Wow, my friend and I created something EXACTLY like that for a video shoot for about $10. We used string, large balloons, water and sugar, and appliance enamel. I put lights in a couple afterwards and hung them in my office.

In 2nd grade my brownie troop were all "pumpkins" and had costumes that involved orange sugar-string balloon-shaped spheres on our heads. It rained. Oh, the horror! Mom says that I was just about the saddest-looking thing ever.

And faith, how much did YOU charge for your services (or get paid for your time) to make 'em?

paint it white and most people would never even know.

fisheggs--
That visual almost made me cry.

I made one of those once when I was a kid (not as a light fixture or anything) and kept it in my room. A couple months later I looked at it closely and realized it was covered with ants.

Joan - that was my nightmare when we did these! I was so afraid... but I think the industrial-strength completely toxic appliance enamel kept them away...

Patrick - nothing. It was for the company I worked for. Labor of love, since there was no way a Random Light fit into our set budget.

string balloons!

faith--

But, um, collected a paycheck for the time, no?

uggg. My cat left one of these things on the livingroom floor a few weeks ago. Here's a good example of taking a good idea (Bertjan Pot's) and effing it up to the third degree. Pots IS delicate and it IS lovely and it IS airy - this is heavy and clunky and organic; exactly the opposite of the original. Blah. A homemade one of white yarn and elmers glue would be a better alternative.

you can use liquid starch instead of sugar