Black Panels uncovered.

[nsousansousa]

Bon Jour.
Je suis français et j'ai, malheureusemenrt, fait tomber les manteux noirs.
Excusez moi !




http://homepage.mac.com/nsousa/mockups/parisone2.jpg

[OrbitPink]

:???:

[MacsRGood4U]

Oh My!

What is that thing at the bottom left of the screen?

Is Black back? Leave it to Apple to pull something like this... or are we seeing one of the potential colors as Chameleon has arrived???? What's going on here? Who are these people. I want to know!

[Nebagakid]

dey looks like moonitors

with black and blue images... really ugly looking ones.:smokey: :smokey: :smokey: :smokey:

[OrbitPink]

Originally posted by MacsRGood4U
Oh My! ??? This can not be right.

[m01ety]

Please.... This is a poor hack-job. You can see that you cut-and-pasted the Cinema Display images over the black cover.

Look at the bottom-left of the cover. You missed some black there. Not to mention the top right, which also has part of the top cut off.

Plus, the colors are off. And my god, you can't even resize the images properly. It's way too jaggy.

Go home to Kansas, Dorothy. :rolleyes:

[craiger77]

seems like something docked to the lower left corners.

[audiopollution]

Can we at least get someone who is proficient with Photoshop to make some fakes?

[m01ety]

And why, pray tell, are the computers showing AI's site? At Apple Expo? :lol:

Any why is the thread title in English, and the post in French? This is pathetic. :no:

[Placebo]

You can tell that the whole thing is a banner, and I bet each of those screens has a Longhorn screenshot on it or something.

[farve]

Sloppy photoshop work.

Move on

[MacsRGood4U]

We've been hacked !!!!!!! Of course those aren't Panther screens, silly me. Great. Of course the banner could be for some vendor other then Apple. Maybe that's an iPod dock on the bottom left of the monitor.... I need some sleep.

[kcmac]

Good job nsousansousa.

That looks pretty close to your earlier mockup. Kept the iPod attachment on the side of the screen and made it dark.

Sweet.

I'm hoping for something better though. :lol:

[MacsRGood4U]

...and I'm not eating any more Portuguese sardines. So there!

[bborofka]

Originally posted by audiopollution
Can we at least get someone who is proficient with Photoshop to make some fakes?

http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~bborofka/imacg5.png

[nsousansousa]

Originally posted by farve
Sloppy photoshop work.

Move on

Et ça ? C'est Photoshop aussi ?

http://homepage.mac.com/nsousa/mockups/photothis2.jpg

[TWinbrook46636]

Amazingly the straps holding the black tarp down are still holding it in place, only the black tarp itself has become invisible! :rolleyes:

[OrbitPink]

The funny thing is, the banners still have ropes on them, the ropes that would be used to harness the black cloth.

[OrbitPink]

Originally posted by TWinbrook46636
Amazingly the straps holding the black tarp down are still holding it in place, only the black tarp itself has become invisible! :rolleyes: Great minds think alike...or something.:)

[Ensign Pulver]

I know this is Temporary Insanity and everything, but has AI just devolved into some ridiculous teen-age fake photo competition? It wasn't funny when philbot did it and now we have entire threads dedicated to this garbage?

Hello, mods?

[Stoo]

Don't worry, it'll all be over soon. Until next time. :D

[pscates]

Ensign Pulver is right. It's not even cute or funny. Every dipwad with Photoshop Elements and no homework left to do has been unleashed the past 24 hours. :err:

[kcmac]

Ya know. The mods create this little insanity playground when necessary for this type of activity. You can always change the station for awhile.

More fun in here for now. Enjoy this brief moment in time. Tomorrow, people will be whining about how crappy Apple is.

I would rather be here in lalaland....:lol:

But I will be even happier tomorrow when I order my new iMac!!!!

[nsousansousa]

Originally posted by Ensign Pulver
I know this is Temporary Insanity and everything, but has AI just devolved into some ridiculous teen-age fake photo competition? It wasn't funny when philbot did it and now we have entire threads dedicated to this garbage?

Hello, mods?

You're right. It was a bad, stupid joke.
Sorry all ! :rolleyes:

Kmac: Thanks for the sharp memory ! :)

[murbot]

That is the funniest motherfucking thing I have ever seen in my life.

EDIT: just letting the slow people know that the above statement is sarcasm. Thanks.

[pscates]

kcmac, you've got it backwards. The conditions don't create the section, it's the other way around. Give people a place to act like dicks, and, mostly likely, they will. No one truly loses control and composure prior to a keynote...it's just expected (and, in a way, encouraged).

Actually, if they were good fakes, done with some flair AND (here's the worst part) kinda done tongue-in-cheek and letting everyone know it's a put-on, that wouldn't be bad. Those are fun and everyone's in on it together, like that one Kasper posted. You know, going in, it's a goof.

