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1)Floorlamp 2)????? 3)Profit!!!
« on: July 09, 2011, 01:16:51 PM »
This little campfire is from April, but since I don't remember it over here, I figured I'd bring it on over:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=282x2490

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GReedDiamond   (1000+ posts)           Sat Apr-30-11 10:36 PM
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Introducing the GERMS floor lamp, V1.0...
   
Edited on Sat Apr-30-11 10:38 PM by GReedDiamond
...the prototype yet to be perfected, but which is about 95% there:

(followed by a few pictures of said floor lamp)

Designed and built by me (with a little help from a coupla friends), shade/head fabricated and hand painted by GERMS.

Edited for typo.

I'm not going to try to describe this floor lamp, but you have to see it. 

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Forkboy   (1000+ posts)           Fri Jun-10-11 02:59 PM
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2. That is awesomely awesome!!!!
   
I can't buy one on my budget, but let's say my budget wasn't my budget...what would one of those go for?

Forkboy is angling to see if there is something comparable to the Grasswire Rich Government Workerâ„¢ pie discount available.

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GReedDiamond   (1000+ posts)           Sun Jun-12-11 01:24 AM
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3. It would be in the neighborhood of...
   
Edited on Sun Jun-12-11 01:45 AM by GReedDiamond
...at least $3000.00 for this version.

Being totally hand built from almost nothing. Which took two months.

However, it would be somewhat problematic to exactly reproduce it using all of the same materials where it would actually look like the example, (likely things would be different, such as the "pleather" tentacles), so, effectively, it would be a variation on the original, in itself, a "one-of-a-kind." Chances are it would be somewhat better than the original. Hopefully.

But I was not really planning on reproducing this version, I am looking into the cost of fabricating the "tentacle base" out of hand carved, gilded teak, in Thailand, by my friend who does Mark Ryden's frames.

This version would be issued in an edition size of 10-20.

On Edit: Here is a link to a YouTube video of Tiki Thai Arts, Chiang Mai, Thailand, creators of Mark Ryden's hand carved frames.

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Forkboy   (1000+ posts)           Sun Jun-12-11 01:44 AM
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4. Yup, out of my range lol.
   
Really neat though, and worth the money for the effort that clearly went into it, and for the plain old coolness factor. 

DUmmie Forkboy is demonstrating that a fool and his money are soon parted; or in his case, are already parted.




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Re: 1)Floorlamp 2)????? 3)Profit!!!
« Reply #1 on: July 09, 2011, 01:19:36 PM »
"Artists" :whatever:
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Re: 1)Floorlamp 2)????? 3)Profit!!!
« Reply #2 on: July 09, 2011, 02:13:52 PM »
I looked at that lamp, and my jaw dropped.

Really, folks, it's well worth clicking on the link so as to see this Abomination.
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Re: 1)Floorlamp 2)????? 3)Profit!!!
« Reply #3 on: July 09, 2011, 02:20:20 PM »
What I see is an ugly lamp that will present as a fire hazard as it cant properly cool off.
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Re: 1)Floorlamp 2)????? 3)Profit!!!
« Reply #4 on: July 09, 2011, 03:01:31 PM »
Totally Ugly!

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3. It would be in the neighborhood of...
   
Edited on Sun Jun-12-11 01:45 AM by GReedDiamond
...at least $3000.00 for this version.

Wouldn't a good regressive give them away?
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« Reply #5 on: July 09, 2011, 03:06:18 PM »
Quote from: Ballygrl on July 09, 2011, 03:01:31 PM
Wouldn't a good regressive give them away?

But as monstrous as that thing is, who would one give it away to?
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Re: 1)Floorlamp 2)????? 3)Profit!!!
« Reply #6 on: July 09, 2011, 03:43:47 PM »
I'm pretty sure that showed up on my porch last Halloween toting a plastic pumpkin and wanting candy.

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Re: 1)Floorlamp 2)????? 3)Profit!!!
« Reply #7 on: July 09, 2011, 04:08:13 PM »
Quote from: franksolich on July 09, 2011, 02:13:52 PM
I looked at that lamp, and my jaw dropped.

Really, folks, it's well worth clicking on the link so as to see this Abomination.

That thing is a lamp? I thought it was a Halloween costume for some kid.
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Re: 1)Floorlamp 2)????? 3)Profit!!!
« Reply #8 on: July 09, 2011, 04:17:53 PM »
Quote from: FreeBorn on July 09, 2011, 03:43:47 PM
I'm pretty sure that showed up on my porch last Halloween toting a plastic pumpkin and wanting candy.

