What do you do with a burned out lightbulb?

[hippiestead]

Testing....

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[hippiestead]

Here's another lightbulb

[hippiestead]

http://http://www.hipgallery.com/photopost2/showphoto.php/photo/169011/cat/500/ppuser/18636

[stinkfoot]

First there was an error with the url BUT the corrected link:

http://www.hipgallery.com/photopost2/showphoto.php/photo/169011/cat/500/ppuser/18636 won't cut it either... as that brings up the gallery page for this image:

http://www.hipgallery.com/photopost2/data/500/000_2201.JPG
which is actually this url:
http://www.hipgallery.com/photopost2/data/500/000_2201.JPG

I've pasted the text to the links so you can easily observe the difference: :)
http://www.hipgallery.com/photopost2/showphoto.php/photo/169011/cat/500/ppuser/18636
^^^^^^Page
http://www.hipgallery.com/photopost2/data/500/000_2201.JPG
^^^^^^Image

[Topher D.]

i just make vaporizers out of mine.

[zenloki]

i just make vaporizers out of mine.

i'm right there with you on that one.

of course those painted ones are really pretty. nice work. what kind of paint do you use?

[stalk]

dmt

[hippiestead]

First there was an error with the url BUT the corrected link:

http://www.hipgallery.com/photopost2/showphoto.php/photo/169011/cat/500/ppuser/18636 won't cut it either... as that brings up the gallery page for this image:

http://www.hipgallery.com/photopost2/data/500/000_2201.JPG
which is actually this url:
http://www.hipgallery.com/photopost2/data/500/000_2201.JPG

I've pasted the text to the links so you can easily observe the difference: :)
http://www.hipgallery.com/photopost2/showphoto.php/photo/169011/cat/500/ppuser/18636
^^^^^^Page
http://www.hipgallery.com/photopost2/data/500/000_2201.JPG
^^^^^^Image

ok, I see the difference. So basically if I use this
' http: //www.hipgallery.com/photopost2/data/500/' and add the jpg number as I have is uploaded into the gallery, it'll bring up the image ?

test...

http://www.hipgallery.com/photopost2/data/500/000_2202.JPG

Ahha!!!!! Success!!

[stinkfoot]

ok, I see the difference. So basically if I use this
' http: //www.hipgallery.com/photopost2/data/500/ ' and add the jpg number as I have is uploaded into the gallery, it'll bring up the image ?

test...

http://www.hipgallery.com/photopost2/data/500/000_2202.jpg

Doesn't look like you quite understand the image url isn't simply the page url with ".jpg" appended. The text has differences... scroll back up to my previous post and look them over carefully. You get the image url by either dragging the full sized image (NOT the thumbnail) to the address window or by right-clicking on the image and selecting "Copy Image Location" from the drop down box (in Firefox) and pasting the copied location in the http://www.hipforums.com/forums/images/editor/insertimage.gif window.

[hippiestead]

of course those painted ones are really pretty. nice work. what kind of paint do you use?

The paint is Plaid Window Color, it's especially for use on glass. Most of the colors are translucent and you can get a stained glass effect with the paint. These bulb will be mounted on a piece of artwork in our yard called 'The Lightbulb Tree'

Here's the lightbulb tree in early creation:
http://www.hipgallery.com/photopost2/showphoto.php/photo/52172/cat/500/ppuser/18636

And here's one after the first bulbs were mounted, but the colors faded on these bulbs & I had to spray paint them to get them colorful again(they were decorated with crepe paper):
http://picasaweb.google.com/hippiestead/InAroundTheHippiestead#5076780879971034370

[hippiestead]

Doesn't look like you quite understand the image url isn't simply the page url with ".jpg" appended. The text has differences... scroll back up to my previous post and look them over carefully. You get the image url by either dragging the full sized image (NOT the thumbnail) to the address window or by right-clicking on the image and selecting "Copy Image Location" from the drop down box (in Firefox) and pasting the copied location in the http://www.hipforums.com/forums/images/editor/insertimage.gif window.

I tried it again but capitalized the 'JPG' and it worked. My aol browser wouldn't pull up a "Copy Image Location", I had to look it up in properties. I think I have it now.

Thank You for all the Help Stinkfoot!!!!!!!!

More lightbulbs:
http://www.hipgallery.com/photopost2/data/500/000_2203.JPG


http://www.hipgallery.com/photopost2/data/500/000_2204.JPG

[stinkfoot]

Glad I could help and I think this (turning burnt out light bulbs into art) is a cool idea.

