It’s not about the phone.

May 26, 2009 in neat, nerdbloggin | by eric

It’s a poor craftsman that blames his tools, they say. Jorge Colombo drew this week’s New Yorker cover on his iPhone.

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That is so. freaking. cool.

This is what I’ve managed to draw on my iphone. It says it was done by pk, but it wasn’t. The comments on it are hilarious.

Clearly the iPhone is the secret to life.

Lori

What if da Vinci had an iPhone?

Then we’d be searching for the Da Vinci Area Code.

kid bitzer

da vinci actually sketched out a rudimentary iphone in the margin of a manuscript.

it had dial-tone, an mp3 player, a camera, and web-access. also a suite of productivity apps.

it was slightly larger than the current models, because he had to include the horses walking in a giant wooden drum to power it.

vancemaverick

Here’s a link to the archives page for the issue, starting with a decent-sized version of the cover image.

Kid Bitzer is of course correct — the sketch is in the Codex Atlanticus.

kid bitzer

thanks for the link, kieran–i hadn’t known anyone else knew about it, much less put it on a shirt.

too bad they had to crop the horses. or maybe the horses themselves were cropping.

Mac Hammer

“The Da Vinci area code?” … Brilliant. :)

The cover art is pretty amazing, as well.

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