appleinsider.com wrote:
Steve Jobs statue unveiled ahead of installation at Apple's Cupertino HQ
By AppleInsider Staff
Fittingly revealed on his birthday, a bust of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs was unveiled in Belgrade on Monday, with the art piece bound for the company's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif.
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A scaled down model of the final obelisk design was unveiled on Monday by famed sculptor Dragan Radenovic, reports Netokracija.
The work, which was selected in a contest with over 10,000 entries, incorporates a bust of Jobs' head mounted on a pillar. Sprouting from the sides of the pillar feature are Cyrillic letters and the numbers 1 and 0, representing the binary numeral system. According to Radenovic, Apple management appreciated the imperfections of the piece over more computer-centric design entries.
The scale model sculpture will be sent to Apple in California for final inspection and, upon approval, Radenovic will craft the final version. Completed, the art piece will stand between three to five meters tall and is to be installed at an unknown location on Apple's Cupertino campus.
Earlier on Monday, Apple CEO Tim Cook posted a pair of tweets containing quotes from Jobs in remembrance of the company cofounder.
Jobs was born on Feb. 24, 1955, in San Francisco, Calif. He passed away in October 2011 after a long fight with cancer.
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That thing won against 10.000 others?! I want to see the alternatives that lost, they must be horribly bad.
How does this thing represent the ideas Steve Jobs stand / stood for?
Take a lifesize bronze statue of Jobs, put an iPhone in his one hand, a stylized Apple Logo in the other and let him take a look at the phone as if in deep thought. Done.
"Bring your thousands, I have my axe."
"Bring your cannons, I have my armor."
"Bring your mighty... I am my own champion."
Cue Unit-01 ramming half the Lance of Longinus down Adam's head and a bemused Gendo, "Wrong end, son."
General Zod wrote:Is that giant number 1 looking thing in the middle supposed to be his penis?
That makes the positioning of the 0 awkward.
I dunno, the article says that they liked the half-finished avant garde look over more "computer-centric" entries. I'd also like to see some of the runner-ups.
"Any plan which requires the direct intervention of any deity to work can be assumed to be a very poor one."- Newbiespud
Accurate way to describe this to others: "Imagine you froze Steve in carbonite, tossed that into a car crusher with a bunch of scrap, then pulled out what was left and mounted it on a podium."
It looks like it was by the most unrepentant and least self-aware hipster alive, so from that point of view it's a very fitting tribute indeed.
There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.
-- (Terry Pratchett, Small Gods)
Replace "ginger" with "n*gger," and suddenly it become a lot less funny, doesn't it?
-- fgalkin
"To celebrate the life of a man whose company became synonymous with sleek, futuristic aesthetics, here's a lump of cast iron with characters hanging off it."
A minute's thought suggests that the very idea of this is stupid. A more detailed examination raises the possibility that it might be an answer to the question "how could the Germans win the war after the US gets involved?" - Captain Seafort, in a thread proposing a 1942 'D-Day' in Quiberon Bay
The photo is not representative of what it will actually look like. If it's going to be three to five metres tall, people are going to be at the level of the numbers or maybe the mangled bits, not at the bust. Is Steve Jobs' chin and a bunch of crap really supposed to be the focal point of the piece?
If it's really 5 m tall, then the head will be barely twice life size. And high up. Focal point would be his nostrils.
A minute's thought suggests that the very idea of this is stupid. A more detailed examination raises the possibility that it might be an answer to the question "how could the Germans win the war after the US gets involved?" - Captain Seafort, in a thread proposing a 1942 'D-Day' in Quiberon Bay
LaCroix wrote:Will they change it a tiny bit each year, too?
Comments like this make me long for an Arch Rival-esque 'like' button. That's the funniest thing I've read all day.
There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.
-- (Terry Pratchett, Small Gods)
Replace "ginger" with "n*gger," and suddenly it become a lot less funny, doesn't it?
-- fgalkin
tezunegari wrote:Take a lifesize bronze statue of Jobs, put an iPhone in his one hand, a stylized Apple Logo in the other and let him take a look at the phone as if in deep thought. Done.
Read, equivalent of 3D rutting ground with stag?
How does this thing represent the ideas Steve Jobs stand / stood for?
