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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.
That quote where the guy says he thinks the assistant will get an apple tattoo when she's more into macs, that is just so annoying, it changes this guy from "dork with sort of neat hobby" to "aggravating fanatic", and it reminds me of the dental assistant in Trekkies who admits that she dresses up Star Trek-style because the dentist threatened to fire her if she didn't.
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See the "..for smart people" banners Wired runs here? Look elsewhere guys.
...to post a response when you're left utterly speechless.
Someone needs to invent the slack-jawed smiley.
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Even though I may be a slathering, maniacal, unwashed Mac addict myself, this goes just a wee bit further than the usual. What is the world coming to?!? People really need to get their priorities straight in life. This is clearly a fine example of this!
Let's face it, has anyone else noticed that nowhere on his site does he show us the picture of his assistant's tattoo? Especially where it was hidden?
I am deeply disturbed.
Whew! This water sure is cold!
Lisa Pedagucci, a successful and attractive business owner, demonstrates her Microsoft Office shrine.
OOH! Apple Tattoos are so SEXY! What part of her body did she put it on? Anyone got copies of the pictures?
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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.
So there are some real fanatics out there...so what? I am sure all of you who are dissing this guy and article are guilty of similar crimes. How many of you go out and find a new game only to become addicted to it, say Warcraft III, and also buy all the marketing extras such as the action figures, books, and what not. I myself do not know enough about Macs to have a definite opinion of them but it seems they are diong something right because they have such a strong cult following and I would have to definately praise Steve Jobs for his wonderful marketing tactics.
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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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See the "..for smart people" banners Wired runs here? Look elsewhere guys.
Well, when you've got an entire section of your site called 'Cult of Mac' (the name of which I mildly object to), you've got to update it rather regularly.
:-)
Plus Wired has its share of Mac fans on the staff-- read the colophon sometime, it's like the freakin' Macintosh Product Guide.
~Philly
took some time to realize this post was not related to junk food.
I love the II but it ain't a Mac.
blakespot
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Real Mac cultists get an Apple logo branded on their forehead.
What are the Thomas Edison pictures doing the in the background of a MAC museum? If Edison hadn't died in 1910, he would have finished that Copper list he was hacking for his boffo Amiga light-bulb demo. His corpse is Boing-Balling in his grave as we speak.
One would think he mummified Big Macs in a grand trubute to Ron McDonald. I smell a lawsuit over the wording of this article.
I love me saw so much that I had my wife get a tattoo in a private place that I won't mention.
Did I mention how much my saw rules over other saws? It cuts at least twice as fast over those cheaper brands that all the other idiots use.
Can't you tell how superior I am because of the saw I use? Can't you tell how much a part of the intellectual elite I am?
God, it's great to be me.
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
i guess the most interesting ones to me are the macs (or any other machine) that retain their sex appeal even after all that time...and there aren't too many of those...
I bet if you get Ellen Feiss stoned enough, she'll be willing to get the Tat..
I bet Apple would even pay for the ganja, too...
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I used to think Macs and their users were just sort of silly, but after more and more articles like this I think I'm starting to understand the mindset a little better.
It's not really about using a computer any more than, for example, driving a Volkswagen Bug is about driving a car. Issues like functionality, efficiency, etc. are completely secondary to issues like sense of community, warm fuzziness, etc.
Do you think the average Bug driver would scrap their car if the gas mileage was worse than an SUV? It's not about mileage - it's about round.
Do you think the average Mac zealot cares that OSX.2 is slow? It's not about speed - it's about blue.
This isn't really a dis, although I'll admit it's a world I don't begin to understand.
I like the idea of a desk built out of Macs. Of course you do Malda... of course the reason all of us like that picture is because of the desk. Uh huh... you know, it probably has nothing to do with the hot chick behind it. Then again Malda's married now, so I suppose he has to be more practical... and whats more practical then the desk made out of old mac monitors.
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If you look at the photos closely, you can see a Lisa, a Newton 110-120-130 form factor, an eMate, a PowerCD, and a QuickTake 100- and 200-series cameras. Below and to the right of the Jim Henson poster, it looks like he's even got one of those set-top box prototypes, sitting underneath a laptop.
This is more of an Apple shrine than a Mac shrine, but I suppose it's mostly Mac enough for Wired to be able to call it a Mac shrine.
~Philly
I submitted this story last week. Only it was about Linux. And instead of a graphics studio it was about my bedroom, which incidently is my own little personal shrine to the cult of tux ;).
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Now please don't give me any BS about how it's because the Mac is "so high quality" and "a classy piece of gear" as a Machead once tried to convince me, you can get high quality cars, stereo systems, hell even high quality food, but you don't see people build shrines to the Porsche do you? Or maybe you do.....
If anything I can kind of understand Linux freaks, as it's more a movement (vive la revolution and all that) than a product. But the Mac isn't anything other than some heavily marketed electronics. What motivates these people?
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Jennifer Lopez = "JLo" (pron: "Jay-Low"). Bill Gates = "BGa" (pron: "Be-Gay")
Surely Bill will only start to be known as B-Ga when he finally admits he's dating Puff Daddy?
pfft. 35 macs in "five or six years". I hadn't touched the things until mid 2000, and now there's 40 hanging around my apartment. They breed.
