Dutch Artist Builds Actual Spinning Beachball of Death

Pete Mortensen ()

Since Mac OS X replaced the Classic Mac OS, nothing has galled users more than the Spinning Beach Ball of Death, also known as the “I’m thinking, but I’m thinking in rainbow colors!” icon. Ask your Mac for more than it wants to handle at a given moment, watch as your precious pointer becomes a useless spinning beachball.Dutch artist Gijs Gieske has taken that icon of Mac frustration and turned it into a giant work of art to remind us all how much easier our lives could be, although he claims he made it “for no particular reason.” Just look at it — it’s like staring into hell…

Source: MAKE via GadgetLab via Engadget

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Petemortensen

Pete Mortensen is a design strategist for consulting firm Jump Associates and the co-author of Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy, a book and blog that are significantly more interesting than you might initially think. Pete's particular Apple avocations are both around design--interface and industrial. Follow him on Twitter!

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  • Chris

    Why?? Oh god, Why??

  • Church of Apple

    Um, I believe it’s called the rainbow pizza of death, thank you very much.
    Also, any idea how I can make that soundtrack play each time I startup my iMac?
    I always love feeling like I want to stab myself in the ear with a sharp object.