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Statue Honoring Steve Jobs Destined for Apple Headquarters Unveiled in Belgrade
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Abominable
I've been a long time MacRumors member / reader. I haven't posted in a while, preferring just to visit every few days to catch up on All Things Apple and leaving the discussions to the new generation of enthusiasts. (Thank you, MacRumors, for still being here and having a healthy, growing, and great community.)
That being said, I actually went through the hoops tonight (had to change my password, it's been a while!) to log in and post on this bit of news - it's as if I couldn't help myself, I was so compelled to join the vast majority of you, in solidarity and fellowship, and in some hope that our friends at Apple do come here and read this fine and stalwart publication, to say for the love of the FlyingSpaghettiMonster, please - PLEASE do NOT bring this abomination to fruition.
I'd rather see headquarters carve out a space where folks could come by and watch an audio-animatronic version of Steve such as The Lincoln Show at Disneyland - as crazy and kitsch as that sounds, god knows it'd be preferable to this lump of stick with crap jutting out of it.
(shaking my head sadly back and forth)
I've been a long time MacRumors member / reader. I haven't posted in a while, preferring just to visit every few days to catch up on All Things Apple and leaving the discussions to the new generation of enthusiasts. (Thank you, MacRumors, for still being here and having a healthy, growing, and great community.)
That being said, I actually went through the hoops tonight (had to change my password, it's been a while!) to log in and post on this bit of news - it's as if I couldn't help myself, I was so compelled to join the vast majority of you, in solidarity and fellowship, and in some hope that our friends at Apple do come here and read this fine and stalwart publication, to say for the love of the FlyingSpaghettiMonster, please - PLEASE do NOT bring this abomination to fruition.
I'd rather see headquarters carve out a space where folks could come by and watch an audio-animatronic version of Steve such as The Lincoln Show at Disneyland - as crazy and kitsch as that sounds, god knows it'd be preferable to this lump of stick with crap jutting out of it.
(shaking my head sadly back and forth)
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This should be the statue they make.
or this
Nuff said.
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Actually he wouldn't. It doesn't follow Apple's simplistic design. He'd never want that. Should have let Ive design something.
I'm so used to seeing creepy statues being approved, that I'm very much, "well of course" about this one. I've also seen some pretty weird things at art shows I've showcased my own stuff in.
I think they wanted it to be symbolic, but at the same time they didn't want people running to go see it, which is already an issue with other famous statues. It's a small piece that is just there to become a part of whatever it's going to sit at, not something for a million people to go take selfies and Instagram pictures with. It's a workplace after all.
The way I see it... The numbers and alphabets represent products and new versions of OSX/iOS. The guy was always on about some crazy new thing at his keynotes. Magnetized of course because we always saw him pull out said products at the announcement and those are somewhat iconic moments.
I think they wanted it to be symbolic, but at the same time they didn't want people running to go see it, which is already an issue with other famous statues. It's a small piece that is just there to become a part of whatever it's going to sit at, not something for a million people to go take selfies and Instagram pictures with. It's a workplace after all.
The way I see it... The numbers and alphabets represent products and new versions of OSX/iOS. The guy was always on about some crazy new thing at his keynotes. Magnetized of course because we always saw him pull out said products at the announcement and those are somewhat iconic moments.
Mmm... PEZ.
The overwhelming majority says otherwise. This isn't art. This piece doesn't invoke any positive feelings of the man or his legacy... nor does it symbolize Apple's design ethic (much less Steve's). It looks cold and void of emotion. How this unimaginative piece of garbage got chosen from 10,000 entries is beyond me. I can't even imagine having to walk by this thing every day. It's horrifying, to be quite honest... and it's going to be 15 feet tall. You can't sit there with a straight face and tell me there aren't about a million other statues that could've been made that would've been far more appropriate and pleasing to the eye and a respectful nod to Steve than this thing. I still can't believe this isn't a joke. This statue literally looks like Monster Steve.
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This is a highly successful piece of modern art.
It fulfills the ultimate criteria. 90%+ of people hate it.
It fulfills the ultimate criteria. 90%+ of people hate it.
Weird thing about art is that it depends on taste. I like and understand art enough and consider this bust a POS artistically. Why don't you enlightening us w/ your knowledge on why it's beautiful from an art perspective? I bet you are a sucker for those new Gehry works of 'art' too.
This statue gives a whole new meaning to megalomania.
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You should do you homework again, that's not a criteria for art.
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Nope, I don't like this statue as well but you're talking nonsens here with all do respect. Art is in the eye of the beholder, not something that's been defined by a majority of votes. You're illustrating my point by giving your 'personal' approach to it, but your approach it's not the same as a definition.
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You should do you homework again, that's not a criteria for art.
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Nope, I don't like this statue as well but you're talking nonsens here with all do respect. Art is in the eye of the beholder, not something that's been defined by a majority of votes. You're illustrating my point by giving your 'personal' approach to it, but your approach it's not the same as a definition.
It's a giant PEZ dispenser with some numbers on it and what looks like gnarled limbs covered in plague jutting out the sides. Also, the placement of the 1 and 0 looks like male genitalia. Truly a remarkable blunder of human imagination. Beauty in regards to this piece does not compute.
Anyone's perspective is highly irrelevant in this context. Next to the fact that 'anyone' is arbitrary to put it mildly, since there are people who do like it, it's by no means a definition if something is art or not based on popularity of a piece.
If popularity would be the criteria of art then art wouldn't exist to begin with. Again, you're mixing up your personal approach with what you consider to be a fact, art is in the eye of the beholder, simple.
I do agree that this thing is ugly from my own point of view, but that does't make it 'not art'. It's nothing more then my 'humble' opinion.
The question is: is modern art (really) art, or is it B$? (A phrase taken from a movie.)
Of course, maybe too abstract forms of art might eventually fail to communicate their message.
A younger Steve Jobs would perhaps have been more appropriate here, also.
Of course, maybe too abstract forms of art might eventually fail to communicate their message.
A younger Steve Jobs would perhaps have been more appropriate here, also.
fixed it.
The second I saw this statue I IMMEDIATELY thought of this. It's from the 80s movie Dreamscape with Dennis Quaid and Christopher Plummer.
Sorry, but that's just what flashed in my mind.
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The thing is ugly, that is a fact.
I agree it's ugly, and the only fact in this is that we agree on that, not that it's ugly as a fact. It's just our opinion, nothing more nothing less..
Some think different, about this. That sound's familiar in Apple's context