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Re: 1)Floorlamp 2)????? 3)Profit!!!
« Reply #9 on: July 09, 2011, 04:43:56 PM »
Two months to built it and $3000 to buy it?  Yeah, right!  Sorry, DUmmy, but no one is going to buy a piece of crap like that.  Hell, PZ Myers is into tentacled things, but even he wouldn't buy it.  Do you know why?  Because it's ****ing ugly and looks like it was built by a 12-year-old.
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Re: 1)Floorlamp 2)????? 3)Profit!!!
« Reply #10 on: July 09, 2011, 05:05:02 PM »
If you're going to have a lamp in your house, you might as well do it right.
« Last Edit: July 09, 2011, 05:22:31 PM by chris_ »
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Re: 1)Floorlamp 2)????? 3)Profit!!!
« Reply #11 on: July 09, 2011, 05:09:48 PM »
3 grand for that travesty ?

Hilarious.

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Re: 1)Floorlamp 2)????? 3)Profit!!!
« Reply #12 on: July 09, 2011, 06:26:12 PM »
I think that floorlamp is a tribute to a character in the old Pac Man video game.

I was interested to see DUmmy Forkboy mention his budget:
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2. That is awesomely awesome!!!!
I can't buy one on my budget, but let's say my budget wasn't my budget...what would one of those go for?


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6. I stopped doing heroin daily.

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Re: 1)Floorlamp 2)????? 3)Profit!!!
« Reply #13 on: July 09, 2011, 06:37:55 PM »
Quote from: thelaughingman on July 09, 2011, 04:43:56 PM
Two months to built it and $3000 to buy it?  Yeah, right!  Sorry, DUmmy, but no one is going to buy a piece of crap like that.  Hell, PZ Myers is into tentacled things, but even he wouldn't buy it.  Do you know why?  Because it's ****ing ugly and looks like it was built by a 12-year-old.

Lets see here now...2 into 12 goes 6 times...and 6 times $3,000=$18,000 a year minus any dumpster diving fines and.... the DUmmie is going to be one of the evil, filthy, rich .
Well, evil and filthy maybe but not so much rich.
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Re: 1)Floorlamp 2)????? 3)Profit!!!
« Reply #14 on: July 09, 2011, 06:45:21 PM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on July 09, 2011, 06:37:55 PM
Lets see here now...2 into 12 goes 6 times...and 6 times $3,000=$18,000 a year minus any dumpster diving fines and.... the DUmmie is going to be one of the evil, filthy, rich .
Well, evil and filthy maybe but not so much rich.

$80 an hour works out to right around a 40 hour week for $3000 gross.  Does anyone know if DUmmie GReedDiamond has been soliciting the DUmp with job offers to build lamps?
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« Reply #15 on: July 09, 2011, 09:59:36 PM »
Quote from: chris_ on July 09, 2011, 05:05:02 PM
If you're going to have a lamp in your house, you might as well do it right.


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Re: 1)Floorlamp 2)????? 3)Profit!!!
« Reply #16 on: July 09, 2011, 10:28:44 PM »
If that was in my apartment, I would bust it up into small pieces and take it out to the dumpster after dark to make sure none of my neighbors could see it.  GReedDiamond, how on earth could you post pictures of this embarrassment and boast about it, to boot?
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Re: 1)Floorlamp 2)????? 3)Profit!!!
« Reply #17 on: July 09, 2011, 10:42:38 PM »
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But I was not really planning on reproducing this version, I am looking into the cost of fabricating the "tentacle base" out of hand carved, gilded teak, in Thailand, by my friend who does Mark Ryden's frames.

Tsk! Tsk!  Why is he outsourcing the production instead of helping create American union jobs?

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Re: 1)Floorlamp 2)????? 3)Profit!!!
« Reply #18 on: July 10, 2011, 01:38:32 AM »
Quote from: chris_ on July 09, 2011, 05:05:02 PM
If you're going to have a lamp in your house, you might as well do it right.

There is a lady who lives in my condo complex that has one of those in her living room window, she also keeps her Halloween and Christmas decorations up year round.
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Re: 1)Floorlamp 2)????? 3)Profit!!!
« Reply #19 on: July 10, 2011, 02:32:34 AM »
Quote from: USA4ME on July 09, 2011, 10:42:38 PM
Tsk! Tsk!  Why is he outsourcing the production instead of helping create American union jobs?

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Ding Ding!  Liberals never recognize hypocrisy.  He/she should have been called out for outsourcing to Thailand.  Mrs Obama can take her children, mother, and extended family to Africa, spend $900,000 of our taxpayer money and no one blinks.  Let Paul Ryan pay $350 for a bottle of wine ordered by an economist dinner guest,  and he should be publicly flogged.  Amazing. 
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« Reply #20 on: July 10, 2011, 02:54:27 AM »
OMG ugliest piece of shit ever, cant believe he put a $3000 price on it.  I guess it will not be long before the bouncy of how Bill Gates drove by and bought it from him and ordered another 10 for his mansion.   Gag everytime i look at it i want to puke...
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« Reply #21 on: July 10, 2011, 09:42:00 AM »
I guess it would be just the thing for that vacation home in Lost Rlyeh.
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