Art And Culture

Would you like to wander through museums across the world? Factapedia’s Arts and Culture list features content from leading museums and internet archives. Get the treasures, stories and knowledge from cultural institutions at your fingertips.
  1. Allen Memorial Art Museum – Oberlin College
  2. American Ballet Theatre
  3. American Museum of Natural History
  4. Art of the First Cities – This Web site is designed to complement “Art of the First Cities,” on view at the Metropolitan Museum through August 17, 2003. The landmark exhibition surveys the flourishing of the world’s earliest civilizations in Mesopotamia and surrounding regions stretching from the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean across Iran and Central Asia to the Indus Valley during one of the most seminal and creative periods in history.
  5. ArtDaily – Valuable resource for current information on the art world. Features a series of timely stories covering a variety of art-related news and events internationally.
  6. Art Institute of Chicago
  7. Art on the Net
  8. Atlas Obscura: Unusual Monuments in the United States – “Discover 202 unusual monuments in the United States.”
  9. Art on the Web – Extensive directory of art sites organized by historical time periods. Covers art therapy, conservation, iconography, professional associations, and women artists.
  10. ArtLex – Art dictionary with over 1,700 terms relating to all aspects of the visual arts, intended to be used by anyone interested or involved in the arts. Links art vocabulary to other Web sites. Provides images of works of art and quotations.
  11. Arts Journal: The Daily Digest of Arts & Cultural Journalism – Edited by Douglas McLennan, formerly an arts columnist and artsmreporter with theSeattle Post-Intelligencer and the Seattle Weekly, Arts Journal is a daily digest of some of the best online arts and cultural journalism.
  12. Artlink
  13. ArtsUsa
  14. ArtSource
  15. AskART – Site maintains a database on 25,000 American artists spanning the 16th to the 21st centuries. Information on the artists includes dates, states, methods, biographies, subjects for which best known, a decade by decade breakdown of 20th century literature in which they are referenced, and total number of auction lots sold and unsold of their works.
  16. Andy Warhol Museum
  17. Butler Institute of American Art, The
  18. Become a Smithsonian Digital Volunteer – “Become a Smithsonian Digital Volunteer and help us make historical documents and biodiversity data more accessible. Join 19,910 “volunpeers” to add more to the total 553,328 pages of field notes, diaries, ledgers, logbooks, currency proof sheets, photo albums, manuscripts, biodiversity specimens labels that have been collaboratively transcribed and reviewed since June 2013.”
  19. Canadian Museum of Civilization
  20. Centre National d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou
  21. Cezanne
  22. Chicago Museum of Science and Industry
  23. Chinese New Year – Discover the traditions and taboos, dishes and drinks that are part of China’s most important holiday, the Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival.
  24. Children’s Museum of Indianapolis – “World’s largest children’s museum dating back to 1925”
  25. Chinese New Year 2020: 21 Things You Didn’t Know About Chinese New Year – “Chinese New Year is celebrated by more than 20% of the world. It’s the most important holiday in China and to Chinese people all over. Here are 21 interesting facts that you probably didn’t know about Chinese New Year.”
  26. Christus Res – “Top 100 Web Sites – PC Magazine”
  27. Chrysler Museum of Art
  28. Communication Arts
  29. Cleveland Museum of Art
  30. Dale Chihuly Home Page
  31. Davis Museum and Cultural Center
  32. Detroit Institute of Arts
  33. Dia Center for the Arts
  34. Digital Archive of Art – collection of images of paintings from the 18th and 19th centuries and sculpture from the ancient Greek period, the Renaissance, and the 19th and 20th centuries. Artists represented include Michelangelo, Monet, Manet, Renoir, Degas, Gauguin, Seraut, Van Gogh, Rodin, Daumier, Munch, Arp, Duchamp, Ernst, and many others.
