Yet another well-meaning yet worrisome attempt to save the Indie Film industry: iPhone app for flick distribution. Trying to cut back distribution costs, first up is a Finnish metal doc. Read more »
After the success of last year’s Kanye Webst Week, the minds over at Free Art and Technology are dedicating this one to Graffiti Markup Language. Already the standard for digital graffiti projects like Graffiti Analysis, Laser Tag and EyeWriter, the tag archiving file format is also the basis of another new release, a Graffiti Analysis iPhone app. Read more »
Memo from AT&T to all New Yorkers who may have been hoping to ring in the new year with a brand spanking new iPhone: go fuck yourselves! According to one of their reps, “New York is not ready for the iPhone.” Wait, what?! Read more »
Too bad there’s not an app that can fix this: “A man who took his iPhone 3G in to a New York City Apple Store because of a large number of dropped calls was allegedly told that a 30 percent failure rate is average for a local AT&T customer.” |AppleInsider|
I suspect that many Animal readers, though homeless, have iPhones. Therefore, this item may be of interest: it’s a solar-powered iPhone/iPod Touch skin that charges your unit using magical rays emanating from the burning fireball in the sky we call the sun. This is great because you don’t need to find an outlet, which can be an issue when you’re homeless. The skin fits snugly around the device and charges it right up, sort of like a Viagra-infused condom. Or something. |Novothink|
With art sales on the decline, Christie’s is looking to connect with more potential customers, launching an iPhone application “that allows users to browse more than 450 auctions” of fine art, jewelry, photography and wine. While users can’t place bids, the app does show real-time auction results and potential bidders can still head to the auction house’s website for a piece of the action. |Culture Monster|
“Today” show weatherman Al Roker found an ingenious new way to get out of jury duty: take iPhone pictures of other potential jurors in the assembly room and post them to Twitter along with a running monologue. After being dismissed, Al said, “something in my background kind of precluded me from being on the jury,” probably his tendency to overshare. |NYP|
With his iPhone, artist Jorge Colombo sketches New York City street scenes. Now, a hot dog cart scene the digital artist drew while hanging out in Times Square is featured on the New Yorker’s latest cover. After the jump is a video highlighting Colombo’s process with the Brushes application. Read more »
‘Fat Tag’ Makes Mark With iPhone
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Fat Tag, an iPhone app just released by Free Art and Technology, isn’t about making colorful graffiti. It’s about making tags, very drippy tags. The “simple graffiti tagging app” is free and now available to iPhone users, though the source code is open for adapting to other platforms. Click the images above for a sense of what the “accelerometer based dripping paint” is capable of. |FAT|
Using just his fingers and a $4.99 iPhone application, artist Jorge Colombo created some pretty interesting New York City street scenes. Below is a gallery of iSketches he did on the touchscreen cell phone with the help of a program called Brushes. |CraziestGadgets|
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