Imagination is great. But to get stuff that’s truly weird we have to look to history. According to the Public Domain Review: The Zuni Pueblo is one of several pueblos in Arizona and New Mexico whose inhabitants are descendants of prosperous and sometimes cliff-dwelling settlements that flourished for millennia,While its exact origin date remains uncertain,…
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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…
‘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…
Ivan Bilibin
Ivan Bilibin illustrated Russian folk art at the beginning of the twentieth century. Many of his illustrations are over 100 years old and public domain everywhere. Here’s a link https://www.wikiart.org/en/ivan-bilibin/all-works#!#filterName:all-paintings-chronologically,resultType:masonry He does fully colored work and also line art good for coloring books.
Public Domain Tapes
Welcome to the Public Domain Tapes podcast! This podcast is a love letter to the public domain. Each episode is an audio collage using public domain sources that all center around a specific theme. The show is made by me, Josh Castle, and is released as often as I can make episodes. https://publicdomaintapes.com/ I love…
Songs and Lyrics by Tom Lehrer
From https://tomlehrersongs.com/ In other words, all the lyrics herein should be treated as though they were in the public domain. In particular, permission is hereby granted to anyone to set any of these lyrics to their own music and publish or perform their versions without fear of legal action. My friend Crashing Vor posted more…
Artvee
Hornbills by Thomas Waterman Wood Discover Classical Art Browse and download high-resolution, public domain artworks. https://artvee.com/
NASA
NASA makes their entire media library publicly accessible and copyright free. This is a good article from DIY Photography. NASA makes their entire media library publicly accessible and copyright free No matter if you enjoy taking or just watching images of space, NASA has a treat for you. They have made their entire collection of…