Posts tagged 'art'
Quirky Steve Jobs news and trivia from last week
1. a hip-hop song apparently came out by a guy named “Fabolous” (don’t blame me if he’s super-duper famous because I’m not into rap). It’s called… wait for it… “Steve Jobs”. Excerpt from the chorus:
man used to be Mac’ing but now I’m Steve Jobbin’ man
got 2 choices
you can stay broke or grind
2. Steve sent an email last week about the future of Airplay to a guy asking for compatibility with Safari and 3rd party apps:
Yep, hope to add these features to Airplay in 2011.
3. I found this picture of a guy’s desk. See, I told you I wasn’t the fanboyest SJ fanboy on the planet! 😉
(Full gallery).
The important stuff is coming next.
Steve Jobs and Apple culture in paintings
Rather than starting the week by telling you about Steve’s latest emails (folders in iBooks, AirPrint-compatible printers), and the rumors about the upcoming joint Steve Jobs/Rupert Murdoch keynote, I thought I’d start by showing you some artwork I stumbled upon a couple of days ago.
The artist is a 45-year old painter from Southern Cal, Alex Gross. His paintings are quite sinister… I just love them. 🙂 One of his dominant themes is today’s consumer society, and it is frequently illustrated with references to Apple products and even the Apple culture. For example:
End User (2010)
Resist (2010)
This one is particularly interesting:
Kool Aid Drinkers (2010)
As you know, ever since the 1980s, people who absorbed everything Steve Jobs/Apple said were famed as “drinkers of the (Steve Jobs/Apple/Mac/whatever…) Kool Aid”.
Have you ever seen a painting with a Windows PC or an Android phone in it?
… me neither.