At Work On His Macintosh Computer

Leonard Cohen employed his Mac computer to work on graphics and music as well as checking email, reading blogs, listening to music, holding online chats.... He explained that "Macintosh gave free computers to Canadian writers, including Margaret Atwood, Irving Layton, and Jack McClelland. Not only that, they were kind enough to provide tutors who actually came to my house and helped me set up and showed me how to work it. So I got interested in the Macintosh computer quite early." (Source: Leonard Cohen by Robert Enright. Border Crossings, Dec. 2007). Leonard also routinely used Pro Tools, a drawing tablet, a synthesizer, an iPad, and a smartphone,

The photo was taken by Lorca Cohen in 2004. Note that his workspace sports a mouse pad that presages the carpets covering the stage at many of his 2008-2013 concerts.