The Art of Apple, In Pictures 47
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "CNN reports that self-professed Apple fanatic Jonathan Zufi has published a book of photography profiling 500 of Apple's products through the years, because unlike other companies Apple has unapologetically focused on design says Zufi and he wants to celebrate that with his images. 'Other companies came up with the guts for a machine and then the engineers would find a way to stuff them into a box,' says Zufi. 'Steve Jobs started with the box and said, "You need to find a way to get the guts in."' It's an unlikely project for a software engineer with no formal photography training. Zufi bought new equipment and consulted with a professional as he began the project, which was four years in the making. 'I had a sudden memory of an old game I used to play in high school called Robot War,' says Zufi. 'I hopped on eBay to look for the game and an old Apple II to play it on, and that's how I ended up looking through old Apple products.' Zufi says that he approached each shot by looking for an image that would 'create that same emotional connection to that product, but maybe doesn't look like something you've seen before,' and says that his mission is to showcase the entire spectrum of products that Apple have sold to the public since 1976 – every desktop, every laptop, every notebook, monitor, iPod, iPad, iPhone, mouse, keyboard, modem, cable, port, adapter, docking station, memory expansion card — and that's just their hardware."
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Yeah, all smoke - no fire!
Wait till I show 'em all! I'm making a coffee table book full of the iconic design from GE and Dell!
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i'm going to make a coffee table book about coffee tables, and it will have built in legs so it becomes a coffee table!
Unlikely? (Score:2, Insightful)
"It's an unlikely project for a software engineer with no formal photography training."
Sounds pretty likely to me.
Fanboi Warning (Score:5, Funny)
Attention: This article contains excessive praise and adoration of a commercial product. Expectation of product performance and functionality is most probably artificially inflated. It would be prudent to conduct your own research before drawing conclusions. The product/s in question may have infringed on the human rights of others.
This has been a public service announcement.
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The product/s in question may have infringed on the human rights of others.
I'll be impressed when they build a product capable of infringing on its own human rights.
Wasn't Woz in there? (Score:1)
wasn't Seve Wozniak in there somewhere?
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whaa? maybe woosh, but apple has a built in bash shell. on windows i have to download an ssh client.
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Woosh :)
Close up and personal (Score:5, Insightful)
Show the Apple ][ keyboard with the reset key next to the enter key. BEEP!
Ahhhh, insanely great design!
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http://images.shrineofapple.com.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/gallery/appleiiplus/top/appleiiplus-level1-1.jpg [amazonaws.com] there it is.
you know what's real funny? the site uses gif animations as banners.
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They tried to toss that design into the trash can, but it got ejected and landed on the keyboard.
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Actually, the RESET key had a stronger spring than the others and required pressing simultaneously the SHIFT key for it to have effect, IIRC.
Re: Close up and personal (Score:2)
Wasn't it Apple-Control-Reset required to reset? I seem to remember learning that in school, and Macs definitely still used that combo.
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Actually, the RESET key had a stronger spring than the others and required pressing simultaneously the SHIFT key for it to have effect, IIRC.
While it did have a much stiffer spring on my Apple II+, it did not require a press of shift or any other modifiers. This may have changed with the IIe, IIc, or IIgs; I don't know.
Not a fanboi, but an enthusiasm for a company's wo (Score:5, Insightful)
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yeah you keep telling yourself that. oh no you just trolled by implying the person is a "better person" and hence not a fanboi.
but dude, the site is named shrine of apple :D.
Does the T-800 qualify? (Score:2)
Terminator, The Easter Egg - Good CPU Performance [eeggs.com]
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Worst haiku EVER.
I hope you die in a fire.
Around midwinter.
Good for them (Score:2)
Meanwhile, I've unapologetically focused on buying hardware with the features I want that runs the software I want. On a few occasions, that's been made by Apple. Most of the time, it hasn't.
*the* guts (Score:2)
No, these other companies weren't coming up with "the" guts, not back in the eighties and nineties.
Back then the "ap" was called an "expansion card" by serious users. If you had 10 megabits and you wanted 100 megabits, you could do that. If you wanted to stagger upgrading your system board
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Back in the 90's, the engineers would breadboard everything - giant circut boards where every component had pins, and the breadboard was just dozens of tracks and and patch cables. First they would get the circuits working, then they would miniaturize everything onto a single circuit board with ASIC's.
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Apple Puck Mouse [cnet.co.uk]
Oooh-ahh. DIGITAL "Hockey puck" mouse [xanthos.se] / Memory Mouse [topblogposts.com] / Cyber Sport Orbita [yankodesign.com]
Is it me? (Score:2)
Sorry, Apple did have some iconic products, but the images in TFA are crap. They included probably the most uninspired designs in Apple history and left out products that really stand out from a design viewpoint like the apple imac g3 and the mac mini.
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They look uninspired now, because after they came out they were widely copied. Take a look at what laptops looked like before the powerbooks came out in the 90's. Chunky looking lap-bricks with trackballs hanging off the side. One year after the powerbook, nearly every laptop was black or dark gray with an integrated trackball in the palm rest. Ditto the Apple II - computers either looked like dumb terminals with CPU boxes bolted onto them, or mad scientist experiments.
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It also doesn't help that the product photography isn't top-notch. It's at the competent amateur level --- no glaring technical deficiencies in basic lighting, but fairly uninspired (and with what I'd consider mistakes in more subjective composition/lighting choices). Not saying I could do much better --- I'm also only at the "competent amateur" photographer level; however, I can certainly spot the difference between this and top-notch results (like you see in Apple's own professionally done product photogr
Form vs function (Score:2)
The best projects have a good balance of form and function.
Slashvertisement (Score:2)
You know how Amazon has wishlists? Maybe they should implement buythisformeandI'llfuckingkillyoulists?