Crooked lamp with blinds on a sunny day

My old crooked lamp from the final close-out sale at the old downtown Milwaukee Marshall Fields store (formerly Gimbels) in the 1980s. It’s showing its age, listing slightly to one side, but still capable of doing its job. Like many of us, I suppose😀

Really not much else to say beyond the title of this post, LOL. I find myself drawn to geometric images whenever they present themselves. Which may also be the reason why I so madly adore everything Art Deco!

Crooked lamp with blinds on a sunny day

P.S. You’ll note that the lamp appears to be straight up and down perpendicular in this photo. Maybe the lamp is doing just fine after all, and it’s the rest of the world that’s out of kilter!

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About Katherine Wikoff

I am a college professor (PhD in English, concentration rhetoric) at Milwaukee School of Engineering, where I teach film and media studies, political science, digital society, digital storytelling, writing for digital media, and communication. While fragments of my teaching and scholarship interests may quite naturally meander over to my blog, this space is intended to function as a creative outlet, not as part of my professional practice. Opinions are my own, etc.
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6 Responses to Crooked lamp with blinds on a sunny day

  1. Karen Spivey's avatar Karen Spivey says:

    Is that a little shadow of you on the lampshade? I love the lines.

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    • No, I think every shadow is actually from the lampshade or the lamp (in the far right, the part sticking up that holds the lightbulb), the shadow being cast forward or back upon itself as the sunlight passed through.

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  2. mworfolk's avatar mworfolk says:

    I love the shadows made by blinds slats—we just changed ours from slats to cellular blinds (which are GREAT but don’t cast shadows the same way).

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    • mworfolk's avatar mworfolk says:

      Just to correct myself: they are called cellular shades rather than cellular blinds! (They’ve been great for keeping the heat in during winter and keeping it out during summer. Can recommend.)

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      • I went and looked these up after you mentioned them, and it looked like they might have great insulation qualities. We have an old house with drafty windows. Shades like these might help keep things a little warmer in the winter!

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        • mworfolk's avatar mworfolk says:

          We have an old house with old windows too, and have been reluctant to change them all because we like the look and it would be very expensive. I think the cellular shades have helped a lot!

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