Apple sets free the Intel-Chip 11.01.2006
For our English speaking visitors: I saw a lot of Apple iBooks and PowerBooks at the 22. Chaos Communication Congress and I ever so often see them at the Chaos Computer Club Berlin, trying to outnumber the IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads, which still hold a tight majority at the CCCB - including mine :-)))
You all heard of the new partnership between Apple and Intel and yesterday Apple-CEO Steve Jobs introduced the first-ever Intel-Computers and -Laptops from Apple at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco. A new ad was shown to the audience, which can be watched at the website or downloaded here.
The Music used in this ad is from the 1995 motion picture “Heat” [Wikipedia] from writer-director Michael Mann, which marked the first onscreen pairing of leading actors Robert De Niro and Al Pacino. It is the last title on the O.S.T. called “God Moving Over The Face Of The Waters” - I’m not going to comment this regarding Apple and Intel ;-)
The ambient piece was performed by Moby (published for example on his album “Everything Is Wrong”) other artists on that soundtrack are Brian Eno, Eric Clapton, William Orbit, Terje Rypdal or Einstürzende Neubauten and the original film score is by Elliot Goldenthal.
When I first saw it on the silver screen, I was overwhelmed by the colours, lighting, camera movement and the music (watch it only in a movie theatre or very good home cinema system, otherwise you will not experience it) of this crime thriller, melancholy ballad, saga, etc. and when I read the reviews and comments from other people, it seems that I’m not the only one who felt like this.
Something completely different, but netherless recommendable is todays podcasting of one of Germanys widely known Weblogger, Johnny Haeusler from Spreeblick. While normaly podcasting in German language, he imitated yesterdays Keynote of Steve Jobs in English and is - as usually - applauded by an enthusing audience - including me ;-)
You can find the Hyperlink to this MP3-File in the Weblink-Section below.
And that’s all for this time folks, CongressRadio will continue podcasting all recorded Interviews in the next days, so subscribe our Weblog- and/or our Podcasting-RSS-Feed and stay tuned!
Weblinks:
- Download Intel Apple Ad (QuickTime MOV-File, 5.44 MB)
- Intel Apple Ad (MOV-File loading in Website): http://www.apple.com/intel/ads/
- Quotes from the movie “Heat”
- Download “Heat”-Theatrical Trailer (via FTP, low-res Quicktime MOV-File, 5.4 MB) or download “Heat”-Movie-List Trailer (high-res Quicktime MOV-File, 37 MB)
- Johnny Haeusler doing a Steve-Jobs-alike Keynote in his daily Podcast (3.28 MB): http://www.spreeblick.com/podcast/spreeblick060111.mp3
- Keynote Steve Jobs at Macworld Expo SF 2006
- Podcast-RSS-Feed
Update 1: Leander Kahney, author of “The Cult of Mac” and “Cult of iPod”, reported at the Wired Magazin Weblog today, that the new Apple-ad about “setting free the Intel chip” strongly reminds of the musicvideo “Such Great Heights” by an indietronic band called “The Postal Service” [Wikipedia] (featuring singer Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie and producer Jimmy Tamborello of Dntel, Headset and Figurine).
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