(ever seen pizzaboxes mating? it's not a pretty sight)
I thought the artice was going to be much more interesting... Oh well.
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When asked about what changes had been made, the editor-in-chief, R. Hales, M.D., responded that in addition to revised chapters on common psychiatric disorders, an additional chapter had been added to cover the phenomenon commonly known as the "Mac Freak". Sections devoted to diagnosis of the Mac Freak covered symptons such as the fanatical defense of OS X as well as an obsession with colorful transluscent plastics.
It should be noted that Solaris Zealots, due to their miniscule numbers, received only a footnote.
This reminds me of those people who become so attached to their pets that when the pets die they have them freeze-dried.
Amazing magic tricks
psxndc
The emacs religion: to be saved, control excess.
One of the employees at my Apple Store has two Apple tattoos, an "open Apple" and a "closed Apple", on the inside of his wrists. I believe they are on the correct left/right sides. :-)
This finally puts to rest, once and for all, that Mac's aren't any slower than thier PC bretheran.
Can't forget the MacII couch: here
" I like the idea of a desk built out of Macs."
Hey- here's a new one! Why not try building a computer out of Macs ?
graspee
Apple has sued, and threatened, to sue, people in the past who could also be considered as promoting a positive image of Apple. They have a history of making threats against innocent people.
http://terrarium.geekvoice.net a site me and a friend put together a year or so ago
I guess it doesn't matter if they work or not, but as it happens, they're functional.
There's a longtime Mac reseller around here that has long had a couch made of empty Mac II cases. They're Desktop-style cases, but bigger than most tower cases used these days.
"Common Sense Ain't" -Unknown
>why is it important that they work? cause they don't.. ah but they do, from the sire i quote, "The reception desk at Cesar Lima's Los Angeles studio is constructed of 15 working Mac Classics." Of course they aren't doin' anything interesting, no big wallscreen of Macs, no cluster, nothing interesting, but they *do work. Should have them all playing break away or somehing or some *really neat hypercard presentations.. ooohh aaaahh.
"If you are going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Mac people are just plain creepy...
A deep unwavering belief is a sure sign you're missing something...
Not like that.
You are thinking violators of copyright or trademarks.
As in someone who copies the Agua look down to the last pixel and is suprised then when Apple sues them. What do they expect?
Now, something like this, (Apple Shrine) would never be sued over.
Apple's history of suing:
* Send cease and desit letters to rumor sites
* Send cease and desist letters/sue copycats of either their machines or interface.
* Sue unauthorized clones (Franklin Apple ][ clone)
I fail to see how you blow that up into an "Apple sues wantonly ungodly numbers of innocents".
Apple sues and threatens to sue people who do nothing wrong, but that in some way relates to Apple's products. Since these people are doing nothing wrong, my conclusion is that you can not determine how to prevent yourself from being sued by Apple when you do something remotely like this. You can't use the law nor any moral system as a guide. Only the whim of their teams of lawyers.
> Since these people are doing nothing wrong, my conclusion is that you can not determine how to prevent yourself from being sued by Apple when you do something remotely like this.
Easy test:
Copying something of Apple's? (even out of devotion) - possibly get sued.
Building a shrine of products you payed Apple good money for? - Not sued.
Advanced users are users too!
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..."
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Or should I say erotic arts? Scroll to the end of this (Flash required).
Random is the New Order.
you could stack shit that high.
Look! I've a couple milk crates, and a couple old PC's I've picked up at a garage sale! Am I Avant Garde yet?
I have a 9" greenscale //c monitor. Attached to a Powermac 8500 as the primary display. :) It's cute.
//c has, for sure. :D
The collectors I know (including myself, to a lesser extent) are interested in gear with the Apple logo on it- something that
If it didn't have an RCA plug, and if my 8500 didn't have RCA plugs, well... I probably still would have bought it. Because it's cute.
Or does the reception desk just look like a bunch of mac classics stacked on top of each other? When it said there was a desk built out of them I was like "whoa, that could look cool" but i click on the picure and it looks like someones old collection stacked in their garage. I think a little bit more effort could have been made for that one.
...has got to be the iBong.
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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.
Hmmm, a direct copy of a patented style, hacking and reverse engineering software and then redistributing it, no nothing wrong there at all. Find a case where the people were doing nothing wrong and Apple sued them.
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For those that do no explanation is needed.
For those that do not, none is possible.
It's an old quote usually attributed to Harley riders. But it goes for anything really. People get "fanatical" over many things; cars, computers, OS's, breakfast cereal, video games, music, flash or no flash, religion, toys, comic books, etc. I suppose all the people griping "why" do not collect anything?
I am a Debian user and a Mac user. I don't consider myself super fanatical about either one. All thought I do have the Debian logo tattooed on my neck. No Apple/Mac logo though. I just like the design of the Debian logo as well as the OS.
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My jaw hit the floor when I saw this article. What a small world! Back in 1995, I authored and hosted this guy's first web site. I've visited his studio a few times, and I can tell you firsthand that it's not like the place is crawling in hot chicks. Moreover, he didn't pay his bills on time and we ended up dropping him as a customer. Personally, I think the guy is a few sandwiches short of a picnic.
Richer and more successful, perhaps, but hipper? Not by any definition of the term that I've ever heard in common use.