May 6 2008Duck Hunt Lamp Is Looking Zappertastic
Based on the picture quality this thing could have been made 450 years ago. But I doubt it because the Nintendo Zapper and Duck Hunt didn't exist until at least the mid 1800's*. So we'll just assume the picture was taken with a pinhole camera made out of a Quaker Oats canister that someone forgot to eat all the oats out of first. It's a Duck Hunt/Zapper lamp. It looks good. I'd make one and put it in the living room but I'd stumble into the end table drunk one night and destroy it. That and I'm not sure how I feel about desecrating old school Nintendo cartridges (okay, the lamp's base is actually larger than a real game and made out of cardboard) and peripherals to make household objects. Well, except for the Power Glove. Sweetest oven mitt ever.
I Love Duck Hunt Lamp [albotas]
Reader Comments
1. astanix - May 6, 2008 10:42 AM
Sexy lamp of Nintendoness
2. Freddy K - May 6, 2008 11:04 AM
well if you are talking about how it lights crap up I guess you can say it puts the suck back in success.
3. Conor S - May 6, 2008 11:05 AM
How PIMP is that shit!
This alone makes me want to have a kid, preferably so I could put this in his room for that small period of years before he grows up and calls me lame!
4. SmokingGirl - May 6, 2008 12:33 PM
Did anyone else notice the goo that seems to be stretching from the left side of this piece of crap?
It looks like slime...hmmmm.
5. Scott - May 6, 2008 12:37 PM
Soon available at a flea market near you next to the velvet Elvis painting. Tell em Goober sent ya'll.
6. wiinja - May 6, 2008 12:49 PM
to shoot that f^&* dog...just once
7. Mary - May 7, 2008 4:18 PM
Hey, that's my lamp!
Um, I'm not sure if I should be flattered or not, by the comments this is getting, heh.....
To explain the picture quality; I had to finish this thing at about 1 a.m. the night before I left town, so that I could get it in to a contest.... therefore, the pics were taken in really poor light, with an old digital camera to boot. The 'piece of goo' stretching from the side of this 'piece of crap' (thanks a lot- to each their own) is actually just a crack between the table I had it on, and the back board I had up to create a solid background.
So, yeah. I'll have better resolution pics up when I get back home and can take some naturally lit pictures of this thing.
8. mary supporter - May 7, 2008 4:22 PM
Mary I think you did a great job and it looks really good. don't listen to mean idiots, they're just mean idiots.
9. Mary's Boyfriend - May 7, 2008 10:33 PM
Yeah, what on earth are you ragging on about the picture quality? That has nothing to do with anything. You don't even seem to have an opinion on the lamp. Nice pointless blog :p
10. ghengis khunt - May 8, 2008 4:34 PM
I'm not saying i'm a lighting implement fetishist or anything - but i'd be lying if i said that i wouldn't have sex with that lamp...
11. Christine - June 11, 2008 4:50 AM
I'm wondering how it looks when it lights up? And how do you install a light bulb on it?
12. Mary - July 4, 2008 12:44 PM
Christine- sorry I missed your question 'till now! The shade is actually held in with the bulb, and the socket is at the end of the zapper- so you put the shade on and then screw it into place with the light bulb. :)
I haven't been able to sit around with it lit up for a decent period of time yet, since I need to get a lower watt bulb just to be safe.
13. wc - July 7, 2008 6:21 PM
Wow. She worked hard on this lamp and it is cool. Some of you guys are freaking a-holes.