“Gift-giving season is right around the corner, and we know just the perfect gift for the Apple nut in your life. No, it’s not an iPhone case or a new iPad Air,” Dante D’Orazio reports for The Verge. “It’s a $1,900 hand-painted pirate flag.”
“Back in 1983, when the Macintosh team moved into a new office building, programmer Steve Capps sewed together the black flag and asked graphic designer Susan Kare to paint the skull and crossbones on it,” D’Orazio reports. “It’s said that the flag flew over the office building for over a year before disappearing forever into the annals of computer history.”
D’Orazio reports, “Now Kare is selling bespoke replicas of the flag in two sizes: 3 feet by 5 feet and 4 feet by 6 feet for $1,900 and $2,500, respectively.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take:
It’s better to be a pirate than join the navy. — Steve Jobs
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “CFD202” for the heads up.]
“Where’s the rum?!” – Pirate Capt. Jack Sparrow
The spirit of this flag makes Redmond look like the redcoats!
Now that is a very unique gift from a veteran Apple Graphic Designer — the core constituency of Apple since the beginning and all through the lean years to this day. Most excellent.
I’d rather spend that kind of money on a Mac instead of that crappy looking flag. Heck, get any 7 year old kid to make a copy of it and save a bundle.
While you’re at it:
Instead of spending the money on a Mac, why not invest in a pc and an android phone, and really “save” a bundle.
You only get what you pay for, cheapskate.