I’m a little late in running across pixlr’s amazing photo editor, surely a godsend if you’re po’.

Photoshop would be hard to improve upon– the industry heavyweight has everything a casual user, a professional graphic designer and everyone in between could ever want.

But of course there is a drawback–unless you’re “young, black and famous, with money hangin’ out the anus”, buying a legit copy is a major investment. There are of course other methods *cough* demonoid *cough* but that would of course be wrong…

Enter pixlr.com, a site which allows the user to access an amazing photoshop-esque interface and many of the familiar features of Adobe’s cash cow. And all at the charming price of $0.00! No longer will people toil in the dark ages under the tyranny of the retarded child emperor known as MS paint. A reasonable editor is now within the grasp of anyone with a internet connection and basic PS skillz.


You have Swedish programmer Ola Sevandersson to thank for the application. He spent over a year refining it in his spare time and the result is something very functional and very free. I wonder if he’ll get sued? I hope not. I think its far more likely Adobe would buy the software…but who knows….

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It features a group of kids playing as camera angles rotate 360 degrees and time moves backwards and forwards — all simultaneously. (It sort of reminds me of the famous scene in The Matrix where Neo dodges the bullet..)

A team of artistic and engineering wizards was assembled to create the piece, which required a total of 200 cameras and 20,000 Gigabytes of information!

Check out the second video for the making of this one of a kind commercial.

The making of:

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The average salaryman has a depressingly predictable schedule. Every morning he knots his silken noose, jostles his way through a packed subway car and finally arrives at his nondescript office–where he must literally and figuratively bow to his superiors.

Artist Momoyo Torimitsu created a life sized salaryman to draw attention to this depressing part of Japanese business culture. The robot crawls along, cowed but not defeated, toward a goal that only he can guess at. He is sustained by nothing but his willpower and an occasional battery inserted into his buttocks.

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Jonathan Harris, a luminary in his field, delivers one such talk and speaks on how he combines art and computer science to understand the human story.

His first creation entitled We Feel Fine, is a program which scans blogposts for the phrases “I am feeling” or “I feel” and then takes these sentences, and assigns them a color based on the phrase’s emotion. This creates a larger snapshot of the internet’s mood which can be explored in greater detail.

A second project consists of numerous photographs of an arctic whale hunt. These can be filtered by character, times, excitement levels and other criteria to construct a sub-story taken from the main narrative.

For the third project, Harris travels to Bhutan, interviews a swath of natives and attempts to portray their happiness visually.

An awesome talk and one that shows shows that the evoluton of digital storytelling is in good hands…

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