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Where to Announce Free Graphic Art?

Posted by Cliff on 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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  1. Did you try... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ask Slashdot? They'll post anything there.

  2. Archive.org by GeorgeH · · Score: 4, Insightful

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

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  3. Themes? by billn · · Score: 2, Interesting

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

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  4. opart.org by _aa_ · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://opart.org

  5. Note to future "Ask Slashdot"ers by PhyrePhox · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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...

    1. Re:Note to future "Ask Slashdot"ers by galaxy300 · · Score: 2, Interesting

      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...

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    2. Re:Note to future "Ask Slashdot"ers by nelsonal · · Score: 4, Insightful

      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.

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    3. Re:Note to future "Ask Slashdot"ers by BrynM · · Score: 4, Interesting

      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... ;)

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  6. Deviant Art by manual_overide · · Score: 5, Informative

    deviantart

    Thread over.

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  7. Usenet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.

  8. Well, depending on how you want to distribute it by magefile · · Score: 2, Informative

    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.

  9. I've got the perfect place... by stienman · · Score: 4, Funny

    1. Place art here.
    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 within the comments, and it will safely be disseminated without a typical slashdotting.
    4. ...
    5. Profit!

    -Adam

  10. Creative Commons by eykd · · Score: 4, Informative

    Don't forget the Creative Commons, which also offers a directory 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, 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.

  11. Where would you go if you were looking for art? by forwhomthebelltrolls · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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?