New Yorker cover painted using iPhone (Brushes app)

Pretty awesome exposure for the guy who wrote the app; as I recall he posts here?

Here he is: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ssprang

seems like a gimmicky cover to me. nothing terribly noteworthy about the artwork itself other than the medium through which it was produced.

When is there ever anything especially remarkable about New Yorker covers?

Personally, I think producing that on an iPhone is reasonably impressive. Sort of like art done with a mouse in oekaki or mspaint.

"When is there ever anything especially remarkable about New Yorker covers?"

When hasn't there been?

http://www.memeorandum.com/080713/p59#a080713p59

Somehow it seems a bit less gimmicky and more noteworthy than Swine Flu t-shirts. I think it's great viral marketing. Kudos to the developer and artist for getting on the cover.

And in other news 104 years old woman uses twitter. Riveting.