DIGITAL UP MAGAZINE LIGHT REIMAGINE PICASSO’S AND MILI’S WORK WITH A SMARTPHONE? Somehow magically, yes! Let your completely unmodified smartphone track your movements in 3D space, just like Picasso’s pen light! Walking around your favourite coffee shop, waving your iPhone 6 in the air, trying to make Picasso’s famous motifs: bulls, centaurs, Greek profiles in thin air, enabling you to draw spirals and other shapes, and giving you a whole new creative freedom. Now, you can spell out your name in giant letters and look completely insane to the baristas! But, every time you look at the screen, it’s worth the humiliation! RECREATED FLASHLIGHT AND CAMERA TECHNIQUE WITH A PHONE - ART-INSPIRED TECHNOLOGY Nils Forsblom is a Finnish-American engineer who founded Adtile, a turnkey solution to serving more beautiful ads on mobile devices. He got the inspiration for Adtile in 2013 when he was visiting the Alexander Calder exhibit at the LACMA. The quote “Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions,” influenced him to start working on sensoryenabled motions for mobile devices and turn Adtile into a motion technology company. Old tricks like how to sculpt spirals out of Styrofoam inspired Mr. Forsblom and he saw the potential of his ad technology through the lens of his artistic past: The algorithms inside this advertising tool could actually be used to create 3D sculptures. Picasso and Mili were the inspiration for Air Pencil. Air Pencillets anyone capture freeform movement in space using their mobile device. How does it work? Move, swing, and glide your smartphone through the air and your motions will be captured, not on camera, but on screen. Air Pencil is intuitively easy to use. It is a lightweight app that runs on a mobile web browser. Since it is a web app, the majority of the code runs on a remote server. All you need to get started is a URL. Today, you do not have to be Mili to create these types of images. Additionally, while Picasso and Mili’s light paintings were in 2D, Air Pencil lets you capture motion in 3D, as beautiful lines, curves and shapes that you can literally move through and explorein ways [ 88 ] DigitalUP