Inspiration will out live us all.
The first computer I touched was an Apple. In the family room was our first desktop with this teal bubble on it, and my mothers first laptop had this blue clear case. But I have never really considered myself an Apple freak. It was just what my Grandma Mauvis had, and my mother so by default it was what I used.
It wasn’t until college that I really started getting into Steve Jobs, and it had nothing to do with a computer, application, mobile device, or film editing software. It was this photograph.
My good friend/colorist Jon Reid showed it to me to help inspire a film. We were tired of huge crews, and scripts with different locations. We wanted to create a film with one location and really focus on the script while keeping everything else uncomplicated. That is just what this photo evoked for me. Jon didn’t inform me off the bat the guy in the photo was Steve Jobs, in fact I had no idea it was of him until months later when I brought up this film project again and asked him to re-send the photo to me.
Jon told me it was taken of Steve Jobs when he moved into an apartment in New York. When I first saw this photo a Kerouac quote popped into my head, “If you own a rug, you own too much”
That is what I think Steve Jobs brought to my great-grandmother, mother, and everyone else… simplicity. He made technology painless.
