Post by ziggycashmere on Oct 19, 2023 4:42:03 GMT
Not... entirely sure if self promo is allowed here? But here me out. I just started CLIPHAUS, a Discord server for discussing stock materials like clip art, sound effects, and stock music. I've been diving deep in the history of clip art and I think there's a lot here that hardly anyone has documented. I feel like there are a lot of people like me out there that might be interested in this sort of thing. CLIPHAUS is not only about talking about it, but about researching, documenting, and preserving this sort of thing. This means identifying artists (many of whom have remain unidentified for decades), digging for ancient books of clip art, scanning old catalogs, watching movies and old powerpoints and trying to figure out what weird library effect or song they used, that sort of thing.
Stock materials are everywhere, some of which have been used again and again for a century, and it's rare that anyone takes the time to track these things down and figure out their origins. The most concentrated effort, I've seen, is with sound effects. While this is highly commended in my book there has not been an equivalent effort in clip art, which is where I (and hopefully this community) step in. Clip art on its own has its beginnings in the 1890s, that's over a century of history that has mostly been cast aside and forgotten. I've been contacting some people who are knowledgeable in this field to get a head start, but a lot of this relies on raw research. The end effort is not only to have the history properly documented, but to have the media itself available to the public so it can be continued to be used. The usage of old stock materials is really important to keep things intended to be in an old aesthetic authentic. What's more authentic than using the same assets designers used decades ago?
If you're interested, you can join here.
discord.gg/8s5WGGyJcG
(Note this place is brand new so there's hardly anyone in it yet)
Stock materials are everywhere, some of which have been used again and again for a century, and it's rare that anyone takes the time to track these things down and figure out their origins. The most concentrated effort, I've seen, is with sound effects. While this is highly commended in my book there has not been an equivalent effort in clip art, which is where I (and hopefully this community) step in. Clip art on its own has its beginnings in the 1890s, that's over a century of history that has mostly been cast aside and forgotten. I've been contacting some people who are knowledgeable in this field to get a head start, but a lot of this relies on raw research. The end effort is not only to have the history properly documented, but to have the media itself available to the public so it can be continued to be used. The usage of old stock materials is really important to keep things intended to be in an old aesthetic authentic. What's more authentic than using the same assets designers used decades ago?
If you're interested, you can join here.
discord.gg/8s5WGGyJcG
(Note this place is brand new so there's hardly anyone in it yet)
