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Artist Creates Mac Shrine
uucee writes "Wired has a story on an artist's Mac shrine. Apparently a big Mac fan, the photographer "tried to persuade his assistant to get an Apple tattoo for a photo shoot. She refused, opting for a temporary one instead."
No word of a Macquarium being part of the collection." I like the idea of a desk built out of Macs.
with lots of cool pictures of artistically modified Macintosh portables.
http://member.nifty.ne.jp/cristal/apple.html
Calm down, it's *only* ones and zeroes.
Or maybe it's cause they know that they will get guaranteed links from slashdot and dozens of mac sites. They've hit on an easy formula that gets them hits (which they desperately need), and they're going with it. Unfortunately it means we're stuck reading stories like this and "man spills ketchup on dog and it looks like an apple logo!" all the time.
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Yeah, and if he was so much into it, why didnt he get the tattoo, instead of asking her assistant???? What a moron
Can't forget the MacII couch: here
Ha, I think I work wih you.
Has to belong to Harley Davidson. No other company in the world has the following. Tattoos, vehicle editions, etc.
;)
They're not the best motorcycle technically (stop, I love HD's, don't hammer me) - but they're the coolest/sexiest/most sought-after two-wheeled piece of machinery on many lists.
Why? They have a culture, a 'feel', a mystique that Honda or Yamaha doesn't. Yeah, a YZF-R1 can smoke any Harley. Yeah, a Gold Wing is more comfortable. But dammit, H-D is "The One."
I would imagine Mac zealots/fans feel much the same way. Like with a Harley, don't knock it until you try it. If it's not for you, that's cool. Those of us who 'get it' will keep hope alive for you.
"If there's hope, it lies in the proles..."
I'm an Apple fanatic. I only have 5. I also have a NeXT Dimension Cube and a NeXT slab workstation.
If anything I can kind of understand Linux freaks, as it's more a movement (vive la revolution and all that)
If you are a mac user, you are part of a revolution and a movement. Being a mac user is an expression of the kind of world you want to live in. A world that is aethetic, well designed, user friendly, and most important free thinking.
Giving in to microsoft is an expression that you are satisfied with status quo. Microsofts greed, monopolistic and dishonest practices, cheat all those that come in contact with them. Microsoft is morally and ethically bankrupt. Within Microsoft, the paying customer (purchaser) is seen as a slave and the end user (operator of the product) is neglected as trash.
Linux has many merits and I occaisionally touch it. But its not user friendly. It would be a waste of my time to try and get my grandmother to use it. Your mileage may vary. I also dont think its aesthetic (for now) but at least it runs on mac hardware.
But the Mac isn't anything other than some heavily marketed electronics.
It is a lot more than heavily marketed electronics. Macs empower regular people to change the world. Even a lifelong mac user like me is stunned at what some people have done with their macs. (and as a side note, the world wide web was invented by Tim Berners Lee on a NeXT Cube the precursor to OS X). Listen to storys of mac users from NASA, Lockheed, Boeing, about the technologies they have invented on the mac. The Smithsonian Institution, long time sponsored by intel, is mostly mac based. Some members of Congress and Senate, the National Geographic, and most magazine and newspapers are mac based.
Its obviously an empowering system. It empowers people in a way that "heavily marketed" electronics such as your VCR or TV do not. Ease of use means ease of voice or ease of engineering or ease of art. Great tools are easy to use.
To be empowered is a euphoric experience. I remember throwing up a web page in 1993 just to see if I could...long before most PC users were even online. I received 38000 unique visitors to my site in about a years time. I was 17 years old and suddenly had a huge voice. My parents didnt even know what the internet was at the time. I could not have constructed that web page on a PC.
Very simple.
1) Community. There's not much more you can say about that. There is a mac community. But you won't find a dell community, or a gateway community, or a windows community. There's a linux community, but a lot of them tend to not like outsiders.
2) It's still the revolution. Jobs may have declared the desktop wars to be over and M$ the victor, but that doesn't stop mac users from defending their territory and trying to expand. We fought a long and weary battle during the desktop wars, it's not s spirit you give up on so easy. Besides, we need something to do since we're not spending our time trouble shooting our computers (sorry, I had to say it).
2.5) Mystic. The first Apple's were made in wooden boxes and made in a garage. It's a legend. PCs just don't have that. The great story behind windows is Bill Gates bluffed his way into DOS and IBM. The closest thing on the PC is Linux, the vision of a college student.
3) Style. Let's face it, when was the last time a PC ever drew looks? PCs are boring (they're getting better) they've become tools. Like the cars you see on the road today. They're all the same, but then you see a car from yesteryear go by and it's all shiny and polished. It may not be the fastest and most efficient car on the block, but it's the one drawing looks. Watch a room where someone opens up a mac laptop. Slowly people wander over and begin pointing at things on the screen asking what things are, what they do, what's this what's that. No PC does that. Macs draw attention.
4) Satisfaction. Macs may not be the fastest machines out there. But they do the job, they do it well, they do it reliably and they look good doing it. It's hard to describe it, but there is something about using a mac that just isn't in a PC. It's like a new toy, but this one never grows old.
5) Loyalty works both ways. Someone here once said that though they will defend the mac against outside critisism, mac users are some of the harshest critics of the platform. We have a way that we like things to be. They have to be part of our system. If ti doesn't shape up the way we want or something is wrong, Apple hears about it and hears us loud and clear. And because we're loyal to the company, Apple tends to listen to us. When was the last time a bunch of people bitching at M$ ever got results? Each change from OS X beta, to X, to X.1 to X.2 has parts that reflect the comments of the users. It's like if someone you had just met today came up to you and said that you need to change some things about your life and went through a list of flaws, you'd write them off and ignore them. But if a friend, who even though you know they'll stick with you no matter what, came up to you and said you needed to change a few things, you would actualy consider the advice.
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