Artist Jorge Colombo took about an hour to fingerpaint an intricate Times Square scene on his iPhone using Brushes, a $US4.99 iPhone drawing app. Now, it’s the June 1st cover for The New Yorker.
Chalkboard paint has been out for years but, let’s face it, chalkboards are inferior to dry erase any way you look at it. That’s why IdeaPaint kicks all kinds of ass.
When Windows fails to refresh its screen properly, it can lead to frustration. Or an Escher-like piece of art. [TecheBlog, with video]
Living in an apartment building, I can spot about twenty active Wi-Fi networks at a time. And the worst part is that they can all see me, too.
Autonomic Materials plans to bring self-healing paint to market in less than four months. The paint is designed to protect cars, bridges, and boats from corrosion, but don’t get too excited just yet:
If there’s one thing that makes me vomit in my mouth, it’s plastic gadgets painted silver.
The worst part about having part of your car repainted is that if it’s more than a few years old, you can generally tell where the car was touched up because the paint match wasn’t perfect. Sometimes it’s because factory paint was used, but the paint on your car has faded over time. Other times it’s because they don’t make your car’s colour anymore, and paint matching becomes an artform. But now, as The Economist writes, a European-funded collaboration between three companies has yielded the BYK-mac, a device you hold over any car’s paint, and it will tell you exactly how to recreate colour from scratch.
And you thought Etch-a-Sketch was tough. Ian Cook made this portrait of a Chevy Camaro by soaking the wheels of remote controlled cars in paint and then painstakingly driving them around on his canvas. He also uses full-size tires to fill in large blocks of colour, but still, the results are pretty amazing–if you’ve ever tried to ambush your unsuspecting cat with an RC you know how tricky precision manoeuvring can be. He’s currently camped out at the London Motor Show doing portraits of cars (meta!). The work is especially admirable when you see it coming together in this video, stroke by radio-controlled stroke.
Instead of turning it into a jukebox, a jack-o-lantern, or worse, a web server hosting your text-only fan site, why not ship that old Mac of yours out to Melbourne, Australia where painter and street artist Satta van Daal will slap on some fanboy-approved Apple imagery as part of his iPaint myMac series. I’m actually a little surprised it’s taken this long for me to see a Mac with Jobs and Woz’s bearded mugs on it. Maybe I just wasn’t looking hard enough. [Satta Van Daal via Team Teabag]
