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Creating a New Yorker Cover On the iPhone
Jaime Leifer writes "The cover of the June 1, 2009, issue of The New Yorker, entitled 'Finger Painting,' was drawn by Jorge Colombo entirely on his iPhone — a first for the magazine. Colombo, a New York-based artist and illustrator, uses the iPhone's Brushes application to vibrantly depict New York street scenes." There's a video recapitulating the creation of the piece, omitting all of the undos.
Artist using new technology is nothing new. I like Apple and the iPhone but this is just a plain "Apple PR News" story, nothing for nerds, nothing that matters.
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This is kinda cool. Not so much that it was an iPhone, but that it was a handheld device. How much longer until these phones replace a laptop for most of our day-to-day computing?
Now they just need to do something to make the actual content of the New Yorker less boring and pretentious.
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a group of 30 4 year olds using a magnetic refrigerator alphabet wrote all the features and articles in the same magazine. In un-related news the New Yorker seems to be having financial problems as fewer and fewer people read the garbage they publish.
errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?
Please correct me if I am wrong, but I think one important issue with the capacitative screen as used in Apple's phone is that while it does support multitouch, it does not support different pressure levels corresponding to force applied against the screen? To get pressure sensitivity similar to a Wacom-style pad, you'd need to be using a Palm/WinMo handheld which, with resistive screens, can support different pressures applied by finger or stylus. Is this correct? If so, then it's remarkable that he managed to produce quite a nice cartoon given the limitations of the device he was using. But you have to wonder how much more efficient a similar artist could be with a more artist-friendly approach. I assume that this brushes application lets you create a swipe, then click it afterwards to increase or decrease the transparency/strength/brush effects. That's got to be a lot less intuitive than just pressing your finger/stylus more or less to get the same effect. In effect, a single gesture dimensioned using pressure has been elongated into a mutli-step gesture dimensioned with serial, semantic twiddling.
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Recapitulating? Really?
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FTA: "Before, unless I had a flashlight or a miner's hat, I could not draw in the dark."
Apple, thank you for finally enabling us artists to draw in the dark. Only Apple could pioneer this astounding technology.
How ironic that TFA has a flash video that does not work on the iPhone. I'm sure there's a youtube version out there somewhere but I'm too lazy to look.
After completing his artwork he proceeded to the New Yorker's men's room and took a crap while doodling on his iPhone.
Peaple are drawing Mona lisa in MS Paint. THIS is an achievement.
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The video of the process is a work of art all its own, capturing the evolution of the scene. There is a sense of change and even of loss, which you wouldn't get from the finished work alone.
sure, it's not the first time, but the point is much more subtle: why use a laptop or desktop computer?
What this is is the next level of miniaturisation, and it is an important one. There is fundamentally no difference between an iPhone or iPod and a computer - they all have input devices (keypads, sensitive screens, cameras), RAM, Storage, and output (audio, video, files).
an iPhone with a beefier processor, some USB ports and a mini HDMI port (a la Macbook) and you have your next desktop replacement device. Not only would you have phone calls, but with an HDMI - VGA adaptor, you have a screen to do world processing, image editing, video editing, audio editing, 3D, whatever.
It's the next big deal.
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to refrain from complaining about a kdawson post, but I saw this early this morning and thought it was cool as well. So sue me. Yes, people have been drawing on computers for a Long Time with lots of different input devices; and no, it's not the best tool (portable or otherwise) for drawing with. And I detest all the often-unmerited love that Apple gets...but this was cool, it is an example of how, even on a converged device that can't touch dedicated devices, technology has become accessible enough that people are able to do real worth with it, no matter where they are. It's similar to Chase Jarvis and his iPhone pictures. It's not the best camera, not even the best camera phone, but it's both a demonstration of how art isn't about the technology, it's about the artist; and it's a demonstration of what we could each accomplish with even these limited tools if we had the talent and discipline to use them to their fullest. It's not, to me, about it being an Apple product, it's about art, talent, and the progress of technology.
I found the process far more interesting than the choice of technology. I find it interesting that he drew each layer completely, even if it was going to be over written. I always try to figure out shat is not obscured then draw only that. Obvously I'm not an artist, nor do I have any training.
Calling an iPhone a communications device is like calling a computer a word processing device. Apple has made damn sure with all of their marketing that people associate more than communication with the iPhone, it's made out to be more like a PDA with a phone program than a phone. And I doubt this is the first time an artist has made "print-ready" work (for various definitions of "print-ready") from a PDA. This still seems like a piece of Apple fluff.
