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Far Better Than A Soup Can (11/1/00)
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We may not know art, but we know what we like. Thanks to a link to auction house Sotheby's we saw over at MacInTouch, the AtAT staff is drooling at the thought of owning a Pop Art rendition of the Apple logo done by none other than the late, great Andy Warhol himself. That's right; if you're the lucky winning bidder, you could take home a mint-condition, signed and numbered screenprint featuring Apple's famed rainbow logo and the words "Apple" and "Macintosh" all rendered in vibrant colors and sketchy lines against a backdrop of pastel hues. This Lenox Museum Board print (over three feet on a side) is just the thing to brighten the den or lend a touch of class to the john. A must for any Mac aficionado!
Now, we'd love to have placed the first bid on this sucker, but sadly, someone beat us to it. Worse yet, the meanie who started the bidding actually paid attention to the published estimated value of the piece and set the bar at $10,000, which is sadly well out of AtAT's currently-just-shy-of-breaking-even budget right now. So unless Apple's stock shoots up to, say, $120 a share by the end of the week, a far more solvent art lover is going to walk away with the prize. That's a pity, because we think it'd look just spiffy hanging over the AtAT server right between the sad clown with the big eyes and the painting of dogs playing poker. (It's so cute-- the Doberman is cheating!)
Alas, short of a massive windfall (or a faithful viewer winning the auction to gussy up our pad-- hint, hint), it seems that the AtAT studios will be devoid of the appropriate Warhol gracing its walls. Luckily, Sotheby's isn't the only source for great art online. We're currently considering skipping lunch to free up the funds to bid on a miraculous rendition of The King himself. Sure, it's not exactly Mac-themed or anything, but $2.25 for a velvet Elvis? Thank you, eBay!
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 11/1/00 episode: November 1, 2000: Boo! Apple scares some customers with a Key Lime shipping delay. Meanwhile, UK Mac dealers faced with a falling Euro and massive price differences reconsider the wonders of "grey importing," and a screenprint of Andy Warhol's "Apple" is currently fetching ten grand in a Sotheby's auction...
Other scenes from that episode: 2649: Key Lime: Stay of Execution (11/1/00) Ah, the day after Halloween... right now, millions of Americans are dragging themselves out of sugar-induced comas, tossing the jack-o-lanterns on the trash pile, and pondering the best method to get the toilet paper out of the trees... 2650: It Always Rains In Britain (11/1/00) Years of continued abuse probably has the UK Mac community feeling sort of like the vegetarian at the office luncheon-- shafted on a regular basis. After Apple's repeated cancellation of London-based Expo appearances, the elimination of UK-localised versions of the Mac OS, and the closing of several UK Apple jobs (particularly in the sales and marketing areas) in favor of a more "European" focus, one would think that the Mac-using Brits would have had enough...
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