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davidyeung1991 New user 75 Posts |
Just find in steven website,
http://www.stevensmagic.com/shop/the-ill......ttyPhoto |
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David Eichler Grammar Host Durham, ME 1780 Posts |
J.C.'s work is beautiful...
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Brynmore14 Inner circle The Séance Chamber 1815 Posts |
A lot nicer than the one I got from UYD, but also ten times the price. You get what you pay for in this instance,
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Sicnatius Veteran user Connecticut 396 Posts |
I have the UYD and with some modifications and a little more aging, they are great.
Stevens sees to be just beautiful out of the box. |
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Louis Cypher Veteran user 356 Posts |
I have "Ghost in the Machine" by Dan at "Lebinon Circle". In fact I have two. Aged lovely "buzzer" rather than lamp. I leave contacting the other side for ages and just when everyone thinks it hasn't worked I bring it to life. With a bit of practice you can sort of make the buzzer "blip" which sounds really eerie. Hehe
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Michael_MacDonald 1964 - 2016 Washington 2034 Posts |
I had one made for me by Mulee Pete here on the Café
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=......&theater |
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DrTodd Inner circle 1976 Posts |
The illumini changed my life since it put me in touch with JC Moore's craftsmanship. The light has featured in many performances and the quality of materials is second to none. On the strength of this, I commissioned a number of pieces and JC has much more to offer to the craft.
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Louis Cypher Veteran user 356 Posts |
The "AA" battery was first around in the 1940's how are people explaining that a old spirit lamp has 1940's batteries. With my "ghost in the machine" I say that it has been adapted but I've never felt quite satisfied with my explanation. Any other ideas would be great.
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Perkins Special user 950 Posts |
I really love this and JC Moore seems to indeed, have much to offer.
Louis' comment on the background of batteries got me to puzzling about something I'd never thought of before. I found a wonderful historical character that I had never heard of until now: Alessandro Volta. Often credited with the invention of the battery in the 1800s. Seems to be a wealth of story material there.
The Séance Party
http://www.theseanceparty.com |
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Anverdi-museum Inner circle 1196 Posts |
I would make the battery holder crafed from old wood and lose the lamp holder, maybe used a short copper pipe to hold the bulb. These make this effect look too contemporary like they were purchased from a modern electronics store .
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J.c.Mooreni New user 37 Posts |
First off, thanks for all the compliments regarding Illumini.
As for mention of the UYD and Brynmore14's comment of "you get what you pay for", that is very true, especially in this instance. You might be comparing a bicycle to a Harley Davidson...though the two may both have wheels and get you someplace, they are far from the same. The operation of Illumini is very versatile and not dependent on close proximity. In a Séance setting it may be placed anywhere on a table, on a shelf, on a pedestal under a glass dome (as seen in the video), or in a person's hand. It has been used by various individuals during ghost walks where someone in a group was responsible for holding the device while the leader walked ahead of them giving the tour. It is hands off, hands free, and casual as it should be. It comes with the ability for the "spirits" to activate its operation using four different trigger points with the possibility of expansion (as if four were not already enough...they can also be to a certain degree customized). A different point may be used each time it is activated if so desired. The lamp when lit manually, is steady and full intensity, yet when illuminated by the "spirit world" is a bit dimmer and flickering with often only a momentary instance of full brightness. The device, box and so on may be examined and assembled by anyone. And it is crafted from exotic hardwoods as were turn of the century and early 1900's scientific equipment (not a store bought box). As for the question of batteries: Included with the device you will find the backing material from which the device was built (dating to be approximately 1924) . It contains reference to the spiritual nature of the materials such as the wood, dimensional equations, and experiments which led to the devices first creation. Though AA batteries were not a "standardized" size until the 40's, D size batteries were around before 1900. Battery sizes over time became standardized and as such were given labels such as D, C, A, AA, AAA and so on. There is no reference in the backing material as to battery size other than preferred voltage required. Thus more than likely the "original" batteries were perhaps something similar to todays AA, but they could have been any size. What was more important according to the documents were dimensional features such as the "etheric gap"...any more or any less based on other physical dimensions failed to yield desired influence. Hopefully that helps answer some questions. I have been crafting my Illumini Spirit Light since 2009, first from my garage workshop and now from our Washington based Studio. For a while Illumini was sold exclusively thru a vendor in the UK. Many of the devices and much of my work has found homes in the UK, but my work can also be found in the hands of performers and collectors in the USA, Canada, Colombia, France, Germany, Italy, and soon to be Singapore (even more places where Handlordz sold my XCM boxes that I have no idea where they all went). Again, as always, thank you all for your interest and support...it is greatly appreciated. J.c. |
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Louis Cypher Veteran user 356 Posts |
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On , Perkins wrote: Great link thanks I was asked about the batteries after a sitting and made up the "adapted" bit, but in further web searches the actual size "AA" 1947 I got it from here http://wiki.answers.com/Q/When_was_the_A......ed?r2a=1 but is also on other sites. Hope they are wrong and Volta did come up with "AA" as could give presentation a little extra history. I love a good historical search |
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Louis Cypher Veteran user 356 Posts |
That's great thanks J.C. Really great stuff. I'm off to check out more Volta and another stop at Tesla.
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J.c.Mooreni New user 37 Posts |
The French Battery & Carbon Company produced cylindrical dry-cell batteries with "+" and "-" poles on opposite ends during the 1920's. These batteries were primarily for their flashlights. The batteries were manufactured in a wide range of sizes and diameters under the name RAY-O-LITE. A 1924 magazine ad for the RAY-O-LITE flashlight and batteries (which I am going to try to attach) shows a variety of battery in the display below the flashlights. This is an add from a magazine published in 1924.
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J.c.Mooreni New user 37 Posts |
Ad, not add...photos is small but hopefully it can be seen.
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Louis Cypher Veteran user 356 Posts |
What a great find. they knew a thing or two about advert design back then. Love it. Thanks for posting
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Louis Cypher Veteran user 356 Posts |
Good idea of what the batteries looked like at the bottom of the page.
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Louis Cypher Veteran user 356 Posts |
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Perkins Special user 950 Posts |
RAY-O-LITE. Dig that.
Is that a little voltage specter for their mascot? Very cool.
The Séance Party
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J.c.Mooreni New user 37 Posts |
Perkins, yes a little lightning bolt fellow. RAY-O-LITE was a name used by the French Battery & Carbon Company for their flashlights and the batteries that went in them...and I am thinking that you had to purchase the RAY-O-LITE brand batteries for their flashlights seeing how there were sizes of batteries they made that were at that time not yet "standardized". They also had a line of batteries for radios...radios at the time used vacuum tubes and thus that line of batteries were called RAY-O-VAC. In 1930, the French Battery & Carbon Company changed their name to RAYOVAC, which continues to make batteries to this day, headquartered in Atlanta Georgia USA.
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