Electric Paint Links the Mac to Graphic Paintbox

Electric Paint Links the Mac to Graphic Paintbox

Bits and pieces from the past keep bubbling up. This is a double-paged spread from a 1990 document called The Post Paper, recently posted on Facebook by Linda Rheinstein - written by my longtime friend and Paintbox “brother,” Paul Hoegh-Guldberg.

It really brought back some memories and I particularly love the quote, “Electric Paint has grown and continues to grow into some sort of all consuming electronic monster.”

Loss and Recovery in this AI World

Loss and Recovery in this AI World

Recently, I faced every digital creator's worst nightmare.

Through an unfortunate oversight, I accidentally reformatted a drive not realising it contained my original, fully retouched, high resolution equirectangular images. These weren't just any files; they were the culmination of a detailed shooting and processing workflow, and the source for all my optimized image tiles.

This was more than a minor setback – it was a catastrophic loss. Without those original equirectangular images, I couldn't add new content to my tours or even re-publish existing ones.

Launching the Pano2VR tour was heartbreaking because it revealed the extent of the issue as it listed the files that could not be found.