{"id":123,"date":"2009-05-11T15:29:25","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T23:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/11\/theappleblog-requests-old-time-creativity\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T15:40:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T23:40:18","slug":"theappleblog-requests-old-time-creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/theappleblog-requests-old-time-creativity\/","title":{"rendered":"TheAppleBlog Requests Old-Time Creativity"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TAB_Paintbrush\"<\/p>\n

Josh Pigford at TheAppleBlog<\/a> was excited by the arrival of a new simple drawing application for the Mac called “Paintbrush” that brought back the pixelated times of the past. To celebrate, he challenged his readers to create images with the new app and offered to give two one-year subscriptions to Backblaze to the best ones.<\/p>\n

A few people really stood up to the challenge and created some amazing art.
\nHere are the two winning designs (by Sean Leary & DangerDude):
\n\"TAB_winner_cara\"
\n<\/a>\"TAB_winner_lisa\"<\/a><\/p>\n

You can probably guess to which one I’m partial. ;-)<\/p>\n

Congratulations to both of you and enjoy the Backblaze<\/a> service!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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