June Edition Of The New Yorker Cover Created In iPhone App 'Brushes'

[Edward Kirk]

<div id="inlinead" class="inlinead"><IFRAME src="http://adserver1.backbeatmedia.com/servlet/ajrotator/13894/222/viewHTML?pool=13886&type=3158&pos=20&zone=5000" width="300" height="250" align="middle" frameborder=0 marginwidth=0 marginheight=0 scrolling=no><script language="JavaScript" src="http://adserver1.backbeatmedia.com/servlet/ajrotator/13894/222/viewJScript?pool=13886&type=3158&pos=20&zone=5000"></script></IFRAME></div><div class="nodecontent">Here's something cool: the cover of the June 1 cover of <i>The New Yorker</i> is a scene of Times Square that was finger-painted using nothing but the iPhone app <i>Brushes</i> [$4.99 | <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=288230264&mt=8" target="_blank">App Store</a>] in one hour by artist Jorge Colombo. After the break is a video of how he did it, recorded using the companion desktop app, <i><a href="http://brushesapp.com/viewer/" target="_blank">Brushes Viewer</a></i>. <!--break-->

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[via <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5268926/june-1st-new-yorker-cover-drawn-entirely-on-the-iphone" target="_blank">Gizmodo</a>]</div>

[Michael Johnston]

Fricken cool