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.
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?
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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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....
But I will be even happier tomorrow when I order my new iMac!!!!
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 !
Kmac: Thanks for the sharp memory !
EDIT: just letting the slow people know that the above statement is sarcasm. Thanks.
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.
Think: what would do people that hasn't got an iPod with an iPod dock? Put Coke there?
Silly
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.
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!
All I know is that it's going to take a long time to draw this iMac G5 billboard by hand...
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.
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.
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...
[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.
Brilliant!