  35. Diva Art Group – “We sell original artwork, fine art, paintings, sculptures, limited edition authentic art from some of the famous creators of their times. Buy and sell art with Divart, since1993.”
  36. George Eastman House — Museum of Photography and Film
  37. Electric Gallery, The
  38. Encyclopedia Smithsonian – Home page.
  39. Escher, M.C, The World of
  40. Exploratorium
  41. Expo – WWW exhibit organization
  42. Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco – “With 60,000 works on paper our Imagebase is currently the largest searchable art imagebase in the world.”
  43. Franklin Institute Science Museum – Electronically tour the museum’s exhibits and access resources.
  44. Gauguin, Paul
  45. Google Shadow Art – “Shadow Art is a web browser-based game that lets you experience AI and shadow puppetry in a playful way.”
  46. Google Santa Tracker – Use Google Santa Tracker to follow Santa Claus on Google Maps as he makes his journey around the world.
  47. The Getty Museum – Site offers nearly 54,000 pages related to works of art and professional reports in conservation and art history. The heart of the site is the Explore Art section, which includes 3,300 works of art, 1,500 artist biographies, 1,500 glossary definitions, over 200 video clips, online exhibitions, and more.
  48. Guggenheim Museum of Art, The
  49. How Christmas Works – For hundreds of millions of people around the world, Christmas is the biggest holiday of the year. Have you ever wondered where traditions like Santa Claus come from? Find out at this How Stuff Works site.
  50. Hunterian Museum
  51. How Valentine’s Day Works – When did the Valentine’s Day frenzy begin? As is true of much of history, scholars tell slightly different versions of the history of this popular holiday. This HowStuffWorks ariticle looks at that history, with its Roman and Christian roots, as well as holiday traditions that have developed over the years. The site also checks out some old valentines and some new ones.
  52. Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum – displays a comprehensive collection of artwork by this sculptor (1904-1988) in a tranquil setting created by the artist.
  53. Illinois State Museum
  54. Internet for the Fine Arts – A comprehensive network of artists, galleries, museums, organizations, and resources relating to the fine arts.
  55. Kelsey Museum of Archaeology – Univ. of Michigan
  56. Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art & Design – includes images from their Georgia O’Keefe exhibit.
  57. John F. Kennedy for the Performing Arts, The
  58. Kitchen, The – “The Kitchen Center for Video, Music, Dance, Performance, Film and Literature
  59. Knoxville Museum of Art
  60. Laserium Home Page
  61. Leonardo da Vinci Museum
  62. Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts – mostly (Mozart) information about Festival ’96, Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, Midsummer Night Swing, and getting tickets to it all.
  63. Los Angeles County Museum of Art
  64. Louvre Museum
  65. Mariner’s Museum
  66. Medieval Art and Architecture – collection of architectural images from the Middle Ages. Included for many of the buildings is a map of its location, a floor plan, photos, and a brief description.
  67. Metropolitan Museum of Art
  68. MIT Museum
  69. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, The
  70. Montshire Museum of Science
  71. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,
  72. Museum of the City of New York
  73. Museum of Modern Art
  74. Museum Views – Take a virtual tour of the some of the world’s greatest museums and heritage sites. Virtual tour.
  75. National Endowment for the Arts
  76. National Endowment for the Humanities
  77. National Gallery of Art – search for information on the more than 100,000 works in the collection.
  78. National Gallery of Canada
  79. National Museum of American Art, The
  80. National Portrait Gallery
  81. New York Botanical Garden
