With this post we begin a new series and blog category called Macs
in Media, which details appearances and cameos of our favorite compute
r on television, in movies and other popular media. True, most Apple cameos are
sometimes chokingly-omnipresent and obvious product placements from Apple's ma
rketing overdrive department, but now and then they manage a subtle little slip
that titillate the Mac faithful, or occasionally even come up with a more meat
y appearance where the computer is actually a significant part of the story. Or
not. Whatever. (Let's just say us fanboys get tickled pink when we see a Mac i
n a movie.)
PAPURIKA (2006), directed by Satoshi Kon, from Madhous
e/Sony Pictures Entertainment (Japan):
This first entry shows a cameo of what appears to be a Macbook Pro in Satoshi Kon's new anime film Papurika, (Paprika), released late last year, and the DVD just last Friday. The anime
is from the creators of Perfect Blue and Tokyo Godfath
ers, and is a great, mind-bending trip about a gadget that allows some
one to slip into another person's dreams. One review puts it best: it's like Hello Kitty meets Philip K. Dick.
The Mac shown above looks like a regular 15" Aluminum PPC Powerbook, but the dual hinges on the top edge give it away as a MacBook Pr
o - the odd thing is that the iSight lens seems to be
missing. (And it's also telling that the MacBook Pro wasn't yet around during
the production of the film either. I could be wrong though; I'll look into it.)
What's even odder is that the laptop featured isn't a Vaio, s
ince the film was co-produced by Sony.
For more info on the movie, check out IMDB, or google some reviews like the one from The New York Times. Catch
the trailer here.
This first entry shows a cameo of what appears to be a Macbook Pro in Satoshi Kon's new anime film Papurika, (Paprika), released late last year, and the DVD just last Friday. The anime
is from the creators of Perfect Blue and Tokyo Godfath
ers, and is a great, mind-bending trip about a gadget that allows some
one to slip into another person's dreams. One review puts it best: it's like 
