Paul Terrell, proprietor of The Byte Shop in Mountain View California, recently released these old Polaroids of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak’s first computer: the Apple 1, taken in 1976.

At the time, Terrell – whose store was effectively the first Apple dealership – had just taken delivery of the first fifty Apple computers ever made.

CONTEXT: The Man Who Jump-Started Apple (PC World Techblog)

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Moo- 2000 Horses.

Darren Flynn writes:

I know you guys don’t usually do this sort of thing, but we have just released this video and would be curious what readers think about it. We are a rock band from Dublin, Ireland, incorporating a wide variety of influences from Cinematic Western Scores to rockabilly, Latin-American grooves and rock’n’roll. We shot this video last May on the Dublin Mountains, outside and inside the pub The Blue Light.

 

Produced, directed and editd by Evelyn Ryan ; Camera: Jeff Dowling; Production Assistant: Rob Rainsford. Pierpaolo Vitale as ” Gus Willie Whelan”.

The impeccable work of Guus Melai, including (above) one for 1953’s version of The Gathering.

Found on internet auction sites where an original Guus can fetch up to €500.

Guus was a member of the ‘Dutch School’, artists and designers from the Netherlands, who came to live in Ireland in the 1950s and 1960s because, cough, housing was cheaper.

From Alwaysreadthesmallprint Blog:

The ‘Dutch School’ as it came to be known included Guus Melai, Jan de Fouw, Bert van Embden, Willem van Velzen, Gerrit van Gelderen, Piet Sluis and [Irish text book cover maestro] Cor Klaasen, amongst others. Over the following decades they transformed Irish graphic design.”

Guus was so good his work was disliked by the Arts Council

Aer Lingus, 1956.

From the Arts Council archive:

It was decided that a letter should be sent by the Director to the General Manager of Aer Lingus informing him confidentially that the Council did not approve of the recently published Aer Lingus poster of Dublin by Dutch graphic artist Guus Melai as it did not consider it to be of artistic merit.  The General Manager of Aer Lingus thanked the Arts Council for its views but said ‘In commercial publicity there must be many compromises with sheer artistic merit’.

Yay.

Thanks Sibling of Daedalus

Marton Gyongyosi.

Did you sit next to him in Pol. Sci?

A Hungarian far-right politician urged the government to draw up lists of Jews who pose a “national security risk”, stirring outrage among Jewish leaders who saw echoes of fascist policies that led to the Holocaust.
…He graduated with a degree in business and political science from Trinity College in Dublin in 2000. He worked for four years at the Dublin office of KPMG, then returned to Budapest in 2005.

Anger As Hungary Far-Right Leader Demands lists of Jews (EuroNews)

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