The wonderful Christoph Niemann did the impossible yesterday: He ran *and* live-sketched the NYC Marathon at the same time. He drew with good old analog paper and pencil, then snapped a photo and tweeted it out to the world. I followed his stream with sheer amazement all day. I laughed when he ‘upped the ante’ and pulled out a canvas and oil paint at the end. Gotta love Christoph’s sense of humor. Hat tip!
You might know Christoph Niemann from his NYTimes Abstract Sunday Column, his I LEGO N.Y. book or a CreativeMornings talk I posted a while back.
You can follow his entire Marathon experience on his two twitter accounts: @abstractsunday and @abstractsunday1 (Looks like Twitter has a restriction on how many photo tweets you can upload a day, he had to create a new Twitter account mid-way through)
>>He ran *and* live-sketched the NYC Marathon at the same time.
…w-o-w! Must be a great dinner party guest too! :)
Nov 7th, 2011 / 8:43 am
Awsome!
Nov 7th, 2011 / 1:34 pm
very cool. wasn’t oil paint though–it was Acryla gouache.
Nov 8th, 2011 / 12:25 am
REALLY enjoyed this! Had to go find his blog so I could follow the whole journey. :)
Nov 9th, 2011 / 9:02 am
thanks for sharing this. I went to his blog and followed each sketch. Definitely made me smile on this chilly morning!
Nov 12th, 2011 / 8:16 am
100% truth… Sadly.
Nov 16th, 2011 / 4:06 pm