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Google Arts and Culture site I didn't know existed
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- chairhairair 2y agoThe app is genuinely great: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/google-arts-culture/id1050970557 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/google-arts-culture/id10509705...
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- filleduchaos 2y agoI 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 https://artsandculture.google.com/project/creative-lagos I unironically think it's Google's greatest contribution to media in the 2010s.
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- virgulino 2y agoI agree. I'm still amazed by the quality and depth of the Brazilian content (I'm Brazilian). The page about Portinari's huge "War and Peace" paintings at the UN headquarters is a striking example. https://artsandculture.google.com/project/wonders-of-brazil https://artsandculture.google.com/project/wonders-of-brazil https://artsandculture.google.com/story/dAVh9lXSqG6hJA https://artsandculture.google.com/story/dAVh9lXSqG6hJA
- wrs 2y agoIt’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 https://ghostarchive.org/archive/Igdyv)
- Daub 2y agoI 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.
- drewda 2y agoOr an earlier example was Seadragon, which was acquired by Microsoft and renamed Deep Zoom https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seadragon_Software https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seadragon_Software https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Zoom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Zoom
- mbivert 2y agoThere's a handy tool to download images from there: https://dezoomify.ophir.dev/ https://dezoomify.ophir.dev/
- jd3 2y agoI'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.
- mbivert 2y agoYou mean, directly? I remember seeing a few download links for some images, but many of them aren't directly available (random example: [0]) But otherwise yes, it's one of the best online archive. Wikimedia & some museums's websites are good sources of high-quality material as well. [0]: https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/nicolaas-rubens-wearing-a-coral-neckless-c-1619-peter-paul-rubens/HwGqFHTJrndvXw https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/nicolaas-rubens-wear...
- Palomides 2y agomany of the high res images on wikipedia/wikimedia of notable paintings come from this google project (the category for it has ~25,000 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Files_from_Google_Arts_%26_Culture https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Files_from_Googl... )
- Daub 2y agoThe super high resolution photos are taken with a special rig. Details: https://www.dpreview.com/news/1947958268/google-art-camera-uses-robotic-system-to-take-gigapixel-photos-of-museum-paintings https://www.dpreview.com/news/1947958268/google-art-camera-u... From what I recal, the software used for stitching is more like Excel than Photoshop.
- Daub 2y agoMany thanks! Book marking now,
- mig39 2y agoThe 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.
- skissane 2y ago> The mobile app used to have a feature where you could upload a selfie > Not sure if you can do that on the website. You absolutely can: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Media_Capture_and_Streams_API/Taking_still_photos https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Media_Captu... All major current browsers support it: https://caniuse.com/stream https://caniuse.com/stream
- skissane 2y agoDearest downvoters, I can understand why you did it - the person I was replying to was talking about whether Google’s web app actually has that feature, whereas I misinterpreted them as talking about whether it technically could have that feature. Mea culpa. Still, I think my reply does demonstrate - there is nothing technically stopping Google from adding this feature to the web version, if they felt sufficiently motivated to do so
- KTibow 2y agoThe app still does.
- shermantanktop 2y agoSeattle’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.
- buildbot 2y agoYeah but that's okay! They are still museums! Plus, I never would have discovered this extremely specific museum - https://www.nwkidney.org/about-us/dialysis-museum/ https://www.nwkidney.org/about-us/dialysis-museum/
- raincole 2y agoI've been using this intensively for art references since Pinterest got flooded by AI stuff.
- rwbt 2y agoSeriously asking this - How did it survive so far?
- Daub 2y agoIn my opinion, it's usability has decreased over the years. Predictably this is a result of Google adding new features like pre-curated collections.
- refulgentis 2y agoCan mostly survive on autopilot, & it's s0o0o0o much easier to shut something down for not having > X0 million users, than it is to shut it down a clear charity case because it doesn't make money. (it's not supposed to!) After 7 years there, the greatest lesson I walked away with is motivated reasoning really matters.
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- buildbot 2y agoIt seems heavy than maintaining something like Reader, but perhaps that's incorrect.
- refulgentis 2y agoI would wager so, it's not significantly changed much in years.
- lupire 2y agoReader wasn't unmaintainable. It was cancelled because it competed with Google+.
