iPod Giveaway #2: Great iPods in History
Picked up by the New York Times, Toronto Star, San Jose Mercury News, Kottke.org, Gizmodo, Boing Boing, and Popular Mechanics among others, the first installment of the Mike Industries iPod-A-Month Creativity Competition was a bigger-than-expected hullaballoo. Thanks again to all who entered.
For the second installment, we’re going with a nostaglic theme: Great iPods in History. As is the case with all of these competitions, the person who suggested the theme will win one iPod Shuffle, and the person who wins the actual contest will take home the other (suggestion pool still open through the end of the year). Congratulations to “Getmeparu” for suggesting this contest… as soon as I figure out who you are, a Shuffle will be forthcoming.
As is illustrated by the slightly modified 1945 Alfred Eisenstadt photo to the left, the aim of this contest is to place an iPod Shuffle into notable historical context. You can modify famous photos, upload audio narratives, shoot video, or even design a mini-site. I expect most of the entries to be altered photos, which works well for this particular contest, but I just wanted to remind everyone that rules can always be broken. You are free to submit anything you like, as long as it’s yours and it was created specifically for this contest.
This contest, along with the remaining seven, will run for two weeks. The deadline for entries is midnight, May 31st.
Submission rules are as follows, and cannot be broken:
- If you’re submitting an image, it must be exactly 418 pixels by 418 pixels. Use a standard
<img src="yourimage.jpg" />tag to enter it into the comments section below. Please also keep your filesizes reasonable (as small as possible, but definitely under 80k or so). - Please submit any audio, video, or website entries as a standard link.
- Multiple entries are allowed.
- Nothing overtly offensive or in otherwise poor taste please. Mike Industries is a family establishment.
Good luck!
UPDATE #2: Maybe the big red exclamation mark will help here — all images must be EXACTLY 418 pixels tall by 418 pixels wide. Not 418×200. Not 500×500. It is not a “maximum width”. 418×418 please. The management thanks you.
UPDATE #3: iPodLounge.com has just offered to send a pair of $150 Etymotic ER-6i earbuds and a sportcase to the eventual winner. Thanks iPodLounge!
Like I care it only took me 1 minute (and 40 seconds of that was the search)
This was the beginning of history, right?
I think I know now why they all sat on that side of the table: to listen in on J.C.’s rockin’ tunes!
Getting away from blasphemy for a moment, it now becomes clear why a young Bill Gates seems so blissful in this picture.
Trial #2 since I’m a spaz who forgets to read directions twice.
One wonders what a person does while sitting for a portrait…
Click the image for the highest resolution version. I have the full (non square) if anyone wants it in psd format. Nothing special in it though. More entries to come.
^^ it’s about a real as the other moon photos ^^
/Achilles, son of Peleus, king of Myrmidons
Of course, the story of the iPod mini goes back to the times before any script language was founded - back to the earliest of days .. Nah…
Ludwig van Beethoven was using it too…
Albert Einstein - wondering what he was doing while thinking about his theories…
George couldn’t wait to open his and show it off. He still has the box on his desk.
This one might be a stretch… let’s see if anyone else gets it.
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…
Who can forget one of the greatest illustrations of all time?
iHenge: Just a random hack
Jarv: Wasn’t Beethoven like … you know, deaf?
sure. if you would listen all the time through your earbuds, won’t you be deaf too ? ;]
Emil: People think so just because he kept his iPod on all the time ;).
Bush has one, JFK had one.
Matthew: It’s Loomis, isn’t it ?
Nope, its Norman Rockwell. He used to do the covers for the Evening Post. Amazing illustrator.
Titian: Eve handing Adam the first Apple product
Oh my god! Patrys’ is great! Hilariuos!
Another Oswald shooting. Honestly, I didn’t see the officer Tibbs shot before I did this…… really. I think that Oswald was listening to “Back in Black” when he was shot.
Freebies if anyone wants them: Perfect photo of Che and also there’s Mount Rushmore.
We all remember Rocky Balboa, Boxing has never been the same since.
Mikkel M: nice to hear that you appreciate my wicked sense of humour. After all it all started with an Apple ;]
Heeeeeeeeeeyyy!!!!
“Either this man is dead, or my iPod Shuffle has stopped”
- Groucho Marx
There’s going to have to be a separate contest for “iPod Shuffle At The Movies”
Anyhow, here’s another WWII one:
Winston loves his Shuffle!
