Elemental employees Tara Bowerman and Wes Buck reused some common household materials along with color-changing LED lights to create a jellyfish-like chandelier that makes you feel like you’re swimming underwater.
Re-using a combination of clear plastic two and one liter plastic bottles, cut in half and bound together, the duo worked together to create a half circle chandelier, where the light reflects bubble shapes onto the nearby surface. The concept was originally created by lighting designer Shaun Kasperbauer, where he emphasized the beauty of ordinary materials.
Inspired by this design, Tara and Wes created a similar affect with the Wall Mount RGB Color Controller, and they went one step further by creating a jellyfish with plastic strips, and adding additional RGB Strips and bubble wrap at the top!
Here are the materials they used:
- Color-Changing Flexible RGB LED Strip Light
- Flexible RGB Strip Light Extension Cable
- Wall Mount RGB Color Controller
- 18 gauge/2 strand Lamp Wire
- One liter plastic bottles
- Two liter plastic bottles
- Wire hanger
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By cutting a 2 liter soda bottle in half and matching them having the top and bottom facing down and the half meet in the middle, you can hole punch them and link them together with a coat hanger or strong wire.
The Jellyfish on exhibit in this post uses over fifty bottles and up to 5 feet of High Density RGB Strip Light. If you’re trying to simulate it using only a few bottles, we would suggest using only a foot of strip per jellyfish, and six half-bottles linked in a circle. To bellow out, string it from the perimeter with string and add some plastic pieces to enhance the jellyfish tentacles.
Please send me instructions on how to make the single bottle jellies that went across the ceiling at the exibit. Thank you very much. I’m a teacher and we want to make a swarm of Jellies in our classroom for museum day.