I think it would be cool to follow around Steve Jobs or the process of designing a product... Like, the documentary team could be internal and it could follow the life of the product development from initial conception to finally brought into the stores.,,,
<strong>I think it would be cool to follow around Steve Jobs or the process of designing a product... Like, the documentary team could be internal and it could follow the life of the product development from initial conception to finally brought into the stores.,,,</strong><hr></blockquote>
Man, I've thought that SO many times too! That would be really incredible.
More specifically, I'd give my left lung to see some of Ive's initial sketches and prototypes, particularly of the iMac and iBook!
:eek:
What a cookie jar of insight and info THAT would be!
Whoever puts out a coffee table book of "Apple's iDesign" (hehe) gets my money.
But yeah, an actual "behind the scenes" documentary that shows the life of a product, from initial inception through design/prototype stages to testing to marketing to Macworld keynote unveiling would be AWESOME!
<strong>I think it would be cool to follow around Steve Jobs or the process of designing a product... Like, the documentary team could be internal and it could follow the life of the product development from initial conception to finally brought into the stores.</strong><hr></blockquote>
That would be awesome...but we all know it could never happen.
On a related note, I wonder why A&E hasn't done an episode of Biography on Steve Jobs. I mean, they did Bill Gates and Woz. (And Scott McNealy too, I think.) Why not Steve Jobs?
Who cares - except SOME of the Mac-using public - what the @$%! a 970 even IS?
Some of you have made this the end-all/be-all for Apple, and while I'm sure it's cool (and may shut some of you tower-using spec freaks up for a while), fact is no one else outside our little community could give a shit.
Jobs would be featured on "60 Minutes" or the like over something like and overall Apple comeback/success story, sure. But NOT over their coming out with new towers based on some new chip that 93% of the population knows, or cares, nothing about.
But, having said all that, I think it would be nice for "60 Minutes" or "Dateline NBC" or one of those shows to do a nice profile on Jobs and Apple, focusing on the iEra and all the cool stuff they've done since Jobs' return to Apple.
<strong>I bet when the 970 is released, or about to be released, Steve Jobs will be featured on 60 minutes or something.
As far as the documentary goes, F*** PBS! I'll do it!</strong><hr></blockquote>
Although you might not want to be featured on 60 minutes:
Tonight, the scandal behind Apple Computer Corps. Power Mac development. Are American consumers being ripped off by billionair Steve Jobs? Could your family be at risk of recieiving an underpowered PC? Stay tuned to watch 60 Minutes go under cover to reveal the shocking secrets behind America's best loved technology company.
MTV hasn't got a clue when it comes to documentaries. I could feel my attention span rapidly shortening by the sheer number of short, quick shots that are in MTV Cribs.
"Wwwwaawaaait.. What did that kitchen look like again?"
Conceivably, an MTV documentary could play to Apple's advantage by skipping over those less than desirable years with an almost montage-like rapid sequence of shots.
"Oh! There's goes Apple's doom and gloom years.. Now on to the iMac."
<strong>MTV hasn't got a clue when it comes to documentaries. I could feel my attention span rapidly shortening by the sheer number of short, quick shots that are in MTV Cribs.
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Yeah, Cribs sucks. But Diary isn't bad. I really liked the diary of Jason Kidd that was on last week.
When I watch MTV, I realize just exactly how much of an old fart I possibly am.
It's changed SO much from what it was when I was EmAn's and Shawn's age. The city I lived in (Chattanooga, TN) got MTV in 1982 and I was in 7th grade...maybe 8th.
Anyway, it was this wild, exotic channel with all these odd-looking people playing cool, new-sounding music.
Those here who are 20 and under simply grew up with MTV, but before it, all you heard on local radio - in my town - was Lynard Skynard, Boston, Foreigner and Foghat. Oh, and REO Speedwagon every 11 #$@$^ minutes.
I knew next to nothing about what else might be out there, musically.
Suddenly, I'm running home from the school bus drop-off point so I can see that crazy Stray Cats video (that HAIR!), some Australian band called Men At Work, this goofy bunch of guys with red plastic hats called Devo. Not to mention Cyndi Lauper, Elvis Costello, Duran Duran, The Go-Go's, Adam & the Ants, Madness, INXS (yeah, VERY early stuff from them!) and tons others.
