Sean Toohey

I've had an iPhone for almost a year now but I'm not a fan of paying for Apps, and I have only ever purchased one for Geocaching . But today I found that fellow Augmented reality proponent, James Alliban ,  has released a very cool and clever app for the iphone called Fracture . Fracture allows you to paint cubist style portraits using your own photos. Aesthetics employed by abstract masters such as Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque have been studied and recreated in this fun creative app. Simply use your camera or search your image gallery for 1 or more photos, adjust the settings to your specification and you are ready to start painting So if you a fan of Cubist paintings or just like to mess with photos on your phone, go out and grab a copy of Fracture on iTunes .

I first started creating digital artwork back in the mid 80s on my IBM PCjr in amazing 16 colours. In the 90s I switched to using Director and then Flash 3+ to create various pieces that I have long lost to the digital scrapheap. Last week at Gnomedex 10 in Seattle I watched artist/programmer/DJ & Googlite Scott Draves present 2 decades of open source artwork, and i wished I could recover some of my lost art.. but at the same time my work could never compare to the amazing and complex work Scott produces like the Darwinian AI Screen-saver Electric Sheep . Watch the video from gnomedex,  and ask yourself if androids dream of electric sheep. Here are my live tweets from the presentation: *10 @ spot #gnomedex 12:04 PM Aug 21st   Did he just Say 1 hr per frame to render!!! @ spot #gnomedex 12:03 PM Aug 21st @ paulbalcerak No explanation needed, just let it wash over you. 1...

Brain Solis gave the Keynote at Gnomedex 2010, he spoke about our role in building social media web. Brain was very engaging and i did very little live tweeting, here are some of his quotes: "Anyone who says they are social media expert, is fucking lying to you" - @ briansolis #gnomodex 9:36 AM Aug 20th via TweetDeck Chicks rule the Social web - @ briansolis #gnomodex 9:33 AM Aug 20th via TweetDeck #gnomedex http://twitpic.com/2gif56 9:31 AM Aug 20th via Twitpic RT @ ethernick : "Four degrees is the new six degrees of separation" (via @ briansolis ) #gnomedex 9:27 AM Aug 20th via TweetDeck RT @ thinkmaya : Everyone has a private life, public life and a secret life. Which one do you want to sh...

I just returned from another great #gnomedex in Seattle.  I will eventually put out a review, but for now here is the first in a series of Videos form the conference. Larry Wu, Co-Founder of SmartCup ,  is a brand development guru, who has created everything from the McGriddle to the Frapachino, he gave a great presentation on macro trends and Consumer Based Innovation. Many Thanks again to Chris Pirillo & the Gnomedex 10 Team for a great Conference.

I work in the newspaper business, and saw this TED talk last year, I think Jacek makes some good and inspired points on using creativity and imagination to drive business. One important lesson for designers is to go beyond design and gain real understanding for the needs of their business. This is critical in every aspect of design and development,and unfortunately most designers don't think about or understand what the business requirements are for their company.   "Jacek Utko is an extraordinary Polish newspaper designer whose redesigns for papers in Eastern Europe not only win awards, but increase circulation by up to 100%. Can good design save the newspaper? It just might." ~ TED