  82. Newseum – a D.C.-area museum that “will take visitors behind the scenes to see and experience how and why news is made.”
  83. Open Culture – Open Culture brings together high-quality cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community.
  84. Old Farmer’s almanac, The – Hanukkah is an eight-day Jewish festival celebrated in November or December each year. Learn about Hanukkah traditions, history and recipes for this celebrated holiday.
  85. On-Line Picasso Project
  86. Philadelphia Museum of Art
  87. Picasso – the official site
  88. Portland Art Museum
  89. Renaissance Exhibit – from the Annenberg/CPB Collection. “Renaissance,” French for “rebirth,” aptly describes the intellectual and economic changes that occurred in Europe from the Fourteenth through the Sixteenth centuries.
  90. Royal Ontario Museum
  91. Shuffle – Shuffle makes it easy to turn long audio into short video clips so you can share and discuss the best parts of your favorite shows.
  92. San Diego Aerospace Museum
  93. San Diego Museum Of Art
  94. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
  95. Science Museum of Minnesota
  96. Sculptor.Org – comprehensive resource for sculptors in all media. There are links for tools and supplies, sculpting tips, schools, biographies, sculpture in museums and public places, associations, services, events, bibliographies, and more.
  97. Smithsonian Institution Home Page
  98. Smithsonian Institution’s HistoryWired – Welcome to the Smithsonian Institution’s HistoryWired: A few of our favorite things. This experimental site introduces visitors to some of the three million objects held by the National Museum of American History, Behring Center.
  99. Smithsonian Open Access – With new platforms and tools, you have easier access to nearly 3 million 2D and 3D digital items from our collections—with many more to come. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.
  100. The Holiday Spot – “Easter is a religious Christian festival that is celebrated by Christians worldwide. In fact, due to the lively appeal of the festival, even some non Christians celebrate it. Here we give an account of how Easter is celebrated in different parts of the world.”
  101. The Moth – The Moth is dedicated to promoting the art & craft of storytelling. The Moth’s stories are true, first-person narratives told live, and without notes in front of them.
  102. The Vore – “The best of international culture online.”
  103. UC Museum of Paleontology
  104. Victoria and Albert Museum – home to 145 galleries containing some of the world’s greatest collections of fine arts.
  105. Virtual Museums – Explore the world’s museums, virtually. Take a trip through the world’s best virtual museums & galleries, all without leaving the house.
  106. Van Gogh Gallery – “The definitive reference for Vincent van Gogh, his biography, his complete works, paintings, drawings and watercolors. Starry Night, Irises, and Sunflowers.”
  107. Vincent van Gogh Gallery
  108. Van Gogh Museum – The Van Gogh Museum is located on the Museumplein in Amsterdam, between the Rijksmuseum and the Stedelijk Museum.
  109. Versailles – Official Site – A virtual tour of the magnificent chateau commissioned by the Sun King himself, Louis XIV. Stroll the gardens, saunter through dining hall, or amble along the veranda.
  110. University of Michigan Museum of Art
  111. Web Gallery of Art – This Website “contains over 8,000 digital reproductions of European paintings and sculptures created between the years 1150 and 1750” supplemented with commentary on their technique and history.
  112. Web Museum – THE place on the web for all art buffs. Includes tours of renown museums around the world plus updates on the latest exhibits. Exploration of art from the Middle Ages to the 20th century with a concentration on the paintings from the Western tradition and a few samples of Japanese work. Provides overviews of the life and work of numerous artists; an outline of major Western art styles, with discussion of the characteristics and artists involved in each; and a glossary of art movements.
  113. Whitney Museum of American Art

