Star Gazing Kitty.

Murakami Chair.

The Murakami Chair's attached lamp powered by your rocking back and forth, a good idea! Designed by Rochus Jacob. The Chair's OLED lamp even senses when it's light or dark out. And it has a battery pack which stores 'your rocking' in the daylight .

Magic.

Literature Versus Traffic.

This is kinda weird, but kinda pretty & neat.

A site intervention of 800 illuminated books was installed under the Brooklyn Bridge
in Water street, New York. Armed with the intention that literature should seize the streets
and overtake public spaces, Spanish designers luzinterruptus randomly placed these literary
objects in such a way so that people were able to walk among them easily, stop to look
at them and even read them.

Luzinterruptus, known for their light installations in public spaces, wanted the urban space
conventionally reserved for speed, pollution and noise to be converted to a place of peacefulness,
relaxation and coexistence. The site is illuminated by a soft, diffuse light which encourages
by passers to feel comfortable in spite of the chaos around them.

'We want literature to seize the streets and become the conqueror of public spaces, freely
offering to those who walk by a space free of traffic which for a few hours of the night
will succumb to the modest power of the written word.'- L

The books consisting of diverse topics will remain on site during the entire intervention,
at the disposal of anyone who wants to take them. in doing so, the installation will recycle itself.
In the end, the cars will return to occupy their place, but for many, the memory that once
books occupied this same space, will change their relationship with the environment.
As time passes, Luzinterruptus hopes that people who have experienced this site intervention
will relay their personal story to others.

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/9290/luzinterruptus-literature-versus-traffic.html

Tiny Ponies.

I like this.

Stars

I want this.

Crying Light.

I found this the other day, but sadly I do not know anything about it or who the artist is. But I kind of like it.

Field of Light

The installation, consisting of 6,000 acrylic tubes containing optical fibres, is inspired by the way the desert flowers after a rainstorm. Munro was inspired to make this piece during a trip through the Australian red desert 15 years ago. Driving along the Stewart Highway he would stop every night at roadside campsites, which are often in stark contrast to the barren desert that surrounds them: sprinkler-fed oases of green, each one displaying a larger than life sculpture of surreal design and proportions - perhaps a giant banana, pineapple or Merino sheep.

Munro was transfixed by the way the red desert was barren until it rained and then, as if from nowhere, dormant seeds would burst into bloom. He made a series of sketches in the notebook carried in his pocket since art college days, and the idea refused to dislodge from his mind.

Field of Light, like a giant surreal camp-side banana, is an alien installation in the midst of nature. And like dry desert seeds lying in wait for the rain, the sculpture’s fibre optic stems lie dormant until darkness falls, and then under a blazing blanket of stars they flower with gentle rhythms of light. ‘Field of Light’ is about the desert as much as the roadside campsites - and like much of Munro’s work is characterised by an almost mystical passion for nature teamed with a robust sense of humour.

Lighting designer Bruce Munro will present his Field of Light installation at the Eden Project in Cornwall, England, this winter.

http://www.dezeen.com/2008/10/01/field-of-light-by-bruce-munro/

Your Personal Moon

So right now I'm kinda bummed because the day is almost over and I just woke up... went back to sleep cuz of a headache and just woke up now. Anyways, I found this which is kinda cool.





Some Russian designers have started a production of a big, moon-shaped light-box calling this project a “Your Personal Moon”. Now anyone can get his own moon right in his apartment or his backyard.
http://www.englishrussia.com/?p=1152

Awesome lamp.

Check out this sweet lamp, hah.