Toronto, ON (PRWEB) April 27, 2007 — Touchpoint Studios Inc. today introduces Touchpoint Gallery, the only software solution that enables users to bring together digital photos from multiple sources and showcase them in a uniquely creative way.

With Touchpoint Gallery, users can fill the pages of an elegant animated 3D photo album or exhibit their collections on the walls of a virtual art gallery. The software combines photos stored locally on a user’s computer with those from Internet sources like Flickr, Flickr Search, and RSS Feeds. Touchpoint Gallery is the only application of its kind that allows users to bring together photo collections from multiple sources and view them in this way.

“Like many people with hundreds or thousands of digital photos stored in countless places, we wanted a better way to pull them all together and show them off.” says Norm Bellisario, President, Touchpoint Studios. “There are great photo services and scrap-booking sites out there. We want to leverage those while giving people new options for how they experience and enjoy their collections.”

Using innovative 2D and 3D animated graphic designs known as “Templates”, photos can be seen falling effortlessly from the sky in Sky Fall, or can be displayed using Classic Pan and Zoom for a more traditional approach. New animated Templates will be introduced at regular intervals to meet a wide variety of tastes and moods. In addition, Touchpoint Gallery can be set as the default Windows Screen Saver or be used to automatically change your Wallpaper.

The applications for Touchpoint Studios’ technology go beyond personal enjoyment. New offerings are being developed that give business fresh options for how they use their digital photo content. Presentations, product demonstrations, tradeshow visuals, and POP displays can all take advantage of the technology, which is ideal for distributing corporate marketing messages across a new channel.

Touchpoint Gallery is freely distributed from Touch Point Studios . Users who wish to ‘Go Unlimited’ can purchase a license for 24.95 (US) giving them the ability to display an unlimited number of pictures and gain unlimited access to the growing library of Templates.

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Ryan McGinnessâ??s work resolves the clinical graphic aesthetics of media as vast, contemplative fields of intimate meditation. Under Five Chairs Psychiatrists Wink is set across three panels, each beaconing with a baroque entrancement. Woven together with delicate intricacy, McGinnessâ??s forms converge in a kaleidoscope of free-flowing associations: Stylised motifs, calligraphic patterns, and abstracted tattoo-like insignia overlap in arabesque mandalas. Framed within rich black and red planes, McGinnessâ??s painting is reminiscent of ancient tapestries, fabricating the iconography of contemporary experience as spiritual and timeless.

Extending beyond Popâ??s elevation of marketing logos to art, McGinness pushes his work into the realm of the commodity. His output spans from traditional paintings to video, installations and a range of consumer products, fusing high and low culture through the language of advertising. In MKULTRA â?? titled after the 1950s CIA mind control project â?? McGinness presents a trippy amalgamation of symbols and patterns on a circular panel. Set on a red background, McGinnessâ??s entwined logos concentrate sensations of uneasy exotica in their Eastern influenced aesthetic. Using graphic design as subterfuge, McGinness explores the intrinsic cultural narratives contained within generic form.

Partaking in mark-making as a timeless form of communication, McGinnessâ??s process of painting is devoid of the artistâ??s exclusive gesture. His ultra-smooth surfaces are embellished through veneers of spray paint and silk-screen, coining seamlessly manufactured fields free from personal contact. Although he replicates styles and designs that seem innately familiar, McGinnessâ??s iconography is entirely his own. Effecting a â??copyâ?? for which there is no original, McGinness presents a system of signs and signifiers that are infinitely unfixed and universal. Using typography as a tool of abstraction, McGinness exceeds the notion of painting as objective field; instead, his work reconstitutes beauty and spirituality as a bi-product of technology and virtual experience.

In An(n)us Mirabilis, Ryan McGinness wittily subverts the title of Einsteinâ??s pivotal publication with abject humour. Spiralling from a central â??orificeâ??, McGinnessâ??s scrivenery exudes a hypnotic quality as flourishing interlaced scripts create a beaconing pattern in their subtle shift of colour. Replicating the corporeal reference of hair and visualising the virtual field of information, McGinnessâ??s An(n)us Mirabilis seduces with its graphic perfection. Expanding in a field of weightlessness and disorientation, An(n)us Miraibilis frames desire and detachment as an aperture into the infinite.

Read Entire Article about USA Artist Ryan McGinness paintings and artwork at The Saatchi-Gallery http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/ryan_mcginness.htm

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