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Steve Jobs, c.1985

Edit: Resubmission - My girlfriend found the jumper, which I've now corrected

Courtesy of Retronaut

© c.1985, Cupertino, California, USA by Norman Seeff

Seeff on the photoshoot from Retronaut’s article

> “I began the session by shooting the Mac team at the Apple offices and I could see Steve lurking in the background. It was clear that he was checking out how things were going. We were having tremendous fun and I was getting a lot of spontaneous and joyful shots… My desire with Steve was to engage in a genuine conversation about the world in which he lived and where he was most comfortable, and of course that came down to ideas about the future and where technology could go. These kinds of conversations are not at all heady and definitely require a balance of just having fun and hanging out together. That’s exactly what I was doing with Steve and as the session progressed, he became more and more informal.”

I very rarely do any colour restorations past 1950 for a number of reasons, not least for copyright, and frankly, black and white images are just amazing. It’s much easier to delve into photographs of events limited by camera technology of the time, rather than through creative intent. In this particular case however, I have an upcoming talk at the Apple Store in Covent Garden in London about colour restoration, and I felt it would be appropriate to bookend the talk with a before and after of this great shot of Jobs looking pensive and relaxed.

Whilst most sources on the internet attribute the set from 1984, researching a small detail could well put the image a year later; namely the Transformers Generation 1 Inferno Autobot toy lurking at the top (second from left), which was released by Hasbro in 1985. I normally don’t post up my references, but I’ve seen some comments recently saying that a lot of colourisation is based on guess work, I disagree - it’s just a commitment to researching and preparation, guesswork is a last resort (edit: I'm currently eating humble pie as my girlfriend dug out the correct colours of the jumper)

• 1984 Macintosh
  
  
• Robotech - M.A.C. II Monster
  
  
• Mid 1980’s Apple Business Cards
  
  
• Steve's jumper
  
  
• The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise by
  Giovanni di Paolo
  
  
• Symbol Sourcebook by Henry Dreyfuss (1972 edition)
  
  
• Graphic Design Britain by Studio Vista (1970 edition)
  
  
• Retronaut’s awesome article with a rare colour shot from the same session, which is where I tried to emulate a little of the same quality, and found the correct colour for the cubicle furniture
  
  Massive shoutout to Retronaut for being a brilliant website, and my humble apologies to Mr Seeff, whose far superior black and white image I’ve ruined!
  
  Black and white comparison
  
  Full sized colorised image
  
  More from me
  

If you read his biography, you’ll find that he fell in love in college (aka UK high school) with another boy, Christopher Morcom, who died of bovine tuberculosis (from drinking raw milk) when he was on school holiday. Turing kept the memory of his first love alive, dedicated many of his triumphs to him, and the idea of recreating Christopher in a computer program surely led him to devise the idea of the Turing Test.

Okay, okay. I'm delivering! [Here] (http://imgur.com/a/kzyE8) is the Imagur album with the pictures that I've pulled from the Twain Autobiography. Unfortunately, the picture that you've colorized, and so beautifully, is not in the book. However, I pulled pictures from the late 1800s up to 1907 and I think it would be easier to compare what Samuel Clemens from these different years. In fact, in the pictures from Florence Italy in 1903-1904, he is wearing the same outfit. My guess is that this was taken in his garden with his formal photographs in 1902, but that is open for discussion. I'm still messing with the album (sorry for the sideways pictures). Also, you should check out the book where these images are from, [Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition] (http://www.amazon.com/Autobiography-Mark-Twain-Volume-Authoritative/dp/0520267192/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1368402259&sr=8-1&keywords=Mark+Twain+Autobiography), which is just absolutely amazing! Whew, I didn't want to be an OP that didn't deliver!

Edit: [Here is the Imgur album] (http://imgur.com/a/WEtt8) (with descriptions from the book) with the images right side up.

Citation: Twain, M. (2010). Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition. (H. E. Smith, B. Griffin, V. Fischer, M. B. Frank, S. K. Goetz, & L. D. Myrick, Eds.) (First Edition.). University of California Press.

If you are interested in getting into management or any leadership role, I highly recommend you check out this book.

Robert E. Lee was an amazing general and a man with a lot of integrity. His leadership principles were extremely top-notch and still apply today -- they're timeless, actually.

I know some people will think, "He led the south and the south was for slavery so how can he be a great man?" Times back then were very complicated and the situation he was in at the time when he took on the role was equally complicated -- but he is considered a true American hero in every sense of the term.

