On The Brooklyn Library and iPod Art

Photo by myself at the Brooklyn Public Library.

The huge ornamental doors of this building are decorated with gilded bas-reliefs and quotes about books.

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There's a new little section on The New Yorker Magazine website, appropriate to these technological times.

Every week, Jorge Colombo, a New York illustrator, posts short videos made on his iphone. You can watch Colombo create images using an application that simulates fingerpainting. The drawings are usually scenes from New York.

In fact, the June 1st cover of the New Yorker was the first to be created on an iphone for that magazine. The cover shows a street view of Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum in Times Square.

Other Colombo iPod creations show wedding photographs taken at the foot of the Manhattan Bridge, the interior of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and views from New York City streets.

To read more about the New Yorker cover and see the video showing its creation, click here.
To see the Colombo's weekly videos for The New Yorker, click here.

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