In a unique kinetic tribute to Steve Jobs, media producer and marathon runner Joseph Tame has run a 21km long course though the streets of Tokyo in the shape of the Apple logo – and tracked the entire endeavor on his iPhone with GPS and an exercise app.
On his blog The Art of Running, Tame specializes in creating and running large scale shapes and patterns that he can track and map for posterity using the Runkeeper app and online service. He notes that he has become an Apple convert in the past few years and getting an iPhone really changed his life.
It’s for this that I’d like to personally show my appreciation to Steve for his vision and leadership, which has made a direct positive impact upon my life.
This morning’s run, which spanned central Tokyo, took me first down the western side of the Imperial Palace, across to Roppongi, through Omotesando, then up to Shinjuku. The leaf is in Kagurazaka, and the start/finish point just by the entrance to Yasukuni Shrine.
Other figures and shapes Tame has run in the past include Hello Kitty, the Twitter bird, and his own name. Part performance art, part workout, and fully temporal – good stuff. Thanks Joseph!
[via Slashdot]
Adam Rosen is an Apple certified IT consultant specializing in Macintosh systems new and old. He lives in Boston with two cats and too many possessions. In addition to membership in the Cult of Mac, Adam has written for Low End Mac and is curator of the Vintage Mac Museum. He also enjoys a good libation.
50 responses to “Running a 21km Apple Logo as a Tribute to Steve Jobs”
So sad. Steve is just stepping down as CEO. He’s not leaving Apple completely.
See that’s pretty cool! A true tribute.
Thanks for caring :D
True, but a tribute is not a eulogy. Why not thank Steve for a job well done while he can still appreciate it?
Thanks Adam. I’ve been meaning to run an Apple for a few months now, but was having a hard time finding the route (these things have to be done so as to take advantage of natural shapes/road patterns in the city).
However, with Steve stepping down as CEO it seemed it would make a fitting tribute to him and his time heading the company, so I spent a few hours with Google maps locating/ tracing this route, and then a couple more running it. A lot of fun, and great to see it being so well received.
That’s just incredibly sweet.
You may have just started a new tradition!
I’ll leave it to someone else to run the Microsoft logo when Steve Ballmer steps down! :-)
Not a big Jobs/Apple fan but this is still pretty cool.
Very cool.
Did you have to say that about Apple/Jobs. Could you not just enjoy the achievement?
If he steps down I will run it. That guy is turing my stock to shit.
I respect what he has done, just not an apple fan – don’t make it more than what the comment is. I thought it was pretty cool that someone would do this and I said so. It wasn’t meant to start anything. I didn’t say anything except I am not an Apple fan, what is wrong with that?
Epic!
Mother of God…
Cool
We all talk and here someone is doing something.
THANKS
Very Cool. A fitting tribute to Steve !!
Very Cool. A fitting tribute to Steve !!
The apple looks rotten
kinda strange to be on this site and not being inclined to apple products,
don´t you think?
Bellooooo..!!!
But i don t understand why he used two iphones..?
Maybe somebody will make an app for running shapes… Everywhere..
A nice ideaa tooooooooooo
Good question…
Only thing I can think of is having an extra iPhone as battery for when the first one goes out of battery, it’s running GPS tracking software after all, it can drain the battery pretty fast…
Then again, I don’t think it would drain the battery completely in under two hours… hmmm
Got a tweet, followed the link. Am a runner….
I get tweets from a variety of sources including tech.
Maybe he needed 2 iPhones to track both lines… I dunno…
I’m surprised Apples lawyers didn’t sue them to keep them from running the apple logo. Heh, kidding, awesome way to run.
I just paíd $20.87 for an íPad 2.64GB and my boyfriend loves his Panasoníc Lumíx GF 1 Cámera that we got for $38.79 there arriving tomorrow by UP S.I will never pay such expensive retail príces in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 40 inch LCD T V to my boss for $657 which only cost me $62.81 to buy.
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