iPhone "oil paintings," animated GIFs of artful screen smudges

A little gross, a little genius. iPhone Oil Paintings (by JK Keller via Gautam Ramdurai).

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I do this! Endless fun in boring meetings.
Grey Devil

The fucks that i give, there are none.
- Quiet Wyatt
  
  Harsh crowd.
  
  I’m amused by the “oil paintings,” perhaps because I take them as implicit criticism of people who spend inordinately large percentages of their time with grotty germ-farms like these squelched up against their faces. But your fucks may vary.
  - EH
    
    It’s germfarm-evasion that is the problem there.
http://www.lamidesign.com/plans lava

so yesterday. where are the iphone5 oil paintings?
http://twitter.com/digitalArtform Joseph Francis

Anisotropic reflection
avraamov

this was the first problem that occurred to me about the pattern unlock on my android phone. if it gets swiped-sans-wiped, then a thief has the pattern right there in sebum. the same problem persists when you get a plastic screen guard, since you get a cloudy image of your unlock pattern very quickly. i ended up deliberately rotating mine to make it illegible.
http://twitter.com/RainGlobule Jill

yeah, i do this all the time with my phone. you want to grid patterns from all angles and then you get the really cool effect when you move your phone around.
Shibi_SF

Their art makes me want to swipe the phones across my thigh and wipe the shmears off with my skirt.