The other day I discovered a wonderful application for my iPhone, which allows me to get my painting fix...sort-of. It's called Flowpaper and basically what it does is allow you to create lovely flowing ribbons of color (you may choose the color or a combination of colors) using some principles of physics...and your finger. It's like finger-painting meets science...but without the mess or the math (though I'm perfectly okay with either).
Fellows, take it from me. Flowpaper. Is. Addictive. And it's only 99 cents, so it's probably way cheaper than anything else you're addicted to right now (smile!) It's one of those apps that will drive people like me (perfectionists) crazy. It creates that frantic feeling that you're just SO CLOSE to creating a masterpiece and if you keep erasing and starting again, you'll have it.
Here is my most favorite "painting" I have created with Flowpaper in the past few days that is not a nude woman (teehee). I urge you to download this app yourself, try it out, and then appreciate my mad skills. It is NOT as easy as it looks!
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See?! It's a fancy fish and a cute little bird (a Bluejay, let's say...or Cardinal...I like both) with his wings extended and his tiny legs outstretched for landing. It took me approximately 5 minutes to create this...after I spent 15-20 creating and erasing to figure out how the patterns work.
Go try it! Apparently it works on the iPad, as well...and now that I think of it, is probably slightly easier to use on one of those, but...to me the iPhone verses the iPad is the difference between college ruled notebook paper and those icky brown preschool sheets of paper with the thick dashed lines and enormous spacing. Or, if you'd rather, a scalpel versus a child's safety scissors.
Now, don't get all offended if you love the iPad. It's not as though you invented it, after all. It is a piece of electronics, not your sister. Though, I know the same principles of psychological defense mechanisms (identification, to be exact) apply to loving Apple products and defending their meritoriousness as do joining sports teams or gangs or countercultures. So I pretty much expect some of you to resent my comments on a deeply personal level...which is exactly what Apple strives for, though not what I have intended. I'm just glad you're not in a gang.
Big smile. The End!
2 comments:
Liked the design quite a bit.
I would suspect by now that Thom has relayed, in story form, the Koan about commissioning of a Tiger painting. I understand your reference to production of 'art' (not only little 'a' but employed in the broadest way) as being addictive. Whether it's a form of displacement, justification for frequently looking like I'm sitting and not doing very much ('Sometimes I sets and thinks . . . Sometimes I jest . . . sets')I tend to approach art as the opposite of addiction. Not saying that artists can't produce objects which, for them, are part of an addictive relationship (pretty sure even Picasso dished out some of those). And distinction can be subtle (as the difference among love & hate). For me I tend to find (or at least want to believe) that objects (d' arte) produced via addictive processes (solely) are far more ephemeral then ones extracted not addictive processes
Thank you! Perhaps one day I'll find the time to do more "art" and not on my phone. But for now, this was quite entertaining! I'm sure the novelty will wear off & the app does have some bugs that drive me mad, but definitely a diversion. Makes a good phone background if nothing else. :)
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