Stories in Digital Media (SIDM) was a blog run by a few students and the professor
Frieder Nake, part of the former
Digital Media programme in the state of Bremen, Germany. By the end of the first decade
of the millennium, the web and digital technology were advancing at an unprecedented pace
in the social and artistic sphere. Developments were exciting, and we kept a log of some
events and took time to reflect.
What you see here is a rendition of the content as it was back then, in a different,
static archival representation. Enjoy this glimpse into a hopeful and exciting past.
Stuff that may be relevant for the Digital Media programme in Bremen.
What you see here is the well-known Apple Wallpaper Aurora, the standard background in Mac OS X Leopard. Yeah, it's the first one, not the second. The second is a movie still from 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick's SciFi masterpiece from 1968, roundabout 40 years senior than the Apple wallpaper. I recently watched the movie for the 20th time and I came across this resemblance. (It's of course the sequence where Dave Bowman "evolves").
It's not only the color scheme and the diffusion of light which is incredibly similar. Have a look at the ratios, e.g. the amount of blue. The lavender is more dominant in the movie still, but somehow is the point of flight of both pictures center with their white light.
The question: was the Apple wallpaper ment to be as a hommage or is it a sneaky copy-cat? Did Apple speak about the similarity anywhere, anytime? And what about those cheesy stars in the Apple version, anyway?
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