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go home bird your drunk |
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Here was me thinking it was gonna be one of these: |
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this is an electronic music bird, not a water music bird. |
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the bird has sold out. |
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the bird is touring with autechre |
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Yah, not surprised. This is a pretty good find. Reminds me of the 80's when touch lamps were popular and cool as shit. Then make that a bird? Jizza, please. |
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i would just like to announce that i bought the bird |
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i found the bird itself at Stuff People Don't Want exchange. it was already missing the head and the toes; my guess is some little chap destroyed a bit of grandma's decor. my brain immediately inserted a lightbulb into the picture, i began giggling, and when i giggle, there's no point in arguing any further. later i remembered i had the guts of a touchlamp i broke circa 2009, and from there it was just a lot of dremeling and a few rounds of epoxy. it was my first stab at lampmaking, and it turned out fairly well. is there a word for lampmaking? like a haberdasher, but for lamps? ET -- i seriously don't think it was you, given the shipping address vs. your cited location, but it's touching that you'd care enough to weave me into your schizoid fantasies. |
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DIY! Didn't realize..... Even better. Actually, really good. The design is good enough to be massed produced, even. Pretty iconic. |
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that's not a bad idea; i hadn't really thought about it. as far as i could tell, the bird was made out of a few separate cast plates and then welded or soldered together or something. i haven't a clue how to do that myself, i don't know anyone who does, and turning it into an assembly line is a whole additional layer of difficulty on top of that. however, i am thinking along those lines in general. i didn't even clear walmart rates in terms of labor time, especially if you count going crazy trying to find a lampshade that was the right size and style. i would have absolutely no problem with this, if not for all the bills that piled up while i was cruising thrift shops and squinting at bulbgrabbers on amazon. so at the moment, i'm on something that i can do as a run of 25 without exceeding my current skillset. figure i'll give kickstarter a go for that.... and maybe someday, circle back 'round to an electronic bird factory, so long as i don't wind up trapped in a cube. until then, i give free permission for anyone with the means to nick the idea and mass produce it, though i'd appreciate a nod of credit. and thanks for the nice thought :) |
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Sort of has vibe to it. I saw that lamp at a furniture/house-design shop ~5 years ago, and I thought it was genius and ridiculous. I liked it but wouldn't buy it. Something pretty excellent with the execution of your bird lamp, though; that being, that the head is pretty far up the lampshade, which gives the object an animated quality. ...As if the bird is putting its head up into the lampshade, etc. So the light part doesn't really feel like the bird's head (which it would, if the lampshade were smaller, there was no lampshade, or the lampshade were higher)-- it comes off more as a scene. +1 brownie points for replacing the head of a bird with a bulb and making a lamp, but +5000 brownie points for keeping the head intact with bulb and lampshade above it. Japanese craftsman saying: Make the bottom of a table as beautiful as the top, because your ancestors can see the bottom. Well, I hope you made a good amount of money on this (or it went to someone who can rock this in their home), because it's great. As a dyude who lives artsy fartsiness on a daily basis, $50 would be cheap for this in a shop. I would pay up to maybe $130. Or $200, if the bird was really well crafted. Personally, the only way I would steal this idea would be to actually sculpt a bird to my liking, then make molds for use with some cheap ass metal, then "mass produce" this myself. That way it's more of a series. But maybe you have a knack for really good one-offs. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with in the future. If you release handmade-esque stuff like this in groups of 3~5, you might be able to gain a following, and due to the one-off nature of it, you might be able to slowly raise your prices. There's this glass blower on YT who makes these amazing glass balls, who started cheap, but then he and the world realized he's genius, so his prices have gone up drastically. |
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