164. Edward Gorey : The Balletomane Camera Phone
atelier ying, nyc
Gorey needs little introduction as an American original, an eccentric Victorian (not very far from Joseph Cornell) who found himself intuitively moving from French literature to illustration and book design. Both men were also passionate balletomanes.
This design's camera phone is not a real phone. It's ancestor is the French detective cameras of the last century. The fake phone is a complete set of digital camera controls. The mouthpiece is the shutter release and the dial buttons control metering, focus, exposure, etc. The rotary dial face is an LCD display. Both the controls and lens of the camera are protected by silk cloth coverings. The underside of the sole cover has a contact number list written in rhyming couplets.
The phone is stored inside the velvet seat of a unicycle. A small set of catnip bottles are also inside the seat.
Here in this ballet fantasy, Gorey and his beloved cats participate in a heady dance. The cats follow him on the unicycle like a pied piper transformed from the Middle Ages to the Victorian era (the medieval rats to Victorian cats).
Design, text and drawing are copyright 2014 by David Lo.
164. Edward Gorey : The Balletomane Camera Phone
atelier ying, nyc
Gorey needs little introduction as an American original, an eccentric Victorian (not very far from Joseph Cornell) who found himself intuitively moving from French literature to illustration and book design. Both men were also passionate balletomanes.
This design's camera phone is not a real phone. It's ancestor is the French detective cameras of the last century. The fake phone is a complete set of digital camera controls. The mouthpiece is the shutter release and the dial buttons control metering, focus, exposure, etc. The rotary dial face is an LCD display. Both the controls and lens of the camera are protected by silk cloth coverings. The underside of the sole cover has a contact number list written in rhyming couplets.
The phone is stored inside the velvet seat of a unicycle. A small set of catnip bottles are also inside the seat.
Here in this ballet fantasy, Gorey and his beloved cats participate in a heady dance. The cats follow him on the unicycle like a pied piper transformed from the Middle Ages to the Victorian era (the medieval rats to Victorian cats).
Design, text and drawing are copyright 2014 by David Lo.