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an iPhone with a beefier processor, some USB ports and a mini HDMI port (a la Macbook) and you have your next desktop replacement device. Not only would you have phone calls, but with an HDMI - VGA adaptor, you have a screen to do world processing, image editing, video editing, audio editing, 3D, whatever.
This is a joke right? No serious professional is going to be doing image/video editing or drawing on a color-inaccurate 3.5" screen.
In un-related news the New Yorker seems to be having financial problems as fewer and fewer people read the garbage they publish.
Have you actually read any of the articles lately? Skipping the fiction and the poetry, the nonfiction articles are some of the most interesting and insightful reporting available. The articles by Oliver Sachs alone are worth the subscription. Some random selections are at http://www.newyorker.com/
I liked the article. It helped a geek like me to get in touch with the kind of power technology has as a way to achieve *something else*, as opposed to simply being something cool and interesting in itself. Sometimes it's nice to feel the perspective of the outer world on matters of the inner world. Now, I just gotta go find something new to play with...
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I think the New Yorker knows its a good idea to find a way to put Apple on the cover. As I recall, Apple has been a dominant advertising presence for a while. I think its a good bet they can afford most print media these days, therefore Apple is good butt to kiss if you have an infinite supply of advertising to sell. There is only one front page, and the New Yorker gives it to them in good faith....like taking out a hot date for a night on the town.....after all its the Big Apple. Now they can approach Microsoft to buy space in order to square off with their enemy....maybe they get a prominent placement too. Microsoft will try to remind us we can't afford an Apple or else we would have bought it by now. The sky is falling down so don't buy anything you can't afford! Apple has placement at the front of the Good Book as well, and temptation remains the theme. How fitting to grab this cover, and at viral media prices: free. Take a bite says the serpent to Eve....
Guess what, I'm not. If you think no work was done to that picture outside of the iPhone before it was printed then you clearly are stupid. Secondly, show me a real professional image or video editor doing work on a color-inaccurate 3.5" LCD screen. I'm not talking some random dipshit on the internet who claims to be a professional, I mean someone who works at a real film studio or a post-production house.
Take a look at the blurred and aquarelle-like picture in TFV and compare it with other New Yorker covers and then think about what you wrote there.
While you are at it - try writing a memo on your phone.
If it is an iPhone there is probably an app for it. Or two. Or 183.
I hear that there is an app for EVERYTHING on iPhone.
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The DS has a homebrew drawing program called 'Colours'. Check out the drawings people have made with it. Unlike the iPhone the DS supports pressure sensitivity, although it's not used in official programs (if I remember correctly it's due to per-unit variance and being forbidden by the official guidelines).
A PSP-sized device with that kind of capability would be a pretty great portable drawing device. The DS is a bit too small for me.
Aren't most display devices LCD any more? Why is it "color-inaccurate" then? Most views of it will be on an electronic media, which would mean that the source is what makes the definitive colors.
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an iPhone with a beefier processor, some USB ports and a mini HDMI port (a la Macbook) and you have your next desktop replacement device. Not only would you have phone calls, but with an HDMI - VGA adaptor, you have a screen to do world processing, image editing, video editing, audio editing, 3D, whatever.
This is a joke right? No serious professional is going to be doing image/video editing or drawing on a color-inaccurate 3.5" screen.
This is a joke right? No serious professional is going to be doing image/video editing or drawing on a color-inaccurate 3.5" screen.
Yeah. So the guy that just created and SOLD the cover of the bloody NEW YORKER on the iPhone is not a "serious professional", right?
Matter of fact, in my field, thousands of working photojournalists (those in the top ranks among them) work with similar (color-inacurate) screens and no color correction. The color differences are subtle in 99% of the cases, and don't matter in 99.9% of them, especially when printed in newspaper and/or magazine papers.
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I forgot to mention that, like most of these types of drawing programs, you can watch how the images were drawn. Click a picture and the next page will have a button for it.
All LCDs are not created equal. If you're printing something, it matters what colors you use, and the colors you use are going to be the ones you see. So if they are not accurately represented on your screen, it's going to look bad in print.
Also, web browsers are generally terrible at displaying color, which doesn't matter because the people viewing on the web have color-inaccurate LCD screens...it's enough to make your eyes bleed.
