Spherical playing card lampshade

Nick Sayers (whose Flickr stream is stuffed with photos of awesome stuff he's made) created this beautiful playing-card sphere lampshade, based on a similar IQLight design, uponwhich he's produced further impressive variations.

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thebelgianpanda

imagine how much that would be worth if it were made out of Black Lotuses
pjcamp

I see burned up people.
Mister Juju

I kept seeing “Spherical Card Playing Lampshade” but I couldn’t get the article to load via mobile bb… I really wanted to see a spherical lampshade playing Texas Hold ‘em.
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http://www.facebook.com/lester.nelson Lester Nelson

I can’t imagine that would let much light through. Maybe it should be called a light-be-gone instead of a lampshade. It is beautiful, though. I love how the cards join to create perfect little stars and triangles. I wouldn’t even begin to know how to make something like this.
- not a doktor
  
  Maybe he could use some fancy translucent ones like these
  
  http://www.thepokershop.com/clearcards.jpg
http://twitter.com/davidlrattigan David L Rattigan

I see dust.