1. My real life pixel art show is officially open.  Here’s the page I put together about it. As regular readers of my blog know, I’ve also been working on a pixel art app called Make Pixel Art. Since I really want the things I make, online or offline, to be interactive and get people to play together, I’m inviting people who come to see my show (and also everyone else) to join in the process of making pixel art with me using the free beta version of the app I’ve been blogging about for months. Click here to start a new drawing in Make Pixel Art. Works best fullscreen in Chrome, Safari and recent versions of Firefox. Full version coming soon for iPad + Chrome.  If you draw something cool, post it to your tumblr or on Mlkshk, or tweet @makepixelart so we can check it out. I should mention that the beta comes stuffed full of reusable pixel stamps that you can use in your own drawings, including totally radical stuff from the very talented and tumblr famous lulinternet, and our pals who make robots at Bleep Labs!  Oh, and an embarrassingly large number of things I drew myself. … At this point its not exactly clear to me whether I built the app to make the art, or whether making the art required building the app, especially considering that since pretty early on, I’ve been using the app to build the app.  But now there is art and an app, and hopefully people will enjoy both.

    My real life pixel art show is officially open.  Here’s the page I put together about it.

    As regular readers of my blog know, I’ve also been working on a pixel art app called Make Pixel Art. Since I really want the things I make, online or offline, to be interactive and get people to play together, I’m inviting people who come to see my show (and also everyone else) to join in the process of making pixel art with me using the free beta version of the app I’ve been blogging about for months.

    Click here to start a new drawing in Make Pixel Art. Works best fullscreen in Chrome, Safari and recent versions of Firefox. Full version coming soon for iPad + Chrome.  If you draw something cool, post it to your tumblr or on Mlkshk, or tweet @makepixelart so we can check it out.

    I should mention that the beta comes stuffed full of reusable pixel stamps that you can use in your own drawings, including totally radical stuff from the very talented and tumblr famous lulinternet, and our pals who make robots at Bleep Labs!  Oh, and an embarrassingly large number of things I drew myself.

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    At this point its not exactly clear to me whether I built the app to make the art, or whether making the art required building the app, especially considering that since pretty early on, I’ve been using the app to build the app.  But now there is art and an app, and hopefully people will enjoy both.

    posted 7 months ago on Oct 10, 2011 | Permalink | 7 notes

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I run XOXCO, a boutique product development firm. We mostly make websites for Finland.

Right now, I am working on a pixel drawing app for the iPad called Make Pixel Art, hence I am posting tons of pixel drawings! I also contribute to Bitnauts. Prepare yourself for the low rez revolution.

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