We're going to break from tradition this week and highlight a rig that is not a part of our flickr pool. At right we see former Vice President (and Apple Board member) Al Gore flanked by three huge Apple displays. We can only imagine where the computer powering those things is located in that cluttered office.By the way, does anyone know where I can get an enormous tree frog for my wall?
"Al Gore's American Life" photographed for Time Magazine by Steve Pyke.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
5-20-2007 @ 3:25PM
john russell said...
Think how much those three displays must be adding to global warming. At least they aren't CRTs.
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5-20-2007 @ 3:27PM
Klemens said...
Awesome.
I love him.
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5-20-2007 @ 3:27PM
Tom said...
So Mr. Global Warming is using three 30 inch displays... 3 x 150 watts = 450 watts just for his computer monitors! Wow!
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5-20-2007 @ 3:29PM
Azhar said...
Look at the speaker underneath the middle display, there JBL's ive got thesame speakers as Al Gore
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5-20-2007 @ 3:49PM
Albright said...
Wow, his desk is even messier than mine.
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5-20-2007 @ 3:51PM
Andre Grusch said...
I find it funny how Apple is all about the 'digital life'
which you can just only imagine on his three displays.
However if you have a look at his desk!!!
How does the man find anything?
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5-20-2007 @ 4:26PM
Wheels said...
I wonder how many trees gave up their lives just to clutter his desk.
Hehehe. Just kidding. Rather have a leader with a cluttered desk than a jumbled brain. :)
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5-20-2007 @ 4:35PM
Shannin said...
look at the monitor on the far left, is it just me or does that black bar on the bottom look like the vista tash bar?
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5-20-2007 @ 4:38PM
jeremy burnich said...
I wonder what kind of chair that is.
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5-20-2007 @ 5:31PM
John said...
guys is such a hypocrit... has a giant house.. flies around in planes... has three frickin computer monitors? This dude wants you to change the way you live but he doesnt want to change the way he does...
lame...
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5-20-2007 @ 5:41PM
JaY said...
Hey John before you chastise someone how about you know a little. Gore uses Solar panels and actually sells electric back to the electric company. Im not a Gore supporter, however I don't like uninformed people bashing others. He can use as much clean energy as he wants.
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5-20-2007 @ 6:15PM
mayo said...
So what exactly does he do that he needs 3 monitors? reading 3 websites side by side with maximized windows ... very nice, the truth certainly is inconvenient.
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5-20-2007 @ 6:47PM
John said...
Wonder how many trees are sitting on his desk? Looks environmentally friendly to me. Hypocrite.
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5-20-2007 @ 6:49PM
fooyork said...
We already knew Mr. Gore was a Mac user, he uses Mac's all the time when he is looking for Manbearpig.
http://www.fscklog.com/cube_sp.jpg
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5-20-2007 @ 7:48PM
Edsel said...
JaY (#12)
Al Gore uses an average of 221,000kWh per year. If he, as you claim, generates excess electricity with his solar panels then he would need a zone change from residential to industrial. That's a lot of solar panels!
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5-20-2007 @ 7:53PM
Nic said...
whilst I appreciate the consumption and impact he is having maybe greater than the general public surely you have to temper this with the awareness he is generating. Sure he uses way more resources than I do but believe you me that he is having a much greater impact in the long run than anything I do.
And I don't even like the man :-), must also apologise for starting a sentance with 'and' there.
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5-20-2007 @ 8:13PM
Karim said...
Come on people, he NEEDS three 30-inch displays!!!
On Display # 1, he has a graph showing the rise in atmospheric CO2 in the last century.
On Display # 2, he has a graph showing the rise in his shares of AAPL in the last couple of years. (strangely, it's the same graph as Display # 1.)
On Display # 3, he has a tally of the votes in the 2000 Presidential Election. Keeps hitting refresh in the expectation it will change....
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5-20-2007 @ 8:54PM
josh said...
what is that apple branded box-lookin thing he has on about the second shelf next to the pink photo-frame (above the left-most display)?
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5-20-2007 @ 8:58PM
ChrisM70 said...
Al Gore is a very different kind of leader...
He's CURIOUS.
Throw all the stones you want, but everyone with an ounce of smarts knows that you can't do the kind of work and business he does without doing a lot of things that our current Prez seems adverse to:
1. READING (BTW, Gore just READS the info, he didn't cut down the trees)
2. LEARNING (you know... charts, graphs, listening to REAL scientists)
3. TRAVELING (if you know of a way for Gore to travel efficiently BESIDES using a plane - please let me know)
I wish we could get Gore into the White House. He's a true intellectual - and just happens to have been right about the war, the environment, and wouldn't authorize torture.
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5-20-2007 @ 9:39PM
Stephen Macklin said...
Don't worry about all the energy he's wasting with those monitors. He's going to buy some carbon offsets to cover them.
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