New Yorker cover painted using iPhone (Brushes app)

[tortilla]

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/tny/2009/05/jorge-colombo-iphone-cover.html

[cma]

Pretty awesome exposure for the guy who wrote the app; as I recall he posts here?

[tortilla → cma]

Here he is: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ssprang

[jwb119]

seems like a gimmicky cover to me. nothing terribly noteworthy about the artwork itself other than the medium through which it was produced.

[cdr → jwb119]

When is there ever anything especially remarkable about New Yorker covers?

Personally, I think producing that on an iPhone is reasonably impressive. Sort of like art done with a mouse in oekaki or mspaint.

[carbon8 → cdr]

"When is there ever anything especially remarkable about New Yorker covers?"

When hasn't there been?

[ashot → cdr]

http://www.memeorandum.com/080713/p59#a080713p59

[bsaunder → jwb119]

Somehow it seems a bit less gimmicky and more noteworthy than Swine Flu t-shirts. I think it's great viral marketing. Kudos to the developer and artist for getting on the cover.

[dejb]

And in other news 104 years old woman uses twitter. Riveting.