Think Steve.

Think Different.

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Steve Jobs, more than other one person, disrupted and reinvented the personal computer industry, animated motion pictures, music sales, retail stores, mobile phones and tablet computing.

–1976. STEVE JOBS and STEVE WOZNIAK form Apple Computers and build their first personal computer . . . in Jobs’ parents’ garage.

–1977. Apple releases the Apple Two, which becomes the first widely-used personal computer in the world.

–1984. Apple launches the Macintosh, a desktop computer with the screen built in.

–1986. Jobs buys Pixar Animation Studios for $10 MILLION. In 1995 they release “Toy Story”

–1998. Apple releases the iMac. It becomes the fastest-selling personal computer ever.

–2001. Apple introduces their first retail store and releases the iPod.

–2003. Apple launches the iTunes music store. This began the transition away from illegal digital music downloading and toward people LEGALLY listening to music again.

–2007. Apple introduces the iPhone

–2010. Apple introduces the iPad

–2011. Apple . . . the company Jobs started in his parents’ garage . . . is briefly the world’s most valuable company.

Apple iPod TV ads

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.

 

Rosanne Cash – Land of Dreams

Thanks for the link, Rockin’.

Watch the music video for “Land of Dreams,” the original song written by Rosanne Cash and John Leventhal and performed by Rosanne Cash and guest artists Los Lobos, Bebel Gilberto and TREME. Encouraging travelers to come and find your “Land of Dreams,” they are featured in the first ever global tourism campaign for the United States.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Kolorblynd presents ‘Tolerance’

A funny commentary on race relations in 2014. 🙂

Moanin’ Sons … anthemic, topical slow-jam ‘Tolerance’ live in the studio, on Cable Access TV program ‘Kolorblynd.’ Feel the love! Or not…

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.


 

Directed by Dean Kalyan
Edited by Zia Kalyan
http://kalyanstudios.com

http://www.moaninsons.com

The Cinematic Orchestra – “To Build A Home / Breathe”

LOVE it. 🙂

The Cinematic Orchestra is a British nu-jazz and electronic music group, created in 1999 by Jason Swinscoe. …

“To Build a Home“, from the album Ma Fleur and featuring the vocals of the Canadian singer-songwriter Patrick Watson, has been used extensively in film and television. …

Click PLAY or watch it on Vimeo.