I saw this and had to post it. I am sure many of you are aware of the simple beauty of light refracted on a wall whilst on psychedelics. I would love to have one of these.

http://www.ego-alterego....nary-lamps-by-calabarte/

Feel free to add anything elaborate or simple that you like or have that adds to the hyperspatial setting.

Wow, those things are awesome. I'll be looking forward to the website going live. I wonder how much she wants for 'em.

Very nice house

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXenUMbwSkw
heres the the laser sphere,looks quite good too.

Wow, loving that lamp, one of them a laser ball thingy, some LSD and one of these:

http://www.youtube.com/w...ggrM&feature=related

= an awesome night

i just saw some lamps like those on an indigenous art exposition near my house, but they were expensive :S

beautiful indeed!

I have a candle that is a hollowed out sphere and it has layers of different colored wax that somebody carved an OM symbol into the layers making something like this lamp. It gives off nice shadows that flickers with the flame. No where near as elaborate, though.

I also imagine that carving a gourd and creating those thin layers would be a meticulous task. Has anyone here ever attempted this? It seems like a fun project, but it also sounds like a recipe for a gourd thrown at the wall after I drive my chisel straight through it on accident

These are really fucking cool.

If the artist actually carved it, I say their abilities are unmatched. The shear detail and perfection of the gourds leads me to believe that the artist has a CAD program and a CNC machine.

If that be the case, there are many diy cnc machine plans and open source software. Then you could make your own!!! Probably be the only way any of my attempts would be successful.

Those lamps are magic!
I've always wanted a lamp that creates the same rippling reflections that water does on the underside of bridges. I've even thought of playing around with a tray of water and a bulb... Has anyone every seen/ done anything like that?
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Brilliant idea. If you could somehow combine the flicker of a candle flame with the flow of water, you would have something absolutely marvelous...

A hollow sphere encased with a thick glass filled with water that rotates at variable intervals to create waves, with a tea light candle placed on the inside.. Like an inverted disco ball of LIFE.



Also: Minimal patterns could be added to the outside of the glass to add another dimension to the reflections.

Link does not work for me...

I've got a laserpod supernova. It's overpriced and makes me nauseous ..but its also kinda nice

http://www.youtube.com/w...9VW4&feature=related

(better without the blue nebula though)

Nice, I wonder if you could even use the heat from the tea light candle to create convections in the water, then by having something in suspension floating around in the convections you might end up with a truly awesome DISCO BALL OF LIFE!

^Then it would need some kind of ventilation, no? (To keep from exploding from the pressure)
Which would subsequently act as a way to drain/refill the sphere (With different colored solutions, mind you!)

Awesome Ideas...

My god that lamp is so awsome!!!!!

sculpt in clay- solid mold- cold cast in acrylic resin, add pigments. But this one is seriously neat, possible CAD, or some serious serious skill. Me likey.

incredible!!! as a lighting junkie i thank you for the fix :-) thats good stuff!