Wear your favorite film on your eyeglasses

By Krisztina Than

BUDAPEST (Reuters Life!) - Are you a fan of Woody Allen or action movies and want the world to know?

Now you can have the images from your favorite film on a pair of trendy eyeglasses made by designer Zakarias Tipton.

The 29-year-old optician first began experimenting with vinyl and plastic glass frames about eight years ago and now sells a range of Cinematique eyeware (www.vinylize.com) with clips from the silver screen worked into the frame.

"I began testing all sorts of plastic until I found my father's record collection, and then I started recycling those without his knowledge," Tipton told Reuters.

That's when Tipton, who grew up in the United States with a Hungarian mother, decided to set up his funky eyeware business.

Now he, along with his brother, are based in Budapest and their collection is sold across Europe and North America.

Their Cinematique frames are made by recycling 35mm and 16mm movies. The film is collected from cinemas and dates from after 1989 (the fall of Communism in Hungary).

"They (customers) tell us they'd like a film from Woody Allen or they want "Mission Impossible 3" in their frame or they want a picture of some famous actor, then we will make it here and ship it to them," Tipton said.