.com]

Thread over.

Usenet (Score:3, Interesting)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday May 26, 2004 @07:18PM (#9263535)

Post it to usenet. I have no idea what group(s) would be appropriate without more explanation, but with 20,000+ groups, something should fit.

Find a group, read the FAQ, learn the rules about flooding and binary posting, and upload it over an appropriate period - and it'll be forever enshrined in any of a number of usenet mirrors.

Well, depending on how you want to distribute it (Score:2, Informative)

by magefile ( 776388 ) writes:

If you have the ability to do thumbnails somewhere, you could zip a bunch in a folder (tar.gz or PKZIP or whatever) and use FreeCache to save bandwidth - they only cache stuff over 5 MB, though, so you'd have to have a way for people to see samples and choose which set of images they want before they download 'em.
Where to Announce Free Graphic Art? (Score:2)

by polyp2000 ( 444682 ) writes:

Where to Announce Free Graphic Art?

Why, on Slashdot of course !
Find a decent web hosting company (Score:1, Troll)

by deodato ( 64774 ) writes:

Spend a hundred or so bucks a year and get your site hosted somewhere with load-balanced servers that can handle Slashdot.

Not much use having a website if you can't tell us where to find it :D
- Re:Find a decent web hosting company (Score:2)
  
  by justMichael ( 606509 ) writes:
  
  If you know of a hosting company that offers load balanced sites and isn't going to send you a nice fat bill when you transfer gigs worth of images in a coule hours... for only $10 a month.
  
  I'd really like to know who they are ;)
I've got the perfect place... (Score:5, Funny)

by stienman ( 51024 ) writes: <adavis@@@ubasics...com> on Wednesday May 26, 2004 @09:03PM (#9264173) Homepage Journal

1. Place art here [networkoftheapes.net].
2. Place an ambiguously worded article on Slashdot to avoid the usual front page story slashdotting.
3. Know that someone will find your hidden stash (we are geeks) and post the location of aforementioned art [networkoftheapes.net] within the comments, and it will safely be disseminated without a typical slashdotting.
4. ...
5. Profit!

-Adam

Creative Commons (Score:4, Informative)

by eykd ( 218920 ) writes: on Thursday May 27, 2004 @10:46AM (#9266526) Homepage

Don't forget the Creative Commons [creativecommons.org], which also offers a directory [commoncontent.org] of CC-licensed art.

If you're interested in eventually ceding the work to the public domain, you should definitely examine the Founder's Copyright [creativecommons.org], which sounds a lot like what you're already trying to do. This might be better than simply writing it down on a "piece of paper", because this is a full legal contract and procedure.

Leverage Google (Score:2)

by Webmoth ( 75878 ) writes:

Put a bunch of porn keywords in your web pages. Get some oft-used sites to link to yours.

Google will find it.
Where would you go if you were looking for art? (Score:2, Interesting)

by forwhomthebelltrolls ( 670539 ) writes:

If I was looking to download some graphics or artwork, the tool I would use would be google.

Why not simply use meta tags on your web page, to attract googlers to your site?

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Where to Announce Free Graphic Art?

Did you try... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Did you try... (Score:1, Flamebait)

Re:Did you try... (Score:1, Flamebait)

Re:Did you try... (Score:2)

Re:Did you try... (Score:2)

Re:Did you try... (Score:1, Interesting)

Archive.org (Score:5, Insightful)

Themes? (Score:3, Interesting)

Re:Themes? (Score:2)

opart.org (Score:5, Informative)

Note to future "Ask Slashdot"ers (Score:5, Insightful)

Re:Note to future "Ask Slashdot"ers (Score:1, Offtopic)

Re:Note to future "Ask Slashdot"ers (Score:2)

Re:Note to future "Ask Slashdot"ers (Score:2, Interesting)

Re:Note to future "Ask Slashdot"ers (Score:2)

Re:Note to future "Ask Slashdot"ers (Score:4, Insightful)

Re:Note to future "Ask Slashdot"ers (Score:5, Interesting)

Deviant Art (Score:5, Informative)

Usenet (Score:3, Interesting)

Well, depending on how you want to distribute it (Score:2, Informative)

Where to Announce Free Graphic Art? (Score:2)

Find a decent web hosting company (Score:1, Troll)

Re:Find a decent web hosting company (Score:2)

I've got the perfect place... (Score:5, Funny)

Creative Commons (Score:4, Informative)

Leverage Google (Score:2)

Where would you go if you were looking for art? (Score:2, Interesting)

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