The 1 Minute Painting – video powered by Metacafe
Don’t give up on this, watch the whole thing. For the first half you don’t even realize he’s painting anything. It looks like gibberish. But once you realize what he’s doing, it’s pretty amazing.
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Wow!
But it’s ugly?!? Who cares how fast you can paint something if it sucks. I saw a guy in Daytona Beach selling these on a pier and I was just like WTF?
I know beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but this makes me want to gouge mine out.
Rolf Harris would be proud
3. “Rolf Harris would be proud”
I was thinking of Bob Ross myself.
2. “Who cares how fast you can paint something if it sucks.”
Anxiously awaiting your posting of a better space mural done in 60 seconds.
P.S. Don’t worry, I won’t be holding my breath.
@5 – Do you understand the sentence fragment “who cares how fast…”?
Or did you want to be funny so bad that you typed before you had a chance to think?
I guess some people will argue about anything. I once listened to two house painters argue for 30 minutes about whether a particular part of a room’s windows was inside or outside so they could know whether to use interior or exterior paint on it. They finally decided to use interior/exterior paint. I’ve seen plenty of guys selling these paintings. They’re fun to watch.
I liked it. The thing though is this wasn’t a 60-second painting in reality — this was like Chinese cooking: a lot of preparation and very little actual cooking.
Yeah, it looks like 60 seconds but how much time was really spent in preparation? He has done this — or tried — a lot of times before he came up with the 60 second formula.
8. “Yeah, it looks like 60 seconds but how much time was really spent in preparation?”
I’ll remember that argument the next time my wife and I have sex. “But honey, there was a lot of prep time before you got here!”
Isn’t this how god made space?
…and when does he paint a mural?
11. “and when does he paint a mural?”
Thanks for catching that. I was like, “What is he talking about?! Who said anything about a mural?! Oops!”
Nice job. $5 per painting and he’ll make a load of money of it. 🙂
That’s awesome. I wouldn’t hang it in my house, but it’s really neat to see he can do something like that. I honestly don’t get why all these people are criticizing this… let’s see you do that. It’s a hobby for him, and I should say there are some other hobbies out there that would be far more questionable…
If you go to Cancun or Tijuana, you’ll see lots of guys doing this exact same thing for tourists. Who usually go, whoa… that’s amazing, and then the buy the thing for 20 to 40 bucks, take it home, and then wonder what the hell they are going to do with a spraypainted picture of the moon and the pyramids.
And then it ends up in the garbage.
I was at a small community fair several years ago when someone was doing these. It was sorta cool– at first. After he began to grind out one after another after another, however, it began to remind me of Kafka’s Titorelli.
#8 JCD Too right, two hours chopping and mixing then dump everything in a wok for a minute and your done! This guy had a lot of practice to do that.
Kinda takes me back me to my friends van in the 70’s – shag carpet an all. Today’s 24″ rims and spinners etc aren’t too far off from that – 20 ~ 30 years from now people will be cringing about them too.
http://www.rollinbig.com/ridin_so_high.html
Have all of you see this? Its NOT a photo – its all air brush – amazing!
http://www.drublair.com/comersus/store/workshops/tica.htm
Cheers
There’s a group of artists that paint like this on Fremont Street in Downtown Las Vegas. Their technique is similar (spray paint and masking), but they can create many different pics, and each is original. Much better paintings than the one minute wonder, they take about 15 minutes on each picture. The resulting pictures are ones I’d consider buying.
There’s a man here that does this. He started using a dust mask and later graduated to a full fledged respirator mask.
It’s nice but it’s not a painting as titled. It’s sprayed with temps. Not impressed at all. Go fish.
Can I nominate a video of the day for wednesday?
The moscow cat lady at feeding time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eET73T8_7I0
No artist can please everyone. If this artist set out to make a painting in sixty seconds and ended up with a work that some people enjoy, I’d say he was successful. I’m sure he can spend more time and turn out a piece which appeals to more people, but that wasn’t what he was trying to do in this video.
That was pretty cool. I would totally hang that on my wall.
I guess that means I have a shitty taste in art.
😀
I thought it was gonna be something abstract in the first place. But when I saw it finished it was alright. Gotta give him the credit, he is good.
This must have been his first try, or else he has a few of those clocks.
WOW!!!! 3d Photoshop!!!! wait until the boys and girls at Adobe get ahold of this and make it into arts and craft propject…
think of all the books they’ll have published, 3d Photoshop Bible(s) 1,2, 3D, 4, 5…..
You should see how much paint I can EAT in 60 seconds!!!