Call off the dogs!
That last post was a total fake. Not that it’s not completely obvious or anything…
So last night i had about an hour of free time before my girl got home, and i’ve been mulling this “MacTower” spoof idea around for a while. (what’s really lame is that i’ve had the faint spoof concept for a week or two, and have been wanting a computer like the one i made up for a few months, and the BEST i could come up with was the name “MacTower” haha.) So i went to apple’s site and started grabbing some pictures and copying font info. about 15 minutes later i had a photoshop full of crappy mock-ads. …so with my phone i took pictures of them on my screen to make them into the obligatory “blurry cameraphone pictures.”
I only really had enough time/energy/sprite to Photoshop a single (poor) fake, and just stick it in different scenarios. It’s not like there weren’t already plenty of red flags already up. whatever: it’s my first (and probably only) fake apple rumor, i wasn’t all that concerned with it being totally believable.
Then i realized i needed somewhere to post said rumor, so i through together this blog. i was too lazy to even fill it up with a few fake posts… but this rumor being convincing wasn’t really the point. i just thought it’d be fun.
Then the comments start flying in: and i have to say, what i thought was a little fun certainly pissed some people off! any remotely-reasonable comment i let through, the nasty and hyper-angry name calling and death-threat ones i deleted. (though now that i’m writing this, i realize i should have accepted them so anyone reading this post could see the crazies in action.)
Something else that’s interesting to me is how astute some people are! some people are willing to do nearly as much looking in to what i may have done as i spent actually doing it! it’s kind of impressive.
…oh, and throughout this post are the “source files” of the cameraphone pictures. Now, with clean images, you can find even more wrong with the fakes. how about that the faint internal fan of the machine dips too low and would hit the enclosure? :P
NOTE: to all you haters and crazies, calm down. it’s all in good fun. …and to all you “ThIs FaKE is the gaYest evar!” people, go right on ahead and make a better one. It’s fun, easy, and a sociological shocker. :)
Nice… So I can stop harassing you now? *wink*
You certainly attracted some media attention. Congratz! Engadget aswell! Geez! I could do with that kind of advertising!
Delta Taph - September 11th, 2006 at 1:52 pm
this is better..
STUPID PHOTO - September 13th, 2006 at 7:54 am
Well, I’m glad to see that you plan to continue with your blog. I’m sure that people will start arriving. Thanks for letting me interview you and post it on my site. So yeah… I’ll see you Jeff! If anyone would like to see the interview, go here; http://globa-tech.blogspot.com/2006/09/september-18-mactower-interview.html
Delta Taph - September 19th, 2006 at 12:27 pm