ALSO:

Dreamscope – “Dreamscope turns your photos into amazing paintings! Go from photo to art in just one tap. Upload a photo, choose a painting filter, and magically turn it into fine art.”

Google Cultural Institute – With a team of dedicated engineers, Google is building tools that make it simple to tell the stories of our diverse cultural heritage and make them accessible worldwide.

Juilliard School – official site of the school of the performing arts.

National Air and Space Museum

Remembering Nagasaki

Tate Gallery – This museum contains the national collection of British art from the 16th century to the present, as well as the national collection of international modern art. Approximately 8000 images of the museum’s holdings are available for view along with the descriptive text found by the works when they are displayed in the physical gallery.

Web of Arts – site consists of links to arts related sites for art lovers, artists and students.



Movies On The Internet

Links for people who love movies. Movie info. Want to know where to watch free movies online? Check out free movie streaming sites. Stream all the movies you want without paying a dime. Feature length movies streaming for free.
  1. All-Movie Guide
  2. American Film Institute OnLine Cinema
  3. Anna Karenina – stills, video clips and production notes from the latest adaptation of Tolstoy’s classic romance.
  4. Budomate Magazine – “Your daily dose of action movies. The leading voice of kung fu film news, trailers, reviews and exclusive interviews.”
  5. Cannes International Film Festival – site features the 50 year history of “cinema’s prestigious competition” — a decade-by-decade look at the event in the context of what was happening in the world at the time.
  6. Cinema – How are Hollywood Films Made? – an interactive detailed exhibit of the process from screenwriting through final cut. Another of the Annenberg/CPB Projects.
  7. Cinema Dermatology
  8. Cinema Sites
  9. cinematography.com – for the people behind the camera
  10. CineMedia – “the Internet’s Largest Film and Media Directory now with over 25,000 links”
  11. CrankyCritic – Film students can tell you what is good for you. Cranky tells you what is good to sit through. He also tells you enough about himself that you’ll be able to tell if your taste and his are compatible.
  12. Disney.com
  13. Dolby Labs – “Excellent Site on all Aspects of Movies”
  14. Drew’s Scripts-O-Rama – the most comprehensive index of movie and television scripts available on the Internet
  15. Film.Com
  16. Greatest Films, The – a unique website containing plot summaries (with actual film dialogue), review commentary with emphasis on story content and historical background, and hundreds of colorful, vintage film posters for some of the best Hollywood and American classic films in the last century.
  17. Here Are the New Movies You Can Watch on Demand at Home – Here are the films that are either cutting their exclusive theater runs short and migrating to digital early, or are skipping the cinema altogether.
  18. Hollywood Network
  19. Hollywood Online
  20. Humphrey Bogart Page, The
  21. IMAX – “Bigger than your imagination.”
  22. Internet Movie Database, The
  23. Internet Archive: Movie Collection – This collection contains movies that the Prelinger Archives has digitized (about 956 now online) and donated to the Internet Archive. The films focus mainly on everyday life, culture, industry, and institutions in North America in the 20th century.
  24. MGM Home Site
  25. Miramax Cafe
  26. Movie Cliches List, The
  27. Movie Crazy – A website by Leonard Maltin for ‘People Who Love Movies.’ Reviews, pictures, articles, etc.
  28. Movie Emporium, The
  29. Movie Mistakes – if you love movies, you love to find mistakes in them.
  30. Movie Review Query Engine
  31. Movie Reviews – Washington Post
  32. Movie Sounds Page, The
  33. MovieFone.com -“Source for movie info, showtimes, previews, and tickets”
  34. Movies.com
  35. MovieWeb
  36. Mr. Showbiz 100 Best Movies of All TimeRotten Tomatoes: Movie Reviews & Previews – Site offers more than 87,000 titles and 200,000 movie review and preview links from the nation’s top print and online film critics.
  37. Rotten Tomatoes: 250 Best Movies on Netflix Right Now, Ranked by Tomatometer – In our world of massive entertainment options, who’s got time to waste on the below-average? You’ve got a subscription, you’re ready for a marathon, and you want only the best movies on Netflix to watch. With thousands of choices on the platform, both original and studio acquired, we’ve found the 250 top Netflix movies, using our critic-approved Tomatometer to guide us!
  38. Shortcut to the Movies
  39. Sony Pictures
  40. The Oscars – The Academy Awards, more popularly known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit in the film industry.
  41. The Ringer: The 25 Most Anticipated Movies of 2020 – “It’s an annual tradition to spend the first few weeks of January chewing over the previous year’s movies while looking ahead to the prestige releases of spring, summer, and fall.”
  42. Universal Studios Florida
  43. Warner Bros. Home Page
  44. Warner Bros. Movie Page
  45. Walt Disney Home Page
  46. Yahoo! Movies

ALSO:

Daily 100, The – this game doles out one-liners from familiar films for prizes.

Godfather Trilogy, The

Jerry Lewis Comedy Museum and Store – did you know that he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize?

