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Grand opening inspires "thinking differently"

· By Faruk Ateş on May 20, 2006 · 5 comments ·

Apple opened their flagship Apple Store yesterday, a huge underground store with a 32-foot tall glass cube marking the entrance on Fifth Avenue, New York City. To commemorate this impressive store's opening Apple put up a camera to take pictures every few minutes for the first 24 hours - and if you think it's weird to take pictures all throughout the night, you probably haven't heard yet that this store will be open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The pictures of said camera are being posted on Apple's website as little movie clips so that you can see what each hour was like. This, however, made one guy to come up with a completely different purpose for the camera.

If you click the 05:00 hour frame on the movie clips page, you'll see a guy holding a few signs up. Rather than saying hi or waving to the camera (like some Mac-related websites suggested people to do), he decided to ask his girlfriend to marry him. It may not be the most romantic way (then again, if she's a big Apple geek, she might disagree on that), but at least it's a really unique way of proposing.

I have two questions to that guy, though:

  1. is it for real?
  2. and if so, did she say yes? :-)

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5 comments

#1 · draco · May 20, 2006 (19:25)

That's interesting, and it's even more interesting that you actually went through every hour clips and discovered that.

And I wonder the same questions as you do. Do post an update if _somehow_ you manage to get the answers to those questions you asked.

#2 · Faruk Ateş · May 21, 2006 (11:33)

Well, each clip only lasts for like 10-15 seconds, I think, so it doesn't really take very long to see 'm all ;-)

No answer yet.

#3 · J. J. · May 22, 2006 (17:49)

Her name is Uschi Lang - maybe Technorati will come up with some answers soon!
http://technorati.com/search/uschi%20lang

#4 · J. J. · May 22, 2006 (18:16)

Kottke will probably get the first answer, though:
http://www.kottke.org/06/05/apple-store-marriage

#5 · J. J. · May 26, 2006 (14:49)

Indeed! http://www.kottke.org/06/05/apple-proposal-followup

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