{"id":10970,"date":"2005-10-15T09:25:18","date_gmt":"2005-10-15T09:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2005\/10\/photoshop-brushes-are-cool-and-all.html"},"modified":"2005-10-15T09:25:18","modified_gmt":"2005-10-15T09:25:18","slug":"photoshop_brushes_are_cool_and_all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/15\/photoshop_brushes_are_cool_and_all\/","title":{"rendered":"Photoshop brushes are cool and all&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;but how about <a href=\"http:\/\/web.media.mit.edu\/~kimiko\/iobrush\/iobrush_quicktime_medium.mov\"><i><b>this<\/b><\/i> thing<\/a><sup>*<\/sup>?  Rogue genius-types at MIT Media Lab have developed the <a href=\"http:\/\/web.media.mit.edu\/~kimiko\/iobrush\/\" \/>I\/O Brush<\/a>, &#8220;a new drawing tool to explore colors, textures, and movements found in everyday materials by &#8216;picking up&#8217; and drawing with them.&#8221;  The ability to sample and apply a short video sequence is particularly brilliant. [link via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.k10k.net\">K10K.net<\/a>]<br \/>\nIf you like that, check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/random-international.squarespace.com\/pixel-roller-video\">Pixel Roller<\/a>, a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/random-international.squarespace.com\/pixelroller-overview\/\" \/>paint roller that paints pixels<\/a>, designed&#8230; to print digital information such as imagery or text onto a great range of surfaces.&#8221;<br \/>\nOn a personal note, it was the chance to work with alpha geeks like this that drew me to Adobe.  When I first encountered the LiveMotion team, I heard that engineer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nart.org\/\" \/>Chris Prosser<\/a> had built himself a car MP3 player (this was a couple of years before the iPod).  Evidently he&#8217;d disassembled an old Pentium 90, stuck it in his trunk, connected it to the glovebox with some Ethernet cable, added a little LCD track readout, and written a Java Telnet app for synching the machine with his laptop.  Okay, I thought, I don&#8217;t want to do <i>that<\/i>, but I&#8217;d like to hijack the brains of someone who could.  Chris has now moved on to After Effects, and I get to pester the likes of Thomas Knoll, Chris Cox, Arno Gourdol, and the rest of the team, trying to get some pet idea or other implemented.<br \/>\n* Caution: Features the most grating soundtrack since <a href=\"http:\/\/patrykrebisz.com\/stills\/FINAL_movie.html\">that Canon 20D video<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;but how about this thing*? Rogue genius-types at MIT Media Lab have developed the I\/O Brush, &#8220;a new drawing tool to explore colors, textures, and movements found in everyday materials by &#8216;picking up&#8217; and drawing with them.&#8221; The ability to sample and apply a short video sequence is particularly brilliant. [link via K10K.net] If you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10970"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}