Where to Announce Free Graphic Art? 31
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?"
Did you try... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Did you try... (Score:1, Flamebait)
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Re:Did you try... (Score:2)
As for jokes- this is an autistic medium- emotion is not recognized without appropriate emoticons.
Re:Did you try... (Score:2)
Or what?
Re:Did you try... (Score:1, Interesting)
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)
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)
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)
I smell silicon burning somewhere...
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Deviant Art (Score:5, Informative)
Thread over.
Usenet (Score:3, Interesting)
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)
Where to Announce Free Graphic Art? (Score:2)
Why, on Slashdot of course !
Find a decent web hosting company (Score:1, Troll)
Not much use having a website if you can't tell us where to find it
Re:Find a decent web hosting company (Score:2)
I'd really like to know who they are
I've got the perfect place... (Score:5, Funny)
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)
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)
Google will find it.
Where would you go if you were looking for art? (Score:2, Interesting)
Why not simply use meta tags on your web page, to attract googlers to your site?