Love ’em.
Almost all of them.
The silhouette series were not my favourites, however. But with the sheer force of Steve Job’s passion they promoted some astonishing artists.
Click PLAY or watch U2 Vertigo on YouTube.
Click PLAY or watch Bob Dylan on YouTube.
Best, I feel, was “Are You Gonna Be My Girl” by Jet.
Think Different.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Featuring: Albert Einstein, Bob Dylan, Martin Luther King, Jr., Richard Branson, John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Buckminster Fuller, Thomas Edison, Muhammad Ali, Ted Turner, Maria Callas, Mahatma Gandhi, Amelia Earhart & Bernt Balchen, Alfred Hitchcock, Martha Graham, Jim Henson, Frank Lloyd Wright, Pablo Picasso. The commercial ends with an image of a young girl, Shaan Sahota, opening her closed eyes, as if to see the possibilities before her.
The version narated by Steve Jobs is very good too.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Here’s to the crazy ones.
The misfits.
The rebels.
The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently.
They’re not fond of rules.
And they have no respect for the status quo.
You can quote them, disagree with them,
glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them.
Because they change things.
They push the human race forward.
While some may see them as the crazy ones,
we see genius.
Because the people who are crazy enough to think
they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Steve Jobs was a complete jerk. But he done good with Pixar. 🙂
… Pixar began in 1979 as the Graphics Group, part of the computer division of Lucasfilm before its spin-out as a corporation in 1986 with funding by Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs, who became its majority shareholder.
The Walt Disney Company bought Pixar in 2006 at a valuation of $7.4 billion, a transaction which made Jobs Disney’s largest shareholder. …
Inadequate sales of Pixar’s computers threatened to put the company out of business as financial losses grew. Jobs invested more and more money in exchange for an increasing portion of the company, reducing the fraction of ownership by the management and employees until after several years he owned essentially all the company …
Steve admired and respected John Lasseter as an artist. He could not say NO to the guy.
“1984” is an American television commercial which introduced the Apple Macintosh personal computer. It was conceived by Steve Hayden, Brent Thomas and Lee Clow at Chiat\Day, produced by New York production company Fairbanks Films, and directed by Ridley Scott.
… only national airing, was on January 22, 1984, during a break in the third quarter of the telecast of Super Bowl XVIII …
… Advertising Age placed it on the top of its list of 50 greatest commercials.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
I’m readying Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson.
Steve’s love/hate relationship with John Sculley is fascinating.
I couldn’t care less about the World Cup … unlike most of the rest of the World.
But I love inspiring video. The TV ads are fantastic.
Here’s an epic by Beats by Dre, the recent $3 billion Apple acquire.
The five-minute spot opens with Brazilian superstar Neymar having a heart-to-heart conversation with his father before a soccer match, set over footage of favelas, coastlines and the team bus. …
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
(via Mashable)
Two choices.
1. You can simply assume there is no privacy. No privacy online. None on phone.
Or …
2. you can try taking some small steps to discourage the NSA and other organizations from collecting data on you.
I’m switching from Google search to DuckDuckGo, for example. That might help. Apple is now offering DuckDuckGo as an alternative web search engine.
On the other hand, Google is responding to criticism, now offering end-to-end mail encryption, to try to make your email private.
Watch the RESET the NET VIDEO .
Edward Snowden is all in for this protest.
I’ve got a love / hate relationship.
Many of the best and brightest I know are from the States. The best Gymnastics club. The best Gymnastics equipment company.
Apple and Google are from the USA.
Americans are the most innovative.
But my best guess is that the USA will go down the crapper fast, rather than have a graceful decline as did Great Britain.
There’s a fair bit of truth in this graphic.
The U.S. government gridlock looks to be continuing for at least the next 6 years.
Republicans are not going to change fast enough to make major improvement.
The Democrats seem to want to copy Republican policy, for the most part. There’s been no serious attempt to improve anything under Obama, aside from a very slight fix of Health Care.
Merde. 😦
We can’t trust corporations.
We can’t trust governments.
We can’t trust Obama.
The only way for the general public to get the truth is whistleblowing. We’ll see more like Snowden over the coming years.
Edward Snowden, who leaked an estimated 200,000 files that exposed the extensive and intrusive nature of phone and internet surveillance and intelligence gathering by the US and its western allies, was the overwhelming choice of more than 2,000 people who voted. …
I’m sorry for the innocent hurt by these leaks, but the greater good for society is served.
One more thing …
We can’t trust the media. Including the Guardian.
Ed Bott – The real story in the NSA scandal is the collapse of journalism (June 2013)
related – Time magazine – Edward Snowden, The Dark Prophet
Time had Snowden a runner-up, naming the new Pope as Person of the Year.
Jobs is a 2013 American biographical drama film based on the life of Steve Jobs, from 1974 while a student at Reed College to the introduction of the iPod in 2001. …
Steve Jobs is portrayed by Ashton Kutcher, with Josh Gad as Apple Computer’s (now Apple Inc.) co-founder Steve Wozniak. …
… Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a rating of 25% based upon 117 reviews with a weighted average of 5/10 and the site’s consensus being
“An ambitious but skin-deep portrait of an influential, complex figure, Jobs often has the feel of an over-sentimentalized made-for-TV biopic.” …
I’d heard nothing but scathing mockery. So was surprised how much I enjoyed reliving those well known stories.
Ashton Kutcher is a good actor and a gutsy guy. He was the highlight of the film for me. Charismatic enough to play Steve Jobs. Likeable enough to balance the many negative incidents portrayed.
… Robert X. Cringely, author of Accidental Empires and creator of the documentaries Triumph of the Nerds and Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview, argues that “the film is beautifully shot and Kutcher’s portrayal of Jobs, while not spot-on, is pretty darned good. …
Woz did not like the script. Had nothing to do with the film. He was under contract for another Steve Jobs biopic.
Daniel Kottke was involved. And is much more positive about the film.
Click PLAY or watch the trailer on YouTube.
Rick McCharles 