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From top to bottom: co-founders of Easy Solar, Nthabiseng Mosia and Alexandre Tourre are shown using their Macs in episode 2: Power from the EarthxTV series Heroes for the Planet, which charts their efforts to deploy solar energy systems to communities across Sierra Leone.
Any fans of Hideo Kojima?
He's certainly a fan of Macs.
According to this Reddit poster, Kojima is holding up a PowerBook 5xx model.
Kojima in more recent years with what appears to be a MacBook and an Apple monitor? As an aside, I love his desk arrangement.
Kojima's MacBook on show again. (From 2019.)
Making use of a 15" (I think!) MacBook model during a visit to Seattle in October 2016.
That's a pretty large desktop footprint in a restaurant!
This, is wonderful news:
www.tweaktown.com
No wonder John Carpenter likes Kojima so much that he told Canal+ to stand down on their plans to sue Kojima and Konami over Metal Gear Solid bearing similarities to Escape From New York.
He's certainly a fan of Macs.
According to this Reddit poster, Kojima is holding up a PowerBook 5xx model.
Kojima in more recent years with what appears to be a MacBook and an Apple monitor? As an aside, I love his desk arrangement.
Kojima's MacBook on show again. (From 2019.)
Making use of a 15" (I think!) MacBook model during a visit to Seattle in October 2016.
That's a pretty large desktop footprint in a restaurant!
This, is wonderful news:
Hideo Kojima impressed with Apple's gaming tech, will bring future games to Mac
Metal Gear Solid developer Hideo Kojima is so impressed with Apple's new Mac gaming technologies and toolkits that he plans to bring future games.
www.tweaktown.com
No wonder John Carpenter likes Kojima so much that he told Canal+ to stand down on their plans to sue Kojima and Konami over Metal Gear Solid bearing similarities to Escape From New York.
From 2019. Greta Thunberg has a conversation with David Attenborough, courtesy of Skype and an 11" MacBook Air.
Thanks to a product placement agreement with the producers of The Morning Show, Jennifer Aniston's character is shown using a MacBook. Apple's other offerings also feature quite heavily.
I don't know if anyone is familiar (or if it's been previously mentioned in this thread) with the site Starring the Computer, where it details what computers you can spot in what films. Notably the Apple section is quite large and features many PowerPC macs as well as many historical Apple products.
Joe Biden has a video chat with his VP, Kamala Harris on a MacBook.
Stills from the 2019 Chinese drama, So Long, my Son which features an 11" MacBook Air providing the characters with an opportunity to have a video chat with a Stateside relative via FaceTime.
The wallpaper suggests that it's running Sierra.
The wallpaper suggests that it's running Sierra.
So many of my sightings transpire from just watching TV. Which is how I found this one - taken from the 2020 documentary, Louis Theroux: Life on the Edge. Theroux can be seen using a MacBook throughout the programme.
Welp, here’s an unexpected cameo of a Mac seen in a problematic setting, as portrayed in an independent Oz film from the early ’90s. It’s a parable on how hate, in a comprehensive way, rots and destroys everything from within. Below is a scene from 1992’s Romper Stomper, starring Russell Crowe.
I saw this once, in cinema, back in 1992. I re-watched it this evening for the first time since, to map what I remembered to a 2024 context and 32 years of leavening borne by getting older and experiencing more stuff.
It’s no less grim than what I remembered of it. Maybe even more so.
The above scene features a well-to-do creep who owns a spendy, gated loft somewhere in near-suburban Melbourne, Victoria. He also owns some kind of Mac setup, with what looks like the bog-standard M0297 12-inch colour CRT sold by Apple from 1990, as well as the M0331 mouse (sold from 1986) and M0487 Apple Keyboard II (also from 1990). As the M0487 was sold with either the Macintosh Classic or the LC, the above prop was probably an LC (but also, possibly, a IIsi). In the background are Mac-related product boxes, but they‘re not clear enough to make out which model is running the After Dark fish tank screen saver (which, in 1991, was pretty swanky to have running in colour).
The whole film demands the viewer to steel themselves.
I saw this once, in cinema, back in 1992. I re-watched it this evening for the first time since, to map what I remembered to a 2024 context and 32 years of leavening borne by getting older and experiencing more stuff.
It’s no less grim than what I remembered of it. Maybe even more so.
The above scene features a well-to-do creep who owns a spendy, gated loft somewhere in near-suburban Melbourne, Victoria. He also owns some kind of Mac setup, with what looks like the bog-standard M0297 12-inch colour CRT sold by Apple from 1990, as well as the M0331 mouse (sold from 1986) and M0487 Apple Keyboard II (also from 1990). As the M0487 was sold with either the Macintosh Classic or the LC, the above prop was probably an LC (but also, possibly, a IIsi). In the background are Mac-related product boxes, but they‘re not clear enough to make out which model is running the After Dark fish tank screen saver (which, in 1991, was pretty swanky to have running in colour).
