Starfinished!

Hooray! I have finished the stacked-neon-tube starfish. Here it is!

And a dance song to celebrate!

"Electric Feel" - MGMT (on YouTube)

This project's stacking up

Back to the Red-Spiny Neon starfish. I've built a frame that the tubes would rest on. I've painted it, and now attached the tubes. They look like a odd, mechanical, looping staircase. Now I am going to wire it, and scrape away the paint from the tubes to create the starfish design.

I'm Beginning To See The Light

Working like a mad lady in the neon shop this week. Here's what the inside of last week's starfish lamp looks like, some nice, simple shapes. The neon will be held on to the frame with standoff glass toggles.
And onto the next neon starfish. The pieces will be layered, like this, blacked out, and the image of a starfish will be scraped away out of the different glass tubes. It'll be a reddish-pink color. There are 6 tubes here, all with electrodes sealed onto the ends. There's a lot of patterns that can be made, too, checkerboards and waves. Now, to pump them all!
And now presenting, in several installments, a Neon Mix (Vol. 1):

I'm Beginning To See The Light - Ella Fitzgerald

Electricity- The Avalanches

Neon Bible - The Arcade Fire

Scenes from the Neon Studio

My Current Neon Project: I'm bending lots of tubes, layering them to create the illusion of a flat plane, dipping the whole thing in Blackout paint, and scraping away some of the paint (to look like the texture of a starfish).


(Last Semester's) Mercury Traps.

Phosphorescent-coated tubes under a UV Light.


Fun Stuff!