{"id":11312,"date":"2006-12-17T10:55:50","date_gmt":"2006-12-17T10:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2006\/12\/77-million-paintings-by-brian-eno.html"},"modified":"2006-12-17T10:55:50","modified_gmt":"2006-12-17T10:55:50","slug":"77_million_paintings_by_brian_eno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/17\/77_million_paintings_by_brian_eno\/","title":{"rendered":"77 Million Paintings by Brian Eno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhat I\u2019m really doing when I work generatively is I\u2019m making seeds,&quot; says musician and visual artist Brian Eno, in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/pro\/profiles\/eno\/\">this profile<\/a> on Apple.com. Then I\u2019m planting them, in the case of \u201877 Million Paintings,\u2019 in your computer.&#160; Then the seed grows into all the different kinds of flowers it can produce.\u201d&#160; The result is his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.77millionpaintings.com\/\">77 Million Paintings<\/a> project, visual and sound art created with the help of Adobe Director, Photoshop, and Illustrator, and designed to be experienced on one&#8217;s own computer or via a live, ever-changing installation.&#160; This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.77millionpaintings.com\/video.html\">three-minute video<\/a> from the project site gives a taste of the work &amp; the ideas behind it. <\/p>\n<p>According to the Apple site, more than 300 Eno paintings \u2014 most of them scratched or inked onto slides \u2014 were digitized for 77 Million Paintings.&#160; Collaborator Nick Robertson painstakingly scanned and retouched every one using  Photoshop and a Mac.&#160; Of the travelling installation they write, &quot;Eno and his team have designed and constructed several configurations for the live shows, including a massive pyramid of monitors enveloped by mirrors. &#8216;The floor and sides of the room were mirrored and the pyramid was effectively turned into a diamond,&#8217; says Robertson.&quot;&#160; A few additional photos of the live installation are <a href=\"http:\/\/markal.org\/77_Million_Slideshow\/\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>[For more on generative art, see <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2005\/12\/math_rock.html\">this post<\/a> on Josh Davis&#8217;s work with Illustrator scripting.] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhat I\u2019m really doing when I work generatively is I\u2019m making seeds,&quot; says musician and visual artist Brian Eno, in this profile on Apple.com. Then I\u2019m planting them, in the case of \u201877 Million Paintings,\u2019 in your computer.&#160; Then the seed grows into all the different kinds of flowers it can produce.\u201d&#160; The result is [&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":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11312"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}