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I bought this lamp at auction a few years ago, it was made by an English company called Metek in the 40s or 50s. It’s a travelling lamp, it has a spring clip in the base to clamp it onto a desk,or bedside table, and as you can see it folds up. The peeling paint was becoming a bit of a nuisance so I cleaned it up and resprayed it and I’m very pleased. I decided not to hammer all the dents out as I wanted to keep a bit of its history on show. #Metek #retro #lighting

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A Metek travelling lamp in a poor state with peeling paint.

A Metek travelling lamp freshly repainted.

A Metek travelling lamp folded into a ball.

Mactonex

@Mactonex@toot.community · 3 weeks ago

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Rob Vincent 🎙️

@Rob_T_Firefly@masto.hackers.town · 2 months ago

I had a puppet replica of Tom Servo from MST3K which I built over 20 years ago. After many years and lots of knocking around, the poor guy had worn out a lot. I replaced some old parts, stripped out the puppetry mechanisms, wired him up as a lamp, and added a color-changing smart bulb and some glass marbles for diffusion. Now he's the sassiest light source in the house!

#MST3K #TomServo #Craftstodon #lighting

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Photo of a replica of Tom Servo from "Mystery Science Theater 3000" on a desk. His usually-empty globe-shape head has been filled with clear glass marbles.

As before, but his marble-filled globe head is lit up with green light.

The Servo Lamp installed on a shelf surrounded by other knicknacks, lighting up the room with bright white light.

As before, but in a dark room glowing with dim red light giving an interesting vibe.

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nullagent

@nullagent@partyon.xyz · 2 months ago

Keep them movers movin, move on!

@dma

#dmx #lighting #artnet #ola #hackerspace

nullagent

@nullagent@partyon.xyz · 2 months ago

Mapping out the @dma lighting network tonight

#dmx #artnet #hackerspace

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nullagent

@nullagent@partyon.xyz · 2 months ago

Keep them movers movin, move on!

@dma

#dmx #lighting #artnet #ola #hackerspace

nyx mir

@NyxMir@sunny.garden · 2 months ago

#artAdventCalendar Day 13

Since it’s a spooky number day in the *darkest* month of the year, I thought I’d mix things up briefly…

Armchair, 2020

#photography #selfportrait #horror #dark #horrorArt #horrorPhotography #DarkPhotography

A set of four almost black and white photographs. They all depict a velvet armchair on wood floor in front of a draped fabric backdrop. In the first image, 8 hands wrap around the edges of the arm chair, 3 on each side and two from above, framing where your head would be, if you were sitting there… in the second image, many, many arms reach out from behind the chair, with splayed, grasping fingers. They come from all directions, reaching out radially but asymmetrically and angularly. The arms are lit mostly from above and have shadows which give definition to the bodily forms… and make the scene even more eerie. In the third image, it’s very similar except one arm from the right is reaching in to the center of the chair, as if feeling for… is… are you… in the final image, many arms have consolidated, and 8 arms remain, 4 from each side. The arms all reach with great straining length around the body of the chair into where you would be sitting. Some lower arms reach with splayed seeking fingers, while the upper left arm in particular reaches with a bent wrist and sharp tense fingers, as if about to—

nyx mir

@NyxMir@sunny.garden · 2 months ago

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 14

Let’s bring some light into this darkest month, shall we? Here’s my first neon sculpture.

#neon #lighting #lightArt #light

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A 3D sculpture of cool blue glowing noble gas tubes in triangles fold in on each other to create a multifaceted pyramid. They do this over a dark mirror-like surface, which reflects their hexagonal base and the pyramid within its black inky depths. Within this pyramid is a hot pink leafed bonsai tree, almost like it is sunning itself in a future terrarium. A younger me bends down and smiles at the camera, peering thru the sculpture. I have a platinum bisexual bob, Tokyo bomber jacket, and choker. The sculpture rests on a neon bending table, stained with beautiful patterns of brief intricate burns.

Aerial view of the sculpture with the pink bonsai inside. Looking down we see cyan triangular neon pieces rise up and fold in on each other with a counterclockwise twisting, maybe like a dumpling, or an intricate paper package. The light makes the hot pink bonsai branches glow vibrantly. Below, the reflection of the blue tubes in the black hexagonal mirror base is an echo.

Low POV thru the sculpture without anything inside. In this image the colors are colder, more deep icy, xenon blues that border on indigo than cyan. A character version of myself (during a series of self portrait experiments during quarantine) with dramatic black and silver cyberpunk curcuitry eye makeup stares at us thru the intersecting beams. They have dark lips and wear a reflective high necked sleeve garment. They are in focus but the rest is increasingly out of focus in a very very tight aperture, making the lit tubes fuzzy and expansive almost like laser beams in a spy maze, or a sci-fi scanning device, or something more fantastic.

Photo of the class reception with some of the class’ projects. Mine is in the foreground, in this photo looking dark blue as opposed to closer to cyan like the first two photos, probably because there’s so much white light right behind it. There are many 2D wall pieces behind, a red one of a woman made of squiggling line, a mostly white piece in Korean, an abstract red & cyan symbol piece, and two other abstract pieces at the end which are harder to make out.

STOP OCCUPATION 🍉 S. Costa and 1 other boosted

Dr. John Barentine FRAS

@JohnBarentine@scicomm.xyz · 4 months ago

A brief note from last week’s Artificial Light At Night 2025 conference: several biology and ecology researchers made the point in their talks that there is no “wildlife friendly” lighting product (other than the one that is never installed to begin with). And they’re now avoiding that term, and related (e.g., “bat-friendly”) altogether. Instead, they using terms like “wildlife-aware” or “night-sky aware” — not “friendly”. It reflects a growing consensus that all artificial light at night is pollution, and that the main issue at hand is how much of that pollution society is willing to tolerate.

#ALAN2025 #Lighting #Ecology

Dr. John Barentine FRAS

@JohnBarentine@scicomm.xyz · 4 months ago

#ALAN2025 #Lighting #Ecology

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