Oliver Stone

Troma

Music On The internet

The curtain’s up! Your comprehensive guide to online and streaming music. and artists from Factapedia. Pop/Rock. Singer/Songwriters. HipHop/Urban. Soul/RnB. Styles: Pop, Rock, Hiphop, R&B, Alternative. Watch concerts.
  1. #1 Songs: 1930-1999 – Find lyrics of most of the songs that hit #1 over that musically rich span of time from 1930 to 1999. Search by year, artist or title.
  2. 8notes.com – Over 1500 free sheet music pieces and riffs.
  3. All About Jazz – “A Magazine by Jazz Fans for Jazz Fans”
  4. All-Music Guide – database of recorded music
  5. Andrew Lloyd Webber Interactive Web Site
  6. J.S. Bach Picture Archive
  7. The Internet Beatles Album
  8. Leonard Bernstein
  9. Billboard Online
  10. Blue Highway, The – For blues fans
  11. Blues Directory – Directory style collection of more than 2,200 blues links, organized in categories like bands and artists, festivals, lyrics and tabs, clubs, record labels, blues societies, radio programs, sound files, etc.
  12. Bluestraveler
  13. Benten Sound – “A decentralized platform for completely free stock music for your videos. “
  14. bobdylan.com – complete lists of his songs and albums, and a searchable archive of all of his lyrics
  15. Chordify – “Chordify is an online music education service – made for and by music enthusiasts – that transforms music from YouTube, Deezer, SoundCloud, or your private collection into chords. Our service automatically recognizes chords from an audio signal and aligns them to the music in a simple and intuitive player. Chordify uses cutting-edge technology to help both novice and trained musicians play the music they want to play.”
  16. CNET Music Center – site helps users learn about and use digital music technology effectively.
  17. Harry Chapin Home Page
  18. Ray Charles Online – official site of “both a national treasure and an international phenomenon.”
  19. Classical Music Archives – tens of thousands of music files in MIDI, WMA and MP3 formats.
  20. Classical Music Home Page
  21. Classical Music Navigator – Sites offers information on over 444 composers as well as material on classical types of music.
  22. Classical USA: Classical Music on the Web
  23. eLyrics.net: Song Lyrics – “One of the largest song lyrics destination on the net, providing access to more than 700,000 lyrics from around 40,000 artists/bands since 2000. All our content are updated or submitted by our visitors. You can either browse our lyrics database or use our Google powered search engine to find song lyrics with just a small portion of lyrics you remember or heard on the radio or by simply an artist name, song name.”
  24. EMusic
  25. e-recored fair.com – “Buy, Sell,Trade Vinyl Records, CD’s, cassettes and Music DVDs. You can also trade your Records with e-Record Fair users. Make deals directly with Collectors / Sellers worldwide.”
  26. ezFolk – An online study guide for learning how to play guitar and the banjo. Site currently contains over 300 pages of tablature, tutorials, and more.
  27. Folklib Index – A Library of Folk Music Links.
  28. Folkmusic.org
  29. Forte Music Notation Software – “Created by musicians for musicians, Forte is a unique and easy to use score writing software for everyday musicians, teachers and choir leaders. If you are looking for a tool that fits your needs, is easy to use and affordable, Forte is perfect for you! Start writing scores today.”
  30. Harry’s Blues Lyrics Online – site lists lyrics of over 2,500 blues songs, arranged by artist and title, with Real Audio soundclips provided for approximately half of the entries. In addition, the site provides information on guitar tabs and chords, and blues history.
  31. Historic American Sheet Music – Duke University Collection
  32. House of Blues
  33. Jazz: A History of America’s Music – The companion site to the PBS file ‘Jazz’ by Ken Burns. This page features biographies of nearly 100 premiere artists in the field of jazz music, from Louis Armstrong to Lester Young.
  34. Jazz Guitar Online
  35. Jazz Improvisation Primer – “This is the online version of my text, A Jazz Improvisation Primer. Here you can find information on almost every topic relating to jazz improvisation, from jazz history to music theory to practical advice on playing in a group.”
  36. Jazz Reviews – Quick reviews of the latest jazz releases, audio clips and a “jazzography” section of artists on film. Jazz Review is eager to show you why it is that jazz makes the world go ’round.
  37. Lovely Music – music by Robert Ashley, John Cage, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros, and your other favorite avant-garde composers.
  38. Lyrichord Discs Inc. – information on over 160 traditional World and Early Music recordings, artists, complete liner notes, artist bios, articles & interviews reprinted, lists of suggested further reading on various World and Early music topics.
  39. Lyrics.com – lyrics to hundreds of songs listed by artist
