The Steampunk World

Being the continued explorations of a living steampunk.

The steampunk world is all around us, lying just out of sight, in a continuous thread of steampunk builders and culture that extends from the Victorian era to the present. You'll find no science fiction here: This is real life steampunk.

Tuesday, September 10, 2002

Here's my Grandma Fern's rain lamp. If you've never seen one of these before, mineral oil runs down the fishing wire to make it look like the statue is surrounded by rain. My theory is that in 1970, all future grandmothers were issued one of these lamps.

One of the lady's breasts and her buttocks are exposed. Needless to say, I found this very fascinating as a young boy.

Grandma Fern gave it to me while I was in college. Many a wacked-out visitor spent hours staring at the droplets running down the wires. They were usually pretty scared by it, as the lady has no pupils and it gives her eyes an evil-zombie sorta look.

My grandma also likes blobby colored-glass swag lamps, and I had one of those as well, sorta like this one. My roommate Ron, on one of his Acid/Mescal/Robotussin trips, once claimed that it was an evil alien horse head that was sent to monitor his actions. Ah, good ole Ron.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

hi. i have a lamp vary similar to yours and i was just wondering where can i buy the drakeol #35 for it. can i buy it from a store or do i have to buy it on the internet. please let me know. thank you.

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