Mr Doob Spin Painter [updated] May 2026

For years, Mr. Doob used the Spin Painter as therapy. On bad days—when the rent was late or the world felt like a fist—he’d lock the door, set a fresh disc of watercolor paper on the turntable, and squeeze out three colors: ultramarine, titanium white, and a tiny dot of fluorescent pink. Then he’d pull the cord.

Whirrrrrrr.

“Choose what?”