I found the vodka bottles Chambord me. Perhaps if they used tequila bottles, I’d Patronize their shop. Sorry if this sounds winey. My mood has tippled in a downward direction today. OYO, who cares anyway? Let’s have another drink!
This will go perfect with my Jägermeister nightlight, my Jose Cuervo oven lamp, my Wild turkey refrigerator bulb and my Bacardi 151-watt security lights. Who says alcoholism needs to be a dark place…
And when my Bombay Sapphire floor lamp falls over again or my Kettle One desk lamp once more plummets to the floor or my Captain Morgan bedside lights end up shattered yet again I have plenty of replacements ready to go. Fuck! There goes the desk lamp!
Yeah, I was actually going to post that this might actually be kind of cool if they’d used some chain or metal tubing around those wires. Without that, it looks unfinished.
When the metal plate is mounted against the ceiling, the extra cord — which is completely necessary if you want to make the hanging height user-adjustable — will be concealed. If you were to go look above whatever fixture you’ve got in your own dining room, you’d probably find a similar mess o’ cords. It’s completely a standard way to do it.
This is still a stupid idea, but that doesn’t mean it’s not well executed.
This would look better if the cord running from the bulb to the base were covered by a metal tube or something. The bare cord just looks like something you’d find on a vodka-bottle lamp or something… oh, wait.
I guess that’s a better way of using your empties than bringing them back for the measly deposit you pay on the bottle. And a halfway decent excuse to drink.
I believe if this is in your basement apartment, the last thing you need in your life is light. Because the last thing you want is to be able to see why your parents are right for being disappointed in you.
She’s corrected “thee” to “three” now, but still no subject in the subordinate clause (or whatever it’s called – you don’t want to know how long ago I took that course). Does that mean she has had more vodka in the meantime, or less? Inquiring mind want to know.
Hey now, all this haterade is better used on crappier crafts.
I mean come on, aside from the possible head injury and trip to the ER who wouldn’t want this thing hanging over their crappy basement bar where they entertain their favorite group of lushes?
I’m okay with this as long as people don’t pretend they’re doing something “eco-conscious.” The tabs aren’t picked up from the side of the road, they’re purchased.
At least if you left them on the can, they’d get recycled. This POS is just going to end up in a landfill for a hundred years.
At which time it will be dug up and put on Cyberetsy as “Shabby Chic from the Stupid Ages.” And then someone on Cybergrestsy will say; “If that piece of shit won the blue ribbon, I’d hate to see the runners-up.”
Actually, that lamp is kind of pretty. I like the pattern of light it throws and it’s neatly done, not shabby. Gotta love the visionary snark from the future, though. I don’t suppose it’ll look too nice all rusty.
These are actually kind of neat. I mean, they’re tacky as hell and god knows I wouldn’t buy them, but it’s also not just crapcycled liquor bottles. For one thing they made good, clean glass cuts at the top and bottom.
Now, if those were scotch bottles I might be more interested.
I don’t have an issue with the concept of lights made from liquor bottles…I just hate it being painfully obvious they’re liquor bottles. Good upcycling should also somewhat camouflage.
I checked out their website and some of their stuff is nice. I don’t mind things made out of old bottles, etc. They also for the most part work very neatly. That said this lamp is kind of sloppy with all the bare wire exposed and very overprced. Their prices in general should come down a little and then I might actually be interested in some of the candle holders.
In our local wood someone has gone to an out-of-the-way tree and put an empty bottle over the end of every branch. Is that a zeitgeisty thing I don’t know about? Or just the neignbourhood Blair Witch after a good night out?
Bottle trees, an unfortunately not uncommon sight in the South. Not sure of the reason for them or origins, but there is a decided preference for blue bottles and they do not have to be be from alcoholic beverages.
Or, if your Hobo shack doesn’t have electricity like those High Falutin’ Grey Goose drinkers, you can just put a wick in a bottle of Monarch Vodka instead.
Okay. Now I’m picturing someone carrying this one step too far and making a baby mobile out of those tiny little bottles of complimentary booze they give you at parties.
Oh wow. This is an Etsy seller I can work with! I’m visualizing a beautiful partnership where I empty the bottles, and they turn them into overpriced consumer goods!
September 24, 2012 at 9:33 am
For the discerning, alcoholic hoarder in your life.
