Wall-E’s Eve: Descendant of iPod- 06.28.08
When at the Wall-E midnight showing on Thurs ~ walking out at nearly 3am, i felt like we were nearly venturing into the world of Wall-E as we lined up to feed the ticket in the machine to validate, then lined up in our cars again, sitting, idling, waiting to get out… and the other thing that stuck in my mind was ~ enough cross over Apple placement, Pixar? From the sound every time Wall-E had to reboot, to the ipod he played his movies on… and why was i SO drawn to Eve? And then i was reminded… Eve is a product of Jonathan Ives… Apple helped design the robots of the future… and remember the Automator icon? How cute is he? He looks like he might be Eve’s grandpa, they certainly have quite a few things in common ~ that glossy white skin, and that face looks like she could definitely have evolved from him! See many more images of them all on the next page ~ as well as some Eve icons for Adium.
You exactly point out what my thoughts were after seeing Wall-E, if it weren’t for our different taste in design. You see, you seem to like all teh white plastic with rounded corners-design that Apple wants to turn the whole world into. I despise that look. It reminds me of ‘80 style George Michael / Miami Vice-ish cheesy idea of ‘modern’.
I love to see metal parts, joints, bolts, cooling fans behind trellis work, yellow / black strips that warn you of danger in a certain zone. Stuff like that. And above all, i hate touchscreens & love tactile feedback.
Hail Wall-E, fuck Eve.
----- Vincent Laros 26.11.10 02:38