Use these Spooky Sounds from the Underwater Ambience album in your spooky project. These sounds were recorded underwater by Libby & Marcel (the Free to Use Sounds duo). Underwater Ambience! The Hidden Sounds by freetousesounds They are licensed CC-BY
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The Chaos by Gerard Nolst Trenité
Gerard Nolst Trenité – The Chaos (1922) Dearest creature in creation Studying English pronunciation, I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse. I will keep you, Susy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy; Tear in eye, your dress you’ll tear; Queer, fair seer, hear my prayer. Pray,…
The Music of the Waters: A Collection of Sea Shanties (1888)
Here’s an article from the Public Domain Review. https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/sea-shanties Sea Shanties are currently experiencing a hug revival. I mean, what’s not to like? Here’s a link to the book. https://archive.org/details/musicofwaterscol00smituoft/mode/2up The article lists many other books as well.
January 1, 2021 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1925 are open to all!
From the Duke University School Of Law. On January 1, 2021, copyrighted works from 1925 will enter the US public domain,1 where they will be free for all to use and build upon. These works include books such as F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, Ernest Hemingway’s In Our Time, and…
Katsushika Hokusai
Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾 北斎, c. 31 October 1760 – 10 May 1849), known simply as Hokusai, was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period.[1] Born in Edo (now Tokyo), Hokusai is best known as author of the woodblock print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji which includes the internationally iconic print,…
Notable works coming into public domain at midnight
Films are listed with their director, literature with their author Film: The Gold Rush, Charlie Chaplin Ben-Hur, Fred Niblo Бронено́сец «Потёмкин» (The Battleship Potemkin), Sergei Eisenstein The Big Parade, King Vidor Le fantôme du Moulin-Rouge (The Phantom of the Moulin-Rouge), René Clair Go West, Buster Keaton The Freshman, Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor, starring…
Freedom Box
https://freedombox.org/ I am running a yunohost server and an Ubuntu server with Apache so when I saw this I immediately wanted to play with it. It’s all open source and it runs on anything that will run Debian. There are also many downloads for singleboard computers and even turnkey hardware. https://freedombox.org/buy/
Sepia Search
https://sepiasearch.org/ A search engine of PeerTube videos and channels Developed by Framasoft I tried this and it works great. Link over and check it out.
‘Sistine Chapel of the ancients’ rock art discovered in remote Amazon forest
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/nov/29/sistine-chapel-of-the-ancients-rock-art-discovered-in-remote-amazon-forest Ella Al-Shamahi, an archaeologist and explorer, told the Observer: “The new site is so new, they haven’t even given it a name yet.” She spoke of the excitement of seeing “breathtaking” images that were created thousands of years ago. Tens of Thousands of paintings. Obviously public domain.
Cataloging the Public Domain – PD movies I watched in 2019
As part of my Film Preservation project, I am cataloginging all the public domain movies I watched this year. This blog post is taken from a thread over on the fediverse, and expanded a bit with links and the like. What follows is a list of more than 50 movies that are in the american…