September 24, 2012 at 10:48 am
Yeah, but take a gander at all that wiring!
September 24, 2012 at 10:56 am
What’s juice for the goose…
September 24, 2012 at 8:35 pm
Perfect for when they host those AA meetings at their house.
September 25, 2012 at 3:41 pm
Absolute nonsense
September 24, 2012 at 9:33 am
This is how the crafter pays for the Grey Goose…and hides the drinking problem from the neighbours. No empty bottles in the recycling bin, no problem!
I need to think of some piece of semi-usable crap I can make out of empty wine bottles and glitter tears.
September 24, 2012 at 9:34 am
Could I get $150 knocked off the price if I get the Natty Light version?
September 24, 2012 at 9:34 am
If they feel like making another crappy “upcycled” light fixture, I’d be glad to be responsible for draining the liquid from their supplies for them.
September 24, 2012 at 9:36 am
I don’t think they have any problem with that, everything in their shop is made from liquor bottles…. a whole lot of liquor bottles….
I feel like maybe I should befriend this seller.
September 24, 2012 at 9:37 am
And if they start making stuff out of empty painkiller bottles?
BEST FRIENDS FOR LIFE!
September 24, 2012 at 10:55 am
I suddenly want a Vicodin Night Light.
Sweet Dreams.
September 24, 2012 at 12:27 pm
Sweet – but also warm and fuzzy.
September 24, 2012 at 9:36 am
If you thought that was bad, you should see the matching Vermouth desk lamp!
September 24, 2012 at 9:37 am
for that price there better still be vodka in there. Perhaps with one of those little tubes at the bottom so I can squirt it right into my mouth.
September 24, 2012 at 9:38 am
The light hurts my eyes! Where’s the Smirnoff switch?
September 24, 2012 at 9:42 am
I stoli’d it!
September 24, 2012 at 9:47 am
I got a tongue cramp trying to say that sentence.
September 24, 2012 at 10:07 am
You’re an Absolute monster!
September 24, 2012 at 2:43 pm
what a Ketel of crap!
September 24, 2012 at 9:54 am
It’s not the light but the fumes that are getting to me. I’d better Chopin up a window.
September 24, 2012 at 10:10 am
I didn’t even know there was Chopin brand vodka until I googled it. Isn’t the name libelous with regard to the composer or something?
September 24, 2012 at 10:12 am
Is it true you can use Chopin to Polish a window?
September 24, 2012 at 10:17 am
Zippy, the classical radio host in me loves you for this.
September 24, 2012 at 10:47 am
Of course it’s Effen true!
September 24, 2012 at 3:15 pm
Anyone who says that’s Moz-art must be into the white spirit.
September 24, 2012 at 10:52 am
I found the vodka bottles Chambord me. Perhaps if they used tequila bottles, I’d Patronize their shop. Sorry if this sounds winey. My mood has tippled in a downward direction today. OYO, who cares anyway? Let’s have another drink!
September 24, 2012 at 10:53 am
And I will worship anyone who can come up with a Grand Marnier pun. Really.
September 24, 2012 at 12:43 pm
Orange you glad I haven’t?
September 24, 2012 at 2:07 pm
If you can’t liqueur, join whore.
September 24, 2012 at 4:30 pm
I Marnier the lack.
September 24, 2012 at 9:44 am
This will go perfect with my Jägermeister nightlight, my Jose Cuervo oven lamp, my Wild turkey refrigerator bulb and my Bacardi 151-watt security lights. Who says alcoholism needs to be a dark place…
September 24, 2012 at 10:07 am
And when my Bombay Sapphire floor lamp falls over again or my Kettle One desk lamp once more plummets to the floor or my Captain Morgan bedside lights end up shattered yet again I have plenty of replacements ready to go. Fuck! There goes the desk lamp!
September 24, 2012 at 10:25 am
To life, love, and lamp!
September 24, 2012 at 10:26 am
Pfft. Make your bedside light out of a Sailor Jerry bottle and it’ll be the floor that shatters. It’s the manly thing to do.
September 24, 2012 at 9:52 am
Does three geese constitute a flock?
September 24, 2012 at 9:59 am
It’s probably enough to get pretty flocked up, depending on your tolerance level.
