[macwall]

Hello all,

I'm an Apple employee that moved to a nifty new office here in Cupertino and I have a problem: I face a big huge blank white wall every day at work.

As a way to brighten up my day and the office, I want to cover up the wall with pictures of Apple fans and their Apple hardware. Now, the wall is long and huge, at least 12 feet high and maybe 20 feet long, and there's plenty of foot traffic so I think this will definitely be a hit.

How can you help? Send me pictures! Lots and lots of pictures of you and your Apple hardware, be it computers, iPhones, iPods, old or new! I would prefer actual photographs, best would be polaroids or standard 6x4, since they'll be easy to stick on and take off. However, I'm not picky, send me poster size photographs or decent sized color inkjet printouts.

Just put them into an envelope and mail it to:

(draw this out!)
PO Box 2312
Cupertino, 95015-2312

That's it! You don't need to include letters or even a return address if you don't feel like it. I would even especially love to see international Apple fans.

I'll be keeping a photo diary of this whole process and if you want, please forward this (via email or just the link to this thread) to anyone you think would be interested. Thanks!

Rules:

0. Just so this doesn't drag on and on, I can't accept anything after January 31, 2008. So if you can send it before Christmas or Thanksgiving I would appreciate it.

1. Please don't send something that's not safe for work. I don't want to be fired.

2. This isn't a covert guerrilla marketing campaign, but whatever you send I most likely won't be able to send back or pay you for it. So if it's a precious picture of your little kid that you want to cherish forever, please make a copy.

3. This is just a simple art project, please don't complicate things by sending me weird requests (such as warranty or tech support) or business ideas. Go to either apple.com/support or apple.com/contact for that.

[OreoCookie]

AFAIK they are not.

[Big Mac]

Wow, seriously? You're not prohibited from posting here? If so, cool.

[paul w]

I was just gonna ask - are you allowed to be posting here?

[Person Man]

Originally Posted by paul w 

I was just gonna ask - are you allowed to be posting here?

Probably not, hence the Apple symbol as the name and the PO Box and the name "macwall."

Though there have been a few Apple employees posting here (I'm assuming with permission) in the past, such as Sal Soghoian from the AppleScript Group, for example.

[Peter]

he looks like a real employee to me.
word.

[Mithras]

I'd suggest that you do a sketch of the next-model iPhone, put that on your wall, and then post a photograph here.

[SSharon]

I was offered a job by apple that I passed up but when I was speaking with them I told them I posted here and they didn't have a problem with it as long as I didn't talk about new products, etc.

How about a picture of this wall and what the office looks like for some inspiration.
(yes, some people are inspired by a blank canvas)

[Person Man]

Originally Posted by SSharon 

I was offered a job by apple that I passed up but when I was speaking with them I told them I posted here and they didn't have a problem with it as long as I didn't talk about new products, etc.

As opposed to the Apple Store employment agreement which explicitly forbids any contact with Apple-related discussion forums.

[SSharon]

Originally Posted by Person Man 

As opposed to the Apple Store employment agreement which explicitly forbids any contact with Apple-related discussion forums.

Hey, it is certainly possible the recruiter/HR employee I was talking to got it wrong. I couldn't take the job because I needed to get job experience in a different field so I never pursued it very far. I recommended a friend and he got the job though.

[Buckaroo]

The only thing I wonder about, is why can't we email jpeg images for you to print out on a color printer and post on the wall.

That would save us a lot of postage.

[Person Man]

Originally Posted by SSharon 

Hey, it is certainly possible the recruiter/HR employee I was talking to got it wrong. I couldn't take the job because I needed to get job experience in a different field so I never pursued it very far. I recommended a friend and he got the job though.

Well, the job agreement for a non Apple Store job might be different in that regard.

As I said, there have been Apple people that have participated here and in other online fora in the past. I can name two off the top of my head:

1. Sal Soghoian (sp?) who is part of the AppleScript Group. He has posted here before, under the username Sal.

2. Kevin Calhoun (no longer at Apple) was an engineer working on HyperCard. He used to post regularly on the Usenet group comp.sys.mac.hypercard, when he was still working at Apple.

There are undoubtedly others here, who have chosen not to reveal themselves.