[Thilo Ettelt]

Hey,

tomorrow I'll have a Genius bar in my room. But I need the logo to give that impression... the only thing I found was this tiny logo:



Can anyone make me a bigger one which I can print on a DIN A3 or A4 sheet of paper?


Thx,
Thilo

EDIT: Here's a mock up, but i'm not much an gfx artist:

[Cubeoid]

I don't think you can have a genius bar. Unless Apple is planing to open a retail store in your home, which I find highly unlikely, so to cap it all off, no genius bar for you!!!

haha, I've always wanted to say that.

[Thilo Ettelt]

Originally posted by Cubeoid:
I don't think you can have a genius bar. Unless Apple is planing to open a retail store in your home, which I find highly unlikely, so to cap it all off, no genius bar for you!!!

haha, I've always wanted to say that.

I'm sorry to report to you: my bar will arrive here tomorrow. And I'll put a Genius Bar logo above it! On tuesday I'll have my overhead project which I will use as a beamer. So half of my room already features elements of an Apple Store: Theater and Genius Bar


- Thilo

PS: The bar stools are already there:
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[iDriveX]

Call me crazy....but what does a 19 year old do with a genius bar? Forgive me, but I imagine Eric Cartman sitting outside with "Miss Prissypants" and "Clyde Frog" having tea.....anyone else?



Cartman: Hello and welcome to my Genius Bar Miss Prissypants, what is wrong with your laptop today? CLYDE FROG WAIT YOUR TURN! I DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR IMAC. I'm sorry Miss Prissypants, some people can be so ruuude.

[moonmonkey]

Originally posted by iDriveX:
Call me crazy....but what does a 19 year old do with a genius bar?

if I had one, I would skip home from school and act out little scenes helping customers and showing them tricks with command keys. I would practice and practice until one day I was smart enough to work in a real apple store.

Then in the real store Steve jobs would pop in for carrot juice and notice how clever i was. We would chat and I would explain to him my idea for iCook, recipe cataloging software. Struck by the sheer brilliance and simplicity of the idea, he would whisk me away to Cupertino and give me a massive budget to spend on crazy stuff like jukeboxes and golden skateboards for inspiration, I would hire that Mike guy who draws the books on Delicious Library and he would draw the vegetables for the software. Finally at WWDC 06 I would get on stage and demonstrate the capabilities of the software, climaxing the demonstration with the neat way it reads the recipes out via your airport express. The crowd would go crazy standing up and cheering and whooping, I would turn around see a tear in Steve's eye, just a little one, he would look up at me smiling and mouth "you did it, YOU DID IT".

Steve would retire leaving the whole computer factory in my capable hands, then Apple would really do some cool stuff.

[Thilo Ettelt]

Originally posted by iDriveX:
Call me crazy....but what does a 19 year old do with a genius bar? Forgive me, but I imagine Eric Cartman sitting outside with "Miss Prissypants" and "Clyde Frog" having tea.....anyone else?

[snip]

Cartman: Hello and welcome to my Genius Bar Miss Prissypants, what is wrong with your laptop today? CLYDE FROG WAIT YOUR TURN! I DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR IMAC. I'm sorry Miss Prissypants, some people can be so ruuude.

This will be a special Genius Bar...

here you get no advice,
you get vodka on ice!


- Thilo

[effgee]

Originally posted by moonmonkey:
if I had one, I would skip home from school and act out little scenes helping customers and showing them tricks with command keys. I would practice and practice until one day I was smart enough to work in a real apple store.

... until one day I was smart enough to work in a real apple store and then move to a country where they actually had an apple store or two.

fixed™ to better accomodate Thilo's situation.

[Thilo Ettelt]

Originally posted by effgee:
... until one day I was smart enough to work in a real apple store and then move to a country where they actually had an apple store or two.

fixed™ to better accomodate Thilo's situation.

I am a Genius!

By the way, here are two "before" photos and on monday and tuesday I'll post some "after" photos:
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I can't wait! I'm so excited! I have to get some good lightning some time later too... (for the special atmosphere...).


- Thilo

[sugar_coated]

Sounds like a bright idea! Good luck with your plans.

[roberto blanco]

Originally posted by iDriveX:
Cartman: Hello and welcome to my Genius Bar Miss Prissypants, what is wrong with your laptop today? CLYDE FROG WAIT YOUR TURN! I DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR IMAC. I'm sorry Miss Prissypants, some people can be so ruuude.

ROFL.

[demograph68]

And the nerd award goes to...

[Thilo Ettelt]

Originally posted by demograph68:
And the nerd award goes to...

This statement was released by Thilo's management:
"I wanna thank my mama for all her support, my friends for lending me some tools and for inspiring me to completely revamp my room. I also wanna thank all people at the MacNN Forums for making time fly til the great days come... Thank you so much! "

[demograph68]

^^^ *Audience applause*

[Thilo Ettelt]

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[effgee]

Originally posted by Thilo Ettelt:
[img] http://homepage.mac.com/thett/geniusbarframe.jpg [/img]

[scaught]

do what you do, playboy.

[Apple Pro Underwear]

YOU ARE LIKE A REVERSE PIMP.


yo go playa

[paully dub]

You could totally mac out with this. Have the "Waiting List" projection list your girls, with the one present in the room at the top of the list.

Mac indeed...

[ManOfSteal]

Totally.

[Mafia]

Originally posted by moonmonkey:
if I had one, I would skip home from school and act out little scenes helping customers and showing them tricks with command keys. I would practice and practice until one day I was smart enough to work in a real apple store.