And we're just barely scratching the surface of how bad computers and printers are at color reproduction. Compare any print of any oil painting to the original. Alternately, compare this hack finger painter to a real artist...
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"an iPhone with a beefier processor, some USB ports and a mini HDMI port (a la Macbook) and you have your next desktop replacement device."
There are some problems with this that can't be solved with attachments. Firstly you'd need the software to do this, granted someone can probably write a piece of software for an I-phone but frankly unless there's a demand, no one will bother to do this, and you end up with some half assed quick time editing thing made from someone's basement.
that aside, there's also the issue with storing data, can you get sixteen gigs on an I-phone? that's a short video, and I bet the drive is slow as hell, so you'd need to carry an external hard drive raid and a power supply and so forth.
Ok, forget even that, let's say you're editing five minute compressed videos for your blog or something, you still need screen space to edit. Can't see anything full screen, because the resolution is tiny, and you can't fit a full time line on screen, not to mention the tools or the transition windows. So, sorry, but the form factor just makes the thing useless for anyone that's interested in anything more then just a toy.
Another thing that's cool about this particular project is that the artist said it allowed him to just quietly work in the corner. He didn't have to set up with an easel and influence the behaviour of the people around him. To everyone else, he must have just looked like he was texting.
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I've used the brushes app before. This was not edited outside of the iPhone. That application really does a good job simulating paint and brushes. And yes, you can do this with a WinMo device. The difference is the interface of this application, the accuracy of a capacitive screen, and the multitouch make the combination of this app and this phone seem natural. Zooming in and out is effortless by pinching in and out. And the speed and sensitivity is perfect. I have used paint applications on my Winmo, and they don't feel very natural. Doing multiple strokes with textured brushes with transparency set on a winmo device doesn't feel very good ... not as fluid.
I'm such a fan of people who make absolute statements based on personal assumptions and prejudices because it allows me to ignore them from that point forward.
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A "real artist"? I don't even know what to say to that. You must have been living under a rock for the past 4000 years. If there's such a thing as a "real artist" it's the artist who challenges conventions, like by presenting a finger painting as print-quality commercial art. Art is all about expression, and I can't think of anything artsier than noticing a poignant urban scene and sitting down on the spot and spending a few hours capturing it. Not a color-accurate, realist perfect reproduction but a blurry finger painting just enough to communicate what the artist was feeling.
I call nonsense. Yes, clearly we could make much smaller laptops, let's call them iPhones if you will, if we didn't include a monitor or keyboard but then there'd have to be a monitor and keyboard everywhere you'd like to use it as a desktop/laptop. Just like very many of those I know in a professional setting use a docking station to get dual monitors, full sized keyboard, full sized mouse etc. it's not the computer, it is the interfaces. Saying "they all have input devices (keypads, sensitive screens, cameras)" as if any and all input devices were alike doesn't make any sense. Mostly because if you could leave a screen and keyboard everywhere you'd like to use it you might as well leave the rest of the computer too and bring a memory stick. Even if I were to imagine in that direction, I think the iPhone would make the laptop another layer of docking. Or you could say that we make part of the laptop detachable. Either way, it's hardly the end of the laptop. P.S. With Internet and WiFi, the laptop is NOT a communication device? I guess you could say primarily a communications device, but judging from the people I know with iPhones I'm not sure they spend most of their time communicating on it either...
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Think about your current computer (don't care if it's a desktop or a laptop).
Now think about getting the same processing power, memory and storage capacity... 20 or even 10 years ago.
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For graphic artists and photo editors there are "certified" color corrected LCD's out there. Usually they have been tested to match Pantone color samples within a certain margin of error. Usually you pay a premium for them. As of now I have yet to see a statement from Apple advertising the iPhone as color corrected.
Think about your current computer (don't care if it's a desktop or a laptop). Now think about getting the same processing power, memory and storage capacity... 20 or even 10 years ago.
ya ha, I did video editing on it, but I also had this huge card and lots of hard drives and two monitors and stuff that let me do video editing. Can't fit that on an I-phone no matter how hard you try and with time the demand will just keep growing with the hardware power. Who knows, the next HD will come along and everything will be 1080q with mega 3d pixel interfaces... blah blah blah.
why use a laptop or desktop computer? Because my eyes are not good enough to make out fine detail on a 2" display? The population in getting older; as they do, they require larger displays, not miniaturized ones. Also, position detection using finger is not accurate enough to do realistic artwork.
