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- French Designer Makes Gold-Plated Computers Fit for Royalty
- Twin Brothers Take Doodle Art to the Next Level
- Man Spends Two Years Building Exact Titanic Replica from Scrap
| French Designer Makes Gold-Plated Computers Fit for Royalty Posted: 03 Sep 2012 04:06 AM PDT
George Chirita, a Romanian electronics engineer turned computer designer makes luxury computers and accessories for the world’s rich and famous. His creations are inspired by royalty like French King Louis XVI and are decorated with expensive materials like gold, marble or lapis lazuli. Prices start at $21,000. If you think your dusty old machine just isn’t worthy of your royal lifestyle, you’ll be glad to know someone finally came up with the idea of making computers fit for kings. His name is George Chirita and he’s a Romanian immigrant who took France by storm with his gold-plated computers decorated with marble and precious stones. His small company produces computers in three different styles - Louis XV, Louis XVI and Empire – inspired by classic French decorations, which Chirita says he has always been a fan of. And while the company’s main goal is to create a stylish decorative object to enoble customers’ surroundings, they certainly don’t neglect quality hardware. ”To bring together and create this world of ‘luxury technology’, first of all you’ve got to use the latest high-tech innovations, in terms of the electronic components to build a computer like that, and we also use classic French styles which are timeless styles”, George Chirita told Reuters. Photo: Chirita.com The workers who put together these luxury computers at the company’s workshop in Melun, France, usually use marble and lapis lazuli for the base of the machine, and gold-plated brass and bronze for the monitors. But it’s not just the materials used that make these things so special. Chirita has regular artists working on his computers, and he says their craftsmanship of classic French decorations fully justifies the €17,000 ($21,000) starting price of his exclusive products. Depending on the client’s choice of materials and special specifications, the price of a computer can go a lot higher. Photo: Chirita.com Although the discreet owner didn’t reveal any of his clients’ names, saying he has had orders from all around the world, he did mention affluent tech-lovers from China and the Middle East have been particularly interested in his luxury computers. If you’re actually considering forking out at least $17,000 on a computer, check out the different styles on Chirita.com. Photo: Chirita.com
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| Twin Brothers Take Doodle Art to the Next Level Posted: 03 Sep 2012 02:54 AM PDT
Sergei and Vyacheslav Savelyv are two twin brothers with an extraordinary talent for doodling. They uses colored pens and pencils to draw what seem like endless circular doodles and create incredibly detailed portraits of world famous icons. Sergei and Vyacheslav Savelyv have so far displayed their wonderful artworks only in their home town of Petrozavodsk, in Russia’s Karelia region, but I think you’ll agree their talent deserves worldwide recognition. The creative duo who works under the name “SaveL” have an impressive doodle portrait portfolio of famous celebrities like Johnny Depp, Robert De Niro or Antonio Banderas, all created with ordinary pens of pencils. Their technique looks a lot like what many of us used to do on the back of our notebooks in school to check is a pen still worked, only their loops form very detailed images. We’ve seen some truly mind-blowing doodle art in the past, like the works of Sagaki Keita or Jason Sho Green, but while they assembled their masterpieces out of tiny little drawings, these Russian twins use the simplest form of doodling to create intricate portraits. I was able to find their official site (savel-art.ru), but it was down at the time this article was written. If you want to see more of their impressive works, you can check out this extensive collection on Fotki.
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| Man Spends Two Years Building Exact Titanic Replica from Scrap Posted: 03 Sep 2012 01:39 AM PDT
In what can only be described as a titanic effort, boat-model enthusiast Jason King, from England, has spent two and a half years building an exact 1:100 scale replica of the Titanic. The 40-year-old used all kinds of scrap materials, from old clockworks to broken VCRs and managed to finish his masterpiece on April 15, exactly 100 years after the real Titanic sunk. Titanic buffs have built replicas of the famous boat before, but Jason King wanted his to be perfect, right down to the number of benches on its deck. To pull off his perfect 1:100 replica, the man actually bought 150 books on the Titanic and consulted every photo of the vessel he could find. Jason knew most people would never notice the tiny details, but he wanted to make sure no one could ever “pick holes in it”. So he painstakingly recreated every single part of the original Titanic to scale, right in hid home study. Although he admits he had some model experience behind him, the Titanic project still took him two and a half years to complete. But that actually kept him out of his wife’s way, so that made her happy. What’s even more impressive about this -9-foot-long Titanic replica is that it’s actually made of scrap. For the hull of the boat Jason used scrap wood, and in replicating some of the tiny details, he made use of anything he could get his hands on, including clockworks, and VCR parts. The resourceful father-of-two ended up spending just £2,500 ($4,000) which is not really that much, considering the level of detail of his little Titanic. Jason King worked on his impressive model every day, and reckons that he put in about 25 hours a week tinkering with it, for the last two and a half years. He managed to finish it right on April 15, 100 years since the real Titanic sunk after colliding with an iceberg. Although he has received very generous offers for his identical Titanic replica, the expert model-builder isn’t considering selling it. He doesn’t want to say he’ll never sell it, but for now, after two years of work he plans on enjoying it a little longer, and even considers keeping it in the family, as an heirloom.
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