Then in the real store Steve jobs would pop in for carrot juice and notice how clever i was. We would chat and I would explain to him my idea for iCook, recipe cataloging software. Struck by the sheer brilliance and simplicity of the idea, he would whisk me away to Cupertino and give me a massive budget to spend on crazy stuff like jukeboxes and golden skateboards for inspiration, I would hire that Mike guy who draws the books on Delicious Library and he would draw the vegetables for the software. Finally at WWDC 06 I would get on stage and demonstrate the capabilities of the software, climaxing the demonstration with the neat way it reads the recipes out via your airport express. The crowd would go crazy standing up and cheering and whooping, I would turn around see a tear in Steve's eye, just a little one, he would look up at me smiling and mouth "you did it, YOU DID IT".

Steve would retire leaving the whole computer factory in my capable hands, then Apple would really do some cool stuff.

[Superchicken]

This is the creepiest thing I've read since SWG last hit on me

[Disgruntled Head of C-3PO]

Just trace that mockup in Illustrator and you can resize it to any size you want.

[turtle777]

Originally posted by Superchicken:
This is the creepiest thing I've read since SWG last hit on me

Mwahahahaha

-t

[Thilo Ettelt]

Originally posted by Disgruntled Head of C-3PO:
Just trace that mockup in Illustrator and you can resize it to any size you want.

Thanks for the tip! Unfortunetely I don't have Illustrator.


My bar is done now!

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Here are more pix.

I still need some good lighting.

Tomorrow I will have my projector (hopefully). I'll post more pix then.


- Thilo

[Kernel Angus]

I'll take a Vodka tonic, SVP.

[olePigeon]

Originally posted by Kernel Angus:
I'll take a Vodka tonic, SVP.

That's what I was thinking. You should make a real bar, but style it after the Genius Bar. That'd be cool.

[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

Originally posted by Superchicken:
This is the creepiest thing I've read since SWG last hit on me

I'd' like to see where the heck I did that!

[paully dub]

Anyway.

1. It doesn't look like any Genius Bar I've ever seen. They've usually been rather solid wooden jobs, with pine stools or something.

2. Why is it facing the wall, a window and a curtain? What good is that?

Errr...for example...

[turtle777]

Originally posted by paully dub:
Anyway.

1. It doesn't look like any Genius Bar I've ever seen. They've usually been rather solid wooden jobs, with pine stools or something.

Thanks for pointing that out. I was close to walk into his room and expect full Apple Genius Bar service...

-t

[paully dub]

I actaully had high hopes for the young man.

Ah well...

[MilkmanDan]

theres only one thing your room needs.

[demograph68]

^^^ I haven't a clue what the cowbell joke means but it makes me laugh.

[Thilo Ettelt]

Originally posted by turtle777:
Thanks for pointing that out. I was close to walk into his room and expect full Apple Genius Bar service...

-t

true


I wasn't intending to have a genius bar lookalike. I just wanted to call my bar Genius Bar, just for fun, as turtle777 correcty recognized.

As for the curtains, you can pull them and behind them are 2 windows. The white wall will be my projection area. More photos hopefully later today...


- Thilo

EDIT: Argh, the company Liesegang, who's producing and shipping the overhead projector to my dealer is in Germany's Karneval region! Specifically: D�sseldorf- which means that all of its employees are lying drunkenly under the tables right now. Which results in no beamer for me today I guess I'll have to wait another couple of days.

[turtle777]

Originally posted by Thilo Ettelt:

EDIT: Argh, the company Liesegang, who's producing and shipping the overhead projector to my dealer is in Germany's Karneval region! Specifically: D�sseldorf- which means that all of its employees are lying drunkenly under the tables right now. Which results in no beamer for me today I guess I'll have to wait another couple of days.

Get drunk as well. That'll cut your waiting time

-t

[effgee]

Originally posted by Thilo Ettelt:
... EDIT: Argh, the company Liesegang, who's producing and shipping the overhead projector to my dealer is in Germany's Karneval region! Specifically: D�sseldorf- which means that all of its employees are lying drunkenly under the tables right now. Which results in no beamer for me today. I guess I'll have to wait another couple of days.

... EDIT: Argh, the company Liesegang, who's producing and shipping the overhead projector to my dealer is in Germany's Karneval region! Specifically: D�sseldorf- which means that all of its employees are lying drunkenly under the tables right now and will be terribly hung over tomorrow. This in return will result in my beamer being assembled improperly, which means that it'll permanently project nothing but a nude photo of Bill Gates with a Windows XP logo superimposed over his genitals - no matter what I hook it up to. Also, when I connect a set of speakers to the beamer, it will play an endless loop of the Windows XP startup chime. I'm screwed.

fixed™

[machineknight]

HAHAHAHAHAHA a nightmare!!

[Thilo Ettelt]

Yesterday I finally got my projector!!

Here are the pix of the projector!
More pix of the projector!
Here are the pix of the "Genius" Bar.

- Thilo

[demograph68]

You might want to edit some of your posts again.

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[Sherwin]

OK, stupid question. What the heck is a Genius Bar?

[turtle777]

Originally posted by Sherwin:
OK, stupid question. What the heck is a Genius Bar?

Are you serious ?



http://www.apple.com/uk/retail/regentstreet/genius.html

-t

[Sherwin]

Originally posted by turtle777:
Are you serious ?

Yep.

Thanks for the link.

Now I know, I can see that it's a good method for Apple to be able to employ monkeys in the rest of the store. Wise move Apple!

[wdlove]

That is awesome Thilo, congratulations.

[historylme]

quite a pimp

[Thilo Ettelt]

Originally posted by wdlove:
That is awesome Thilo, congratulations.

Thank you! I'm so happy


- Thilo

[Thilo Ettelt]

Originally posted by history1me:
quite a pimp

and i thought this was called Geek!
bein' a pimp though, must be an increase