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Statue Honoring Steve Jobs Destined for Apple Headquarters Unveiled in Belgrade
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In my humble opinion, there is something deeply rooted down with this statue and it's meaning that we may never know. For whatever reason, the artist constructed this in its fashion, Apple is buying into a bigger scale version for its headquarters, and many responses are isolated to immediate reactions of its appearances, which I would almost bet was calculated by the artist and Apple if they had any say.
The beauty of it is, when we're long gone and passed away, that statue will still stand leaving people to wonder the same thing we ponder today. The difference is, we were able to LIVE during the Steve Jobs era (2nd-hand at least) while the future onlookers will only be able to interpret through books and videos and wonder why so many were opinionated enough to feel disgust about an art piece iconizing a key figure in technology. Soft you now...
The beauty of it is, when we're long gone and passed away, that statue will still stand leaving people to wonder the same thing we ponder today. The difference is, we were able to LIVE during the Steve Jobs era (2nd-hand at least) while the future onlookers will only be able to interpret through books and videos and wonder why so many were opinionated enough to feel disgust about an art piece iconizing a key figure in technology. Soft you now...
Yes, that's meant to be his head
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Yes, it's far better if you look at it with your eyes closed.
The head is actually well done and a fitting tribute to him. but the body?
Why this desire to immortalise Steve jobs at every chance. He had a huge ego no doubt, but all this is getting stupid.
Someone who pushed for simplicity would not want that *********** hideous thing to be how he is remembered. Just a simple plaque with him name, d.o.b and d.o.d on would probably be enough. Name the new Campus after him but please do not take delivery of that thing.
Why this desire to immortalise Steve jobs at every chance. He had a huge ego no doubt, but all this is getting stupid.
Someone who pushed for simplicity would not want that *********** hideous thing to be how he is remembered. Just a simple plaque with him name, d.o.b and d.o.d on would probably be enough. Name the new Campus after him but please do not take delivery of that thing.
Well , it certainly doesn't look like a cyrillic Ш .. It looks a lot more like E , but the letters look a lot like an old cyrillic alphabet. Steve Jobs was a lot into Kanji, that doesn't mean it has to be Eng. alphabet just because he was American. On that note , letters are "alphabetically universal" and old traditional font.
I would (and I think Steve,too) much more appreciate infamous HELVETICA. But it's boring and not subject to discussion.
While I myself am proud it comes from my country, Serbia, I would much more prefer if we could get the Appstore Serbia already.
That all being said, I think this sculputure is somewhat ugly, I would prefer much more sleek and symetrical design.
I do , by the way, already see people in Cupertino standing in front of it ,and thinking not AШ , but more like WTF.
That is to certain degree - a meaning of art.
Cyrillic letters? That thing on the right side is the € (EURO) symbol; it's located above everything else and probably is supposed to tell people that Steve cared more for money than for technology (the 0 and the 1).
That being said, this thing is extremely ugly.
Guess I'm not 'versed' in art enough, to appreciate the potential beauty of this 'draft' sculpture, but that's one fugly totem pole to my untrained eye.
Also that head looks more like a younger Richard Dreyfuss to me than SJ.
Also that head looks more like a younger Richard Dreyfuss to me than SJ.
dreadful dreadful dreadful dreadful.
oh dear, apple please don't do it. Such taste as a company, i'm hoping the comments were just being polite or feigning interest.
oh dear, apple please don't do it. Such taste as a company, i'm hoping the comments were just being polite or feigning interest.