[orison319]

Ahmm. them lights will be a thing of the past..
What you gona do with these??
http://www.digitaljournal.com/images/photo/cfl1.jpg

[hippiestead]

I could use the same paint on those but due to the mercury inside them I won't buy them. Any lightbulb that requires a room to be aired if the bulb breaks & has special cleaning instructions (ie-do not use a vacumn cleaner or a broom; use damp paper towels & dispose of properly but just try to get the approved disposal drop-off points to accept a broken bulb!) is not the bulb for me! Energy wasting or not, I am laying in a back-stock of old-fashioned incandescent bulbs & am praying that led technology speeds up & brings the prices of the LED bulbs down.

[Dragonfly]

ok, I see the difference. So basically if I use this
' http: //www.hipgallery.com/photopost2/data/500/' and add the jpg number as I have is uploaded into the gallery, it'll bring up the image ?

test...

http://www.hipgallery.com/photopost2/data/500/000_2202.JPG

Ahha!!!!! Success!!


killer idea cinnamon! that's awesome!

[zenloki]

Ms Cinnamon your lightbulb tree is awesome! what a very cool idea.

[Burnt]

http://www.instructables.com/files/deriv/FTR/ZHVM/FIQAL59Q/FTRZHVMFIQAL59Q.MEDIUM.jpg

[Burnt]

hey it worked I have never had luck getting a picture on here. Thanks for the instructions stinkfoot.

[hippiestead]

http://www.instructables.com/files/deriv/FTR/ZHVM/FIQAL59Q/FTRZHVMFIQAL59Q.MEDIUM.jpg


That is a very cool idea!

[Burnt]

I can't take credit for it though I found it on here: http://www.instructables.com/id/Light-Bulb-Lamp/

[i0-techno]

Is there a reason for waiting for them to burnout? Dang Hippiestead, you sure do burnout a lot of light bulbs from the looks of it, or what this over much time? I ask cause we rarely ever burnout bulbs.

Nice lightbulb tree by the way. I love glass paint.

[hippiestead]

Is there a reason for waiting for them to burnout? Dang Hippiestead, you sure do burnout a lot of light bulbs from the looks of it, or what this over much time? I ask cause we rarely ever burnout bulbs.

Nice lightbulb tree by the way. I love glass paint.

They are several years worth of lightbulbs, plus bulbs donated by neighbors when they found out that I was making art out of them. Of course the bulbs we use when vending sometimes have a short life, bump those puppies when they are still warm and the filament goes pfffft.

[Glowstick]

Heres a couple things I enjoy doing with light bulbs, just some craft ideas I've done / found around the net!

A vase:
http://www.craftbits.com/viewProject.do?projectID=886
Snow Man:
http://www.craft-central-station.com/projects/holidays/x-mass/frostybulb.htm
Santa:
http://crafts.kaboose.com/light-bulb-santa.html

[Koreywithak]

That is really cool, you should make some more

[hippiestead]

:)

[hippiestead]

(response to 2 trolls who'd rather throw lightbulbs away)

What a sad state of mind to be in. I'm really glad that most of the young people that I know are more conciensious about the environment than the previous 2 posters. Whatever happened to 'Reduce, Reuse, Recycle'?

(And BTW-it isn't gas from garbage dumps that produces electricity, it's gas from poop, mostly animal poop aka methane. Composting materials also produce methane but lighbulbs do not.)

[Burnt]

^^
That comment really makes no sense, hippiestead has already shown how she turns the burnt out light bulbs into awesome art therefore there is no waste.

[wetsocks]

^^
That comment really makes no sense, hippiestead has already shown how she turns the burnt out light bulbs into awesome art therefore there is no waste.

THAT comment makes no sense

[hippiestead]

I am following what I preach wetsocks, I am reusing the light bulbs as art. We recycle almost everything around the hippiestead. And as far as moral crusades & conveniences, my son wore cloth diapers when we were living without electricity & without running water, so you can save your 'movie'. YOU are the one who is carelessly throwing lightbulbs in the trash.

And thanx for the compliment on the art Burnt!

[treepixie]

dmt

Hay, i love your Owl picture, did you draw it, i think my boyfriend would love that tatooed to him...let me know where its from.

cheers. :)

[theacidpulp]

I think I'd make a vape.

[Wiseman]

Wow. Those painted ones are very cool. I actually do this, and grow plants inside of them.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Lightbulb-greenhouse/
or
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-hollow-out-a-lightbulb-and-make-a-stand-for/

[hippiestead]

Those mini-greenhouses are too cool!

[Wiseman]

Those mini-greenhouses are too cool!

Yeah. That's what I thought too. You can also fill them with water and keep really small fish in them. I kinda thought that must suck for the fish though. So I stuck with plants. Of course, if you could get ahold of a really big lightbulb, you may be able to pull off keeping fish in it.