Someone at YouTube named Chrspck went into the Museum of Modern Art in New York City on April 10 and shot a photograph of every painting. Museums and galleries have no business forbidding photography as long as it doesn’t use a flash or get in the way of visitors. I love seeing all the paintings go by. It makes me want to go to the museum.
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Theodore Ushev Makes Image to Help Get Donations for Haiti Earthquake Victims
Artist and animator Theodore Ushev created this poster for the purpose of spreading the word about helping victims of the Haiti earthquake. They need enormous help very quickly to prevent even more deaths than have already been suffered. He told me there was no need to ask permission to use the picture. It was created to be used. Thank you to an artist using his magnificent talents to assist in an emergency.
Here are some ways to give assistance:
The Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders and the United Nations Food Program are putting medical supplies, doctors, nurses, food and water on the ground in Haiti to try to prevent the worsening catastrophe and enormous loss of life.
If you have one of these cell carriers:
Alltel
AT&T
Sprint-Nextel
T-Mobile
U.S. Cellular
Verizon Wireless
You can donate $5 to the Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund simply by texting the keyword “GIVE” to “2HELP” (24357).
Picasso Has a Comment for Doomed Publishers, Editors, Bookshops, and Newspapers
We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.
Pablo Picasso
iPod Art: Ocean From Memory
Drawn on my iPod with the Brushes app. This one’s an ocean from memory.
iPod Art: Bottle Flowers
During my vacation I took a few opportunities to sketch with the Brushes app on my iPod. Here’s a bottle with flowers on a windowsill.
iPod Art: Yard Umbrella
I’ve been having fun with my iPod Touch today. I got inspired to draw with the excellent Brushes app but my fingers are big fat and clumsy, so it required lots of zooming to make the view big enough so my painting wasn’t just a bunch of gigantic blobs. I drew the umbrella against a backdrop of foliage in my yard. The weather has been just as excellent as it should look in the picture.
I’ve learned that David Hockney, one of the greatest artists in the world, is drawing on his iPhone with the same application. His drawings are much more successful than mine, but it’s fun for anyone to draw with a finger!