Some thought the Phonograph was his final achievement, but he had one more invention up his sleeve…
Max: Groucho is awesome! ;]
37apples’ Case Studies: the iPod Shuffle
[And, before I get a barage of emails, it is deliberate satire and not reflective of my own leanings.]
Inspiration comes from within. Don’t go looking for it, it’ll find you.
Dang, hope I’m not going to Beatles-hell for this…
World History: A Sequence of Immitative Poems.
or
How to put a humanities education to good use.
Creation: The Limericks
The Shuffle in Genesis:
(Found in appocryphal early printing)
There was once a shuffler named God
Who thought beauty in darkness was odd;
How he made light is a myst’ry,
But that Shuffle survived hist’ry,
And comes to us now as iPod.
The Shuffle in Evolution:
Etched on the back of a large black monolith in orbit around Jupiter
It was in an old film from Kubrick:
A black iPod established a rubric -
Mankind would grow hip,
Shuffle stones for a ship,
And go from dead monkey to lubric.
The Shuffle Around the World
The Shuffle in Heian Era Japan
Haiku found in Murasaki Shikibu’s character notes
Ordered songs are stale;
Shuffled tunes are zen, unbound -
Genji has iPod.
The Shuffle in Ukraine
Traditional Ukrainian Folk Song, Translated
We are so poor
We have no money
We were great once
I want an iPod
But I cannot even afford food.
(ed. note: It sounds better in the original, you really need to hear the rhythm)
The Shuffle in Ancient Egypt
Engraved in king tut’s tomb
Bird shape, sun shape, iPod shape, bird shape, spear shape, river shape, another sun shape.
(ed. note: Meaning is vague)
Shuffle in British Literature
Shakespeare’s Shuffle.
(A Sonnet, discovered between the pages of the second folio, scribbled on a cod-piece wrapper)
When I do sit alone and write blank verse,
There are too many days when I cannot
Come up with words to rhyme, it is my curse -
Strive though I may no order comes from knots.
What knots, you ask? You think I used that word
Only to rhyme something to that “cannot”?
My friend, that is entirely absurd -
To end a line, for rhyming’s sake, with “knot?”
Alright, it’s true, I am a useless fraud,
And nothing that I ever write will work;
I cannot rhyme, not e’en for king or god,
Since I got this toy my life’s a
But with my shuffle writings matters not,
And random songs are better than no knot.
(Scholars debating whether or not to just sort of hush this one up)
Romantic Shuffle
Found in an old collection of Byron’s letters
“…And that damned Keats, always walking around with that device. I know you respect his work, Shelley, but sometimes I wonder if by some contrivance that thing is…I don’t know, putting ideas into his head? I mean, good god man, you and I, we get our ideas the old fashioned way - we have rampant drunken debauched orgies and then write while overcome with guilt and shame the next day from our Catholic upbringings - but I swear I saw him listening to those little pieces he puts into his ears (the…earpieces? if you will…) and jotting down what he heard! It isn’t natural, I tell you…”
Modernist Shuffle
Found in Finnegans Wake by James Joyce(honest!)
You here nort farwellens rouster? Ashiffle ashuffle the wayve
they.
From Dancingtree till Suttonstone There’s lads no lie would
filch a crown To mull their sack and brew their tay With wather
parted from the say.
-
Yeah that’s all I got. I like the Kubrick one the best.
You stole the idea from my head, but not the exact idea :D
Hi there,
This competition is a great idea and should generate loads of interest.
We run London’s Playlist club, and if anyone entering the competition would be happy for us to use the images you make as the main image on future Playlist Club flyers, please do let me know (jonny AT ipod-dj DOT com).
Its the iDick
It’s the iDick
I’m so pretty, watch me shuffle…
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning for ipods…
Wow, you have a lot of work here Mike to find a winner. They’re all great!
Hmm.. maybe I should try one also…
He looks to happy to not have a Shuffle!
Also a good test to see how many of you who know your musical history…
I think I’d feel more comfortable with religious blasphemy…
Tada! At last
Here’s another one just for the hell of it:
1,500 films - Forget history, that’s legendary.
A bit obvious, but someone had to do it.
Hindu Goddess of Music - Saraswati Devi
Look, they had their iPods in red… (:
Chris Hopkins: Wow!
These are all looking really good, although you can definitely tell who use vectors for the cords. ;-)
:)
Good luck to everyone.
