painting
Design
He-Man’s Battle Cat Gets Painted, Time Lapse Style
7:00AM Jason Chen | To follow up his time lapse Voltron painting, Robert Burden went for another influential cartoon of the ’80s: He-Man. See 420 hours of Battle Cat painting distilled down to three minutes.
Gadgets
Colorware Adds Visual Spice to iPods, Better Scratch Protection For iPod Touch
8:40AM Jason Chen | We’ve covered Colorware’s professional gadget painting in the past—and were more than satisfied after seeing their work close up, but their latest iPod colouring seems to be more than just cosmetic. The iPod Nano 2G colour-coats the shiny silver metallic back with a colour layer, which most likely handles fingerprints and scratches better than the original surface. They also paint iPod Nano 4G and iPod Classic as well as iPhone 3G, so you’ve got options on those devices as well. The process is not all that cheap ($US125 to send yours in), but it’s definitely worth it considering that they do a great job and you’ll be using these gadgets for years. [Colorware] More »
Gadgets
British Artist Paints Using RC Cars As His Brushes
2:00AM John Mahoney | 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. More »
Design
Star Wars Meets Classic Art
11:15PM Mark Wilson | Those Photoshoppers over at Worth 1000 decided to mash up Star Wars with some of the world’s most famous pieces of art (and we’re like 99% certain that it was meant as a joke). This remix of M.C. Escher’s famous Hand with Reflecting Sphere has to be the most brilliant, with traces of the Death Star looming in the background next to a Escher’s psychiatrist officesque workspace. For more reimagined pretentious college freshman art, hit the link. [Worth 1000 via digg] More »
Computers
Meta: Artist Uses Old Macs as Canvases for Mac Fanboy Paintings
9:40AM Gizmodo US Edition | 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] More »
Robots
Bristlebots + Paint = Robo-Pollocks?
7:48PM Gizmodo US Edition | At the spring arts ITP show the other day, designer Christian Cerrito had a demonstration which will have had bristlebot designers everywhere smacking their foreheads in a “My god, that’s obvious!” manner. He used a big tray, a bunch of the simple and strangely lovable DIY bristlebots and a few gobs of paint and voilà: new artworks were created. There’s even some science in there: the random walk of the bots is affected by the viscosity of the paint, so as the painting gets bigger, it gets more complex, in an interestingly chaotic manner. More interesting than Jackson Pollock’s splattery art? Well… maybe, if you’re a robot geek. [ITP via Bot Junkie] More »
Gadgets
Hammerite Metalmaster Makes Painting Even Easier: Both Sides at Once
9:36PM Gizmodo US Edition | Hammerite’s new Metalmaster system speeds up the whole process of painting metal stuff by spraying all sides of an object at the same time. You just clip the gun to the object with a wire, and electrostatic charging means that the thing you’re painting actually attracts the paint particles. This means no brush marks, as well as an even, all-over coat. It only works for metal things, and you need to use specially formulated paint, but it sounds so cool that I want to try it out, and I don’t even have anything to paint! Available soon in the UK, for around US$80 for the gun and US$30 for a 750ml paint tin. AU: I remember seeing this on Beyond 2000 (or something similar) years ago it’s good to see that it’s now actually a consumer product. [Hammerite, T3 —thanks, Jez.] More »
Home
Dulux PaintPod Provides a Little Pump Action to DIY Painting
4:37AM Gizmodo US Edition | Dulux’s new PaintPod system is a labour-saver for decorators, pumping paint directly to its roller at the right rate to avoid splodges. In one swoop it eliminates those drips-on-floor and fussing with cans that painting usually involves (at least, in our house). Best of all: fill it with water when you’re done, and it cleans itself for you in just 10 minutes. Its one drawback is that it takes drop-in five liter paint packs, for the specially formulated paint—US$40 for white and US$60 for colour. Available April in the UK, for around US$135. [Electricpig.tv and T3] More »
