[HN Gopher] Google Arts and Culture site I didn't know existed
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Google Arts and Culture site I didn't know existed
Author : andrei-akopian
Score : 72 points
Date : 2024-06-30 21:55 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (artsandculture.google.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (artsandculture.google.com)
| chairhairair wrote:
| The app is genuinely great: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/google-
| arts-culture/id10509705...
| filleduchaos wrote:
| I first stumbled on this site over half a decade ago, and it's
| nice to see it's still going. There's genuine effort to
| collaborate with locals to produce curated content - see for
| example the city showcase of Lagos, Nigeria:
| https://artsandculture.google.com/project/creative-lagos
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| I unironically think it's Google's greatest contribution to media
| in the 2010s.
| mgh2 wrote:
| Won't be surprised if they close it down in the near future,
| they have a pattern...
| wrs wrote:
| It's been around since 2011. I think it was one of the earliest
| examples of "infinite zooming" tiled image websites.
|
| (See https://ghostarchive.org/archive/Igdyv)
| Daub wrote:
| I use this feature in my painting class all the time. The
| ability to zoom in so close to a painting is incredible. In
| many ways, it offers a better learning experience for a young
| painter than seeing the paintings in real life.
| mbivert wrote:
| There's a handy tool to download images from there:
| https://dezoomify.ophir.dev/
| jd3 wrote:
| I've mostly used Google's arts and culture site to download hi-
| res images of famous pieces of art for a side project of mine.
| mig39 wrote:
| The mobile app used to have a feature where you could upload a
| selfie and it would search for a painting that looked like you.
| It did a really good job.
|
| Not sure if you can do that on the website.
| shermantanktop wrote:
| Seattle's "nearby" feature lists usual suspects but also the
| Rubber Chicken museum at Archie McPhee's, a defunct "Bad Art
| Museum," a selfie museum, an NFT museum, a coffee museum...
|
| I'm no fine art snob but this looks like it's powered by a
| keyword search result.
| raincole wrote:
| I've been using this intensively for art references since
| Pinterest got flooded by AI stuff.
| rwbt wrote:
| Seriously asking this - How did it survive so far?
| Daub wrote:
| In my opinion, it's usability has decreased over the years.
| Predictably this is a result of Google adding new features like
| pre-curated collections.
| TheAceOfHearts wrote:
| Thanks for the reminder, I'd forgotten about this website. My
| favorite post on there is "Exploring the Ripley Scroll: A recipe
| for making the Philosopher's Stone" [0]. Now I'm feeling
| motivated to make a painting inspired by the Ripley Scroll.
| There's something so whimsical and delightful about it. I really
| wonder what the creator was thinking when they were making it. I
| love all these arcane magic systems.
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| [0] https://artsandculture.google.com/story/OwXBNEuJqIJzLg
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