#179

June is fuckin kicking ass this year. Beautiful breezes, powerful storms, gentle loving sunshine, and all the flora hissing green and veritably writhing in its frenzy to grow into its full summer strength.

Feels amazing out here. 

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There is a design of lamp which to me, and to many others, can be evoked in an instant by calling it the "Pixar Lamp". You either do or do not know what a pixar lamp is, or whether you should capitalize it in casual reference. 

The lamp's proper name, its foundational noun of power as a design itself, is the Luxo L-1, manufactured by the Norweigan lamp manufacturer, Luxo ASA, and designed by its founder. It is a lamp with a circular base, an adjustable armature body, and a stylized conical head design. It is the sort of lamp you can adjust the height and the angle of illumination on, thanks to the springs and joints in the armature and the neck of the lamp.

Mine is a fairly large specimen which I would not hesitate to repurpose for, say, drafting or sketching. Its base is a little smaller in diameter than you usually see but it is a thick heavy stainless steel disk to make up for it. The whole lamp is stainless, with a shiny silver cord and very clean white bulb, which casts a very clinical and honest light over my room. Not cold, but almost. 

It stands on my smallest bookshelf, between  a little pile of Roald Dahl books under a little pile of Jerry Spinelli books also on the shelf, and the freestanding three-tier paperback non-fiction pile. 

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I'll have to describe the second lamp tomorrow, chaps! Want to be early for work today, there were electrical problems yesterday; a flatbed truck plowed into a utility pole early yesterday morning. It was a shitshow and my shift got canceled, but this had its upsides. 

Anyway, peace, more tomorrow!


--JL