  40. Learn Guitar with Fender – Fender is giving the first 100,000 users who create a new account on Fender Play three months of free online lessons. The instructional videos led by talented musicians are high-quality, and you can access them from your phone, tablet, or computer. And if you don’t have a guitar at home, the program also includes lessons for bass guitars and ukuleles.
  41. LyricSearch.com – a search engine for lyrics; search by artist, song, album name or lyric.
  42. Lyrics: Rock, Metal and Aternative Bands – This site contains rock lyrics from 60s up to the present day.
  43. Lyrics Search Engine – lyrics to songs listed by artist or title.
  44. Joni Mitchell Home Page
  45. Mingus, Charles – 1922-1979 – “the official site of the Mingus Web, devoted to the work of jazz composer and bassist Charles Mingus.”
  46. Modern Drummer Online
  47. Mouse Jam
  48. Mozart Project, The – site contains biographical information, extensive composition lists, essays by Mozart scholars, and more.
  49. MuchMusic
  50. Musescore – “Create, play back and print beautiful sheet music with free and easy to use music notation software MuseScore.”
  51. Music Dictionary Online – Our Music Dictionary Online explains words and terms you may meet when reading musical scores, books about music or program notes on CDs or at concerts. We have made it more comprehensive, by providing copious links to supplementary material in our own Music Theory Online resource, our Musical e-Monographs and external websites.
  52. Music Song Lyrics
  53. Mutopia – site is similar in spirit to Project Gutenburg, but consists of a growing collection of free music available for download and printing.
  54. New Musical Express – NME.Com – the British music mag goes online.
  55. New York Rock
  56. Operabase – site hosts a database of 500 opera houses and festivals, searchable by keyword or browseable alphabetically (with numerous display options) or via clickable maps.
  57. Past Perfect
  58. Public Domain Music – A reference site to help the ordinary person identify public domain songs and public domain music . . . royalty free music you can use anywhere and any way you choose.
  59. Planet Garth – the unofficial Internet Site of Garth Brooks
  60. Radio Garden – “Tired of tuning in to the same old radio station every single day? It’s time to introduce you to an international radio station website known as Radio Garden. This garden is your stairway to music heaven as you will be able to tune in to almost any radio station from anyone in the world. All you need to do is open the website and spin the globe.”
  61. Red Hot Jazz Archive – A history of Jazz before 1930 – Multimedia site providing audio and video clips for the music that gave the Jazz Age its name. There are biographical entries for bands and individual musicians, and sections containing bibliography and scholarly essays.
  62. RhythmWeb
  63. Rock ‘N Roll Hall of Fame
  64. Rock Around the World – Music industry online magazine
  65. Rolling Stone Magazine
  66. Rolling Stones – The Official Rolling Stones Web Site
  67. Santana – official Web site
  68. Sibelius Academy Music Resources
  69. Sinatra Family Album
  70. Smithsonian Jazz – A jazz portal intended to preserve and promote one of America’s greatest art forms: jazz.
  71. SongFile – lyrics to songs listed by artist
  72. Sousa, John Phillip, Home Page
  73. Sub Pop
  74. Spotify Playlists for Pets – “Get a playlist for your pet based on music you love.”
  75. Sound Scape – The immersive music visualizer that lets you build your own beats.
  76. Technobeat Archives – world music reviews from the pages of The Beat.
  77. This Day in Country Music.com – “On this day in country music, provides information on country musicians who where born on this day, like country recordings, country gigs, country musician deaths, country chart positions and significant country music events on this day. The site is updated daily with events from all the major country music artists.”
  78. Three Dog Night – the band that brought Joy to the World.
  79. Tower Records
  80. Ultimate Band List, The
  81. Vintage Jazz Bands on the Internet – Over 360 bands are represented from several different countries.
  82. www.maniacs.com
  83. World Radio Map – “World Radio Map is a website that lists AM/FM radio stations by their real broadcasting frequencies and enables you to tune in directly from your browser, with no download required. It’s also a place to find information about main transmitters and towers’ basic technical data and many radio-related links. World Radio Map covers all the major cities of the world, from Chicago to Acapulco, from Frankfurt to Johannesburg, from Moscow to Tel Aviv, from Shanghai to Melbourne … Now you can listen online all radio stations from these cities and thousands more from all over the World for free!”
  84. ZDNet Music – digital music news, discussions, and downloads.

