Furniture and accessory design...

[The Annoyed Man]

So my wife is browsing through the L.A. Times website this morning, and she comes across a photo gallery depicting the interior design of a home belonging to an L.A. art museum curator: http://www.latimes.com/features/home/la ... otogallery.

Low and behold, in California they have discovered a new use for the M16:


I wonder if the trigger is the on/off switch.

If you want one of your own: http://www.ylighting.com/fls-lounge-gun.html. They only cost $2,840.00, or about the price of a top tier AR platform rifle. Who ever said that Italian design was cheap?

[74novaman]

its...interesting.

I had a good buddy in college that had a lot of "car themed" furniture he had built himself.

From an engine block coffee table like this:


To a pair of lamps with the camshaft and crank as the bases.

Hm, business idea...gun related furniture, decorations, etc....might need to start a new business.

[The Annoyed Man]

Dude, that coffee table is COOL! I appreciate the use of the empty cylinders to store the single malts.

[74novaman]

Dude, that coffee table is COOL! I appreciate the use of the empty cylinders to store the single malts.

I blew an old 350 a few years ago in the Nova. If I hadn't already sent it to the scarp yard, I would have built one for myself. That table is HEAVY though...I helped him move it out. And this is coming from a guy that was moving 300 lbs desks etc for a living at the time.

Course, I would have had a lot of cleanup to make my busted motor a good looking table, see as it looked like this when I pulled it:




Cleanup alone would have taken hours...

[MasterOfNone]

So my wife is browsing through the L.A. Times website this morning, and she comes across a photo gallery depicting the interior design of a home belonging to an L.A. art museum curator: http://www.latimes.com/features/home/la ... otogallery.

Low and behold, in California they have discovered a new use for the M16:


I wonder if the trigger is the on/off switch.

If you want one of your own: http://www.ylighting.com/fls-lounge-gun.html. They only cost $2,840.00, or about the price of a top tier AR platform rifle. Who ever said that Italian design was cheap?

The wasting of a gun sounds like California, but the light looks a little too yellow to be a CFL or LED.

[The Annoyed Man]

The wasting of a gun sounds like California, but the light looks a little too yellow to be a CFL or LED.

I read up a little bit on the manufacturing method. It's some kind of a casting process made from some kind of plastic mould. But given the proportional accuracy and relative detail, it's obvious that at some point the original for the mold making was a real rifle.

[Abraham]

I see all sorts of hideous mutations from things not originally designed for, i.e., the ubiquitous coffee table made from a cable spool - talk about ugly, shudder...

Or a mail box stand made from oil field equipment using heavy wall pipe and immense hammer on unions - does it resist vandals, yep, all the while looking butt-ugly. Something I wouldn't want in the front of my house.

The list of ugly things some find worthy baffles me.

The AR lamp is one. Completely tasteless, but they'll always be a small market for the grotesque.

[The Annoyed Man]

Abraham, the previous poster to you was a spammer who revived a thread I posted back in 2011. . . . just so you know.

[Abraham]

TAM,

Thanks for the heads up!

[RoyGBiv]

DiFi would want you arrested for possession of that lamp. It's too scary. Assault lamp.

[Dori]

Now I know what a tactical light looks like.