Paint on water

July 30, 2010 | batmkana | No Comments

Artist creates stunning portraits on his iPad

July 29, 2010 | batmkana | 1 Comment

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When Steve Jobs demonstrated the Brushes app during his iPad launch presentation, I thought it looked pretty cool, but was hardly something a serious artist would use. Now Brooklyn based artist David Jon Kassan has demonstrated how wrong I was.

In this time lapse video, we can watch as Kassan “paints” an amazingly realistic portrait of Henry William Oelkers using just his fingers and an iPad. In real time it took about three hours to complete, and was streamed live on Kassan’s website.

Digital painting like this isn’t exactly new, and artists have been using touch screen tablets like the Wacom for years. The iPad however is much more versatile, and its portability makes it handy for spur-of-the-moment painting whenever creativity strikes.

Of course if Apple had simply chosen to give the iPad the camera it deserves, the rest of us wouldn’t require years art school in order to capture images with it.

David Jon Kassan

AT-AT Day Afternoon

July 26, 2010 | batmkana | No Comments

Here’s a really imaginative short film called AT-AT day afternoon, created by Canadian filmmaker Patrick Boivin. Boivin took a vintage Star Wars Walker toy and transformed it into man’s best friend. The film was created using a blend of stop-motion animation, puppetry, and clever household green screens that aren’t always green. Boivin, who is self-trained in filmmaking and effects, said in an interview that he shoots primarily with a Canon 5D Mark II.

Walk Across America

July 26, 2010 | batmkana | No Comments

Mike walks across America, coast to coast, over the course of two weeks, occasionally stopping to snap some shots with a Canon 5D, in this really well-done Levi’s-branded time-lapse viral.

Behind the scenes

Gnar Wars

July 15, 2010 | batmkana | No Comments

Gnar Wars by Mike Benson

Pixels

July 13, 2010 | batmkana | No Comments

It’s an invasion of video games that came down on Mt Hood and High Cascade. Scott Stevens, Micah Hollinger, Chris Beresford, Tim Eddy, Ben Bogart and Casey Wrightsman live life in pixels