ALSO:

Dance Music Resource Pages

Grand Ole Opry – The official home page for the 75-year old Country and Western music program, begun on radio in 1925 and broadcast now on both radio and television from Nashville.

Jack’s Harmonica Page

Nashville Demo Works – “Nashville Demo Works. We help pro and amateur writers record and produce professional demos and master recordings of their songs they’ve written.”

Radiooooo – RADIOOOOO is the wonderful musical time machine that allows you to travel through space and time! Pick a country, pick a decade, and let yourself get carried away by the most beautiful musical collection in the world!

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Warner Bros. Records Home Page

Pictures And Photography

The biggest question for new photographers is how to take good pictures? Start with these factapedia links for references to great photos.
  1. The Year in Pictures 2000 – MSNBC picture editors combed through 750,000 images to put together a set of 25 that they think represent the past year.
  2. Abandoned Missile Base VR Tour
  3. American Museum of Photography, The – “Web exhibits bring great images from the history of photography to your computer screen, drawn from a private collection of more than 5,000 photographs. You’ll see everything from a frontier town in America’s Wild West to a century-old photo of mischief in a Japanese restaurant…plus important early portraits, landscapes, architectural images, art photography and pioneering photo-journalism.”
  4. American Society of Media Photographers
  5. Ansel Adams – This collection was compiled as a royalty-free resource of Ansel Adams’ early photographs, and will be especially useful to web designers, desktop publishers and graphic artists. The original photos were part of a massive project produced by the United States Department of the Interior. There are more than two hundred digitized photo images in this royalty-free collection.
  6. Ansel Adams: Best Of
  7. Astronomy Picture of the Day
  8. Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar – 1995-1999 Winners
  9. Being There – photography focusing on climbing, kayaking, and other outdoor activities
  10. BetterPhoto.com
  11. Black Star Photo Resources
  12. Blind Spot – “a lavishly printed journal of contemporary photography.”
  13. Creative Commons – “CC Search searches across more than 300 million images from open APIs and the Common Crawl dataset. It goes beyond simple search to aggregate results across multiple public repositories into a single catalog, and facilitates reuse through features like machine-generated tags and one-click attribution.”
  14. CNN: New Years celebrations around the world – Revelers ring in 2019 with celebrations spanning the globe.
  15. California Views – holds the works of over 900 photographers from the 1880-1990’s
  16. Camera Works: Washington Post – newspaper website devoted to photography.
  17. Chan, Wendy – Photographer
  18. Churches ad hoc – Offbeat look at churches in America.
  19. Civil War Photographs – The Library of Congress
  20. Digital Camera Resource Page – news, reviews, and message boards
  21. Digital Image Database Project – The New York Public Library’s new database provides access to tens of thousands of amazing digitized images taken from the Research Libraries. And, according to the site, that number will grow to more than 600,000 images by the end of 2004.
  22. Digital Journalist – A multimedia magazine for photojournalism in the digital age
  23. Digital Photo Center – CNet.com
  24. Digital Photography Review – “Welcome to Digital Photography Review where you’ll find all the latest in digital camera and digital imaging news, reviews of the latest digital cameras, lively discussion forums, vast digital camera samples galleries, a digital camera buyers guide, side-by-side comparisons and the most comprehensive database of digital camera specifications and prices.”
  25. Fotographee – “Tips and tutorials on image retouching with HDR, luminosity masks and exposure blending. Learn how to edit landscape and travel photos with advanced technique.”
  26. George Eastman House – Museum of Photography
  27. Famous Photographers -“FamousPhotographers.net provides a list of world’s most famous photographers and an insight on their personal and professional life. Each photographer’s life story is a book with interesting chapters. The website gives a detailed account of their biographies, photographic styles, examples of their work, and lists of their exhibitions.”
  28. Fodor’s Focus on Photography
  29. FreeFoto.com – “FreeFoto.com is one of the largest collections of free photographs for noncommercial use on the Internet. The comprehensive, yet easy to navigate site features 40 main sections with over 600 sub headings.”
  30. Gutter Tribe: Kids on the Street
  31. Herman Krieger’s Photo Essays
  32. History of Photography, The
  33. IMGBOT – “Imgbot.ai is a free online tools for bulk image processing. Resize, crop, compress (optimize) your images or add watermark to your photos online.”
  34. Image Finder: FreeFoto
  35. Image Finder: ixquick
  36. Image Finder: Picsearch
  37. Image Finder: Yahoo