The whole film demands the viewer to steel themselves.
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It gets overlooked in favour of his Hollywood roles in the likes of Gladiator and LA Confidential.
I caught it a few years later on TV. American History X makes for a good double bill due to the parallels of the themes.
Have you seen the TV series sequel to Romper Stomper?
Well spotted and identified.
Agreed.
Here's LL Cool J viewing archival footage of himself from the 80s on a MacBook.
Whoever set up this scene really dropped the ball because of the poor lighting. I had to crank up the gamma and fiddle with the brightness & contrast levels to make the Apple logo visible due to the sheer overwhelming darkness.
Yah, I think my only other main exposure to his work was in L.A. Confidential.
I have not watched that, possibly because it reminded me a lot of Romper Stomper, which was plenty.
I’ll give it another look on IMDB.
I have not. I wasn’t even aware there was a TV series.
NICE.
Whoever set up this scene really dropped the ball because of the poor lighting. I had to crank up the gamma and fiddle with the brightness & contrast levels to make the Apple logo visible due to the sheer overwhelming darkness.
Well, in fairness, the interview was about LL Cool J, not Apple. And also, it was Apple which decided to save $20 per unit by no longer cutting in an Apple-shaped hole for laptop backlights.
And also, it was Apple which decided to save $20 per unit by no longer cutting in an Apple-shaped hole for laptop backlights.
Ah, I did wonder why they'd been done away with on the current models. It's really thoughtful of Apple to remove the backlight in order to reduce the prices of their laptops.
(I'm being sarcastic about the decision, just in case someone doesn't get it.)A couple of shots of journalist and author Bryce Corbett with his MacBook.
Special effects genius Phil Tippett plays around with stop-motion photography and records the session using a 13" 2011/2012 MBP.
Footage from Tippett's Mad God is viewed on the same machine:
A 13" 2011/12 MBP is used by Tippett and his colleagues whilst reviewing footage and working on optical effects for Star Wars: The Force Awakens:
Again, a 13' 2011/12 MBP is used by Tippett and co. for a stop-motion animation session:
Footage from Tippett's Mad God is viewed on the same machine:
A 13" 2011/12 MBP is used by Tippett and his colleagues whilst reviewing footage and working on optical effects for Star Wars: The Force Awakens:
Again, a 13' 2011/12 MBP is used by Tippett and co. for a stop-motion animation session:
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Or a 2009/2010 model. The only way to be sure is to look for Thunderbolt logo near that port.
And, the one in the 3rd picture has been dropped. Look at the top left corner of the display.
Unfortunately the images aren't clear enough for me to achieve that level of identification. This would require a visit to Tippett Studio's offices in Toronto and/or Berkeley. Which would be great fun!
And, the one in the 3rd picture has been dropped. Look at the top left corner of the display.
There's an image that I forgot to share that features one with a chip in the top-right hand corner. They've certainly seen some action during their time in service.
What's interesting is that one can see a date in 7th picture. "Star Wars Chess Sequence, Wednesday 02.25.15".
The cameras are from 2008 (EOS 5D Mark 2; 21 Megapixels) and 2010 (Canon EOS Rebel T2i, crop sensor, 18 Megapixels).
So much for 'rich guys' and 'latest and greatest'
What software are they using, btw? I'm not a video guy..
The cameras are from 2008 (EOS 5D Mark 2; 21 Megapixels) and 2010 (Canon EOS Rebel T2i, crop sensor, 18 Megapixels).
So much for 'rich guys' and 'latest and greatest'
What software are they using, btw? I'm not a video guy..
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It got me curious and I found it. Nothing custom or exotic. Not expensive either.
www.dragonframe.com
It seems quite interesting, so I'll probably demo it. Some of the features, especially those that might help with camera positioning, could be useful when shooting stills. (I do product photography now and then).
Dragonframe: Stop motion animation software for Mac/Win/Linux
Dragonframe is the industry standard stop motion app. Discover why it is the choice of major movie studios and independent filmmakers.
www.dragonframe.com
Or a 2009/2010 model. The only way to be sure is to look for Thunderbolt logo near that port.
And, the one in the 3rd picture has been dropped. Look at the top left corner of the display.
You can look at the function keys on the keyboard - the first one has a Dashboard icon on F4, so it’s probably not a 2012 unit since they replaced that dial with the 2x3 grid of Launchpad squares for Lion.
Sharp eye! 👀
The 2x3 grid for F4 was also a feature of all 2011 MBPs — both early and late editions. I remember the change when I replaced my mid-2009 with the early 2011. So this, indeed, ends up being the question of “is this unibody MBP from 2009–10 or 2011–12”? How the F4 key appears and the presence of a Thunderbolt icon (in lieu of a Mini DisplayPort icon) are, I think, the only two superficial tells between these two model cohorts.