184. Mongkok Camera
atelier ying, hk
The stacked, terraced dilapidated flats of Mongkok are beautiful. I'm vaguely reminded of Gustav Mahler, who I am told composed his music in slabs, although compared to old houses in China these Mongkok apartment buildings have an excess of glass (but too little lighting that's visible from the street) that's part of what makes them so wonderful. I prefer the older 3-4 story buildings with fluorescent lighting. The visual stacked effect of the building allows for this camera design to be made up of many cameras in a similar stacked disorganized fashion.
Camera features:
- exterior modeled on a building on Shanghai Street.
- rooftop haiku-styled camera sight (versus a vf) made with bamboo, netting, and cellphone towers.
- a central haiku-styled gap viewfinder
- levels for SLR, rangefinder and pinhole units which offset the lightweight plastic housing materials used. Windows open for the lens. Paper fragments and tape is used for filters and hoods.
- strap and carrying handle made of telephone cable wire and bamboo-simulated scaffolding.
- hvac units contain focusing mechanisms for the cameras as well as internal viewfinders to selected floors where one can peer inside to see various single-room occupancy units.
- clotheslines, garments, plants are provided with rubber cement to decorate the exterior as you please.
- both incandescent and fluorescent units for lighting the ground floor bakeries and upper tenement housing floors.
Design, text and drawing are copyright 2014 by David Lo.
184. Mongkok Camera
atelier ying, hk
The stacked, terraced dilapidated flats of Mongkok are beautiful. I'm vaguely reminded of Gustav Mahler, who I am told composed his music in slabs, although compared to old houses in China these Mongkok apartment buildings have an excess of glass (but too little lighting that's visible from the street) that's part of what makes them so wonderful. I prefer the older 3-4 story buildings with fluorescent lighting. The visual stacked effect of the building allows for this camera design to be made up of many cameras in a similar stacked disorganized fashion.
Camera features:
- exterior modeled on a building on Shanghai Street.
- rooftop haiku-styled camera sight (versus a vf) made with bamboo, netting, and cellphone towers.
- a central haiku-styled gap viewfinder
- levels for SLR, rangefinder and pinhole units which offset the lightweight plastic housing materials used. Windows open for the lens. Paper fragments and tape is used for filters and hoods.
- strap and carrying handle made of telephone cable wire and bamboo-simulated scaffolding.
- hvac units contain focusing mechanisms for the cameras as well as internal viewfinders to selected floors where one can peer inside to see various single-room occupancy units.
- clotheslines, garments, plants are provided with rubber cement to decorate the exterior as you please.
- both incandescent and fluorescent units for lighting the ground floor bakeries and upper tenement housing floors.
Design, text and drawing are copyright 2014 by David Lo.