  38. Images from the Microscope – Site offers photo galleries that explore the fascinating world of optical microscopy. with color photographs taken through an optical microscope. Also contains a Photo Gallery with images from beer and ice cream to integrated circuits and ceramic superconductors.
  39. John Lehet’s Digital Art
  40. Light Factory, The
  41. Mary Ellen Mark Photographs
  42. Masters of Photography – This archive of photography includes biographies, articles, and scanned images that are viewable in three size formats. Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and Edward Weston are among the 19 visionaries and innovators currently represented.
  43. Millennium Photo Project, The – “The Millennium Photo Project wants to create a “community enterprise” that anyone with an interest in photography can join. The best 300 or so pictures taken by photo enthusiasts at the end of the year will be selected for a book.”
  44. Minolta Home PageNational Geographics Best Photos of 2019 – “National Geographic’s 100 best images of the year–curated from 106 photographers, 121 stories, and more than two million photographs.”
  45. National Geographic Photo of the Day – Daily National Geographic photos, including photos of animals, people, culture, adventure, science, travel, underwater, exploration, and more.
  46. NOAA Photo Library Collection – over 5,000 public domain photographs and images, dating from the early 1800’s to the present.
  47. NASA’s Planetary Photojournal
  48. National Museum of Photography
  49. National Press Photographers Association Online, The – “Across an ever-changing media landscape, the NPPA has fought to promote and protect integrity and excellence in visual journalism for more than six decades.”
  50. Nature Photography – by Gary D. Tonhouse
  51. New York Institute of Photography
  52. New York Public Library Digital Gallery – This site provides access to over 275,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.
  53. Nikon Historical Society
  54. Pandemonia
  55. Photo District News
  56. Pixir.com: Free Online Photo Editor – “Pixlr is a free online photo editor. Edit, adjust and filter your images. No registration jump right in!”
  57. Photoeclectia – A Collection of Photographic Images by Maureen Costantino
  58. PhotoForum WWW Home Page
  59. Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz – The Library of Congress presents a collection of more than 1,600 photographs of celebrated jazz artists. The photos document the jazz scene from 1938 to 1948, primarily in New York City and Washington, D.C.
  60. Photo MBA, The – “Sign up for our free 7 day course that will change the way you see photography and start making your photography business work for you.”
  61. Photo.net
  62. PhotoSecrets – Travel Guides for Travel Photography.
  63. PhotoServe
  64. PhotoStop
  65. Photography Tips – “PhotographyTips.com is for everyone with an interest in photography. It is intended to help beginners get started in photography, and become so good at it that they turn into advanced amateurs. But, accomplished photographers will also find useful tips and hints here. Our primary objective is to help people like you to take better photographs.”
  66. Photographs: America from the Great Depression to WWII – The core of the collection consists of about 164,000 black-and-white photographs. This release provides access to over 160,000 of these images; future additions will expand the black-and-white offering.
  67. Pinhole Visions – gathers the works of photographers who take pictures with pinhole cameras–cameras with a pinhole instead of a lens.
  68. Polaroid Home Page
  69. Presidential Portraits at The Library of Congress
  70. SocialBook Free Background Remover – SocialBook Background Remover is an online tool. You do not need to download software or install an application. Want to cut out a person from a photo but do not know how to use Photoshop? No problem. SocialBook Background Remover can do it for you with one click.
  71. Snapcity – Photographer and web designer Emilie Wilson presents a snapshot diary documenting several years of her life in San Francisco and New York City.
  72. Stock Solutions Top Photo Site of the Week
  73. White House News Photographers’ Association Award Winners – the White House News Photographers’ Association presents over 200 top newspictures taken in Washington and around the world.
  74. World Wide Web Photography Sites
  75. ZoneZero – a stunning online photography exhibition featuring a wide and constantly expanding group of international artists.

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Dictionary of Digital Camera Terms

GuruShots – ‘Upload photos and get critiqued by top professional photographers. First photo is FREE. Critiques, Photography Tips and Techniques by Professionals.’

Large format photography

National Geographics Best Photos of 2019 – “National Geographic’s 100 best images of the year–curated from 106 photographers, 121 stories, and more than two million photographs.”

ReVue

The Outdoor Photography Experience– Photographer Chris Burkard leads a Creative Live class on how to take better adventure photos.

White Cloud Photography Workshop, The