How To: Ping Pong Ball Lights. Diy-crafts.jpg (473×640) Rashad Alakbarov Paints with Shadows and Light. Artist Rashad Alakbarov from Azerbaijan uses suspended translucent objects and other found materials to create light and shadow paintings on walls.
The best part is that you can easily create something similar at home – all you need is one or two lamps and some items from your desk. The stunning light painting below, made with an array of colored airplanes has found its way to exhibitions like the Fly to Baku at De Pury Gallery in London. Paper Cube String Lights. TetraBox Light by Ed Chew. Liquid to Light Designer Ed Chew takes a green step in the right direction with the TetraBox lamp, a light object made from discarded drink packets that would have otherwise ended up in landfills already packed to the brim.
The design is achieved by unfolding the packets and refolding them into hexagonal and pentagonal sections that are then pieced together to form a geodesic sphere or any other desired shape. Here, the Epcot-like ball makes an attractive overhead light and casts an impressive web of shadows and shapes on the surrounding space. Designer: Ed Chew. Fascinating Lamps by Calabarte. Calabarte is the pseudonym of a Polish artist named Przemek Krawczynski, whose art takes on a peculiar but incredibly beautiful form: cool lamps.
The name itself is a portmanteau of two words – art (obviously), and calabash, the fruit that carries his imagination. The calabash is a bottle gourd originating in India, although Calabarte gets his supply from Senegal. Due to ancient domestication and usage, the bottle gourd has an incredibly tough outer shell. In the past, the gourd’s usage was defined mostly as a water container, due to having a tough, smooth shell with an ergonomic shape for handling, and natural buoyancy on water. Nevertheless, it’s edible both raw and cooked, and used in various cuisines. 58617_218432418293776_1619395929_n.jpg (800×601) 8851_210338632436488_1044068659_n.jpg (831×390) 480965_201798863290465_1116829944_n.jpg (945×439)
196644_475137992510012_1626241250_n.jpg (JPEG Image, 500×674 pixels) Revolights LED Bicycle Wheel Lights. LED Bike Wheel Lights by MonkeyLectric. One of our favorite things about urban living is the ability to use your bicycle as the main means of transportation.
Of course there is one huge safety concern for frequent riders, and that’s night riding. Most drivers are already bad enough when they can see, so when the sun goes down forget about it. That’s where the LED Bike Wheel Lights by MonkeyLectric come into play, a fun spin on a serious matter. These lights transform your bike into a party on wheels, illuminating the road wherever you venture. A new lampshade. Scraplights. DIY Cardboard Pendant Light. Contributor Post by Chelsea of Lovely Indeed Hi all!
Chelsea here from Lovely Indeed, happy to be joining the amazing DIY squad at Poppytalk! I'm a big fan of recycling and repurposing, so I decided to get to work on some cardboard boxes I had laying around the house. As it turns out, cardboard makes a pretty sweet little pendant light. First, gather your materials. Corrugated cardboard, 25" wide and as tall as you'd like your lightSpray paintYard stickBox cutterGlue gunPendant light cord (this one from Ikea is only $5!)
Step 1: Start by spray painting one side of the cardboard. Step 2: Mark the cardboard at 5-inch intervals lengthwise with the box cutter. Step 3: Lay the cardboard flat again and cut it into strips lengthwise by tracing along the yard stick with the box cutter. Step 4: Once your strips are cut, hot glue the ends of each strip together (painted side in) so that you have pentagons.
Step 5: Finally, cut a solid pentagon out of cardboard for the top of the pendant. Project 20 Week 22 – White Straw Hanging Light. While wandering around the blogosphere the other day, someone was raving about PB Teen and what adorable things they had.
Project 5 Week 5 – Large Straw Pendant Light. Welcome to my big 5th week project!
This project is so big it took me two weeks to get it together, constructed and photographed. Project 11 Week 17 – Shredded Newspaper Lantern. Most people have a paper lantern or two lying around the house, but they can get pretty boring very quickly, so this week’s project is focused on rethinking that old standard!
I had the newspaper already shredded from an old school project (for anyone who cares, its The New York Times). Many of the pieces are simply black and white text, but there is also a lot of color. Project 1 Week 1 – Ruffled Coffee Filter Pendant Lamp. Hello and welcome to the 3 R’s, the blog about my mission to live life based on the concepts of “Reduce, Reuse, Redecorate!”
If you want to learn more about who I am, and this mission, then check out the About Me section above. In short, I am a crafty architecture school graduate, and I have decided to embark on what I’ve termed, The 30x30x3 Project, a mission to create and blog about 30 projects in 30 weeks based on the 3 R’s. So without further ado, I might as well jump right into my first project, a large pendant light made from a simple paper lantern, and approximately 699 coffee filters!
The project started when I spotted Aunt Peaches’ Ruffled Lotus Lantern on her amazing website. Project 19 Week 22 – Book Pages Pendant Lantern. Good morning!
So, as if you couldn’t have guessed, I’m sort of stuck on old books right now. So when I spotted this post on Pinterest (yes I’m sort of obsessed with that too) I knew I could do something similar.