Oh, that's easy: they picked based on author's name. Exactly what Jobs fanatics did
Grumman wrote:"To celebrate the life of a man whose company became synonymous with sleek, futuristic aesthetics, here's a lump of cast iron with characters hanging off it."
You know, I sort of don't get the outrage, but then again, Central Europe is full of similar crap. Raw iron and roughness of texture is supposed to be symbolic, or something. Observe:
...Rarely has the word 'monstrosity' been so fitting.
Yeah, I've always taken the subtext of the Birther movement to be, "The rules don't count here! This is different! HE'S BLACK! BLACK, I SAY! ARE YOU ALL BLIND!?
- Raw Shark
Destiny and fate are for those too weak to forge their own futures. Where we are 'supposed' to be is irrelevent.
You know, this statue is the best representation of Apple design process and their entire company I have seen yet.
Whoever says "education does not matter" can try ignorance
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A decision must be made in the life of every nation at the very moment when the grasp of the enemy is at its throat. Then, it seems that the only way to survive is to use the means of the enemy, to rest survival upon what is expedient, to look the other way. Well, the answer to that is 'survival as what'? A country isn't a rock. It's not an extension of one's self. It's what it stands for. It's what it stands for when standing for something is the most difficult! - Chief Judge Haywood
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So what's the significance of the Cyrillic letters supposed to be?
"How can I wait unknowing?
This is the price of war,
We rise with noble intentions,
And we risk all that is pure..." - Angela & Jeff van Dyck, Forever (Rome: Total War)
"On and on, through the years,
The war continues on..." - Angela & Jeff van Dyck, We Are All One (Medieval 2: Total War)
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." - Ambrose Redmoon
"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." - Harvey Dent, The Dark Knight
Irbis wrote:You know, I sort of don't get the outrage, but then again, Central Europe is full of similar crap. Raw iron and roughness of texture is supposed to be symbolic, or something.
I thought that was a Socialist Realism thing.
There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.
-- (Terry Pratchett, Small Gods)
Replace "ginger" with "n*gger," and suddenly it become a lot less funny, doesn't it?
-- fgalkin
I hope that when Gates dies, he has in his will, "Donate remaining fortune to various charities and DON'T BUILD ME A FUCKING STATUE!"
ASVS('97)/SDN('03)
"Whilst human alchemists refer to the combustion triangle, some of their orcish counterparts see it as more of a hexagon: heat, fuel, air, laughter, screaming, fun." Dawn of the Dragons
Grumman wrote:"To celebrate the life of a man whose company became synonymous with sleek, futuristic aesthetics, here's a lump of cast iron with characters hanging off it."
You know, I sort of don't get the outrage, but then again, Central Europe is full of similar crap. Raw iron and roughness of texture is supposed to be symbolic, or something.
Irbis, its not the "raw iron and roughness of texture" look that people are taking issue with. It's all the other crap present. Keep the bust, and lose everything that makes it look like a totem pole out of a Hellraiser movie and I doubt people would care.
RogueIce wrote:So what's the significance of the Cyrillic letters supposed to be?
Serbian artist would be my guess?
That was my guess, although that seems a little vain to have something in there that says "yes this was made in Serbia" as a prominent feature. I guess I was wondering what the letters would loosely translate to English as? A SJ for Steve Jobs? Cyrillic 1 and 0? The sculptor's initials as an oversized signature?
"How can I wait unknowing?
This is the price of war,
We rise with noble intentions,
And we risk all that is pure..." - Angela & Jeff van Dyck, Forever (Rome: Total War)
"On and on, through the years,
The war continues on..." - Angela & Jeff van Dyck, We Are All One (Medieval 2: Total War)
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." - Ambrose Redmoon
"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." - Harvey Dent, The Dark Knight
RogueIce wrote: I guess I was wondering what the letters would loosely translate to English as?
My russian is quite rusty but the kyrilic letters should be р = "r" and Э = "JE".
So the statue could read: "R JE 0 | 1" (Are you Zero or One).
Or "JE R 1 | 0" (You are One or Zero -> You are someone or nobody?)
"Bring your thousands, I have my axe."
"Bring your cannons, I have my armor."
"Bring your mighty... I am my own champion."
Cue Unit-01 ramming half the Lance of Longinus down Adam's head and a bemused Gendo, "Wrong end, son."
