Whateverthing
My pixelated obsession
I admire the music that Sufjan Stevens creates. More precisely, I think I'm in love with it. And it has been a few years now since his Illinois album. So the coming of a new album -- his symphonic suite tribute to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway -- carries with it much anticipation.
His label, Asthmatic Kitty, challenged fans to "MS Paint My Album" with any cover in their catalog, in 350x350 pixels -- and then, offhandedly, commented, "We are wondering if anyone is brave enough to MS Paint The BQE." Unfortunately, I'm just the type to take that as a challenge. So I did some planning, and started sketching some of the skeleton into MS Paint. And once I started, I simply had to finish. Three weeks of late nights later, I built what you see above, lovingly rendered, pixel by pixel, exclusively in MS paint.
(it looks compressed and weirdly re-sharpened here, so View Full Size)
My pixelated obsession
I admire the music that Sufjan Stevens creates. More precisely, I think I'm in love with it. And it has been a few years now since his Illinois album. So the coming of a new album -- his symphonic suite tribute to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway -- carries with it much anticipation.
His label, Asthmatic Kitty, challenged fans to "MS Paint My Album" with any cover in their catalog, in 350x350 pixels -- and then, offhandedly, commented, "We are wondering if anyone is brave enough to MS Paint The BQE." Unfortunately, I'm just the type to take that as a challenge. So I did some planning, and started sketching some of the skeleton into MS Paint. And once I started, I simply had to finish. Three weeks of late nights later, I built what you see above, lovingly rendered, pixel by pixel, exclusively in MS paint.
(it looks compressed and weirdly re-sharpened here, so View Full Size)