Collage

• My Fling With Mixel

  IN WHICH Fingers Paint while Dry, and Egos are Lightly Battered in a Hollandaise Sauce

  On Mixel

  Mixel confounds me as a piece of software that shines so brightly, the shadows of its flaws are made proportionately more apparent.

  

  Mixel is an iPad app for making collages that has the whole “social networking” thing baked into its DNA.

  Making a collage feels like something the iPad was born to do. Swipe swipe, swipe swipe, tap, swipe, BOOM! ART! I am not an artist by training or temperament, although I do doodle extensively in the margins of my notebooks. Using a pile of raw ingredients and the few methods mixel provides for manipulating them, I can create something that, if it isn’t art, looks and feels like “art”.