215. 咖喱城相機: Curry & Baseball Camera
atelier ying, Chinatown Nyc.
For some reason the precision Swiss Tessina 35 camera inspires my most feverish work. Please see my other two Tessina design nos. 52 and 102.
This summer design theme of curry is open-ended, a format that allows me to jump back and forth solving different problems of scale.
The original Tessina 35 kit came with a wrist band and accessories such as an ultra-rare 17-jewel watch.
For the special challenge of incorporating baseball seductively into a camera design, I recalled a scene in the film, "The Eel", by Shohei Imamura.
There is no slower, less dramatic team sport. In fact, baseball can easily be a part of life, a game occurs almost daily, and on some days there's even a double-header.
The particular setting I envisioned from the film was an idyllic afternoon in a Japanese barber shop. No business, a fishing pole is stuck out in the backyard, lunch is on the burner, a day for catching up with the papers while listening to the game. Many of Imamura's films contain the device of such an idyllic interval, sandwiched between the outer dramatic moments.
The design camera is the architectural model for the house design inspired from the Tessina Watch.
Interior notes are as follows:
within the TV set is a b&w filter which covers over an iphone screen with online streaming baseball games. Alternately a tiny radio case fits over the iphone, with a monophonic speaker and antenna. The rest of the second-story living room has a comfy sofa, coffee table and a fish tank.
A lazy summer afternoon of baseball is thus delineated in the fantasy interior scene.
A staircase leads out of the apartment down to a trellised garden which is provided with air conditioning and heat from the ceiling (house-only detail) like some of Neutra's houses. A private sun roof accessible by ladder recalls the folding hood of the Tessina.
In the other half of the camera's interior space are serving utensils and packets for a complete British curry. All that is needed is access to a microwave.
In winter, the house has closing Shoji screens on the lower level. This makes camera model into a night lantern.
Design, concepts, text and drawing are copyright 2014 by David Lo.
215. 咖喱城相機: Curry & Baseball Camera
atelier ying, Chinatown Nyc.
For some reason the precision Swiss Tessina 35 camera inspires my most feverish work. Please see my other two Tessina design nos. 52 and 102.
This summer design theme of curry is open-ended, a format that allows me to jump back and forth solving different problems of scale.
The original Tessina 35 kit came with a wrist band and accessories such as an ultra-rare 17-jewel watch.
For the special challenge of incorporating baseball seductively into a camera design, I recalled a scene in the film, "The Eel", by Shohei Imamura.
There is no slower, less dramatic team sport. In fact, baseball can easily be a part of life, a game occurs almost daily, and on some days there's even a double-header.
The particular setting I envisioned from the film was an idyllic afternoon in a Japanese barber shop. No business, a fishing pole is stuck out in the backyard, lunch is on the burner, a day for catching up with the papers while listening to the game. Many of Imamura's films contain the device of such an idyllic interval, sandwiched between the outer dramatic moments.
The design camera is the architectural model for the house design inspired from the Tessina Watch.
Interior notes are as follows:
within the TV set is a b&w filter which covers over an iphone screen with online streaming baseball games. Alternately a tiny radio case fits over the iphone, with a monophonic speaker and antenna. The rest of the second-story living room has a comfy sofa, coffee table and a fish tank.
A lazy summer afternoon of baseball is thus delineated in the fantasy interior scene.
A staircase leads out of the apartment down to a trellised garden which is provided with air conditioning and heat from the ceiling (house-only detail) like some of Neutra's houses. A private sun roof accessible by ladder recalls the folding hood of the Tessina.
In the other half of the camera's interior space are serving utensils and packets for a complete British curry. All that is needed is access to a microwave.
In winter, the house has closing Shoji screens on the lower level. This makes camera model into a night lantern.
Design, concepts, text and drawing are copyright 2014 by David Lo.