Comments on: The art world can finally go fully digital now.

The art world can finally go fully digital now.

desjardins — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:47:53 -0800

What we've tried to do is create a piece of software that streamlines the design process from start to finish. Digital, um, art. (Slightly suggestive images in last link.) (Previously 1|2|3.) (Via)

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:23:41 -0800

Oh.

By: doctor_negative

doctor_negative — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:26:32 -0800

Those guys in the first link are just a little too full of themselves. There were at least several more-fully feature paint programs available on the Mac before the PC's even had a GUI. They all had similar, if not more functionality than Paint has (even today). I believe MacPaint had a spray can, I know Super Paint did and i think Canvas did as well, nor did they invent the eraser. My suspicion is that all or most of the UI for all these programs came from Xerox.

By: Ogre Lawless

Ogre Lawless — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:31:03 -0800

Those guys in the first link are just a little too full of themselves. [see also]

By: caution live frogs

caution live frogs — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:32:54 -0800

Dear doctor_negative: I think you may have mistaken parody for a real documentary. Please note that half the "MS Paint designers" were using Macs. Also, I have a butterknife, and I have a box of sharp carving chisels, saws, and the like. I would like to carve a statue from a block of wood. Please watch while I spurn the tools completely, and film myself carving wood with the butterknife, set to annoyingly twee music. When I'm done, I'll transcode the film to a digital format by hand-tracing each film frame using a slide scanner and MS Paint, and upload it by manually entering in strings of 1s and 0s through a 14.4 KBPS external fax modem hooked up to a VIC-20 I built from spare parts purchased on eBay. I wrote a check for the parts. PayPal is too easy.

By: kcds

kcds — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:34:54 -0800

doctor_negative - I think it's time to have your parody detector circuit recalibrated

By: jouke

jouke — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:40:26 -0800

doctor_negative, your comment forms a subtle extension of the documentary. Exquisite.

By: jouke

jouke — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:40:40 -0800

doh

By: Plutor

Plutor — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:42:04 -0800

Doctor_negative out-satires MetaFilter. Film at 11.

By: kingfisher, his musclebound cat

kingfisher, his musclebound cat — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:44:12 -0800

You can't use such hackneyed material to mock such hackneyed software. It's embarrassing, like being the MS Paint of comedy.

By: The Esteemed Doctor Bunsen Honeydew

The Esteemed Doctor Bunsen Honeydew — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:45:11 -0800

I thought it was really hilarious for the first 45 seconds, when I didn't know it was a satire yet, that the guy had "pipes" as his screensaver.

By: doctor_negative

doctor_negative — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:45:46 -0800

Whoops, got me. Having worked at MS, the level of smugness displayed here didn't strike me as unrealistic :) And kcds, touché, turn about is fair play.

By: eyeballkid

eyeballkid — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:46:30 -0800

Why are you all picking on doctor_negative? All you fucking M$ fanbois. I'm so fucking sick of MetaFilter and the fucking Windows brigade dumping on every goddamned computer thread. Why can't the Mac get some love on this site?

By: eyeballkid

eyeballkid — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:47:37 -0800

Crap. I was hoping to get in before the doctor responded ;)

By: jouke

jouke — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:54:11 -0800

doctor_n I think it's great that you wrote a serious response to a serious seeming video and at the same time wrote a satiric response to a satiric video. Parallel realities or something. Good post, fun thread.

By: rusty

rusty — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:00:42 -0800

"...and the program opens right there on your screen. In a matter of minutes." Worth it for that line alone.

By: JeremiahBritt

JeremiahBritt — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:03:03 -0800

Actually, you can make the line thinner. (I also used to know a trick for making gradients, but I forgot it.)

By: shmegegge

shmegegge — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:59:36 -0800

Christ to think of all the time i spent drawing in ascii in word perfect 5 for DOS when I could have used something this innovative!

By: freebird

freebird — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 17:10:56 -0800

The perfect 12 colors. Hah! Rad.

By: fungible

fungible — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:58:37 -0800

I think they're specifically parodying the videos on the Final Cut Studio web site. Which are fabulous videos, but ripe for parody. Nice work.

By: BlackLeotardFront

BlackLeotardFront — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:51:22 -0800

I use paint all the freaking time. That program is actually very handy for the common resizing, cropping, and compositing a non-graphic designer has to do in everyday life. And well done, doctor_negative.