Qo' je Apple De'wI'? SoH Hegh batlhHa'!
posted on december 11, 2003, tag: software
On Apple's website, in the Panther section, there's a link to a video that shows some of Panther's new features. It's been around for a long while, but I just got a chance to watch it today. Let me just say that I'm impressed. Apple manages to innovate on every level, even in their informative/advertising campaigns. I mean, to use a Klingon to scare me into buying Panther is just brilliant.
I'm sure I'm not the first person to mention this, but the Klingon in question is Omar, the narrator/host/scary-looking-bastard. He has some of the most fantastically frightening facial expressions, and to make it even better: none of them relate to emotion. He seems to just randomly grimace in the middle of a regular sentence. He even makes angry faces when he gets happy. Here are a few shots from the video:
Click the image for more!
It's truly amazing to watch his face as he talks. Sometimes I'm scared, sometimes I'm laughing, sometimes I'm crying—but I'm always considering purchasing Panther immediately, which is exactly the goal. Granted, I've already bought a copy and the only reason I'm considering buying another is that I feel if I don't purchase it Omar might fly his Bird of Prey into my apartment building or cut me with one of those curved blade sword things, but the reasons don't matter.
The best part of the video is when you get to watch Omar transform from a semi-normal looking Klingon to a fucking scary Klingon when Humanoid BT tells Omar he's had his PowerBook stolen once in the past:
The whole video is a gem. I can't wait for the video for OS X 10.4, in which I've heard they plan to have Omar battle Patrick Stewart and then eat raw meat. Until then, watch the Panther Video.
* The title of this entry is Klingon for "No buy Apple computer? You die dishonorably!" Yeah, and it took me 45 minutes to find those words. It was worth it, though—that's funny shit!
Comments
There are 9 comments, comments are closed
Jasmeet on 12/11/2003:
I truly thought I was the only one to notice =)
Tarsh on 12/11/2003:
hah... great expressions.
Thomas Chai on 12/11/2003:
hmm...me too...i thought I was the only only to notice the scary expression. I was like pause and do a slow rewind and forward to catch his expressions. He should be acting in Scary Movie and not in Apple commercial. LOL
joshua dean on 12/14/2003:
GET A HAIRCUT
snafu on 12/14/2003:
He looks like the dog alien from alien 3.
Rob on 12/14/2003:
I keep expecting him to growl or something...
Jonathan on 12/15/2003:
And just who is is guy? I've never heard of him before. I was expecting to see someone semi-well-known to be talking about Panther. And of course they had BT because BT seems to be the Apple spokesperson for the audio elite.
James on 12/16/2003:
Wait a sec.. I know who that is. Come on, you all know who he is too, think about it... fine fine... Give up?
poetry on 01/04/2004:
Nah... can't be...
I think his nose is somewhat wider than the matrix twins...
Although, incidentally, it's my understanding that those guys do some sort of Australian gardening show. Did you ever see the second matrix in IMAX? If you look very closely, you can see where they glued the dreads onto their heads.
Why would they do this, you ask, and not go to the extra trouble of giving them a proper weave? Because they had a garden show to film.