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nobody posted about IMG_0001, a time capsule cache of mostly unwatched direct-to-Youtube iPhone Photo uploads – 5 million of them, from between 2009 and 2012, ordered randomly.

from the Red Library: Creaks

Pink Fuzzy Bunny posted the rather wonderful USC Optical Sound Effects Library – "Classic movie sound effects on optical and magnetic tape from the 30's to the 80's, all carefully restored, catalogued and posted on the Internet Archive."

Irises by Vincent van Gogh

adamrice posted The Getty Makes 88,000 Art Images Free to Use However You Like, featuring a huge trove of images released under a CC0 license.

Wow! chavenet posted archives.design, compiled and curated by Valery Marier, a digital archive of graphic design related items from the Internet Archives, including annuals, books, branding, editorial, education, ephemera, information, interactive, posters, and type specimens.

So, let's talk about the TVA Archive for a bit. If you think it looks familiar, you may have seen it before ... In FanFare, radwolf76 has some great trivia and background about the actual physical setting of the TVA (Time Variance Authority) archive in the Disney+ Loki series.

Project 365 #90: 310319 Fuzzy Logic by comedy_nose (cc by)

crosswords ↔️ cross words
typewriters ↔️ writer types
mail order ↔️ male order?
catalog ↔️ log a cat
flash fiction ↔️ fash friction

(ps: witness kurumi's cunning coup of cruciverbalist craft!)

Dorothea Lange self portrait

Dorothea Lange digital archive 📷 New Jersey: Images of the Garden State 📷 Streetview of 1940s NYC 📷 Inspiring Incarcerated Individuals to Visualize Their Dreams in Photos 📷 Ingrid Pollard: pastoral interlude

Soul train by Go-tea 郭天 (cc by)

If you haven't seen it yet, check out Iridic's post on Fourble: Point it at some audio files hosted anywhere online, and it'll turn them into a podcast feed.

Tuning In by Evans Archive (cc by-nc-nd)

Presented for your consideration, Iridic's M I N D W E B S post tunes in an historic archive of semi-dramatized readings of classic science fiction tales by some of the genre's best authors, preserved from weekly broadcasts aired by WHA Radio in Madison, Wisconsin