things we like
Net Worth
A friend of ours has started a project called No Commercial Value. Seems to be a kind of new-media repository for projects which, well, ain’t gonna sell much. Per the site:
It is an experiment in curatorial approaches and merging of traditional mediums such as galleries, television and social media sites.
We wish it weren’t flash, and hope it gets updated more than once a year. Good luck, you non-money-making people!
Faux-arts
We like this flickr photo pool: !Faux: Things that are Fake. It’s the genuine article!
That is all.
picture pages
This thread on AskMetafilter lead us to a wonderful collection of links of scanned book illustrations. Particular highlights are Vaguery’s Flickr collection of scanned public domain books, the Distributed Proofreaders project, creating e-books out of public domain books through crowd-sourced volunteer scanning, fromoldbooks.org, and childrensbooksonline.org.
from sea to shining sea
MoMA Atlantic Pacific is open. All the ads in the station have been replaced by art reproductions from MoMA’s collection, serving as a giant ad, of course, for the Museum. Eh, we can deal with it. But we secretly hope a Poster Boy out there makes a remix. (We Are All Poster Boy)
A swimsuit on a snowy day
We are totally in larf with flickr’s Commons section. Here is an insta-gallery of old awkward swimsuit photos! Here is an awesome picture of a bear with some french dudes from the Biblioteque de Toulouse! (A biblioteque is like a discoteque only instead of loud music you dance to the sound of yourself reading to yourself.)
More uncommonly common images inside…
