Free Stock Photos From Flickr
a spider shot by evilgreg3000
I feel obliged to post because this is fast becoming space for Baby Z to rant. On September 7th I signed with Wijeya Publishers to redo their IT Times magazine. I incidentally wrote the business plan for it last year and left in a huff, but that is neither here nor there. Now it is crunch time and I have to organize 15 things at once, the worst of which is waking up during business hours. I’ve done a bunch of layouts which I’ll release as soon as the thing comes. Anyways, I end up needing stock photography so I use Flickr. For print you need high quality stuff, and you need to be more respectable intel-property wise than on the web. If you ask people on Flickr they’ll usually be OK, but there are also 1000s of photos with free licenses built in.
Creative Commons (cc) is basically an alternative to copyright. Rather telling people what they can’t do, it tells what they can do. I think as a small, hobbyist photography you need exposure more than money. For example, all the free stuff I do is what leads me to jobs. This website, for example, barely pays for its own hosting, but all my other opportunities flow from this. Plus, as an artist its cool to have your stuff appreciated and shared. As a writer type person, Flickr is fk sweet for stock photography, i can just enter keywords and find really good stuff. And, by luck, the people with open licenses tend to be awesome photographers who upload high res images.
There are 3 categories of Creative Commons License that I use without asking, though I’ll send them emails when it goes to prints and issues if they’d like.
* Attribution License: basically, you just have to give them credit. The most open license, which I license my photos under.
* Attribtion No Derivatives: Give them credit, and don’t hack or alter the image in any way
* Attribution Share Alike: Must give credit, and the license is inherited. Doesn’t mean much for me, just means that the photo can never be locked down.
That is all for now, I’m having a bit of fun there. There are a lot of good photos and I can use them in print without feeling bad. As a note, you can click on ‘All Sizes’ to get the print quality photos.
I want to visit my friend in China before he comes back. Free place to crash and all. So, I applied for a visa to China, from Colombo. I’m not sure I’ll get it, but this is process to at least apply. For official but incomplete info, check out the 
The Mahavamsa (a history of Sri Lanka) is full of conflicts between generals and kings. Usually, the more bloodthirsty and unscrupulous would win. Our current (elected) ruler Mahinda Rajapaksa has had his own general conflicts, namely with one Sarath Fonseka. In the old days Fonseka would have staged a coup, as in literally try to cut of Mahinda’s head, and Mahinda would – if that failed – tie him to four elephants and split his parts asunder. Can’t do that shit anymore. Instead Fonseka ran for office and lost and Mahinda tossed him in jail.
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Jeebus, who is Baby Z?
From what I’ve read Baby Z is a 25 year old girl who lives in south Miami, Florida. She has a fiance who’s the same age named Lanta (not his real name I’m sure) his family came to Florida from SL or something. Baby Z is from someplace in Canada, she moved to Florida when she was ten, not sure why anyone would want to live there. I’m not sure how her future in-laws can handle her or her tongue, but from what I hear that dude Lanta has quite a mouth too. So one likes to curse in English, one likes to curses in Sinhala and both like to curse in Spanish, looks like they were made for each other.
Sorry Indi, didn’t know I was making an ass of myself, drinking and blogging don’t mix. Anyways I will limit my comments from now on.
Indi, since you seem to be in the web publishing business of sorts, perhaps you can point me towards any sites that offers web graphics that are Sri Lankan-ish or South Asian? And is your background image part of the public domain or do I need to obtain permissions from anyone?
my background is stolen and ‘logo’ design are stolen from http://www.wordpress.org. They’re from http://www.squidfingers.com which has good patterns. Sri Lankan images are hard/impossible to find. I’d recommend Flickr Sri Lanka tags and lanka tags. Those aren’t usually licensed, but the ppl are cool and you can usually get permission w/i hours. If you care. I used to not care but Flickr is a community pool and I try not to urinate in it.
Thanks mate, I’m going to try my best to not pee in the pool as well.
Buddhist Art from Sri Lanka, some nice pics:
http://www.sinhalamp3.com/Daham_asapuwa/Arts/arts.htm
please send me the website which can download free such as vedio song , audio ,flims. etc