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December 17, 2005Search Engine for Comic Strip Verbiage
And in our "nuh-uh. Really? No, really? Cool!" Department, we have Oh No Robot, which is a search engine for the text inside online comics. This is not Calvin and Hobbes, but check it out anyway at http://www.ohnorobot.com/. You can...
April 29, 2004Database of Open Source Clip Art Launched
(Hat tip to GE for this pointer.) I'm not sure if this site has been official released yet; there's a limited amount of content with plenty of requests for more. At any rate there's a Open Clip Art Project either...
Continue reading "Database of Open Source Clip Art Launched" » March 29, 2004Directory of Photo-Related Sites
With a searchable subject index of photo sites, an index of photo-related Web sites (powered by MagPortal) and a stack of cameras on the left side of the page, there's plenty to see on even the unbusy front page of...
March 10, 2004Digital Archive of Art From Boston College
Professor Jeffery Howe and a couple of contributors have made a wide variety of art available at The Digital Archive of Art, at http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/art/ . This site has over 20,000 scanned images divided into several categories, including painting, architecture, and...
Continue reading "Digital Archive of Art From Boston College" » January 27, 2004A Caricature Collection from the Smithsonian
If you're interested in cartoons and caricatures, you'll like this collection. The Smithsonian has made available Drawing from Life: Caricatures and Cartoons from the American Art / Portrait Gallery Collection at http://www.sil.si.edu/ondisplay/caricatures/ . Choose the "explore the caricatures & cartoons"...
Continue reading "A Caricature Collection from the Smithsonian" » March 18, 2002Directory of Art Libraries
Been looking for art libraries lately? http://iberia.vassar.edu/ifla-idal/ has a directory of about 3,000 "libraries and library departments with specialized holdings in art, architecture, and archaeology throughout the world." The database search is simple keyword; a search for "Paris" found 116...
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