Google hostet seit heute über die hauseigene Bildersuche mehr als 10 Millionen Fotos aus dem LIFE Archiv.

We’re excited to announce the availability of never-before-seen images from the LIFE photo archive. This effort to bring offline images online was inspired by our mission to organize all the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. This collection of newly-digitized images includes photos and etchings produced and owned by LIFE dating all the way back to the 1750s.

Only a very small percentage of these images have ever been published. The rest have been sitting in dusty archives in the form of negatives, slides, glass plates, etchings, and prints. We’re digitizing them so that everyone can easily experience these fascinating moments in time. Today about 20 percent of the collection is online; during the next few months, we will be adding the entire LIFE archive — about 10 million photos.

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Multicolr Search Lab hat die Farben von 10 Millionen der besten Creative Commons Bilder bei Flickr indiziert und bietet die Möglichkeit Fotos nach einer einzelnen bzw. bis zu 10 Farben gleichzeitig zu durchsuchen. Sehr praktisch, wenn man z.B. mal schnell ein farblich passendes Bild für einen Blogbeitrag oder so sucht.

Aus dem Pressetext:

On September 29th a new kind of documentary is launched on the Internet and for one year, every Monday, new film chapters of varying lengths, will be posted online. Every film chapter, in and of itself, is a short documentary but when viewed together, whether chronologically or in arbitrary sequences, tell a story. They can be viewed in any order. These are not viral videos or news reports. This is a new cinema narrative technique and the Internet is the only way to tell this story. This presents a new way to watch a film.

This is a new kind of cinema in a new venue, a cinema free of television and corporate production restraints. It rips away the walls corporations have erected between the audience and artists, an experimental cinema, sorely lacking in the new world order, accessible outside of traditional venues and television.

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