Think The Onion.com, and not MOSR. Huge difference.

But a lot of people have found inspiration in Philbot's little stunt and are approaching it in a way that guarantees people get irked.

[zon7]

Yes. That's an iMac G5 with dock and I'm Napoleon.
Think: what would do people that hasn't got an iPod with an iPod dock? Put Coke there?
Silly

[audiopollution]

I'd just like to know at what point in time these banners get installed and then subsequently covered with the black tarps? It's not like they were shipped in pre-assembled and covered already.

There's always pre-show 'spy' photos of any Apple event. After numerous pre-expo/pre-macworld/pre-wwdc rumour frenzies you'd think that those banners would have been caught before they'd been tarped at one time or another.

Sure wish I knew how to get into the Akamai image servers.

[OrbitPink]

They probably shipped those in large trucks, which parked inside, on the show floor, then were assembled and draped with that black covering.

[OrbitPink]

Originally posted by zon7
Yes. That's an iMac G5 with dock and I'm Napoleon.
Think: what would do people that hasn't got an iPod with an iPod dock? Put Coke there?
Silly Kind of ridiculous logic, do I put belly-button lint in my extra USB port because I don't have a digital camera? Hell no, that's where I put my boogers!:wow:

:p

[TWinbrook46636]

All I know is that it's going to take a long time to draw this iMac G5 billboard by hand...

http://www.macobserver.com/gallery_albums/appleexpo1/IMG_0201.jpg

[kcmac]

Originally posted by pscates
kcmac, you've got it backwards. The conditions don't create the section, it's the other way around. Give people a place to act like dicks, and, mostly likely, they will. No one truly loses control and composure prior to a keynote...it's just expected (and, in a way, encouraged).

Actually, if they were good fakes, done with some flair AND (here's the worst part) kinda done tongue-in-cheek and letting everyone know it's a put-on, that wouldn't be bad. Those are fun and everyone's in on it together, like that one Kasper posted. You know, going in, it's a goof.

Think The Onion.com, and not MOSR. Huge difference.

But a lot of people have found inspiration in Philbot's little stunt and are approaching it in a way that guarantees people get irked.

Yes. I agree with you and Ensign. It can get a little out of hand. I think the longer you are with these boards the more of a bother this is. (I don't post a lot but I hang around quite a bit.)

It is almost impossible to pull of a great prank. It takes a lot of thought and effort.

What kills me however, is the pranks, like philbots which just don't make sense from the start and still keep going. Even when philbot caved in, there were still people that thought it could be real. (And I'm not beating on philbot here.)

So that is the stuff that bothers me about what could be fun. Recognize it and move on. People want to believe so bad that they lose their common sense.

I am trying to figure out if the pranks or the people that want to believe them cause you the most angst. For me it is the latter.

[monkeyastronaut]

Dang, just a few more hours. Keep the fakes coming!

[curiousuburb]

And might I suggest that future 'serious' attempts follow Apple design a bit more?

Gigantic side-by-side billboards all showing the same single image? No.
( At the very least, they'd show the 17" and 20" models... two images. Think. )

One long line of marketing copy next to one carefully selected image? Yep. (Tiger banner)

One campaign of several-riffs-on-a-theme presented in series? Yep. See iPod posters.

If you're going to spoof, be subtle (pscates does some very professional looking mockups with lots of attention to detail, including fonts and feel that demand a second look to tell if it isn't from the fruit company), or garish (bigfoot) but execute either seamlessly and you'll win grudging respect.

Sorry, been grading design projects all day and am still in critique mode.
<* pours scotch *>
Hmm... still looks rushed and ill conceived. ;) :p

[costique]

Originally posted by TWinbrook46636
All I know is that it's going to take a long time to draw this iMac G5 billboard by hand...:lol: Excellent! Thanks a lot.

[rogerborn]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by nsousansousa
[B]Bon Jour.
Je suis français et j'ai, malheureusemenrt, fait tomber les manteux noirs.
Excusez moi !

Do not continue to speculate about these images, as to whether or not they are photoshopped or real iMac images.

You folks have to understand.

These images are just for the French, and nobody else.

(think about it.)

They have nothing to do with the new iMacs.

Regards,
Roger Born
writing.borngraphics.com
Sorry. No Refunds.

[johnq]

http://www.nullface.com/ai/punishment.jpg

[Razororg]

PMSL

Brilliant!

[m01ety]

Instant classic. :D

[Razororg]

Hp are demonstrating a new high speed large format printing solution...

:p

[radiospace]

LOL, that's awesome.

[powermacG6]

JohnQ

Best pic EVER!!!!:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[vinney57]

That's genius JohnQ