Retro... Party? Lighting

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This is the best way of describing what I'm trying to find:

A machine that can be used to make the same sort of "amoeba" style light patterns that I'm familiar with through videos of the Velvet Underground playing at various Warhol functions.

I'm just not sure what to look for, and whether or not this is something I can still find.

I'm really not interested in the popular party lights that have, for instance, the colored circles about a ball with a light inside.

I'm imagining a much more dynamic and strange effect.

― Peter Densmore (pbnmyj), Friday, 24 March 2006 19:38 (twenty years ago)

Get an old overhead projector, the kind once used in schools for transparencies. Take a shallow glass casserole dish, fill it with water, and put it on top. Then drip some food coloring in the water.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 24 March 2006 19:51 (twenty years ago)

Space Projectors are good:

http://www.theglowcompany.co.uk/acatalog/MATHMOS_SPACE_PROJECTOR.html

― emil.y (emil.y), Friday, 24 March 2006 19:53 (twenty years ago)

don't forget the oil.

― Werner Herzog Books On Tape (sexyDancer), Friday, 24 March 2006 19:54 (twenty years ago)

Right: add oil to create the blobby amoebic effects.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:04 (twenty years ago)

I have one called the Groove Wheel that mimics the Avalon Ballroom San Francisco kind of look... I bought it for $100.
http://www.coolstuffcheap.com/groovewheel.html

― andy --, Friday, 24 March 2006 20:17 (twenty years ago)

Ha, maybe I should add that the reason the Space Projector came to mind is that me and my old housemates once got our party 'busted' by some inept police officers - at the time they came round I was off my tits on acid staring at the pattern on the wall whilst listening to, yes, the Velvet Underground.

― emil.y (emil.y), Saturday, 25 March 2006 00:41 (twenty years ago)

I would also reccommend the space projector thing that emil.y suggested

― elmo, holy helper (allocryptic), Saturday, 25 March 2006 00:49 (twenty years ago)

Oh, man I wish I had had one of these five years ago.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Saturday, 25 March 2006 01:34 (twenty years ago)

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― pNKpH9fh0T, Sunday, 26 March 2006 13:46 (twenty years ago)

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