Just for the record, the Powerhouse Museum has created a group on Flickr for people to post their photographs of places seen in the Tyrrell Collection (the collection with the old PD images being put online). It is called "Tyrrell Today", and while there are few members there are already four very nice photographs, one under a Commons-compatible license. They seem to be actively searching for images of Sydney today and inviting their authors to post them to the group.
Linky: http://www.flickr.com/groups/684897@N24/
--Maria
User:Arria Belli
On 4/12/08, Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
Just in case you missed it, Sydney's Powerhouse Museum is now taking
part in Flickr's "The Commons" thing, following the Library of
Congress's suit.
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/>
They plan to release 50 new ones each week. This seems like a
manageable stream. Also: yay,
geotagging.<http://www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/map/>
on Commons:
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Powerhouse_Museum_PD_images>
There are really some wonderful Australian historical images: daily
life, architecture, people, places and even animals (baby emus!). I
mean baby emus today are probably the same as baby emus 100 years ago,
but still, not exactly an everyday photograph being uploaded by the
dozen.
I would love to see some juxtapositions of some of the
buildings/streets of Sydney. If anyone in Sydney tries to "recreate"
any of these images and put them side by side, let me know. I think it
would be really cool to see.
cheers,
Brianna
--
They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment:
http://modernthings.org/
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