Straight from the renderer - no post. Designed for a topical discussion entitled "Disease of Comparison-itis".
Everything was hand designed by me using CSG of basic shapes, rotational & translational sweeps, and a bezier patch. Only thing not completely designed by me was the chains - I used Chris Colefax's link.inc plug-in.
7 spotlights and 5 diffused point lights. Atmospheric radiosity was also used to lighten and allow the diffused lights to make a difference in the scene.