you light up my life

a while back i saw a lovely image of lights, MoMA, and then i just kept on seeing lights ...

molo urchin lights

which can be reshaped,

see the crazy movie

Ceramic Lamps by Szilvia Gyorgy who says of her work:

I search for new forms by deconstructing old ones, seeking aesthetic and physical balance through the process of shifting elements until they again represent order through chaos.
neat!

bruce munro's field of light project

and another field of light
this time looking incredibly like sperms




and also swarms of jellyfish,

actually, the MoMA lights reminded me of the scene in life aquatic where the Zizzou team go out to film glowing jellyfish that have been washed up on the beach.
an electric jelly fish that reminded someone else of the same life acquatic moment!
according to the National Geographic story:
the jellyfish does not emit its own light, as bioluminescent creatures do. (Related: "Monster Glowing Squid Caught on Camera.")

said Monster Glowing Squid

real glow jellies in action, from a site that says it has the best jellyfish pictures on flickr (they are pretty good)
quite as beautiful as glowing jellyfish, are pomegranates in a glass bowl lit by torchlight
the image was accompanied by a lovely description, In my childhood days we always used to play with the torch. Switch it on and close your fingers on the light and you will see your hands glowing reddish. We used to scare each other during power-cut times with this glowing torch ... [it] made me think of pomegranates glowing above the torch light.
another beautiful luminescent jelly fish

and amazing voluminous jellyfish sculptural pieces by timothy horn

i saw
stheno

2006
Silicone rubber, copper tubing, fiber optics
at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra

the whimsy of
Euryale
2006
Silicone rubber, copper tubing, fiber optics

update 24 jan 2010: a jellyfish octopus like pendant light, kapow (looped and elasticated explosion of acrylic tubing)

which brings me back to lights and translucence

light shining through the membrane of tent canvas (you guessed it 24 hours in pictures)

auroras australis & borealis - the crazy colours of light and nature

what is that light in the sky that shines at night?

the moon.

and here is the moon with colours, even.

found and then borrowed from someone else's site.

LED Throwies
"developed by the graffiti research lab a division of the eyebeam r&d OpenLab, LED throwies are an inexpensive way to add color to any ferromagnetic surface in your neighborhood.
a throwie consists of a lithium battery, a 10mm diffused LED and a rare-earth magnet taped together. throw it up high and in quantity to impress your friends and city officials." more pictures & writing about throwies here
a tremendous picture that turned up on the guardian's 24 hours in pictures series,
Balloon Lumpfish (Eumicrotremus pacificus) attach themselves to balloons at the Epson Shinagawa Aqua Stadium on July 9, 2008 in Tokyo, Japan. The deep-sea fish have ventral sucker disks which help them to cling to rocks in the water. (Photo by Kiyoshi Ota/Getty Images AsiaPac)

and here, i found something that links these last pictures together
a balloon lamp designed in japan that uses LED technology

...wow, i know. just wow. i want some. add to cart.

News flash, late addition, 3 July 2009:
a niagra falls lamp on ebay,
i bid on it but it jumped out of my league in the last minute





beautiful of itself, it reminds me of the iguazu falls lantern in wong kar wei's happy together
an object of desire for many, i think
a snippet of the film, with the light in action

another film, another lamp, this time mermaids, with cher playing kooky mummy to winona ryder and a very young christina ricci, and bob hoskins as her boyfriend who creates a beautiful under-the-sea bedroom for the water-obsessed ricci
actually i like this film quite a bit


update! 29 july - it's full of stars!
here are lamps made out of old cassettes!
now, i haven't quite accepted that cassettes are "old technology" (my car still has a tape-deck, so they're useful to me!)
but this is a very pretty idea.