I wrote this yesterday, but Blogger wouldn't publish anything. So here it is again:

Lamp

I am having a self-critical day. I just deleted the last post because I decided it was stupid and off-topic. I want this site to be about futuristic stuff I like and projects I'm working on, and only occasionally about my life.

So back on the topic of futuristic stuff I like. I have a lamp by this dude named Tord Boontje in my living room. I got it last year. Even though it cost more than I would normally spend on a lamp, it required assembly. (It also required help from a friend, although it didn't say that in the instructions.)

When you buy the lamp, you get a light bulb on a long cord, and a flat piece of flowery silver stuff that looks like this:




As the lamp-buyer, it is your job to fold and bend and shape that flat thing around the light bulb until it starts to look all arty, and makes ice-crystal shadows on the wall:


I like this light is because it's kind of futuristic, but at the same time, it's also kind of white-trashy (since you can still see the bare bulb). Kinda futuristic, kinda white-trashy. Just like me...