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Palm Used in Contemporary Art

Posted by Hemos on from the cool-ooking-stuff dept.

Malkthulhu writes "Artist Tom Kemp has created a huge new work of art with a Palm Vx. It is a staggering 4 feet by 17 feet and consists of one thousand tiny paintings all made using the TealPaint application. As far as we know, this is the first serious, large-scale painting produced on a Palm."

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  1. Re:Whats the big deal? by interiot · · Score: 5

    I think he read too many "Wouldn't it be cool if we had a Beowulf cluster of those?!?" posts on slashdot.
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  2. Calling all lamers... by isaac · · Score: 5
    Predictably, a lot of people are crawling out of their holes to shout "that's not special! I could do that"

    Well, this guy DID do it. The Mona Lisa it ain't, but at least this guy unassed himself to create something new. Good for him!

    Those of you offended at this guy's "bad art", go out and create something better, and show this guy up. Otherwise, you're all talk.

    Reminds me of the people who talk shit about rap requiring no talent "because it's just talking fast". It was always fun to put them on the spot and start beat-boxing, waiting for them to rap along "'cuz anyone can do that!"

    -Isaac

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  3. It's not bad by CharmQuark · · Score: 5
    This, as I am sure many people will say, is not a revolutionary concept. People have been string pictures together in various ways for a very long time. Another collage or storyboard does not in itself make art.

    What is interesting is the use of a palm to talk about writing. Writing or drawing on a piece of glass is a very different experience than writing on paper or parchment or plywood or whatever. The potentially artful part of this may be the progression of the pictures, as the artist grows comfortable with this new medium and the restrictive size. Even in the few squares we can see, there is much experimentation. For example we see the contrasts of various levels of white space, or various amounts of entropy. If nothing else, the palm allows the artist to express an emotion or thought immediately.

    Of course, it looks simple and we all say we could do it; but how many of us do. We have to give the guy credit for trying.