September 24, 2012 at 9:53 am
I like how they artistically concealed the 52″ of light cord. Oh, wait…
September 24, 2012 at 11:59 am
Yeah, I was actually going to post that this might actually be kind of cool if they’d used some chain or metal tubing around those wires. Without that, it looks unfinished.
September 24, 2012 at 4:53 pm
When the metal plate is mounted against the ceiling, the extra cord — which is completely necessary if you want to make the hanging height user-adjustable — will be concealed. If you were to go look above whatever fixture you’ve got in your own dining room, you’d probably find a similar mess o’ cords. It’s completely a standard way to do it.
This is still a stupid idea, but that doesn’t mean it’s not well executed.
September 25, 2012 at 7:03 pm
This would look better if the cord running from the bulb to the base were covered by a metal tube or something. The bare cord just looks like something you’d find on a vodka-bottle lamp or something… oh, wait.
September 24, 2012 at 9:55 am
I guess that’s a better way of using your empties than bringing them back for the measly deposit you pay on the bottle. And a halfway decent excuse to drink.
I guess.
September 24, 2012 at 10:17 am
…mostly.
September 24, 2012 at 9:56 am
I feel shaken by this, but oddly not terribly stirred.
September 24, 2012 at 3:17 pm
It leaves me with a twist of lime’s disease.
September 24, 2012 at 9:56 am
Do these take Halo Gin bulbs?
September 24, 2012 at 10:01 am
“hanging hardware included”
Oh, you must mean for the lamps.
September 24, 2012 at 10:04 am
I believe if this is in your basement apartment, the last thing you need in your life is light. Because the last thing you want is to be able to see why your parents are right for being disappointed in you.
September 24, 2012 at 10:27 am
I’m guessing this thing doesn’t actually provide that much light.
September 24, 2012 at 10:07 am
This lamp has me in low spirits.
September 24, 2012 at 10:14 am
I think HK had some of the contents before posting this, judging by the slightly mangled caption. Cheers!
September 24, 2012 at 10:22 am
Shhhhh – she thinks these are windchimes. Just go with it.
September 24, 2012 at 12:33 pm
She’s corrected “thee” to “three” now, but still no subject in the subordinate clause (or whatever it’s called – you don’t want to know how long ago I took that course). Does that mean she has had more vodka in the meantime, or less? Inquiring mind want to know.
September 24, 2012 at 12:37 pm
*minds (and I’ve had two bottles of Octoberfest beer in the meantime, dragged here across half of Germany, but not at all upcycled).
September 24, 2012 at 10:40 am
Hey now, all this haterade is better used on crappier crafts.
I mean come on, aside from the possible head injury and trip to the ER who wouldn’t want this thing hanging over their crappy basement bar where they entertain their favorite group of lushes?
September 24, 2012 at 2:47 pm
ah yes, these broken bottles from your head hitting them will keep you in stitches, Literally.. I mean, Seriously, I’m 6’2″ and klutzy.
September 24, 2012 at 10:43 am
I’ve actually always really liked these lights made from old bottles. A little overpriced though, considering how easy these are to make.
September 24, 2012 at 5:30 pm
That was my thought. At the right price this would be lovely example of frat house decor.
September 24, 2012 at 10:48 am
I’m sorry, we only illuminate with Absolight.
September 24, 2012 at 11:07 am
If that’s a new low-alcohol vodka…
September 24, 2012 at 11:01 am
Too rich for my blood.
How much for a Pabst Blue Ribbon chandelier?
September 24, 2012 at 12:23 pm
Keep it classy:
September 24, 2012 at 2:07 pm
I’m okay with this as long as people don’t pretend they’re doing something “eco-conscious.” The tabs aren’t picked up from the side of the road, they’re purchased.
At least if you left them on the can, they’d get recycled. This POS is just going to end up in a landfill for a hundred years.
September 24, 2012 at 2:15 pm
At which time it will be dug up and put on Cyberetsy as “Shabby Chic from the Stupid Ages.” And then someone on Cybergrestsy will say; “If that piece of shit won the blue ribbon, I’d hate to see the runners-up.”
September 24, 2012 at 3:28 pm
Actually, that lamp is kind of pretty. I like the pattern of light it throws and it’s neatly done, not shabby. Gotta love the visionary snark from the future, though. I don’t suppose it’ll look too nice all rusty.
