Last week when I was in Brooklyn I encountered the most excellent recycled lamp shade creation ever. Innovative New York based artist and designer, Sabina Batelman, has constructed colorful translucent lamp shades from old 35mm film slides. It is a lamp shade and a slide show simultaneously—utter genius.
Who Needs a Slide Projector?
My friend Megan admires Sabina’s clever recycled Kodachrome creation.
Now I am totally inspired to create my own groovy recycled lamp shade out of my old slides.
Oh, wow…I made one JUST LIKE THIS with old slides from my office job maybe 5 years ago. The slides were logos from advertisers, and I wired them together into a lampshade.
I have no idea where that lampshade is now…I remember that it wasn’t too effective, because too much bare bulb light came in between the slides.
oooooh ! – How dare she !. Can’t really say it’s brilliant – much as I would light too !
She’s allways welcome as my place, especially this time of the year, me and the cats need all the heat we can get !
I really dig this. Imagine in each room, once redone – you put the photos of the actual work put into it on the lampshade?
Or…or….or…you could take color photos of rainbow-colored tissue paper and then put those slides up to color your room.
Just a ‘Dwell’ moment I had.
Cool idea, but the lamp will kill / warp the emulsion in no time
Although, using a low watt led light might help mitigate that issue.