Steve Jobs has been celebrated, in a fashion, by an architectural design software company called Graphisoft – a company which Apple’s late great CEO himself helped get started back in the 1980s. In return the innovator of the iPhone, iPad and iPod has been immortalised in bronze. But this statuesque interpretation of the tech heavyweight is more ropey than Rocky!
One of the tech world’s and society’s greatest losses this year was Steve Jobs, and now found standing (unnaturally) tall outside of the Graphisoft Budapest HQ, he appears alien-like, posing in a somewhat pained stance with iPhone in one hand, with opposite arm outstretched and attached – a set of abnormally elongated fingers. The Jobs-a-like created by sculptor Erno Toth has his head a-tilt in an expression of “WTF is wrong with my hand??”
With heart in the right place, Graphisoft Boss, Gabor Boiar said of the man and the monument: “He was one of the greatest (personalities) in our era, that’s what we wanted to express with this sculpture here.”
He adds “In some ways, Apple was a religion. We have felt his spirit every day and now it is embodied. We hope that we can deserve with our entrepreneurial culture in Hungary what this sculpture expresses as a message.”
There is some touching sentiment to be found in the bizarre memorial – a bronze iPad resting at the creator’s feet which reads “The only way to do great work is to love what you do. – Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011”
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