{"id":22579,"date":"2014-11-06T05:39:27","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T10:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=22579"},"modified":"2014-10-27T18:36:06","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T23:36:06","slug":"creepy-mannequin-lamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=22579","title":{"rendered":"Creepy Mannequin Lamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/mannequinlamp-150x300.jpg\" alt=\"Mannequin Lamp\" width=\"150\" height=\"300\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Got a room you want to discourage people from hanging around in?  Problem solved.<\/p>\n<p>Kuwaiti designer Al Hamed has a whole line of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohgizmo.com\/2013\/03\/07\/life-sized-mannequin-lamps-will-scare-the-crap-out-of-you\/\">&#8220;Embarakiya&#8221;<\/a> floor lamps fashioned from life-size mannequins sporting lampshades where their heads should be.  The dummies all wear traditional Kuwaiti dress, and the shades are made of matching material.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the best part: Each mannequin has a sensor in its hand, so you switch on the lamp by shaking hands with this abomination.<\/p>\n<p>I cannot love this hard enough.  The seated &#8220;woman&#8221; has such a lurking-ghost vibe about her that I believe I&#8217;d be more startled if she <em>didn&#8217;t<\/em> go for my throat.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.storesupply.com\/c-1157-headless-mannequins.aspx\">retail mannequins<\/a> run around $100, but if there&#8217;s a clothing store in your area which is remodeling or closing you might be able to pick up a used one cheaper (they&#8217;re also sometimes available on eBay).  Wiring a lamp into the neck wouldn&#8217;t be terribly difficult, and if you didn&#8217;t want to go to the trouble of installing a switch in the hand you could just stick with the standard one near the bulb.<\/p>\n<p>Dress it in the costume of your choice.  Change its outfit periodically.  And some night you may wake up to find it standing beside your bed&#8230;just before its light goes out.<\/p>\n<p><i>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/scaryjane.com\/\">Scary Jane<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got a room you want to discourage people from hanging around in? Problem solved. Kuwaiti designer Al Hamed has a whole line of &#8220;Embarakiya&#8221; floor lamps fashioned from life-size mannequins sporting lampshades where their heads should be. The dummies all wear traditional Kuwaiti dress, and the shades are made of matching material. Here&#8217;s the best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22579"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22819,"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22579\/revisions\/22819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}