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Received June 5, 2008. Sort of a strip tease, really, since you can’t touch it.

“Pigs” (music video)

It seems to me like Jeff Soto and Paper Mario (or the slutty Princess Peach) hooked up and had a baby.

Diogo Machado from Portugal seems to draw some color inspiration from Jon Burgerman, albeit his work is not nearly as loose. Much tighter control and cartoonish. I suppose Matt Groening should be given some props, too.
Love it.

There are quite a few Web apps out there that generate color palettes from photos. Yes, I know.

But I ran across one today that not only works well, but actually looks fairly slick, too. I’m talking, of course, about Color Hunter. Now, if you really want to have some fun, go hunt down the image locations from one of your favorite artists. I chose the brilliant Jeff Soto, from So-Cal.

The nice thing about this update of Color Hunter is that you can now upload images and not simply have to rely on pointing to an image that is online somewhere.

Here’s how my experiment turned out after uploading a JPG into the app:

Now, obviously this is pretty cool and fairly handy if you’re feeling a little lazy. And, it is obviously very Web centric as you can see the HEX values under each swatch, but that’s OK.

What I’d like to see, however, are more swatches. Or, possibly some sort of input that would allow for more custom swatch amounts. You’ll notice that there are no blues represented in my test (other than the really dark blue gray). But, it is still pretty cool nevertheless.