MetaFilter posts tagged with Apple and art

Collect 'em all!

Blazecock Pileon — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:21:31 -0800

This is James Savage's spare room, which contains one hundred Apple computers. He has more than 150 in his house and all of them are working perfectly, from an Apple II+ and a Lisa to the latest MacBook Pro. (One entrant among many in Gizmodo's Best Computer Rig contest.)

Laser-etched PowerBooks

nthdegx — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 05:47:11 -0800

Laser-etched PowerBooks.

Parasitic Subway Projector

aladfar — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 07:45:10 -0800

Parasitic Subway Projector: High concept German art students cram a Mac mini and a projector into a suitcase and mount it to the side of a subway car with suction cups. The resulting images, projected onto the tunnel walls, make for a fascinating work of public art. [QuickTime] Link via: The Unofficial Mac Weblog

"Come on baby, buy my SUV"

PenguinBukkake — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 10:35:30 -0800

" Jim's ghost was in my ear, and I felt terrible". Like all top classic-rock franchises, The Doors can exploit a lucrative afterlife in television commercials. Offers keep coming in, such as the $15 million dangled by Cadillac last year to lease the song "Break On Through (to the Other Side)" to hawk its luxury SUVs. To the surprise of the corporation and the chagrin of his former bandmates, drummer John Densmore vetoed the idea. He said he did the same when Apple Computer called with a $4-million offer, and every time "some deodorant company wants to use 'Light My Fire.' "

Why the iPod looks clean.

Tlogmer — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 21:17:53 -0800

Why does the iPod look so clean?

kirkaracha — Wed, 23 Oct 2002 10:12:51 -0800

The Mac is a typewriter. The ElectriClerk combines a 1988 Mac SE with a 1923 Underwood typewriter to produce "a fully-functional retrofitted prop computer." (Hmmm...where have I seen this before?) [via dive into mark]