How many litres of paint do you reckon these guerrilla whitewashers in New York City have used now, having just completed their millionth square foot of rooftop painting? That’s 105 roofs down, another… 395 million square feet to go.
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Sure, there are plenty of painting apps for iOS already, but Remote Palette has a neat twist – it connects an iPad and iPhone so the iPad can be used as a canvas, and the iPhone as the colour palette.
You might assume that Dyzplastic’s blank Android canvas would attract only lovers of Google’s mobile OS. But you’d be wrong, because for those with true passion, beauty is in the eye of the fanboy.
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.
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]
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.
