David Hockney, iPhone drawing © David Hockney
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-04-25/david-hockney-s-ipad-doodles-evoke-high-tech-stained-glass-martin-gayford.html
David Hockney was in the Boy Scouts (motto: “Be Prepared”), so he points out that in tailoring terms he was ready for the advent of the iPad.
One of the tricky aspects of this new Apple Inc. device -- intermediate between a cell phone and a laptop in size -- is the difficulty of carrying it about. Hockney, though, has always had his suits made with a large internal jacket pocket for carrying sketch books.
He demonstrates by opening the natty, paint-stained charcoal-striped number he’s wearing. Within there’s a pouch of the kind in which poachers used to hide game. This is where he tucks his iPad.
In fact, he’s using this portable hi-tech gizmo in much the way he used to employ a pad of paper. It’s his latest drawing medium. A couple of weeks ago, I got a text from him reading: “I have got an iPad, what a joy! Van Gogh would have loved it, and he could have written his letters on it as well.”
Photo Reconstruction by David Hockney 2004
http://www.americansuburbx.com/2009/05/interview-john-tusa-interviews-david.html
http://landing.newsinc.com/shared/video.html?freewheel=69016&sitesection=ndnsubss&VID=106206
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