There’s a huge wealth of information, images, history and literature here. Remember, since it’s public domain, you can make use of it for various reasons. I mainly plan to use some of this stuff for poems, artistic ideas, starting points for 3d project references, and just plain ol fun reading. This type of stuff has always amazed and astounded me. I love learning. I love connecting the dots between various parts of life. This is part of our shared history of the world. Embrace it. Love it. Learn from.
Contribute to it.

By the way, this way of looking for public domain stuff is MUCH more visually stimulating then reading ol text files at project guttenburg that were printed 10-20 years ago, etc.

It’ll help to understand the point of this blog and why I’m creating this list if you have a better understanding exactly of what Public Domain is…  I’ll edit this later to add a big description here…

http://books.google.com/advanced_book_search is a powerful tool for finding some public domain stuff. Google copied a lot of books from the public domain. Be careful in using that stuff though since Google officially does not want a lot of people using it for commercial work. However, since all they did to the pdf copies of the books is add a little watermark, and since the original source is in the public domain on works created in 1922 and before, we can use google book searches to limit the search to end dates in 1922 – we choose 1922 since works created in and after 1923 have stricter rules on if it is or is not in the public domain…

Before google started the above listed project, the best solution to finding public domain books online was Project Gutenburg. This is a project started a long time ago where contributors manually typed up text copies of books. It is named after the Gutenburg Printing Press, which is believed to be the world’s first Printing Press. It is still an active project, and there’s still lots of new stuff that is added to it regularly.

For video, The Prelinger Archives http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger is a very good source of public domain videos.

I’ll add a lot more description to the above, and add more links here later when I hav more time.

This new Public Domain Remix Blog is being created because I, Jeff Thomann, want to create a massive blog that links to various public domain images, sounds, videos, and that I remix in various ways for a variety of artistic and communicative reasons. I find that the Public Domain has a lot of potential for use in art and for use as a way to build new versions of art. I see public domain remixes as having the potential to allow all of humanity to grow in a lot of ways together as people with a worldwide mixed heritage of goodness. I see it as a way to open new lines of communication between generations. I see it as a way to open new lines of communication between races. I see it as a new way to open lines of communications between all people.

We all have a shared common history in many ways – through the media, through what we are taught in our schools, in our churches, in our newspapers, in the stories we hear daily on the televisions, in the stories we share in our blogs, and in a variety of other sources. There is a very rich visual, audio, and symbolic language we all share on many levels. The purpose of this blog is to explore this wide area, and utilize it in various ways, redoing some messages, re-emphasizing others, finding new ways to say old stories, finding new twists to old stories that we all know, and ultimately finding new ways to explore our humanity, our shared heritage, our bonds, our hatreds, our loves, our disputes… ultimately learning to grow as individuals, as groups, as society, as a world, as enormosly loving hateful joyous kind caring sharing grim dim annoying enticingly interesting beings all living together in this shared universe.