THE GUIDE TO SOUND EFFECTS
Sound designer David Filskov's collection of tips for making your own sound effects, submitted by sound designers from all over the world.
Click on the LISTEN tab to see photos and hear the sounds. Would make great writing starters or conversation starters.
In this new issue of visual communication tools and services found, tested and picked for you by Robin Good and me, Nico Canali De Rossi, here is what we have selected for you this week: there are some cool new tools and services to create presentations online, arrange your pictures in slideshows, record any region of your screen, and also to download YouTube videos and add captions to them.
Find photos on flickr by browsing and refining related tags.
Click here to start (you need to enter the initial tag).
Flash 7 required
The most interesting feature of this experiment is the ability to refine your search by eliminating tags. When you click on a tag, flickr returns that tag's list of related tags. Findr then compares that list with the previous list(s) of tags and displays the intersection. So, instead of forgetting about previous searches, findr allows you to drill down within a tag set.
The main objective of the World of Images collection is to provide copyright-free photographs for use in the development of quality educational material.
The National Marine Sanctuaries Media Library is an online vault where a comprehensive collection of select video clips and high-resolution still images from America's underwater treasures are securely stored and available for searchable access and download.
allows users to browse by pictures instead of by keywords for their favorite food items. Each food item has been submitted buy the users themselves but are reviewed by the team at Tastespotting to be sure it falls within the submission guidelines.
Really striking images with good short texts. The images can really motivate students to want to dig deeper and read the text. From the Boston Globe "The Big Picture" web pages, collections of some of the most amazing photographs that range from natural wonders to political events. The page includes an RSS feed, a comments section, and archives are also available. - comment by Nik Peachey
Images of England is a 'point in time' photographic library of England's listed buildings, recorded at the turn of the 21st century.
You can view over 300,000 images of England's built heritage from lamp posts to lavatories, phone boxes to toll booths, mile stones to gravestones, as well as thousands of bridges, historic houses and churches.
Welcome to ARKive, a unique collection of thousands of videos, images and fact-files illustrating the world's species.
You can explore and search ARKive's continually expanding multi-media collection via the navigation bar at the top of every page.