Anyone else find glitter lamps boring?

[StarDust]

As much as I am fascinated by Lava Lamps, I just don't seem to have any interest in Lava's cousin, the Glitter Lamp. I was wondering how many other Lava fans also share those same feelings. Please don't hate me; I just want to hear people's opinions on the topic.

[Lucy, The Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal]

I dont really like the glitter lamps, as they seem to be more 'uniform' in their display, unlike lava lamps, you pretty much know exactly how they are going to look in say, an hours time.

Lava lamps also seem more like science to me.

If people like glitter and lava, why not try to get your hands on a Mathmos Glitterball?
Lava, but with glitter in it! now, I could go for that.
They made a silver one, where the glitter was so small the lava looked like mercury! cool!
The other colours (i think) had larger 'chunks' of glitter in the lava.

[Bohdan]

A cool looking silver glitterball the liquid is very thick and the flow is slow and so cool.
Here is a pic of my Glitterball up close plus my Glitterama they both flow in a thick liquid

[Jerome Dopson]

Good question.

I love both lava and glitter formulae but I do think lava is more 'interesting' although glitter can be just as, if not more so, pretty, especially on a cold dank night like we have here often in the UK espeically in Fall/Winter and early Spring. I like my glitter lamps to be REALLY glittery!

[Jonas Clark-Elliott]

I like older glitters. New ones, not so much. The only recent glitter I LOVED (I do like Wizard glitters) was the Hot Rock sold by Target - same globe as the Link'd (chain link, double globe) Spencers lamp. Big, big foil squares with medium-speed action, sparkly enough to throw moving patterns on the walls. The 70s and 80s Lava brand GemLites were like this - in addition, they came with a four-color sticker that could be placed on the bottom of the globe, making the action turn into vivid, random blue, green, pink and gold.

The 70s French glitters are fun just because of their unusual and varied base designs. Most of them also have big, fast-moving sparkly squares, though a few have long, thin threadlike glitters, or small round ones similar to the hexagonal Wizard glitters. Looking through my folder of saved images, I see round, oval, trapezoidal, square and rectangular globes, as well as textured glass ones and a spherical one. Bases range from steel columns with brushed, polished, textured or painted finishes, with round, oval, flame-shaped, rectangular etc. openings to reveal the globe. One has random "cheese holes", another has cut-outs that look like dripping wax. Other bases include plastic in a myriad of colors, some with ashtrays built into their caps, and bases made from wood, marble, granite and glass. Every day, it seems, I spot another that I would not have believed existed without photographic proof. Most French and Italian glitters have clear liquid, silver glitter, and colors painted under the bottom, but models with red, orange or golden liquid exist, as well as clear liquid with brightly colored glitter.

Y'know... I really should post my collection of French glitter photos on the site. Keep a lookout, and you'll soon see why these can be as fun as the odd bases Lava brand did in the 60s and 70s.

[Hambone the Vegetable]

I hear ya Steve, this whole site is going to drive me to bankruptcy!

[Bohdan]

If you ever run across one of these the Tower with large Glitter flakes get one they flow so nice and
are very heavy in the vase they come in.

[Justin]

I prefer the globs by a long shot, but some glitter lamps look incredible and well... make good night lights. ;-]

[Jerome Dopson]

What about the best of both worlds, the glitterball, a truly awesome lava/glitter hybrid made by the legendary Mathmos.

[The Piper at the Gates of Dawn]

Glitterball is really cool. while i also prefer goo to glitter anyday, I find a healthy mix adds a complement of soft changing light to the lava in a room when many lamps are on at once. but a glitter lamp really needs the right styling. like those florence art company's glitter lamps look pretty neat, and some of the old crestworths.....

and for the not so patient people, you don't have to wait for it to start flowing when turned on. It's pretty much instant gratification. (not that that's a necessarily GOOD thing)

[Dave]

Same here i hate them damn things! they are not worth the materals they are made off!