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12 May, 2009 @ 6:13 pm
Hilarious! It doesn’t even have a “shade” anymore.
12 May, 2009 @ 6:34 pm
Hah! I’m with the disgruntled readership on this one. That thing is an eyesore.
12 May, 2009 @ 9:35 pm
I saw this on the Grauniad’s website earlier when I was at work and laughed out loud. Everyone looked at me.
13 May, 2009 @ 12:55 am
Oh dear, I have to say that I quite like it! But I will try to rationalise this with, I am a student and everything that looks cheap and do-able is particularly pleasing at a time when i can barely afford to eat. Please don’t hate mail me commenters!
Stick it in the tate and it would be marvelled! haha. xx
13 May, 2009 @ 3:49 am
Hahahaha! It is relly awful, but I’m surprised people didn’t just go “Loving it, it’s epic!”
13 May, 2009 @ 1:18 pm
Alas, these comments don’t make as much sense as they did yesterday. Ah well!
13 May, 2009 @ 7:48 pm
some people just should not diy!
14 May, 2009 @ 7:36 am
I’m with ya Paris. Seem to be some taste fascists out today. Next thing you know they’ll be burning books they don’t like. Come on guyz, live and let live, ya taste fascists.
14 May, 2009 @ 7:47 am
You took the picture down. Nice one. Glad to see you take copyright seriously now. I don’t own the copyright, but I noticed you didn’t either and that you have a habit of uploading pictures not owned by you. The Grauniad made it bloody easy for me to detect the latest one. Bloggers should not to steal other people’s work. So how come you haven’t published the post I sent alerting you? I wonder whether your readers would describe it in the way you have. I doubt it. Hope to see this post published beneath your blog.
14 May, 2009 @ 7:59 am
In reply to the above comment, I always add a picture credit or a link to the original article.
14 May, 2009 @ 2:28 pm
Funny! You can still see the original on the Guardian website if you click on the magnifying glass. Why oh why would you publish the original photo – it was hardly shown in its best “light” was it??
14 May, 2009 @ 5:30 pm
It’s kinda of a crap DIY project and it’s kinda of a crap finished lamp. But the comments on the original photo are a riot! Using the same materials she could have done a much better job by re-stringing and spending a bit more time on it.
15 May, 2009 @ 1:16 pm
thats so strange, i got a email on the same day as you but about a previous photo of a socialite..