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Aren't most display devices LCD any more?
Not to be a grammar nazi, but it is "nowadays" not "anymore" in standard English. You are liable to confuse some people using "anymore" like that.
Why is everyone going on and on about the screen being too small or low resolution or having bad colors? He suggested including HDMI-out so it could be hooked up to a normal screen for tasks which require one.
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Because pictures that look like a toddler daubed them with his foot look hip and trendy until about the second time you see one, when it starts to get old and sucky real darn quick?
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Agreed... just the fact that this piece instigated a "what is art?" debate, IMHO, shows that it is art.
There are a lot of folks on Slashdot who try really, really hard to hate Apple and iPhones, but I think this story really is news for nerds, and really does matter. If you disagree, go click on another story.
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Every time someone does something on the iPhone it becomes news. Their is nothing special about a device doing something it was designed to do.
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Some part of 'serious professionals' giving you trouble?
"There are a lot of folks on Slashdot who try really, really hard to hate Apple and iPhones, but I think this story really is news for nerds, and really does matter. If you disagree, go click on another story."
Which is weird, because it's so easy. Why put in so much effort when all you need to do is dislike paying extra for an interface you find overrated and irritating?
Try not to take me more seriously than I take myself.
We are getting rather close to the point where most people already have their next big thing.
I'm not saying that there won't always be a next big thing, I'm saying that it will be interesting to a smaller and smaller chunk of people. Something more than half of people don't care about video, and so on.
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is all I can say. It is truly amazing that anything created on a phone could embody the level of dignity and sophistication required to appear on the cover of the same magazine that featured the "Obama Terrorist Fist Bump" and other cartoons of much hilarity and wit.
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"Realistic artwork"? I think you miss the point...of art.
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No. I think he was making the point missing some types of art. Art can be very realistic. To be an artist you do not have to paint everything like a 5 year old.
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The distinction between "communications device" and "computer" blurred about five to ten years ago.
Welcome to the 21st Century.
It's the next big deal.
I'm glad you've finally discovered. Welcome to the party, so glad you can make it as we didn't think you'd be turning up for a moment.
Oh you mean like the 'real' artists who have been copying Marcel Duchamps' urinal for over 100 years, tingling all over at just how radical and unconventional they are? Give me a break. This is nothing more than marketing for both Apple and the artist. I'd be embarrassed to both have made the art and to be the magazine that is displaying it. Sad to say I subscribe to the New Yorker. If their writing had as little so show for it as this art I'd drop my subscription tomorrow.
There has been a great deal of technological hype in the news over the last 10 years (and maybe 100 years if I really investigated). Newspapers, magazines, tv and other media often don't understand a topic well. But they do see a 'hook' they can use to latch onto something they don't understand. So the media see a new Kindle and think it will save newspapers. Or twitter will save just about anything. 'Everyone knows: Live Goes Better with Twitter!'. Or in this case: 'Look at this: if you wanted to you could make a drawing on your teeny little iphone'. You wouldn't have any control over line because the screen is too small to allow any subtlety of hand movement, the way you can with a pen or pencil on a sheet of paper. And it's so small you can't see any detail, so you don't know how it will look when it's printed much larger. And the color is probably off and won't look like what it will when it's printed. But you can say you did it on a phone. That's all that counts. We've got a hook! Print it.
Something similar happened recently with birding and The World Series of Birding. Most media will ignore birding for an entire year or more. Then along comes the World Series of Birding, which has a familiar, measurable, sportlike aspect to it. That's a hook. So everybody covers The World Series of Birding. There's nothing wrong with that. It's just that it misses what birding is to most people. But normal birding doesn't have that hook.
The point is that all he's describing is a small computer with video out, that is not in any way closer to the Iphone than a wide range of other devices out there today.
Even Captain Obvious can work out that computers are going to keep getting smaller.
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I can't believe I'm pissed enough to post the following and likely launch myself to karma hell, but I am:
*I* modded that up. Look at the comment from the same poster linking to the message pad. This is nothing but hype, and the worse kind of it. The link to the tablet PC is a single-glance response to the entire thread.
Crap like "Before, unless I had a flashlight or a miner's hat, I could not draw in the dark." and "Colombo leans heavily on the Undo feature". OMFG! Apple brought us light! And the UNDO feature! /. is simply embarrassing. There's no mod option for "+1 correct response to the entire thread".