Yes, exactly. Muir took Roosevelt up to Glacier Point by horseback to show him Yosemite. They camped and came down the next day. To paraphrase, Roosevelt called it one of the most beautiful places he'd ever seen.

The encounter is outlined in DAM!, a great book about Hetch Hetchy's history, which details the Muir and Roosevelt's relationship.

This very same picture (Alternately Coulourised) is the cover for "Highlander" by Tim Newark. I'm reading it just now and it is fantastic! For those with interest in an engaging and well sourced read on the development of Highland Regiments in the modern (post Jacobite) era, this is it.

Its late and I'm bored. I'm also from the DC area, so I got curious and did some looking around.

This building is in DC's Chinatown, which is really just a part of downtown with a large Chinese inspired arch and a bunch of Chinese lettering on shops like Chipotle, Starbucks and most notably the Verizon Center. If you go to the google maps street view provided by /u/reffaelwallenberg and look to the left you can see the arch Link. It is called the Friendship Arch and was built in 1986.

Anyways, it looks like the Chinese Doll was a Gourmet Chinese Restaurant. It closed in 2006 when the owners sold it to a development company. It opened in 1969, I'm not sure what the building was between then and 1925 but the building next door was, at one point, the China Inn and later the Lei Garden Chinese Restaurant. I found several more pictures of the restaurant from the 80's and the facade is much more pleasing. I found an article from the Washington Post about the restaurant closing in 2006 after nearly half a century of business. It and the building next to it were razed in 2007 to make way for what looks like a 'micro-hotel' to be built there in the next few years. Although this blog from 2012 suggests a 10 story "Gallery Tower" retail building. As far as I can tell the company is still in the planning stage, though permits/hearings have begun as late as this past fall.

I also found a book featuring former NBA coach Red Auerbach, who apparently frequented the restaurant, that takes place mostly in the China Doll and Chinatown. There is an article about Red Auerbach and it talks about the China Doll, it even has a photo of him inside the restaurant from NPR.

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This photograph was also used on the cover of Mary's autobiography, A Daughter's Tale - If you have some free time, you should read some of her work - it is a tremendous insight in to Britain in, and after, WWII.

I tried my darndest, and I couldn't for the life of me find the exact location of this photograph. Ontop of that, I'm not even sure that shoulder patch is correct, the closest I could find is this, but up-close that patch Mary is wearing still looks very different, so I went with a recurring theme - gold cross-over and copied the red/black patch. If anybody has information on the building and the patch, I would love to hear it!

You're thinking of his son Kermit. I'm halfway done with Candice Millard's book about it, River of Doubt, and its been a pretty good listen.

For the more visual and auditory learners you can watch this video which was made for the Medal of Honor Book 10/10 would recommend possibly the most patriotic coffee table book in existence.

also check out the rest of the videos on the channel

>As adorably archaic as they look, they're very close to modern times in the grand scheme of things.

There's a book entitled "1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War", by Charles Emerson, which argues precisely this. The world of 1913, while it was a hundred years ago, would have been very recognizable and familiar to many of us in many respects today. Archaic, but familiar.

There’s a great drama series on Amazon Prime about Rasputin. Just came out I think. https://www.amazon.com/Rasputin/dp/B07CTD98ZJ

Ok so there was a really interesting book I read about biology once that talked about how bloodletting might have worked at one point, because people with hemocromatosis lived through the Black Death at a MUCH higher rate than others, so after like a third of western Europe's population was wiped out a large portion left had hemocramatosis. It was a such an interesting book- talked about different biological explanations for pop culture, current events, politics, etc. I'm going to try and find it and will edit when I do.

EDIT: Found it! Would recommend. I read it years ago in high school and still think about every once in a while - https://www.amazon.com/Survival-Sickest-Surprising-Connections-Longevity-ebook/dp/B000OI0E6I

This is such a glossed-over, shameful period in American history. As a child, this book did a great job of teaching me about the camps and helping me understand what it was like to be one of the interred Japanese-Americans: http://www.amazon.com/Farewell-Manzanar-Jeanne-Houston/dp/0307976076

Pretty sure I saw it in this book, will check

This is a good one. I would also recommend the movie Army of Shadows.

Everybody should read as much as possible of his Essays. That's where his real insights lie. You will find the volumes (there are several) in your local library. For the best collection in one volume see this.