All these performers were so new and fresh. And the funky hair from all those British bands was a total hoot! And the clothes and the instruments and the silliness (and the artistry) of some of the videos was just captivating in every way.
It was all so new, fresh and different I guess.
They'd have Saturday night concerts at 11pm (live performances...where I first saw Huey Lewis and the News ) and on Sundays they had a show called "120 Minutes", where I first became aware of "alternative" music and bands like R.E.M., Let's Active, X, The Pogues, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Plimsouls, U2 (believe it or not!), etc.
So from 7th grade on throughout high school, THAT was the thing. The records I bought, the clothes I wore, the silly haircuts I experimented with, etc. all stemmed directly from the cool things I saw on MTV.
Seems like an entire lifetime ago. But at one point, it played EVERYTHING: from Michael Jackson (in his cool "Thriller" days) to Van Halen...and ALL points in between. With very little filler or fluff. Just wall-to-wall music.
It was awesome!
I flip by there now and it's game shows, reality shows, "issues" programs, award shows, fashion shows, "making of" documentaries, celebrity profiles and interviews, shows about current movies, etc. Basically everything BUT music videos.
And when they DO actually get around to playing a video, it's usually something so rotten and unlistenable that I just go "yeah...whatever...".
I know I've gotten older and all, but MTV has changed a lot too. I know they have that sister station that pretty much plays videos, but I don't get that channel (no one does, as far as I know!). Seems they should stick all that other shit on that and let the original MTV just - gasp! - play music!
I sure miss that 120 minutes <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" /> They still showed it back in '99 if i remember correctly. But now it's gone and there's nothing good on MTV anymore... except the Osbornes of course
Instead, I see show after show of overwrought, hyper-drama by a bunch of 20-year-olds who can't go half a sentence without saying "like" 7-10 times while obsessing on relationships and wondering where to get their next piercing.
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<strong>I think it would be cool to follow around Steve Jobs or the process of designing a product... Like, the documentary team could be internal and it could follow the life of the product development from initial conception to finally brought into the stores.,,,
That would be so ****in awesome!
More specifically, I'd give my left lung to see some of Ive's initial sketches and prototypes, particularly of the iMac and iBook!
:eek:
What a cookie jar of insight and info THAT would be!
Whoever puts out a coffee table book of "Apple's iDesign" (hehe) gets my money.
But yeah, an actual "behind the scenes" documentary that shows the life of a product, from initial inception through design/prototype stages to testing to marketing to Macworld keynote unveiling would be AWESOME!
Quick...somebody make this happen! Please?
<strong>I think it would be cool to follow around Steve Jobs or the process of designing a product... Like, the documentary team could be internal and it could follow the life of the product development from initial conception to finally brought into the stores.</strong><hr></blockquote>
That would be awesome...but we all know it could never happen.
On a related note, I wonder why A&E hasn't done an episode of Biography on Steve Jobs. I mean, they did Bill Gates and Woz. (And Scott McNealy too, I think.) Why not Steve Jobs?
As far as the documentary goes, F*** PBS! I'll do it!
Who cares - except SOME of the Mac-using public - what the @$%! a 970 even IS?
Some of you have made this the end-all/be-all for Apple, and while I'm sure it's cool (and may shut some of you tower-using spec freaks up for a while), fact is no one else outside our little community could give a shit.
Jobs would be featured on "60 Minutes" or the like over something like and overall Apple comeback/success story, sure. But NOT over their coming out with new towers based on some new chip that 93% of the population knows, or cares, nothing about.
But, having said all that, I think it would be nice for "60 Minutes" or "Dateline NBC" or one of those shows to do a nice profile on Jobs and Apple, focusing on the iEra and all the cool stuff they've done since Jobs' return to Apple.
I could see that.
<strong>I bet when the 970 is released, or about to be released, Steve Jobs will be featured on 60 minutes or something.
