your own personal moon.

I want one of these so bad. Russian designers came up with this light box shaped like a huge (or I suppose, tiny) moon. Although it looks entirely too bright to actually sleep with, there is something so lonesome and romantic about it, which as most people know, I dig. Its practically performance art! I still have not found a manufacturer, or really where anywhere to buy it, so I have started to come up with plans to make my own. How hard could it be? I should look in the pages of ReadyMade Magazine for hints and tips. To start, I would have to build a shell out of pliable balsam sticks ( I want this moon to appear natural). Then, take paper lantern material and cut it to shape, laying it over and securing the paper to the frame. The main difficulty for me would be figuring out how to illuminate it, although what first comes to mind is taking groups of LED lights from IKEA that run off battery and putting those within the frame. If this is the method used though, I would need to build some type of trap door in the moon so that I may change the batteries. I'd shy away from using lights that plug in, simply because I enjoy the idea of the moon being completely transferable while lit. This would make for many good photo opportunities.

Also: I have decided that to never become old, you must already be teaching your old self new tricks. I will write more on this later, but so far this weekend, I have begun to learn how to drive stick, and also learned how to wire speakers for a high end stereo system.

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