Michael Green, just like everyone else, was wondering how this new medium would change the balance of our daily lives overall. He also brings up the holy grail of MacBook literature: 1984’s Zen & the Art of the Macintosh by Michael Green, a book that was half practical guide, filled with examples of MacPaint illustrations, and half philosophical tome due to the trippy nature of its drawings that sent one resounding message: the era of computers is here, and it’s going to change how we relate to our environment. He features a lot of 1980s-90s artists like Laurence Gartel, Bert Monroy, James Leftwich and countless others who’ve created works that are now exhibited in major museums like the MoMA. “Many of them are just gone,” he says, “it wasn’t something people thought worthy of saving”. The site is both a place for him to showcase his own experiments in MacPaint, and carve out a place for the naive art form in our cultural history, before it’s too late. Joel’s online archive,, is also delightfully old-school in its homage to the program.
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