MacBook Art Project is a Labor of Love

By Lonnie Lazar (12:15 am, May 05 2009)

Kyle Buckner is a very talented fellow and his primary muse is Apple.

We’ve featured some of Buckner’s work before and he’s also got a spread in the June issue of Mac|Life magazine. He may well be one of the hottest Apple-inspired artists in the US right now.

Buckner sent us photos of his most recent school project, in which he was tasked to create a “Bookart”. Apple obsessed as he is, he was inspired to create a scale model of a MacBook.

Buckner constructed the casing out of wood, routering all the corners and then priming, sanding and painting the pieces white. The hinge system replicates the real Mac’s and is fully constructed out of hand cut MDF wood.

After he painted the pieces, he used a pencil to add the fine details. He drew the screen and full keyboard and penciled in every tiny phillips head screw at its location.

His piece is 3/4 the size of an original MacBook.

We apologize to anyone who got too excited by our earlier post teasing that this might be Apple’s new netbook. It’s a Monday night. It’s not football season.

Does anybody remember laughter?

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Lonnie Lazar is a writer-musician-web designer-attorney. He writes about Apple for Cult of Mac and Mac|Life, and about VoIP and telecommunications for Voxilla. Follow Lonnie on Twitter @LonnieLazar, join the Cult of Mac on Facebook, and find Lonnie's photos on Flickr.

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wiliam
Only a guy with passion for mac could do that.
Darcy McGee
> Does anybody remember laughter?
Sure…does anybody remember integrity in journalism?
Your original post made an aggressive pitch for this as an Apple Netbook. Now you’re trying to back out of it.
Just apologize for the error, and the fact that you got fooled and get on with life. Don’t imply that your readers are at fault.
Anti-Doucher
There is nothing in the name to suggest a new Apple Netbook, you are at fault. Just because you want to grease the screen with baby batter to be the first person online to EVER see a new Mac product (which doesn’t EVER happen, get over it), doesn’t mean you should fill your head with fantasies and blame a website for not providing them
MGZ
Darcy, if you go back and read the original post, you can now see he was gearing for this from the beginning: “We have more images that will take time to process and details about the provenance of this device we must parse, so bear with us until all can be revealed.”
Get over it
Rob
Lonnie got on my nerves with his rant about Myst yesterday, and is on it again today for this.
Is there a way to block his posts?