Atari2600Lives Posted May 7, 2010 Share Posted May 7, 2010 coolness! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wood_jl Posted May 7, 2010 Share Posted May 7, 2010 Put some speakers in the empty 2600 carcass - you know, the part that was an empty carcass even when a 2600 motherboard lived there - the place where speakers were "supposed" to be. Move the 110-volt switch to the "real" power switch, and tell Underwriter's Laboratories to go F-themselves. Use the other switches to do stuff like turn on "music to get laid to" and another switch to play "Pac-man Fever." Coming soon to Costco! These ideas are patented, so I'll expect a royalty check. Then maybe I can afford to have a partner to listen to that aforementioned music with. Your lamp company's motto: "Sexy Atari lamps. Supplant the categorical imperative with the biological imperative." Maybe Nolan will endorse them. Then you sit back and cash checks the rest of your life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pioneer4x4 Posted May 7, 2010 Share Posted May 7, 2010 I like the idea of putting speakers in it with Kool& Funky '70s music, maybe a color changing light bulb, or even a black light bulb, and the shade shows some Grooovy artwork under blacklight. I don't know about the cashflow though, my guess would be. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0697672/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cebus Capucinis Posted May 7, 2010 Author Share Posted May 7, 2010 If Atari picked it up I wouldn't see a dime, I guarantee it. They'd just C&D my ass to the pavement and then create their own to market. Legally I wouldn't be able to do anything about it, either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HammR25 Posted May 7, 2010 Share Posted May 7, 2010 Did you use any R5 carts to make that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wood_jl Posted May 7, 2010 Share Posted May 7, 2010 But wouldn't a bare-chested, smoking, hot-tub enjoying Nolan on the box - arms spread wide like he's ready to embrace the potential customer that's looking at the box - result in an impulse purchase? Could mean big dollars! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cebus Capucinis Posted May 7, 2010 Author Share Posted May 7, 2010 To me it's not so much about making money anyway. I like creating cool stuff in my spare time (of course since getting laid off I have TONS of spare time! ) and I had been tinkering around with some ideas and bouncing them off Al via PM and he suggested the basic idea. I implemented a lot of tweaks and ideas to get it to work completely and it was a lot of fun to make. I do have to say nothing is cooler than flipping that switch the first time and seeing those box scans light up. They really are some really pretty shades of color when you flip it on. I really enjoy being creative and making all sorts of goofy stuff like my table and lamps, lampshades, etc. I have a few other ideas I'm working on and hope to find time to do them after moving. I'm selling a couple of them, sure, to further fuel the monetary gears of future projects, but in all honesty I didn't ask for much for them and I mostly am just motivated to share my stuff with people. It's really cool to see so many people thinking this is something positive and interesting. To be completely frank I've never really considered myself much of an artist or creative person, just a guy who putzes around in his garage with random stuff. If Atari wanted to take the lamp and market it on their own, more power to them! Royalties would be really cool, sure, I wouldn't turn them down, but if we saw these in stores I think it would be just enough for me to look at it and think 'Holy crap, *I* made that, or at least the original one!'. Creating fun stuff is a great hobby but it could never be a money-maker for me. Besides, I have my career goals already planned out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pioneer4x4 Posted May 7, 2010 Share Posted May 7, 2010 I think I saw this on the stack. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cebus Capucinis Posted May 7, 2010 Author Share Posted May 7, 2010 That piece of art you used for the photo is really cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buck Posted May 7, 2010 Share Posted May 7, 2010 Cebus, did you hijack Al's website to get your lamps on the front page like that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted May 7, 2010 Share Posted May 7, 2010 Cebus, did you hijack Al's website to get your lamps on the front page like that? I can't believe he even embedded a YouTube video on the front page!! ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cebus Capucinis Posted May 7, 2010 Author Share Posted May 7, 2010 I AM A CODING GENIUS! Look at what I can do with my rudimentary and pathetic knowledge of GWBASIC and my PCjr! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted May 7, 2010 Share Posted May 7, 2010 I'm glad that came up, as you totally hosed the posting on the front page and had the whole thing repeated twice. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buck Posted May 7, 2010 Share Posted May 7, 2010 I'm glad that came up, as you totally hosed the posting on the front page and had the whole thing repeated twice. ..Al Double exposure is a good thing. Double exposure is a good thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
technicaltoast Posted May 7, 2010 Share Posted May 7, 2010 Cebus, did you hijack Al's website to get your lamps on the front page like that? I can't believe he even embedded a YouTube video on the front page!! ..Al Hey you should add a tagline to the main page, "Another Bright Idea by Cebus." Sweet lamps! I like the video, all you need is some classic atari music playing in the background. Can't wait to see the table. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cebus Capucinis Posted May 7, 2010 Author Share Posted May 7, 2010 Table: Wow, that was way back in Lamp 2.0 days. LOL I forgot how much I'd improved it. The pictures with lamp are sample photos I sent to Al as a status update before I added carts, improved the shade, etc. etc. The TV was for another project that likely will not come to fruition (I was way too ambitious) and the, uhh "backup copies" of the movies, just ignore those..... These were all Al's scrub carts that he couldn't use for anything. They were gunked up, dirty, disgusting, scuffed, and terrible for use for any homebrews or anything. I didn't kill any "good" carts for the table -- just dead cart shells that were beyond use! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pioneer4x4 Posted May 7, 2010 Share Posted May 7, 2010 That piece of art you used for the photo is really cool! It worked well with being totally white, and going away. I think the picture name was titanic_lamp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tickled_Pink Posted May 7, 2010 Share Posted May 7, 2010 I want one. Apart from the power switch thingy, could you maybe use one of the other switches as a dimmer so kids can use it as a night light? Would be cool if you could figure out a function for all the switches. Maybe that's something to think about for 4.0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R4ngerM4n Posted May 7, 2010 Share Posted May 7, 2010 I think it's ... ugly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davepesc Posted May 7, 2010 Share Posted May 7, 2010 I think it's ... ugly. There's 1 in every crowd! Beautiful lamp, and I love how you didn't use any "good" carts for the table, or are those repro labels? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cebus Capucinis Posted May 8, 2010 Author Share Posted May 8, 2010 Hey, it's art, everyone has different opinions and nobody's is more valid than anyone else's. The client I made it for is very happy with it and that's all that matters to me! They're just inkjet labels I printed for the top 4 carts and then end labels for all of them. The carts originally came from Al and were horrid, so he couldn't use them for homebrews and I knew what I wanted to do with 'em! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss 2600 Posted May 8, 2010 Share Posted May 8, 2010 Wow, what time and effort that must have taken! And taking trashed cartridges and giving them new life in a beautiful (and useful) work of art. Awesome job!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Wolfe Posted May 8, 2010 Share Posted May 8, 2010 everyone I've shown this to says the same thing: " wow! " very cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buck Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 Free bump. (Like this thread needs it!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackDS Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 make one out of useless air raid carts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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