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東京の中でも最先端のファッションと若者文化の行き交う街、渋谷。
ここ渋谷にもアップル直営店（日本で４番目にできた店舗）が今年オープンし、イベントがあるごとに
賑わいと話題が絶えません。
そんな渋谷駅のプラットホームに、iPod nanoの巨大広告があらわれました。
電車を降りると壁面全体に実物大のiPod nanoのカードがびっしりと貼付けられてあり、剥がして持って帰ることができるのです。
私もカードを手に取ってみましたが、１日何万人も利用する渋谷の駅で、このように剥がされていたらすぐにカードが無くなってしまうだろうと思っていたところ、人の波が過ぎたあとにスタッフが地道にカードを貼付けているのですね。ついつい、その姿を見届けたくなり、写真におさめてしまいました。
私が通りかかったのは夕方でしたが、これが通勤ラッシュだともっと大変なことになっていたのでしょう。
早速持ち帰った実物大iPod nanoのカードを手にしてみると、プラスチック製の丈夫で立派なもので驚きました。
裏側には携帯電話用のサイトにリンクするQRコード/URLが記載されており、ジャンプしてiPod nanoの待ち受け画像をゲットできます。
こんな街頭でもドキドキさせてくれるAppleってすばらしいですね。
実は私、普段は渋谷からはうんと離れた場所に住んでいまして、たまたまこの日、偶然通りかかってゲットできたのでラッキーでした。
This year in Shibuya, Tokyo, home of the trendiest of fashions and the trendiest of youth cultures, Apple opened it's 4th Japanese Apple Store. Naturally the store itself became a trend-setter and is keeping the masses informed, and entertained with its numerous events in-store and out, and one of them was the sale of "iPod nano".
As part of their rather unique advertising campaign, huge iPod nano posters now adorn the platform walls of Toyoko Line Shibuya Station.
As you depart the train you'll be faced with a stream after stream of 1:1 iPod nano cutouts, in which you can pull off and take home. Obviously, I helped myself to a few as well.
Needless to say, with its tens of thousands of people passing through Shibuya station daily, those iPod cutouts won't last very long. Fortunately, I was lucky enough to be able to catch a glimpse of the staff furiously "refilling" the empty spaces with new cutouts in between the waves of departing passengers (I took the pictures after the evening rush. I can only imagine how busy these guys can be during rush hour!).
Much to my suprise, I later realised that these cutouts weren't made of cardboard but of plastic, and are very rigidly built too. On the reverse side were the URL and QR Codes of a site where you can download iPod nano wallpapers for your mobile phone.
Having living somewhere way out from Tokyo, I was very lucky to be able to get my hands on these cutouts AND witness those "refillers" in action. Hats off to Apple and their wonderful advertising.
(this account was kindly translated from japanese by softcotton, a fellow mac user. Thank you!)
Found out that the automated jail break is out for the iPod touch so I decided to set it free and give it some new apps. Love it!
after an alarm clock malfunction this morning, I got a new one. It will play me "Here Comes The Sun" tomorrow morning. (hey, I had to do something with my iPod classic after upgrading to an iTouch)
Two days ago, my iPod Shuffle died. I'd had it for over 3 years, and it has always been a loyal and dutiful music player.
It died because I have switched out iTunes for WinAmp, and my Shuffle didn't seem to like it. I tried everything, but only wound up making it worse. The poor thing was gone. Strangely, it didn't die when I closed it in the car door, stepped on it, or left it out in the sub zero temperatures.
Last night Apples and I made a trip to the local Micro Center to pick up my replacement music box. It's a Creative Labs Zen Stone, and, just like my Shuffle, holds 1 Gig of music. Unlike my Shuffle, it's even more tiny, the controls are more intuitive (I no longer turn the thing off by accident), and I don't need ANY software to operate it. Drag and drop is all this bad boy needs. Perhaps the best reason for me to pick one up? It is half the price of a replacement Shuffle. My Zen Stone was only $40!
Oh, and I suppose I should explain the title. I have a habit of naming my computers (as any nerd is wont to do), and I usually settle on some monster from Greek Mythology. My old desktop was Chimera, my laptop is Charybdis, and my music player is Pan. I'm sure people think I'm crazy whenever they see, "Log in to Charybdis" as my computer is booting up.
This photo was taken as part of my coverage of the Apple 5th Generation 2012 iPod touch. They were all taken with the iPod touch camera, untouched or edited. You can see the full video & much more at www.youtube.com/geekanoids
This photo was taken as part of my coverage of the Apple 5th Generation 2012 iPod touch. They were all taken with the iPod touch camera, untouched or edited. You can see the full video & much more at www.youtube.com/geekanoids
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Just some of the details in the image:
-100% to scale according to current 5th Gen iPod specs.
-LCD is 4" widescreen.
-Highlight added to simulate LCD backlight flooding.
-Scratch's and fingerprints added for an authentic iPod finish.
-The top surface plastic was tricky to get clear yet still have the proper highlight at the edges.
After Terence and I had done our earlier iPod transparent/x-ray shot experiment, I had this idea for a little mock Apple advertisement. So here's the product of our fevered imaginations.
Strobist info (which Terence, below, reminds me to add): 580EX M1/1 into white foamcore, camera left, for a side fill. SB-25 M1/1 bounced off the ceiling, both fired via Pocket Wizard Plus II's. The iPod dock is stuck via double-sided tape to a reflective black acrylic sheet.
This shot required three initial images (and a fourth for additional detail); we left the dock in place and shot from the same position with the same lighting each time, but dismantled the iPod one step at a time between the shots. The fourth shot was a higher ISO, to get a brighter and more detailed image of the circuit board to blend in for increased detail. The set of shots were combined in Photoshop CS4, and then the text added. :)
(Also posted over in the TwinGeeksPhoto stream Terence put together.)
dats my new iPod. azhuthu polambha oru nalla company. Got hooked on to podbazaar.com and suresh's Random Rambling
I took this a while ago. That's my trusty 20gb 3g iPod with my sisters 40gb 3g iPod and my all time favorite Grado SR-60 headphones. Her 40gb was sadly stolen by some lowlife scum.