Humanity without humans (default Artwork)

[Turing Test]

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 18:14:50 +0300, Ville Vainio <vivainio at kolumbus.fi> wrote:
> I think it might be a good idea to not overdo the touchie-feelie-happy
> aspect; it might backfire by creating an image of a "hippie" distro,
> with users singing Kumbaya by a campfire. Again, it's something that
> corporations will find questionable and unprofessional.

I don't mean to show the remnants of a beach party! 8-)  I was just
trying to suggest a photorealistic theme based on a landscape, just
like that in the MS Windows default desktop, which is seen as
perfectly professional by corporations.


On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 11:19:50 -0400, volvoguy <volvoguy at gmail.com> wrote:
> I like that idea in general. I'll see what kind of stock photography I
> can find to play with some ideas.
> 
> Just FYI, I think you were just using the Google Images link for
> examples, but for any kind of "official" artwork, you either need to
> do the photography yourself of find a source of royalty-free (and
> hopefully free in general). I'm sure there are others, but the only

I know - the previous link was just for illustrating my point. I would
have taken the photos myself - but I don't live near the beach! 8-/

In www.flickr.com I've found several published images under various
forms of the Creative Commons license which allow for commercial use.
See some these examples:

Allow for derivative works:
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=984700&size=o
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=949976&size=o
http://www.imageafter.com/image.php?image=b10grounds004.jpg
http://www.imageafter.com/image.php?image=b5nature_landscapes041.jpg

No derivatives:
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=967910&size=m
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=967876&size=m
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=365275&size=o

Searches under the "derivatives" licenses:
http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/by-2.0/search/text:beach/
http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/by-sa-2.0/search/text:beach/

The Creative Commons webpage also links to these sites:
http://openphoto.net/
http://web2.unt.edu/weblibrary/freemedi/gallery/index.php