[Lab] parol lanterns

[Jamie]

It'd be something to keep in mind for next years Lumiere Festival -
http://www.lumiereottawa.com/


On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 10:52 PM, Darcy Whyte <darcy at inventorartist.com>
wrote:

> Last year I made these cool lanterns for Christmas.
>
> They look like this http://inventorartist.com/parol-gallery/
>
> I want to do a run of them again this year and I'm looking for ideas.
> Probably just a small run so I can give them to Christmas visitors and roll
> them out at a couple of parties.
>
> Last year people said they'd like to have the kits more complete.
>
> My logic was that people already have tissue paper and I didn't want to
> put it in the kits since then I'd be choosing people's colors. And if I put
> random colors then people will rummage through and become indecisive.
>
> So this year I am considering having precut tissue in the kits.
>
> What do you think?
>
> The other thing is to make them easier to assemble. The current version
> (which I've only prototyped) looks like this:
> http://inventorartist.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/IMG_2223-1000.jpg
> http://inventorartist.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/IMG_2214-1000.jpg
>
> Is there an easier way to put this together?
>
> This might be a little aggressive for this year but what about having a
> lighting kit? I made a couple of these last year:
> http://inventorartist.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/IMG_2222-1000.jpg
>
> The thing is batteries don't get too far... I guess wall warts could be a
> way to go.
>
> If anybody wants do do a workshop for these that could be fun too. Perhaps
> a version that has IR remote to control the lights...
>
>
>
> --
> Darcy Whyte
>
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