Fun Friday Resources

A couple more ways to find old illustrations:

• The Plantin-Morenus Museum in Antwerp has put 14,000 woodcut illustrations on line. You can search with categories or keywords through their dropdown menus.

• The Mostly Public Domain Image Search, which pulls together many of the resources I’ve shared with you previously into one search. It doesn’t display all the images on its own page; you have to click through to each collection to see them. Still, a small time-saver when you need that image of a lover’s eye painted on ivory.

You thought I was kidding, didn’t you?

Looking for a way for your theatre company to collaboratively design and execute its world premiere of William Blake’s Inn? Here are some suggestions.

Padlet looks to be useful in many ways for those who need small ways to work collaboratively. Full disclosure: I have not created even the free account, but it appears to be identical in many ways to collab spaces I’ve used in the past. It does have a free account, and of course it’s minimal, but if it works even a little bit for you, then it works.

In the past, I and the Lacuna Group have used a variety of startups that went on to become more expensive than we were willing to commit to at the time: BaseCamp; Vyew (which seems to be extinct); Mural, which was brilliant when I was using it. Curio is a very good scrapbook/planner piece of standalone software. Trello has served me well for scheduling/writing/publishing newsletters, that kind of procedural thing.

Go! Make the Thing That is Not!