The cover being created using an iPhone was a gimmick, the article about it was pandering, and the link from
Earlier today I was shot and the bullet hit the iPhone. The iPhone saved my life! It's a miracle!
It was also hooked up to a speaker in an OR where a surgeon implanted a kidney. It's a surgical instrument!
I often use the iPhone to shield my skin from harmful sunlight, to eat dinner off of, and to wipe my ass. It's my new GOD.
What pisses me off most is that this type of crap gets linked from /., somewhere I visit in hope to find hype and fraud rebuked. And then I find these types of "articles".
And of course by saying this I'm obviously a biased "hater". Fine by me.
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Ignore this guy, he's an RIAA shill and/or a repeat troll. His personal blogs include "RIAA Today" and "Bachelor Survival". I think that pretty much sums it up.
It's the next big deal... what?
As an artist, I'm not all kinds of excited about previewing my work on a 3"x4" screen.
Call me crazy.
That's true, good point. I've just plugged in the old 2000-vintage Wacom to check how Photoshop registers coverage using the stylus. There seems to be an on-off signal, a pressure signal and yes, for some brushes, a time component that strengthens or re-iterates the effect when held stationary over an area.
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You are right, but the original poster never implied that the device he mentioned would be useful for professionals.
Think home users.
Feel free to just ignore Apple, the stories and the people who like them. Really. Nobody is asking for your comment. Lots of people don't like their devices, fine, I am not sure why so many of these people feel the need to comment. I have no interest in game consoles, maybe I should have a whinge that people shouldn't be playing games and wasting their lives, everytime there is a story about that... or maybe I should just go to the next story.
You've been a good sport, and you have potential. Okay, so here's the gag. Troll Tuesday is an old tradition dating back to the time they implemented karma here. The way it works is, people with a lot of karma burn some of it off on Tuesdays, by saying stupid, outrageous, outlandish, wrong, and inflammatory things. In the process we get newbs who can ill afford to lose their karma to flame us and lose theirs. Call it our community service.
You have potential as a troll, because you've posted some smart and or funny stuff, as well as demonstrating your capacity to be a flaming asshole. You just need to get better at knowing when to blow it, and when to build it up.
That concludes our lesson. Good luck in your future trolling endeavors.
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so I found that he created the background images, only to almost totally obscure them by foreground images, pretty interesting. You can clearly see pedestrians and three cabs about mid-way through; but by the time of the final image you can barely see the light of one of the cabs. Interesting, to me at least.
Can an Artist comment on if that's a typical of the process of iterating on the image, or is it done to give depth of field etc that wouldn't be possible to layer in later? I suppose if I were to go about it, I would draw the front images first, and then put in the background for depth--which would be pretty hard, but I wouldn't be obscuring first layers of work either.
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Read the comments in this thread, and you will find that most of them are FAR behind what you and I are talking about.
Your sarcasm is not grounded - while it is true that comm devices are computers, their capabilities are limited. We do not YET have a true "iPhone" that is also a full on desk/laptop level computer.
What I was pointing out was an obvious point, true, made clear years ago, true, but still not (yet) implemented. Your snarky sarcasm simply comes off as hipsterism.
What i see is this, and I see it in the next 5 years:
something like an iPhone with HDMI out and USB ports. You plug in a screen and a mouse/keyboard and you have a full on computer running fucking Microsoft Office or the Adobe Suite, or whatever. It takes calls and it runs video, etc. You want ot watch a movie? You got to AppleTV / whatever and it streams a movie to your HD screen. it might not be HD at frist - perhaps just heavily compressed 720i - but eventually HD comes into play.
With whatever variant of USB is available, you have access to external drives for data and media.
This was all outlined to me, personally, by A Very Important Person ten years ago. It has taken a while for it to get here due to the vagaries of the market, and will act as the physical manifestation of the kind of convergence envisioned by Jenkins and others.
If this is too elementary for you, then please do us all the kind favour of either exercising your glorious genius and INVENT SOMETHING BETTER, or fuck off, shut up, and keep your snark to yourself.
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Peaple [sic] are copying Mona lisa in MS Paint. THIS is not an achievement.
Problem is these people had to wait till Da Vinci imagined and created the Mona Lisa. What if he had never painted it? Would these people have been able to "paint" it, as you posit? Of course not. There's a big difference between creating, and merely copying. Yeah, I too can record Stairway To Heaven, especially since Led Zeppelin already did it!
