Steampunk Workstation

Gotta love this...!

Mike
(Thanks to Oren)

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Comments

[ben]

Ouch... Looks like a nice Century studio camera and stand. The bellows are even in better condition than mine. What a waste!

[Daniel Fealko]

Wow!!!

I love the Steampunk look, cameras and computers. How can I not love this?

Now if only my pocketbook were in love with its price. Oh well...

But is it Art? (just kidding)

[erlik]

Man, why didn't you say you like steampunk stuff? :) Now, even if it's not a portrait camera:

An eight feet tall computer case.

A mockup of a steampunk workstation and a steampunk flatbed scanner.

A Victorian all-in-one PC. Kinda steampunk iMac. :) But it's particularly attractive.

And 17 steampunk computer mods, including some of those mentioned above.

There's such stuff galore. There are even steampunk USB drives. I don't think Messrs. Gibson and Sterling knew what would happen when they wrote Difference Engine.

[Ed Kirkpatrick]

My God!

I have one of these beautiful Century 1's looking for a stand and this fellow goes and mucks it up with a computer? It's not even ergonomically suitable for working! A hanging offense in my book... but his neck is already crooked from looking at that display.

[Dave]

Very good but I do hope that a genuine antique piece of photographic kit wasn't butchered to make it!

[Alex Vesey]

Interesting idea, but I wish they could take a picture worthy of the camera/desk they are trying to depict.

Alex

[amcananey]

You're right, I do. And $5,000 actually seems like a pretty fair price. But I'm REALLY attracted to that keyboard...

Best,
Adam

[David A. Goldfarb]

I'm not sure whether to love it or hate it. I mean, it looks like a perfectly good bellows!

[OC]

Heck, I thought he had made a digital back for it ;>)

[John Brewton]

Hilarious!

[Debbie Hartmann]

That is so Cool!

[Mark]

That's pretty cool--very Victorian. Here's my object of desire: a midcentury-modern PC

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10416474-1.html

[Dennis Ng]

If they have to restore it, why not restore it as a camera?

[Paul]

I'd rather see someone taking pictures with that cool old camera...

[Rana]

Oh, that's wonderful! (Now the room around it needs to be re-done...)

[AR Yue in Austin, TX]

A lovely studio portrait camera which was so well made that it lasted a for over a century.

It is now fitted with a computer keyboard and a display that might last half-way through the current decade.

[JonLevi]

Beautiful! Where's the Apple?

[Isaac Crawford]

I really really do not "get" the whole steampunk thing. And why use a studio camera to mount a monitor in it? Seems like a total waste of a historical object...

[Mike O'Donoghue]

Another case of make something look like something else. Waste of resources both camera and computer. Like fake stone cladding on a plywood house. Cheesy.

[Roger Bradbury]

"More power, Igor"
"Yeth, Marther"
Bzzzt!-hummmmm....

[Don Bryant]

Why should I or anyone else love this? It's hideous for functionality and design. Maybe good for an internet cafe.