Ambient Orb Pwnage

The 60s.

Between drug-induced memory loss and premature death among experiencers, it's becoming more of a fabled decade than a historically accurate one. People are generally agreed, though, that psychaedelia did in fact occur.

Peace, love, and groovy, man.

Liquid lighting was/is the term coined to describe the flowing ameboid colour fields that result from putting oil, water, and dye in a transparent vessel and shining a focused light through it. If you can figure out a way to induce motion in the vessel, the coloured bits swirl around all trippy- like on the wall and you can pretend you're field-testing alien psychotropic drugs.

Really, it looks better than it sounds.

The 70s. Between drug-induced memory loss and premature death among experiencers, it's becoming more of a fabled decade than a historically accurate one. People are generally agreed though that disco did in fact occur.

Shake your booty, baby.

Despite having been a near-mandatory accoutrement of any self-respecting ballroom since the 20s, mirror balls attained lasting cultural resonance during the Disco Age, when anything even remotely bright and shiny was an essential part of the Discotheque experience.

Stand by for a jarring collision of two kinda fuzzy decades, where inspirational mood lighting means something more than the pathetically understated pastel glow of an ambient orb.

It's not that difficult to fabricate a mirror-tiled sphere; making the cutting jig for the glass cutter is the hardest part. Doing a styrofoam wig stand in mirror tiles is only marginally more difficult, and has a solid 9.8 coolness factor. The sphere? Low 7s at best. Well worth the (minimal) extra effort, and you'll be able to impress friends and neighbors of all ilk with your newly acquired glass-cutting skills.