The Locomotion of Lava Lampsby Eva Pasco Author of "Underlying Notes" 
Though I've yet to possess a lava lamp, I've always been meaning to. Its unpredictable
kaleidoscopic fluidity never fails to capture and hold my attention. The lamp's
resurgence in popularity from its limelight during the sixties heats up the
locomotion all over again.
While British inventor Craven Walker sipped suds at a pub Post
WWII, instead of seeing pink elephants, his eyes locked onto a weird lamp , "a
contraption made out of a cocktail shaker, old tins, and things." To say Walker was inspired is
an understatement, for he spent the next decade and a half perfecting the Astro Lamp which received
jeers and sneers of "disgusting" and "ugly." As timing is everything, the Psychedelic
Movement and Love Generation of the sixties caused sales to soar in Europe.
Two American entrepreneurs purchased the rights to manufacture the lamp in Chicago, renaming
it the Lava Lite Lamp. Some 400,000 lava lamps are manufactured each year, indicating our
willingness to succumb to the hypnotic gyrations of a globular hula dance.
Transcendental meditation, anyone?
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