243. George Washington: Heirloom Camera
atelier ying, nyc.
Starting the New Year with another design that brings an odd element to photography: food.
I used to read from a small set of books every Christmas season in order to get into the spirit of the holidays. One thin volume from this collection contains Martha Washington's authentic recipe for an Heirloom fruitcake. Recently, I came across another article about a private estate fruitcake that has been preserved and handed down from the time of Washington, and will continue to be edible. After reading this article, I knew that I had the good fortune of a design to set aside for a special occasion.
Any Fruitcake worth it's salt contains a variety of flours, sweetmeats and assorted ingredients, all minced to resemble some kind of rugged cereal. It is a windfall of goodwill, and certainly not a bargain in materials. The liquor used to help flavor and preserve this cake varied, but Scotch Whiskey is one of my personal choices, and spirit which points to the key design theme of grain. This Heirloom fruitcake becomes a ballast for the camera enclosure which should be of a large scale in order to ideologically balance its contents. This led my mind to an antique wooden grain elevator. The two silos contain matching bottles of a fine Scotch Whiskey blend. One is for topping the fruitcake perennially (a thermometer/hygrometer panel is one the back) and the other is reserved for drinking purposes, to complement the sweetness of the cake. Relics from Washington's time are not buried inside the cake, as was Christmas tradition, but are kept in separate chambers within the camera within small letter press drawers. The smaller house is a camera grip.
There's plenty of room for an internal viewer of a replica of the tavern room (Fraunces Tavern, Nyc.) where Washington met his officers at the end of the Revolutionary war. The side house also has a turtle shell container with dice and chips for a drinking game.
This fruitcake will easily outlast the camera which will be equally rare as it would contain organic fermenting matter and whose kit has:
1. a burlap bag should one want to store the camera in a cellar
2. a supply of specially treated plastic wrappings
3. an external airtight box with a brass label
4. a container of decanted 1974 Ladyburn, only because of its rarity
5. a 20-year old Macallum suffices for aging tank of the fruitcake.
A true heirloom.
Dedicated to Jan Normandie, who visits lots of wooden grain elevators.
Design, concepts, text and drawing are copyright 2015 by David Lo.
243. George Washington: Heirloom Camera
atelier ying, nyc.
Starting the New Year with another design that brings an odd element to photography: food.
I used to read from a small set of books every Christmas season in order to get into the spirit of the holidays. One thin volume from this collection contains Martha Washington's authentic recipe for an Heirloom fruitcake. Recently, I came across another article about a private estate fruitcake that has been preserved and handed down from the time of Washington, and will continue to be edible. After reading this article, I knew that I had the good fortune of a design to set aside for a special occasion.
Any Fruitcake worth it's salt contains a variety of flours, sweetmeats and assorted ingredients, all minced to resemble some kind of rugged cereal. It is a windfall of goodwill, and certainly not a bargain in materials. The liquor used to help flavor and preserve this cake varied, but Scotch Whiskey is one of my personal choices, and spirit which points to the key design theme of grain. This Heirloom fruitcake becomes a ballast for the camera enclosure which should be of a large scale in order to ideologically balance its contents. This led my mind to an antique wooden grain elevator. The two silos contain matching bottles of a fine Scotch Whiskey blend. One is for topping the fruitcake perennially (a thermometer/hygrometer panel is one the back) and the other is reserved for drinking purposes, to complement the sweetness of the cake. Relics from Washington's time are not buried inside the cake, as was Christmas tradition, but are kept in separate chambers within the camera within small letter press drawers. The smaller house is a camera grip.
There's plenty of room for an internal viewer of a replica of the tavern room (Fraunces Tavern, Nyc.) where Washington met his officers at the end of the Revolutionary war. The side house also has a turtle shell container with dice and chips for a drinking game.
This fruitcake will easily outlast the camera which will be equally rare as it would contain organic fermenting matter and whose kit has:
1. a burlap bag should one want to store the camera in a cellar
2. a supply of specially treated plastic wrappings
3. an external airtight box with a brass label
4. a container of decanted 1974 Ladyburn, only because of its rarity
5. a 20-year old Macallum suffices for aging tank of the fruitcake.
A true heirloom.
Dedicated to Jan Normandie, who visits lots of wooden grain elevators.
Design, concepts, text and drawing are copyright 2015 by David Lo.