I second that. I post process photos and do design all the time on my ancient Dell 19" Trinitron, and the colors are not really all that great but still close enough that I doubt it makes a huge overall difference. Apple spends a lot of money on display technology and I would imagine that the iphone was designed with a top quality screen. I can't see how the color could be all that inaccurate, especially when you consider the quality of the built in camera and the screen certainly has to color match with that.
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Have people like yourself and many of the other posters in this thread even looked at the cover picture? (I know I'm new here and no one RTFAs). The only similarity to the average 5 year old's work is that it was done using fingers. I think the cover is beautiful how it hints at the city street, and much more powerful than a photograph of the same scene would have been.
I was at a (sex-themed) convention the other day, and there was a guy who painted portraits with his penis. Quite impressive quality even.
I think you can rest easy that you'll never be put in a similar position as either this artist or the New Yorker.
I'm not a fan of the New Yorker or this particular aesthetic style, but this is both legitimately art and news. This is a cover that fits in with other covers the New Yorker has shown, and was made in a way showing the current state of technology -- we are now at the point of pocket sized computers useful for high-level art. Personally I'm more excited by having a pocket-sized real-time music workstation, but it's all pretty exciting stuff.
"Guess what, I'm not."
Guess what, you were wrong when you said that digital photography could never replace film in the professional world, and you're wrong this time, too.
(Well, maybe you didn't say that, but a lot of people who sounded a lot like you did.)
this post... the layout of the text, the sensual prose... truly, it must be art!
On the other hand, look how guy uses the word really four times in a single sentence. It cannot be art!
K I debated art because of your post so your post is art now. I expect an offer from the louvre will follow shortly.
"half assed"? "Someone's basement"?? How dare you! Those are the two pillars on which Slashdot is built.
The Nintendo DS is a better painting platform than the iPhone. The iPhone is an inherently flawed tool for this purpose. A five dollar set of watercolors would be better than either, but if you must have digital painting wherever you go, get a DS.
The iPhone's merits as a phone, internet appliance, camera or mobile computing platform aside, it is a *terrible* painting tool.
Yes, it would be wonderful if he had presented a finger painting as print-quality art. The colors would be richer, the level of control would be greater, the image would almost certainly be more expressive, and you would have things like fingerprints incorporated in the work, bringing a wonderful depth to the picture, the canvas serving as a gateway to the artist rather than just a representation of a scene.
Instead, we have a bad digital sketch, from someone using a bad tool. Anyone who can imagine the output of an iPhone as "print-quality commercial art" knows nothing of commercial art nor of printing. As a sketch, it's far from unique: you can find thousands of them on the internet: conceptart.org has many people who work in a very similar style. This painter, in addition to choosing one of the least expressive media possible (the nintendo DS at least has pressure sensitivity) has a demonstrated lack of skill. The color palette is flat and inexpressive, the composition is uninteresting, the brushwork is no better than what could be obtained by using a Photoshop filter, and the whole piece displays an utter insensitivity to value. It is bad, boring, and unoriginal.
The only thing going for it is the shallow novelty of being produced on an iPhone. The iPhone is many things to a varying degree of quality, but as an artistic platform it is completely worthless. I did not and will not dispute the classification of Jorge Colombo's work as Art, but I will vigorously defend it as an example of bad art.
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You have no idea what you're talking about. Pantone doesn't even enter the picture, and you can't 'certify' something's color accuracy, nor have color correction set at a factory and have it work under all lighting conditions.
More expensive LCDs have a wider gamut, higher contrast ratio, and are designed to be used with hardware color calibration tools.
Since calibrating the iPhone would almost certainly be impossible, it is not a good idea to use it to produce art intended for print.
I have to say, this little piece got me interested in the iPhone. But, I've got a question for the Slashdot crowds who are experts on such things... I don't want to buy an iPhone (as I have a perfectly fine phone now), but I want to use this Brushes app. Would it also work on an iPod Touch?
Pardon the potentially stupid question.
Would all of you cynics take the time to try to get a look at some of the results? Some of the pictures are stunning and especially so when you consider the work was done on a handheld device. Obviously the people creating the sample pictures are talented artists but given the constraints I can't believe what they managed. It is like watching a dog play a Bach fugue.
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Aaaaand we're done.
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