- sulam 2y agoVery very little at Google survives on autopilot. There’s a constant drumbeat of required changes, whether they be accessibility, regulatory (DMA, hurrah), internally motivated changes (material design++) etc. For anything to survive there must be someone who cares and is willing to invest in it. This is a large part of why stuff gets killed, the default there is for things to die. Yes there are strategy changes too, but very often things die because the person who could champion a thing is no longer there to do so, or has changed roles significantly enough that they can’t plausibly do so anymore.
- TheAceOfHearts 2y agoThanks 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. [0] https://artsandculture.google.com/story/OwXBNEuJqIJzLg https://artsandculture.google.com/story/OwXBNEuJqIJzLg
- chris_wot 2y agoSo at what point will Google remove this?
- buildbot 2y agoI weirdly remember this being announced when I was an undergrad in 2011, and thinking it would get killed super fast like Wave, which was given to Apache in 2010 - amazing it still exists!
- doctorhandshake 2y agoThis site is great but am I wrong in thinking the title of this post is editorialized against HN policy?
- andrei-akopian 2y agoYou could be right, after reading through the guidelines it does seem on the edge. Which exact policy do you think it is violating? I was trying to relay that it is an enormous resource by Google but somehow nobody talks about it. (At least I haven't heard about it, which is odd considering its size.) The title does sound a bit clickbaity, please tell me what title I should have used instead.
- 43920 2y agoI think the typical approach is to use the regular site name (so just "Google Arts and Culture") and let people click on it assuming there's something interesting about it to justifying being posted. That doesn't work super well when the original title is vague, like this one, but I think it does correspond to this guideline: > Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important.
- stevage 2y ago"I didn't know existed" is clearly editorial. You could just make it: "Google Arts and Culture site"
- automatoney 2y agoTaken as a whole, the title guidelines feel more focused on titles of articles, rather than whole website titles. I can understand the complaint, but in my opinion this title is fine. The title just feels a little... bare without the note.
- eek2121 2y agoMy only advice beyond what others have said would be to try and archive it. Google has show themselves to be anti-consumer unless they benefit, so I expect they will kill this as well. Also, in case someone wants to give me crap, If someone gave me traffic numbers and such so that I know what to expect, I would absolutely be willing to mirror this provided I can find it, and unlike Google, for me, fund != profit. If you work at Google and are confused, please just do a search on Duck Duck Go for the Google graveyard and find a sane job after you realize your current job will end soon.
- gxt 2y agoBlob opera: https://artsandculture.google.com/experiment/blob-opera/AAHWrq360NcGbw https://artsandculture.google.com/experiment/blob-opera/AAHW... Für Elise performed by Blob opera: https://youtu.be/0t4BEpbw5jQ https://youtu.be/0t4BEpbw5jQ
- adolph 2y agoYeah, Reader was too much to support. Good think they kept this instead.
- tmsh 2y agoI really like https://artsandculture.google.com/story/QQUBlr8x6YW7Jw https://artsandculture.google.com/story/QQUBlr8x6YW7Jw and https://artsandculture.google.com/nearby https://artsandculture.google.com/nearby. Thanks for posting!
- renegat0x0 2y agoOh google has many pages: - https://arvr.google.com/ https://arvr.google.com/ - https://bughunters.google.com/ https://bughunters.google.com/ - https://design.google.com/ https://design.google.com/ - https://opensource.google.com/ https://opensource.google.com/ - https://code.google.com/ https://code.google.com/ - https://ai.google.com/ https://ai.google.com/ - https://mapsplatform.google.com/ https://mapsplatform.google.com/ - https://programmablesearchengine.google.com/ https://programmablesearchengine.google.com/ - https://privacy.google.com/ https://privacy.google.com/ - https://lens.google.com/ https://lens.google.com/ - http://labs.google.com/ http://labs.google.com/ - https://jigsaw.google.com/ https://jigsaw.google.com/ - https://datastudio.google.com/ https://datastudio.google.com/ - https://tagmanager.google.com/ https://tagmanager.google.com/ - https://script.google.com/ https://script.google.com/ There are some more scraped by me https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database
- andrei-akopian 2y agoI just went to Google products Wikipedia page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products There is lots of other cool stuff like a Santa Tracker: https://santatracker.google.com/ https://santatracker.google.com/ I initially went through google subdomain lists on github, but many of them just redirected to the main search engine. With how many things Google has killed, its hard to remember how many are still alive. And thanks for sharing Internet Places DB.
- efilife 2y agoWhy are there sections dedicated strictly to only black people?