British Museum makes 1.9 million images available for free

[lightner]

British Museum makes 1.9 million images available for free

Direct link is here: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection

[hansepe]

Thanks.

[arh2]

Thanks for the link! Used to be one of my favorite places to roam around in! Unfortunately it hasn’t been that close to me for many years now.

[evermorian]

Be aware of the licensing claims and issues:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/29/banjo-nazis/#it-belongs-in-a-museum

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

[lightner]

@evermorian: Interesting take on ownership of (so much looted) artwork at the British Museum! I wonder how that will play out if other museums begin doing a similar thing!?

I did find something there that is very exciting—and somewhat depressing. I’ve been working on replacing an 8-foot Easter Island Moai statue that sat next door to me here in La Jolla for 20+ years. The house was placed in a trust 10 years ago after the owners passed away—a marine geologist couple that somehow imported the statue to La Jolla. They worked on dating the statues—cir. 1200-1500 AD. The statue was removed by one of the children. We purchased the house about a year ago after the 10-year trust expired.

I started prototyping Moai statues with my Glowforge thinking of using a Maslow DIY CNC to create large “slices” for later chicken wire and stucco. Then I switched to the idea of 3D printing ever larger molds for concrete casting.

I know that weight is an issue and plan on somehow dealing with that with a hollow mold or lots of Perlite added to the concrete, more like volcanic tuff, which is what most of the Moai statues are carved from (but not the one below).

I see now that solid concrete would clearly result in a “weight issue”. The same height basalt statue in the British Museum…

figure | British Museum

…weighs 4.2 metric tons—9260 pounds!!

We shall see…an adventure for us stay-at-homes!!

[gewubs]

I watched that documentary about the statues walking; it was quite compelling.

[noel.santana]

Thanks for the link!