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Bliss is the name of the default computer wallpaper of Windows XP, produced from the photograph of a landscape in Sonoma County, California, United States.[2] The image contains rolling green hills and a blue sky with cumulus and cirrus clouds. In the Dutchand Portuguese version of Windows XP, the wallpaper is named Ireland and Alentejo, respectively, despite the fact that the image was taken in the United States.[1]
The photograph was shot back in 1996 for the digital-design company HighTurn byCharles O'Rear,[3][4] a former National Geographic photographer and resident of St. Helena, Napa County. According to O'Rear, the image was not digitally enhanced or manipulated in any way.[1] The image was captured from the side of the highway 12/121[map 1] with a hand held medium-format camera. The approximate location is 3101 Fremont Dr. (Sonoma Hwy.), Sonoma, CA. The coordinates for the hill are 38.250124,-122.410817. Although O'Rear's focus when he made the photograph was on the subject of wine making in the Napa Valley, the hill did not have grapevines at the time. Vines were subsequently planted on the site.
In 2001, with the release of Windows XP, the photograph inspired a $200 million "Yes you can" advertising campaign for Windows XP's by the San Francisco division of the New York City advertising company McCann-Erickson. The campaign was launched on television on ABC (America) during one of ABC Sports's Monday Night Football games of the 2001 NFL season. The commercials included Madonna's song "Ray of Light".[5][6][7]
On November 27, 2006, Goldin+Senneby visited the site in Sonoma Valley where the Bliss image was taken, re-photographing the same view now full of grapevines. Their work After Microsoft[8] was first shown in the exhibition "Paris was Yesterday" at the gallery La Vitrine in April 2007.[9] It was later exhibited at Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo,[citation needed] and 300m3 in Gothenburg.[10]
In 2006, Sébastien Mettraux, a Swiss artist made a photograph titled "Bliss, after Bill Gates, 2006". Mettraux, who lives and works near the Vallée de Joux, explained that it was taken in Les Esserts-de-Rives, Switzerland. A local rumour suggested that the hill of the Windows XP wallpaper came from this area in the heart of the "watch valley". It is a mistake but the photography shows that the hill is a lookalike. This photography was shown at the "Images'08" festival in Vevey.[11]
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Bliss is the name of the default computer wallpaper of Windows XP, produced from the photograph of a landscape in Sonoma County, California, United States.[2] The image contains rolling green hills and a blue sky with cumulus and cirrus clouds. In the Dutchand Portuguese version of Windows XP, the wallpaper is named Ireland and Alentejo, respectively, despite the fact that the image was taken in the United States.[1]
The photograph was shot back in 1996 for the digital-design company HighTurn byCharles O'Rear,[3][4] a former National Geographic photographer and resident of St. Helena, Napa County. According to O'Rear, the image was not digitally enhanced or manipulated in any way.[1] The image was captured from the side of the highway 12/121[map 1] with a hand held medium-format camera. The approximate location is 3101 Fremont Dr. (Sonoma Hwy.), Sonoma, CA. The coordinates for the hill are 38.250124,-122.410817. Although O'Rear's focus when he made the photograph was on the subject of wine making in the Napa Valley, the hill did not have grapevines at the time. Vines were subsequently planted on the site.
In 2001, with the release of Windows XP, the photograph inspired a $200 million "Yes you can" advertising campaign for Windows XP's by the San Francisco division of the New York City advertising company McCann-Erickson. The campaign was launched on television on ABC (America) during one of ABC Sports's Monday Night Football games of the 2001 NFL season. The commercials included Madonna's song "Ray of Light".[5][6][7]
On November 27, 2006, Goldin+Senneby visited the site in Sonoma Valley where the Bliss image was taken, re-photographing the same view now full of grapevines. Their work After Microsoft[8] was first shown in the exhibition "Paris was Yesterday" at the gallery La Vitrine in April 2007.[9] It was later exhibited at Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo,[citation needed] and 300m3 in Gothenburg.[10]
In 2006, Sébastien Mettraux, a Swiss artist made a photograph titled "Bliss, after Bill Gates, 2006". Mettraux, who lives and works near the Vallée de Joux, explained that it was taken in Les Esserts-de-Rives, Switzerland. A local rumour suggested that the hill of the Windows XP wallpaper came from this area in the heart of the "watch valley". It is a mistake but the photography shows that the hill is a lookalike. This photography was shown at the "Images'08" festival in Vevey.[11]
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