Otis College of Art has created a very informative video that shows the proper technique for photographing your 2/d artwork. This is really helpful if you are making a portfolio. Watch the video below or check it out on the AML’s YouTube channel under the tutorials section.

I read an article today written by Amy-Mae Elliott about tricks to get more out of Wikipedia.
There are 10 tricks mentioned. Afew that I found useful are: using the Wikipedia layer in Google maps; which will display Wikipedia articles relating to the area you are looking at in google maps. Getting better Wikipedia search results by using the wildcard and viewing a page without all the links underlined. To read more tips see the article here.

FedFlix, hosted by the Internet Archive, is a collection of nearly 2000 films produced by the US government during the 20th Century. It is a Joint Venture NTIS-1832 between the National Technical Information Service and Public.Resource.Org. The topics of these films range from presidential speeches to agricultural practices to public health and safety. The site has many catagories including Animation, Arts and Music, Computers and Technology, Sports, Spirituality, and News. Some films are instructional in nature, for example there is a film for police officers on how to arrest someone. Other films are more informative in nature and some films are flat-out propaganda films. All of the FedFlix films are in the public domain so feel free to reuse and remix them as you desire. The films can be downloaded or viewed online.

This website is also home of the Wayback Machine…the internet archive, where you can Browse through over 150 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago.

Visit the website and choose which museum you would like to visit. Enter your email and they will email you a ticket (good for 2 people) There are many local museums participating. You can search for participating museums by state.

ArtStor has a collection of pdf subject guides available for download and highlighting aspects of certain collections and offering search tips on subjects. Some of the topics include Architecture, American Studies, Music History, Mid Evil Studies, Maps, Decorative Art and Photography among others. They also have a new series on their blog called Teaching with ArtStor This week the topic is “Re-historicizing Contemporary Pacific Island Art” by Marion Cadora, a graduate student at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

John La Farge, Girls Carrying a Canoe, Vaiala in Samoa, 1891. Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art

This website is put together by a web designer named Christian Annyas.It showcases the title still from films from the 1920’s until now. It is pretty interesting to look at the design of the stills.

The website ScanTips talks about the basics of scanning as well as what it refers to as scanning 201…more complex scanning topics. There is a section on many common scanner software and some other related links as well. Its a great resource whether you are new to scanning or an old pro.