Be Your Own Pollock
Friday, January 26th, 2007
In honor of Jackson Pollock, who, in the words of VeryShortList (the place where I saw this site), “might have turned 95 this Sunday if he hadn’t died at 44 in a drunk-driving accident,” comes Jacksonpollock.org. Created by artist Miltos Manetas (and based on technology he tweaked from an another programmer), the concept is simple, playful and addictive. Go on to the site and just start moving your mouse this what and that way and–voila!–instant expressionist painting, likely falling somewhere between what you did on a paper plate in pre-school and a work of art hanging in the MOMA. My nephews are going to love this.
Pollack>>Flickr>>Creative Common>>Dana Rocks
That’s so funny — I almost blogged that a while back. Stumbleupon.com brought it to me, god bless them.
I remember there was a flap about this a ways back. He basically stole it from Eric Adigard’s Stamen Design, and didn’t acknowledge that for a while, based on his belief that art needs to be free whatever the cost. there’s certainly no end to the interesting debate these days on freedoms, fair use, attribution, etc.