What’s the difference between these two pictures?
An invitation to a fundraiser for the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) cordially invites folks to a pre-holiday swap meet. The invite graphic on the website features “photocopied” text from a dictionary with a definition “swap meet n. An informal gathering for the barter or sale of used articles or handicrafts.” Underneath are kitschy images of items that might be brought and traded at such an event: shoes, antique chair, coo coo clock, woven picnic basket, a pistol — hold it, a gun? And next to that is a dart board, but with the barrel of the revolver pointed toward it, the iconography can unconsciously suggest taking aim at a target.
We wouldn’t have noticed this splice except that the invite from the email we received has removed the gun and target in favor of a glass, crystal decanter or perfume bottle of some sort as well as an abacus and pepper grinder.
We guess the thinking was that no one wants to receive a gun in their email, er, blast. We can just hear the creative notes and discussion around this:
A: we don’t want people showing up with a gun!
B: it’s not to be taken literally, it’s kitschy…
A: better safe than sorry, we’re a government-funded arts organization.
Ah, the creative process.
Mission accomplished: the first-ever and only American iPhone 4 has been unlocked from its carrier which would be AT&T. A wily Canadian got his hands on the mobile device and after a long night of work shows off his functioning iPhone 4 in the video above.
Consumer Reports says it is unable to recommend the iPhone 4 until Apple fixes antenna problems. Although Consumer Reports isn’t making a specific recommendation, say Paul Reynolds, you can try using duct tape to cover the lower left hand side of the iPhone 4 to avoid the “death grip” and lose signal strength.
CNNMoney’s David Goldman discusses Consumer Reports magazine’s decision not to recommend the iPhone 4. Perhaps some duct tape might do the trick…
Having reception trouble with the iPhone 4? Consumer Reports says the easiest fix for the death grip antenna glitch may be a sliver of duct tape. CNN.com’s tech reporter John Sutter also says you can get yourself an iPhone bumper that goes around the outside edge of the device. Perhaps instead of the silver duct tape, some black gaffer’s tape might prove to be a more elegant option?
First there was the 1-minute wordless Apple FaceTime spot set to Louis Armstrong music featuring the intimate moments in family life which can now be shared over distances thanks to this new iOS4 technology. Fortune online is calling Apple’s new commercials for FaceTime “heartbreaking.” Spolier warning: nobody gets any bad news. As a matter of fact, in two out of the four spots, the characters in fact receive good news. In the other two, things are bittersweet at worst and basically all the ads have happy endings. We think the emotional term the business-minded folks over at fortune were looking for was “heart-warming.” Hey, it’s July — it must have been the heat (wave) going to their heads. Perhaps, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, no matter how good is his depth of knowledge of Apple, is thinking of this heartbreaking iPhone 4 FaceTime ad.
