A Man With Elegant Style: Steve Jobs  

Posted by Tanny

Steve Jobs is cool and most of all: elegant.


Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (born February 24, 1955) is an American businessman, and the co-founder and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Jobs previously served as CEO of Pixar Animation Studios.

Jobs has always aspired to position Apple and its products at the forefront of the information technology industry by foreseeing and setting trends, at least in terms of innovation and style. Well, this man is identical with a perfection. I think the way he always want to give his best in creating the innovation that not just satisfying customer, but also gives the elegant feeling in all the products he created, has made him one of the rare person on earth. (that's why I like him a lot).

No wonder he is just awarded as the best CEO of the decade by Fortune Magazine. Awesome! Although some of his employees had described him as an erratic and temperamental manager, he managed to climb to the top position in world's business, making me and perhaps millions people agree that he is one of Bill Gate's main competitor. Tie (for me..hehhe...like them both!!!)

In 1986, Jobs bought The Graphics Group (later renamed Pixar) from Lucas film's computer graphics division for the price of $10 million, $5 million of which was given to the company as capital.

The new company, which was originally based in San Rafael, California, but has since relocated to Emeryville, California, was initially intended to be a high-end graphics hardware developer. After years of unprofitability selling the Pixar Image Computer, it contracted with Disney to produce a number of computer-animated feature films, which Disney would co-finance and distribute.

The first film produced by the partnership, Toy Story, brought fame and critical acclaim to the studio when it was released in 1995. Over the next ten plus years, under Pixar's creative chief John Lasseter, the company would produce the box-office hits A Bug's Life (1998), Toy Story 2 (1999), Monsters, Inc. (2001), Finding NemoThe Incredibles (2004), Cars (2006), Ratatouille (2007), WALL-E (2008) and Up (2009). Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Ratatouille, and WALL-E each received the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, an award introduced in 2001. Jobs also helps oversee Disney and Pixar's combined animation businesses with a seat on a special six-man steering committee.

Well, I guess Steve jobs will continue to surprise this world's with his innovation in the future. Wonder how my life's going on now..will I have a great adventure like Carl Fredrikson or an elegant life like Steve Jobs.. I'm sure it needs lot of patience and hard work, and also chance to achieve a miracle like that. Will I? I don't know.

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UP  

Posted by Tanny

Well, it's quite late for me to watch this fantastic, cute and touching animation, UP. I really love the Carl's character..My bow for PIXAR especially to Andrew Stanton, who write this story...a piece of brilliant masterpiece...

From Disney•Pixar comes Up, a comedy adventure about 78-year-old balloon salesman Carl Fredricksen, who finally fulfills his lifelong dream of a great adventure when he ties thousands of balloons to his house and flies away to the wilds of South America. But he discovers all too late that his biggest nightmare has stowed away on the trip: an overly optimistic 8-year-old Wilderness Explorer named Russell.

Carl Fredricksen, a shy and quiet young boy, meets an energetic and outgoing tomboy named Ellie, discovering they share the same interest in exploration as their hero, the famed explorer Charles F. Muntz. Ellie tells Carl of her desire to move her clubhouse to Paradise Falls in South America, and makes Carl promise to help. Carl and Ellie wed and grow old together in the old house where they first met while making a living as a toy balloon vendor and a zookeeper respectively. Unable to have children, they repeatedly try to save up for the trip to Paradise Falls, but other financial obligations arise. Just as they're finally about to take their trip, Ellie passes away, leaving Carl a lonely and bitter old man with nothing to live for and missing his wife terribly.

Despite the characters are very lovely (with all the graphic user interface goodwork), the main factor that make this animation be the best is the touching story. For me, the best scene is when Carl finally made it to take their house at ground overlooking Paradise Falls per Ellie's wish, then he went into the house and looking at Ellie's adventure scrapbook and discovers her mementos of her life with Carl after they were married, and a final note from her thanking Carl for her adventure of marriage with him and an encouragement for him to go on his own. Well, I guess the truth adventure for Ellie is her life with Carl, not Paradise Falls.

Two thumbs up for PIXAR animation!!!

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Thoughts  

Posted by Tanny

Apakah aku salah kalau aku bepikir hidup ini sering kali tidak adil. Terlalu banyak alasan yang melatarbelakangi pemikiranku. Hidup ini seperti sudah diracuni oleh uang. Everything is all about the money, money and money. U got almost everything. Almost.

Ketika selesai menonton 2012 di bioskop (setelah mengantri lebih dari 1 jam), saya teringat adegan ketika Rampochee dari Tibet mengajarkan pada muridnya tentang kehidupan dengan menuangkan minuman ke dalam cawan sampai meluap. Pikiran manusia ibarat cawan itu, semakin banyak diisi pikiran, maka satu saat ia akan meluap dan sama sekali tidak artinya. Untuk mendapatkan pemikiran yang jernih, yang perlu dilakukan hanya mengosongkan cawan itu.
Wow, sebenarnya bukan pertama kalinya aku mendengar ilustasi ini. Tapi entah kenapa, that moment seems so inspirational.

Aku bukan orang yang bijaksana dan aku sadar bahwa terlalu sedikit yang aku ketahui tentang dunia ini. Tapi malam setelah aku menonton film itu, aku mulai sadar bahwa aku mengisi pikiranku dengan terlalu banyak hal selama ini. Everything mixed up in my mind and suddenly I understand why I feel so miserable all this time.

Aku merasa khawatir terhadap banyak hal dan tidak bisa menikmati hidup. Aku terlalu memikirkan pendapat orang lain. Aku tidak sadar ternyata ada small little things that so wonderful for people who can see it through their eyes and soul.

Ada tantangan besar yang menanti didepanku. Tugas akhirku dan rencana masa depanku. Dan aku rasa aku harus segera mengosongkan cawanku untuk menghadapinya.

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