September 24, 2012 at 4:37 pm
I like the shade itself, not the beer can part. You’re right, it does cast neat shadows.
September 24, 2012 at 6:09 pm
And thus was ushered in the era of “Tab Chainmail”
September 24, 2012 at 11:17 am
Lightweights. The could make full sized shades out of Melchizedek bottles…
September 24, 2012 at 11:30 am
Someone who is not me needs to make an Absolut Regretsy ad. Rightfuckingnow.
And also an Absolut Etsy.
September 24, 2012 at 12:20 pm
September 24, 2012 at 2:28 pm
Nope, too classy. Take it down a couple notches.
September 24, 2012 at 6:36 pm
Better?
September 24, 2012 at 8:34 pm
You should make the stripper look like she’s crying.
September 24, 2012 at 10:18 pm
Nancy Pelosi doesn’t cry, she drinks the tears of her enemies.
September 25, 2012 at 7:05 pm
actually better executed than the one in the post
September 24, 2012 at 11:34 am
These are actually kind of neat. I mean, they’re tacky as hell and god knows I wouldn’t buy them, but it’s also not just crapcycled liquor bottles. For one thing they made good, clean glass cuts at the top and bottom.
Now, if those were scotch bottles I might be more interested.
September 24, 2012 at 11:57 am
I don’t have an issue with the concept of lights made from liquor bottles…I just hate it being painfully obvious they’re liquor bottles. Good upcycling should also somewhat camouflage.
September 24, 2012 at 2:00 pm
agreed, Vagragrian. ‘upcycled’ doesn’t mean hung from above…
September 24, 2012 at 12:24 pm
I checked out their website and some of their stuff is nice. I don’t mind things made out of old bottles, etc. They also for the most part work very neatly. That said this lamp is kind of sloppy with all the bare wire exposed and very overprced. Their prices in general should come down a little and then I might actually be interested in some of the candle holders.
September 24, 2012 at 12:34 pm
If those bottles are “globes”, then someone really likes Mercator projection.
Yeah, that’s right. Fuck you, Australia. Go suck off Greenland’s unrealistically huge landmass-cock.
September 24, 2012 at 1:25 pm
Up thumbed from this geographer. XD
September 24, 2012 at 2:20 pm
Antarctica has really gotten fat. I thought she was on some kind of Ross-loss plan.
September 24, 2012 at 12:41 pm
I’m guessing the seller lives here. But, it’s only a wild guess.
September 24, 2012 at 12:50 pm
In our local wood someone has gone to an out-of-the-way tree and put an empty bottle over the end of every branch. Is that a zeitgeisty thing I don’t know about? Or just the neignbourhood Blair Witch after a good night out?
September 24, 2012 at 5:37 pm
Bottle trees, an unfortunately not uncommon sight in the South. Not sure of the reason for them or origins, but there is a decided preference for blue bottles and they do not have to be be from alcoholic beverages.
September 24, 2012 at 1:09 pm
Or, if your Hobo shack doesn’t have electricity like those High Falutin’ Grey Goose drinkers, you can just put a wick in a bottle of Monarch Vodka instead.
September 24, 2012 at 1:32 pm
You mean, for those of us not experiencing a veritable Age of Reason? Like the one they had in France?
September 24, 2012 at 1:34 pm
They sell these at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas. When I was there, I desperately tried to get a picture, but I was really drunk.
September 24, 2012 at 2:33 pm
I’d love that light fixture if it were made of Arbor Mist bottles. Ahhhh, Kool-Ade for grown-ups. And the bottles are prettier.
September 24, 2012 at 3:37 pm
Okay. Now I’m picturing someone carrying this one step too far and making a baby mobile out of those tiny little bottles of complimentary booze they give you at parties.
A musical mobile, which will play this song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98NPEyAn0jM
September 24, 2012 at 4:05 pm
Oh wow. This is an Etsy seller I can work with! I’m visualizing a beautiful partnership where I empty the bottles, and they turn them into overpriced consumer goods!
September 24, 2012 at 4:43 pm
I hope distill gets comments all night long.
September 24, 2012 at 8:12 pm
In the moonshine?
September 24, 2012 at 9:56 pm
This was all the proof I needed.
September 24, 2012 at 8:42 pm
There’s a market. Anyone gullible enough to spend that much money for vodka is probably gullible enough to buy the lamp.