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Mona Lisa in Paint is so 2007, try Brushes on the iPhone

Written on January 7, 2009 – 6:00 pm
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief

Remember those videos of gifted fellas drawing the Mona Lisa in Paint? I was amazed by it back then. Now there’s a new example, representing a new generation of tools and apps. It’s called Brushes, a natural media painting application for the iPhone and iPod touch.

The €2,39 app offers several realistic brush styles, an advanced color picker, a gallery view, and virtually unlimited undo and redo. To see what you can do with Brushes, have a look at this video I found on the blog of Erwin Blom.

There’s a small digital subculture emerging around this app, with heroes like David Gribouille (who made the video).

Design magazine Core77 highlights the work of Disney artist Stef Kardos - who makes quick sketches (5-10 minutes each) and then adds some flavor to it with Brushes (see picture).

Here’s a slideshow from the dedicated Flickr pool:

I hope you like that post!

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Brushes, flickr, iphone, iphone app, Mona Lisa, Painting

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Google gets funky with collaborative spreadsheet “art”

Written on November 26, 2008 – 12:25 pm
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief

One of the genres in Internet virals I dig is the artsy scene. People painting the Mona Lisa in MS Paint, life-like airbrush pics of celebs on DeviantArt, or a billion-dollar company publishing a video about spreadsheet art. As you might have guessed by the headline, I’d like to share the latter with you.

Google asked Jason, Ethan, Anna, and Gargiulov to work together simultaneously on a single Google Docs spreadsheet. Each cell in the 100 row x 186 col spreadsheet was filled using 18 different colors. The entire process was captured in time-lapse.

When stating that Google gets “funky”, I refer to the process of promoting its products with fun videos. Not to the incredible dull holiday season picture the four Google adorers created. Anyway, if you’re interested in how they did it, here’s some behind the scenes action.

DeviantArt, google, Google Docs, Mona Lisa, Spreadsheet

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