As far as the documentary goes, F*** PBS! I'll do it!</strong><hr></blockquote>
Although you might not want to be featured on 60 minutes:
Tonight, the scandal behind Apple Computer Corps. Power Mac development. Are American consumers being ripped off by billionair Steve Jobs? Could your family be at risk of recieiving an underpowered PC? Stay tuned to watch 60 Minutes go under cover to reveal the shocking secrets behind America's best loved technology company.
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That would be so ****in awesome!</strong><hr></blockquote>
Well that's just because you wanna be Jobs' bitch
"Wwwwaawaaait.. What did that kitchen look like again?"
Conceivably, an MTV documentary could play to Apple's advantage by skipping over those less than desirable years with an almost montage-like rapid sequence of shots.
"Oh! There's goes Apple's doom and gloom years.. Now on to the iMac."
<strong>MTV hasn't got a clue when it comes to documentaries. I could feel my attention span rapidly shortening by the sheer number of short, quick shots that are in MTV Cribs.
</strong><hr></blockquote>
Yeah, Cribs sucks. But Diary isn't bad. I really liked the diary of Jason Kidd that was on last week.
It's changed SO much from what it was when I was EmAn's and Shawn's age. The city I lived in (Chattanooga, TN) got MTV in 1982 and I was in 7th grade...maybe 8th.
Anyway, it was this wild, exotic channel with all these odd-looking people playing cool, new-sounding music.
Those here who are 20 and under simply grew up with MTV, but before it, all you heard on local radio - in my town - was Lynard Skynard, Boston, Foreigner and Foghat. Oh, and REO Speedwagon every 11 #$@$^ minutes.
I knew next to nothing about what else might be out there, musically.
Suddenly, I'm running home from the school bus drop-off point so I can see that crazy Stray Cats video (that HAIR!), some Australian band called Men At Work, this goofy bunch of guys with red plastic hats called Devo. Not to mention Cyndi Lauper, Elvis Costello, Duran Duran, The Go-Go's, Adam & the Ants, Madness, INXS (yeah, VERY early stuff from them!) and tons others.
All these performers were so new and fresh. And the funky hair from all those British bands was a total hoot! And the clothes and the instruments and the silliness (and the artistry) of some of the videos was just captivating in every way.
It was all so new, fresh and different I guess.
They'd have Saturday night concerts at 11pm (live performances...where I first saw Huey Lewis and the News
So from 7th grade on throughout high school, THAT was the thing. The records I bought, the clothes I wore, the silly haircuts I experimented with, etc. all stemmed directly from the cool things I saw on MTV.
Seems like an entire lifetime ago. But at one point, it played EVERYTHING: from Michael Jackson (in his cool "Thriller" days) to Van Halen...and ALL points in between. With very little filler or fluff. Just wall-to-wall music.
It was awesome!
I flip by there now and it's game shows, reality shows, "issues" programs, award shows, fashion shows, "making of" documentaries, celebrity profiles and interviews, shows about current movies, etc. Basically everything BUT music videos.
And when they DO actually get around to playing a video, it's usually something so rotten and unlistenable that I just go "yeah...whatever...".
I know I've gotten older and all, but MTV has changed a lot too. I know they have that sister station that pretty much plays videos, but I don't get that channel (no one does, as far as I know!). Seems they should stick all that other shit on that and let the original MTV just - gasp! - play music!
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I sure miss that 120 minutes <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" /> They still showed it back in '99 if i remember correctly. But now it's gone and there's nothing good on MTV anymore... except the Osbornes of course
My Bloody Valentine, Charlatans, Slowdive, Verve etc.
Oh the golden years of 91-93
But in general, MTV sucks.
[ 01-20-2003: Message edited by: EmAn ]</p>
Instead, I see show after show of overwrought, hyper-drama by a bunch of 20-year-olds who can't go half a sentence without saying "like" 7-10 times while obsessing on relationships and wondering where to get their next piercing.
"The Real World" my ass.
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More specifically, I'd give my left lung to see some of Ive's initial sketches and prototypes, particularly of the iMac and iBook!
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pscates,
I'll private message you my address so you can send me your left lung, I'd prefer the right though.