Denver-based lighting artist Chris Armijo created this light fixture from 256 wiffle balls. Buoy is just one of his lighting designs that uses multiples of common, mass-produced objects to form patterns and unique forms. He's also used plastic hangers, twist ties and paper clips for original lighting designs. Vote after the jump...
i like the use of wiffle balls, thats cool in theory. But I dont like the look of it.
Maybe in a kid's room.
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When you see something that's really good-looking and then suddenly you realize that it's made out of some generic everyday item, that's cool. Here, however, it works backwards: you recognize immediately that this is made of of whiffle balls, and beyond that, well, there isn't anything beyond that.
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I dunno. I think it looks cool.
And I generally think most of these "Hot or Not" things are Not.
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eh, looks like something one would do at girl/boy scout camp. thumbs down
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This would be fantastic without the black element (beads?) and string tails. As it is it looks like something in the gym sports equipment room. A little more minimal and it would work, but I like it and voted yes. It's magically white, and they all look like little asteroids.
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Craft Project
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Bleech!
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good concept, poor execution
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I don't want to hate this just for the reason that I do. In order to mitigate some of the awfulness, it might help, might, if it weren't as long as a punching bag. It was like, we are not stopping at a 100 balls, we're not going to even stop at 128. We are going above and beyond, all the way to 256. We know you can't accept less and neither will we. The recent fad of taking about a gross of whatever you happen to have forgotten how not to accumulate, and making a light out of it.... we're not going to say it in so many words, but let's instead just see how many you can fit in a phone booth. (What's a phone booth?)
Anyway, the rule of multiples is that "together, we can make this work" and stop looking like what we are, and start looking like some abstract ridiculous amount of something, and put a socket on it, it's ironic all the way. "Brilliant," "innovative," "derivati-..." The source of light on this one is just right in the middle, and so whatever effect you might get by backlighting a stack of mundane objects is utterly lost in this example in particular due to the fact that it's not really a lampshade.
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