Topic: "The Hive" a $14,000usd Bitcoin Art Piece - page 5. (Read 11358 times)
This was a commissioned piece? How much profit did the artist make? What was the cost of the wood to begin with?
Pictured with "The Hive" is the BTC that is from pretty much every Casascius picture/video. The Orange BTC (Signed by Casascius) is what I told WoodCollector to base this on for size. I was going to hang The Hive next to it, but it would just make Mike's look bad lol.
The level of detail is just amazing!
The level of detail is just amazing!
It will arrive to me tomorrow! I will take some good pictures and decide how it will be displayed.
I don't understand how you have 14k $ to spend in a piece and you participate in a signature campaign to earn some bucksYou don't reach a position to spend $14k on something by declining easy ways of making money. He would post on the forums anyway, so why not get paid.
Thanks MadZ, i thought there was something i was missing that was lost in context or something when i read that but now i know i am not the only one who understood it that way. Much appreciated for not making me feel alone in interpreting that. +1 good sir
It will arrive to me tomorrow! I will take some good pictures and decide how it will be displayed.
I don't understand how you have 14k $ to spend in a piece and you participate in a signature campaign to earn some bucksYou don't reach a position to spend $14k on something by declining easy ways of making money. He would post on the forums anyway, so why not get paid.
It will arrive to me tomorrow! I will take some good pictures and decide how it will be displayed.
I don't understand how you have 14k $ to spend in a piece and you participate in a signature campaign to earn some bucksI just want to make sure i understand what your saying so please clarify. Are you saying that if you have enough money to buy something nice, that you should turn down an opportunity to make more money when it arises? So if i could afford to buy a $2,000 bottle of champagne but an opportunity came along where i could make say $100 for doing next to nothing and it only takes me 10 minutes to do that i should say no because i can afford good champagne now and again?
That's not sarcasm or trolling just to be clear, i have never seen someone make such a statement and i am trying to better understand and enlighten myself. I dont know very many wealthy people who think with that logic and i would like to know where that thought process comes from.
Thanks
It will arrive to me tomorrow! I will take some good pictures and decide how it will be displayed.
I don't understand how you have 14k $ to spend in a piece and you participate in a signature campaign to earn some bucks 
What an unbelievably beautiful piece of art! Very big congrats Blazedout 
Delivered to Blazedout419 yesterday, cannot wait to see how he ends up displaying it. Will be posting a new piece commissioned by: ducatitalia tomorrow in its own thread.
Blazedout bought it for $14,000?
Well it is considered Royal Wood
Guess he was pimping it out pretending to be royalty (but not put to death xd)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Ivory
Pink Ivory was the royal tree of the Zulu People and only members of the royal family were allowed to possess it until the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. Before the Anglo-Zulu War, the Zulu king (and prior to 1818, Zulu chiefs) would possess a pink ivory knob kerry, a stick with one end a knob, and wear jewelry that were also made from pink ivory. According to rumor, non-royals who possessed the wood would summarily be put to death. After Zululand fell to the British and was separated into 13 separate "kinglets" 1883, all vying to retake control of what was once theirs precedent to the onset of apartheid, the pink ivory wood became much less important a sign of control than genuine control could be.
So unless royal and you posses this wood you get cursed?
No if you read it carefully you find out they were killed for possessing this wood prior to the Anglo-Zulu war. The only people allowed to possess it were those of the royal family.
Blazedout bought it for $14,000?
Well it is considered Royal Wood
Guess he was pimping it out pretending to be royalty (but not put to death xd)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Ivory
Pink Ivory was the royal tree of the Zulu People and only members of the royal family were allowed to possess it until the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. Before the Anglo-Zulu War, the Zulu king (and prior to 1818, Zulu chiefs) would possess a pink ivory knob kerry, a stick with one end a knob, and wear jewelry that were also made from pink ivory. According to rumor, non-royals who possessed the wood would summarily be put to death. After Zululand fell to the British and was separated into 13 separate "kinglets" 1883, all vying to retake control of what was once theirs precedent to the onset of apartheid, the pink ivory wood became much less important a sign of control than genuine control could be.
So unless royal and you posses this wood you get cursed?
I am very excited to get this piece. I have not decided on how to keep it though..in a fancy display case or just hang it on the wall? I guess I will decide once it arrives!
Put it in a display case... It will keep the wood protected...n u can probably put it anywhere u like... even in the bathroom..lol..!! I think the case would easily be a better option than hanging it on the wall.!
It will arrive to me tomorrow! I will take some good pictures and decide how it will be displayed.
You must be pretty damn rich man. How do you make so much money that you can afford this?
I am very excited to get this piece. I have not decided on how to keep it though..in a fancy display case or just hang it on the wall? I guess I will decide once it arrives!
I think in a shadow box with glass on front. I have a couple of signed guitars framed this way on my walls. I think it would look great....and protect your investment. I had a picture frame shop custom make mine, price wasn't that bad.
It will arrive to me tomorrow! I will take some good pictures and decide how it will be displayed.
lol $14k huh?
i'll pass thanks!
i'll pass thanks!
It...it was beautiful 
I wish I can touch it....
I wish I can touch it....
Wow astonishing, that's some beauty there for a bitcoin enthusiast. Congrats Blazedout419!
I am very excited to get this piece. I have not decided on how to keep it though..in a fancy display case or just hang it on the wall? I guess I will decide once it arrives!
What is the dimension/size of that thing?
12" by about 9.25"
Etched?
Carved with the edge of a 1/4" roughing gouge and a skew chisel.
Me either, thats why i dont think about it or i would be terrified. Last year i messed up a $20,000 piece of Kauri that was carbon dated 52,000 years old because i was over thinking it.
I am very excited to get this piece. I have not decided on how to keep it though..in a fancy display case or just hang it on the wall? I guess I will decide once it arrives!
What is the dimension/size of that thing?
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