Twirly

[bunn]

I have not achieved much today - too hot! I tried to finish my story about Druim and the Arcani, and again failed dismally.  I just can't decide where it should be going: it has a setup and a plot, but I can't get my head around characters, somehow.  This is the reverse of my usual situation of having characters and setting, but no plot.  Perhaps I should give up on it and write something for the Eagle fanmedia challenge instead.  I'm tempted by the idea of Old Tradui, (played by an aging Tom Baker, of course) telling a series of increasingly improbable and wild tales about the adventures of his youth.

 I thought about painting, but didn't.  I considered working on one of the websites I volunteer to help out with, and - didn't.  I drank an enormous quantity of iced coffee and lolled about the house, watered the greenhouse and mowed a lawn.

 But I did assemble two of these lightshades, each composed of 30 identical plastic bits.


Which felt like an achievement of a sort.

Comments

[ningloreth.livejournal.com]

The lampshade is amazing! Are the swirls lighter or darker than the rest when it's lit up?

[bunn.livejournal.com]

That's the illuminated version - the twirls are darker when lit, whereas when its not lit, the twirls are quite pale and there are deep shadows under the long scooped edges instead.

It's called a puzzle lampshade. It was a right puzzle working out how to assemble all the bits! Apparently you can assemble them into lots of different shapes. If I had more energy, I'd be tempted to buy more shapes and assemble a huge abstract blobby thing of some sort...