Wow… some of these are really good.
Excerpt from “The War of the Worlds” by H. G. Wells as performed by Orson Welles & the Mercury Theatre on the Air.
Best experienced by listening to the audio while reading the transcript, so I suggest saving the audio offline first.
Audio: ipod.mp3 (1.27 Mb)
Transcript available here.
I’m hardly the best at this…. Some good entries so far but I’m going right back to the beginning:
It was there at the beginning of everything, ya know.
American Shuffle
Terminating Shuffle
Trevor: Haha, I get it - American Shuffle - well spotted!
Wow, these are awesome. Guess this is a more popular contest than the last! I have laughed =)
boy, some of these are very impressive, the einstien one is amazing!
This is fast turning into a Fark Photoshop contest. Star Wars? Rocky? Fonz? Quick! Someone put an iPod shuffle on a DomoKun.
The original iPod.
SUGGESTION FOR NEXT CONTEST
Alright, great concepts for this one so far. I’ll submit something, but there’s some stiff competition.
So here’s an official suggestion for the next contest:
Could be fun. Already have some ideas.
Keep ‘em coming.
“things weren’t really that bad.”
Leonardo da Vinci’s inventions were far ahead of his time.
Steve McCurry’s Pict, Steve Jobs’ Pod.
History? Possibly the end of time…
Wasn’t it supposed to be connected to history?
I believe Star Wars was a historical moment…
Found this in my Dad’s scrapbook.
I don’t think expressionist Edvard Munch was a big fan, or maybe, it was just not his kind of music :-)
…in retrospect if only I had listened to my people instead, things could have have been very different.
(I think the earrings definitely fooled them though).
I was thinking Art, Music, or Movie History could work…
I don’t want anybody else
When I think about you
I touch myself
I don’t want anybody else
Oh no, oh no, oh no
Yet another Napoleon!
So this is how it works. Time to finish this and head to my own dock for some recharging.
The gateway to an infinity of music.
iMagine there’s no iPod.
All men by nature desire an iPod.
*intrigue*
I know Apple used this image before .. but it looks great with the iPod.
Ickey + Shuffle
Seems like the Sovjets aren’t that afraid of American goods, afterall.
Egyptian royalty had its perks.
The glorious evolution of man
“Open the iPod bay door, Hal.”
George Washington once said:
To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
Clearly he was also prepared to RAWK
(ps. the ipod bay door is awesome)
Wow… over a 100 entries in just three days!
This is going to be one hard one to judge.
Days remaining - 12
Avg. entry per day - 25
Total predicted entries - (doing the math) : 400 +/-
Impressive !
Cape Kennedy, FL, 1966
Shining stars: Astronauts Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, Jr., (right) and co- pilot James E. Lovell, Jr., back on earth after a successful Gemini 12 flight
Original Picture: http://www.life.com/Life/classicpictures/nasa/3.html
“Pod-ivera”
I knew it had to be a myth…
Everyone remembers what REALLY scared little Elian Gonzalez?
It wasnt the SWAT guy that scared the kid It was the sounds of Yanni coming from the Headphones.
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between is the iPod.
The fall of iRaq.
I would imagine from the look on his face, he’s listening to Unforgiven or Blackened by Metallica.
"Let them iPod"
Hmmm… try again
“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between is the iPod.”
NUMBER: 816
QUOTATION: If music be the food of love, play on
ATTRIBUTION: Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 1. [text]
BIOGRAPHY: Columbia Encyclopedia.
WORKS: William Shakespeare Collection.
NUMBER: 1122
QUOTATION: A shuffle! a shuffle! my kingdom for a shuffle!
ATTRIBUTION: King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 4. [text]
BIOGRAPHY: Columbia Encyclopedia.
WORKS: William Shakespeare Collection.
What? It’s just Martin Luther nailing his 95 playlists to the door of the church! :)
Here it is again in the correct size (I had technical difficulties earlier)…
One more go…
/pops to full version
In exchange for Orville getting the first flight, Wilbur gets the iPod shuffle.
The Wright Brothers gave chance a chance, and secured their place in history.
A little “BLUES” history
The Birth of Cool.
Birth of an iPod
Sorry about the triple posting, I didn’t read the directions the first two times. D’OH!
(Editor’s Note: Or the third time apparently. You’re disqualified.)
Again… >doh!
NOW, I’m the King of the World!
Who needs teamwork when you have an iPod???