Comments on: Monsters in the Apple Lobby – Video Clip

By: Macaholic

Macaholic — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 16:46:13 +0000

Hey folks! I apologize in advance for this waste of your bandwidth, but something just dawned on me when I read this page:

These characters’ names are “Mike” and “Scully”. Given that Steve Jobs — cofounder of Apple — is the CEO of Pixar, could these names have been chosen as a tacit reference to Mike Markkula and John Scully??

Coincidence??

By: Pierce

Pierce — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:15:39 +0000

Cool – what were those figures made of? The eye looks almost like glass.

Also was the Apple Campus lobby a “busy” place usually. Were there lots of people milling about in it or was it just used a a “corridor” to get from A to B. I read somewhere that at Pixar Steve had wanted to make sure that the huge lobby would always be busy by building only 1 set of toilets in the whole campus, which would come off the lobby therefore people would have to go to the lobby. Anyway, the story said that he finally relented.

P.S. Just wondering did Steve have much input into the design of the Apple campus. To me it does not look nearly as elegant as the Apple Stores for example but that may just be the way it comes out in photos. Also his design tastes have obviously developed. I was looking back at some pictures of the original iMac and they looked so old fashioned with the grey pinstripes!

P.P.S. I thought some of you might be interested to see Mike presenting at a Keynote. I found a 2002 keynote that includes him. If you go to “apfelwiki.de/wiki/Main/SteveNotes”, scroll down to 2002 and select the first keynote of 2002 (MacWorld San Francisco). Click “real-stream” to watch it (unfortunately in real player). Mike is in it fairly near the beginning – it is one of the last apps that steve invites someone (in this case mike) to demonstrate running on OS X. BTW I was impressed Mike!

By: Mike Evangelist

Mike Evangelist — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 12:38:36 +0000

Anonymous – Yes, definitely a ‘bonus’ DVD with photos and video clips.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 07:38:01 +0000

I know that you are planning to publish your writings as a book, but what do you plan for these video clips? Perhaps a supplemental DVD?

By: Mike Evangelist

Mike Evangelist — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 21:56:38 +0000

Joshua – Steve pays attention to many details, so I would not have been surprised if he knew all about it.

By: Joshua Coventry

Joshua Coventry — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 19:06:19 +0000

I wouldn’t have expected Steve to know the costs, after all even if it was Pixar that organized that he wouldn’t know – he’s a CEO, not the marketing guy, he never sees the figures – only if he wants to.

By: Mike Evangelist

Mike Evangelist — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 17:15:59 +0000

Michael & Diego – I found much more video from inside Infinite Loop that I’ll be posting as I get time to edit it.

By: diego

diego — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 17:01:36 +0000

Very nice, Mike.
I’m with Michael, I’d like to see all inside the campus.

Mike, I was seeing NBA All Star last night and seeing the famous I love this game.

So I love much more this site!!!! Each day I enter here expecting to see with what thing you surprise me.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 06:20:06 +0000

Those are really nice models. I like the fact that the eye is so detailed. I don’t quite remember the tables off to the right with umbrellas when I made my visit this year. I guess you wouldn’t know either way.

I love the campus, I really would like to see more imagery from inside.

By: Smittie

Smittie — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 03:12:34 +0000

Cool video, Mike. I’d forgotten about that. That was kind of cool. I wish I had the presence of mind to take more pictures of things that are significant like that.

Aloha