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Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Visual Art / Tech Budapest Hearts Steve Jobs

Posted by Jen Graves on Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 12:23 PM

Photo by SZABOLCS DUDAS
I never stand still. Never!

It is here! The world's first Steve Jobs statue!

And it's standing—striding—in Budapest, outside the headquarters of GRAPHISOFT, whose founder and chairman commissioned the bronze.

The artist is a Hungarian sculptor by the name of Erno Toth. He portrayed the Apple founder in mid-stride, on too-long legs, throwing a gang sign.

International Business Times has the best making-of pictures. Jobs=R2D2.

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Steve looks rather leggy here.

Posted by yelahneb

on December 21, 2011 at 12:33 PM

Condolences.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on December 21, 2011 at 12:41 PM

Anyone who idolizes this person is a clueless old fool. You know, like Will in Seattle.

Posted by Kinison

on December 21, 2011 at 12:51 PM

I think you mean C-3PO.

Posted by Simone on December 21, 2011 at 1:25 PM

R2D2? WTF? More like C-3PO with some Greedo going on in the hand there.

Posted by Wheedle on December 21, 2011 at 1:26 PM

Given Steve Jobs's famous attitude towards, well, everyone who wasn't Steve Jobs (I especially like the way he likely killed someone by queue-jumping to steal someone else's transplant organ when he already had untreatable metastatic cancer, untreatable in part because he'd convinced himself he knew more than his doctors when it was treatable), I think the sculptor got the wrong finger raised.

Posted by Warren Terra on December 21, 2011 at 2:58 PM