[steve release];

I don’t have any personal stories about Steve Jobs. The closest I ever came to seeing him was at AppleExpo Paris many years back. I didn’t even get to see his keynote live; I was shuffled off to the overflow room. Still, I’m a big admirer of all that he helped to guide and build. In anticipation of the new iPhone 4S, I ordered a Smallworks Brickcase, and with our now burgeoning collection of LEGO bricks, I got sidetracked putting together a small tribute to the man who drove the machine in my pocket to market.

I took a crop of the iconic photo of him, scaled it to 7x12 (the largest expanse on the back of the Brickcase), and posterized it to 2-bit greyscale, all in Acorn. If you stand back and squint really hard, you can just make him out. Up close, it’s abstract enough in arrangement and texture to go completely unnoticed.