Tibet + China’s Olympics
March 20th, 2008 by Olivier
by Marko
IT CEOs with pasta names
March 8th, 2008 by Olivier
- IBM: Sam Parmigiano Pamisano
- Intel: Paul Tortellini Otellini
Lamp Poles
March 8th, 2008 by Olivier
A photo from Nine Inch Nails (that’s 12 stacked MacBook Air) Ghosts album reminds me of one I took a while ago. I tried to make my lamp pole look like a gentle mechanical bird trying to escape Earth, theirs is more like a slick terminator, more beautiful too…
Marko + Mike Oldfield, remixed
March 7th, 2008 by Olivier
Apple stickers
January 21st, 2008 by Olivier
Gathered, if I remember well, from my Mac LC (’90), PowerBook 270c (’92), Power Mac 6200 (’95), iBook SE (’99), Power Mac G4 (’99), PowerBook G4 (’02), PowerBook G4 12.1″ (’03), iPod (’03), Power Mac G5 (’04), iPod (’05), MacBook (’06), iPod nano (’06), iPhone (’07), iMac (’07).
Good artists copy. Great artists steal.
January 7th, 2008 by Olivier
| Superstition Stevie Wonder 1972 |
= | Sledgehammer Peter Gabriel 1986 |
| The Revolution Chris de Burgh 1982 |
= | Revolutions Jean-Michel Jarre 1988 |
| Echoes Pink Floyd 1971 |
= | The Phantom of the Opera Andrew Lloyd Webber 1986 |
Detectives comparison
December 21st, 2007 by Olivier
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A very brief history of product naming
December 7th, 2007 by Olivier
Paradoxically, the more digital our environment becomes, the less digits we use to name our creations. I guess marketing decided so.
- Concerto No. 21 in C, K. 467 … The Dark Side of the Moon
- 98746.3547@compuserve.com … mikeo@yahoo.com
- Macintosh 512K … iMac
- R2-D2 … Sojourner
- Windows 3.11 … Windows Vista
- RS232 … FireWire
- Intel 4004 … Intel Xeon
- C++ … Java
- Ford Model T … Ford Mustang
- Nicholas II … Vladimir Putin
