Hi,
Welcome to the very beginning of myfotowall‘s Computer Art blog.
A couple of weeks ago, 15-year old computer artist, Scorpiongold, created an online buzz when he posted a scrolling video on his YouTube channel of a giant computer artwork created entirely in Microsoft Paint. The project had taken four years to complete.
We came across the project by accident. But when we saw it, and the YouTube community’s reaction to it, we realised that we had found a new application for myfotowall.
Cyberspace isn’t limited to 18-inch screens or 1600 x 1200 resolutions – it’s limitless (well, almost). The only way that ScorpionGold could show the results of the last four years of blood, sweat and tears was to create a small panning video, which doesn’t do justice to either the scale or the detail of the creation.
So we contacted ScorpionGold, explained what we do and talked through our ideas. Our dedicated Computer Art site and this blog are the result, not finished articles by any stretch of the imagination, just first steps on a journey.
On one level, our site lets you buy a copy of ScorpionGold’s MS Paint World, either as a traditional printed poster or scaled to fit your wall using myfotowall’s patented process. We will sell a few items and ScorpionGold will make some commission.
But that’s not really the point. The big question is, “Where do we go from here?”
We could open up the site to other artists, making their work available to buy in a similar fashion. But how would we choose the artists? A curator? An art expert? That’s not us. We know how to scale and print images but it’s not for us to exercise artistic judgement on content.
We could create a voting system and let the you and the rest of the viewership decide, something like myfotowall.com meets threadless.com.
Or perhaps we should work with some of the 2,427 “Computer Art” groups listed on Flickr.
Or maybe we just point to our standard myfotowall.com site and everyone can upload their creations and print copies for their studios and bedrooms, their clients’ boardrooms and reception areas…
In truth, we don’t know. We have a solution to a problem but we’re not sure where to take it, so we’ve set up this blog to start up a discussion. Please let us know what you think – ultimately, your comments will determine our future.
Thanks,
[from everyone at myfotowall]
