Oh how we love The Commons on Flickr, without question the best place on the web to explore treasures from the photography collections of the world's great museums, libraries and archives. NYPL became a partner in late '08 and has since added nearly 2,000 items from our Digital Gallery, and we plan to add thousands more — keep an eye out in the coming week for a new set of Hudson River Valley images connected to our Mapping New York's Shoreline exhibit, opening tomorrow.
To celebrate nearly two years of Commons goodness, next weekend (Oct 2-3) participating institutions are organizing Common Ground, an international series of near-simultaneous meetups featuring community-curated slideshows projected against the buildings (that's right!) of host organizations: a visual banquet of items voted up and “favorited” by Commons fans.
Next Saturday, October 3, 6-9:30pm, two of NYC’s great cultural institutions, the New York Public Library and the Brooklyn Museum, are joining forces for a combined Common Ground spectacle at the Brooklyn Museum’s Target First Saturday event. Location: Brooklyn Museum lobby. Directions here.
Come witness a beautiful nighttime parade of images gathered and transmitted from the global Commons network, meet staff from Brooklyn and NYPL, get your hands on some cool Flickr schwag and enjoy the surrounding First Saturday festivities. It’s a rare convergence of online and local communities, digital media and physical spaces. And... it’s free!
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