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What Benny Needs: Edison Light Globes Vintage Industrial Brass Small Table Lamp

Why Benny Needs This: Benny was heavy into steampunk in high school not because it was cool, because back then it most certainly wasn’t, but because he actually believed he could make a steam powered floating dirigible island. While other kids were busy watching porno or making pipe bombs in their parents’ basement, Benny was studying where DiVinci was flawed in his designs and mocking Nikola Tesla. He built his first pair of steampunk glasses, powered by actual steam, when he was 14 and then proceeded to stomp on them when they were completed because he has perfect 20/20 vision and didn’t want any one else getting their hands on the patent. Edison Light Globes dazzles the modern desk with this throwback lamp. LEDs might be more efficient, but they don’t make you look like a mad scientist. You juxtapose this next to your new iMac and you would swear you were in a real time machine. No detail was spared either: the body is solid brass, the plug is an old school 3-pin, and the cord is thick braided. And just look at that bulb*. That right there is the epitome of baller. It’s the type of lamp that would make a supercougar blush as she waxes nostalgic over the good old days when both her and Benny would be killed for engaging in an interracial relationship.

Bell & Howell, 1954

ad detail; 8 mm movie camera