The Flyfisher's Club
Polaroid Big Swinger Model 3000
Atelier Ying, Nyc.
The client is a director of a well-known Canadian fishing association who has traveled to Europe on fly fishing expeditions. He enjoys cigars and scotch during his frequent trips.
The main task was to try to understand both the character of the client and the camera subject so that I could invent an alter ego. The client's British background helped me to locate a suitable structure and detail for his camera. Being an avid fisherman as well as a film luddite added to the personality detail that I was looking for to settle the design. His camera, a Polaroid Swinger Model 3000 was an odd and attractive canvas, very well suited to modification. The featureless gray body made a good contrast to the rich appointments of the interior and was crucial for allowing the eye to simply rest after seeing the completely renovated interior. This is necessary and is an important design feature that I wish to point out; that of letting the eyes rest on something, like an empty wall or the side of a building. This feature isn't normally part of my other designs but I relished the chance to show it off.
This very green camera design takes its initial inspiration from London's Bath Club on Brook Street, there since 1959, and one of a dying breed of traditional British gentlemen's clubs of the past century. An unusual feature is that one of the Bath Club's many rooms is set aside for the venerable but much smaller Flyfisher's Club.
Aside from this Polaroid Land camera's offbeat name and dull grey exterior, its interior is made into an annex to that famous club room and is the world's tiniest member-supported gentlemen's club. It is grandfathered with a dual membership to its owner for the other two London clubs as well.
This club offers a constant supply of Cuban Cohiba mini cigars, box aged at least 8 months. Two of these are kept humidified at any single time inside the camera.
The faux-concrete lightwell in the style of one of Tadao Ando's museums allows the photographer the vicarious experience of descending a series of winding paths into the underbelly of the camera to view the club's collection of fishing equipment, mimicking a feature of the London club. However, the London counterpart never had such an ingenious front entrance. The cigars are each banded with a commemorative club label and are stored also under the same dark theme of an aging cellar.
The lightwell's winding paths are lined with site specific moss, garnering for the club many deductions for going green. This moss garden is hydroponic and a plastic cover (not shown in the photo) keeps a good humidity that extends down by small tubing to keep the cigars humidified. A maintenance set is provided to hydrate the garden by osmosis through a tube with a wick in it.
The club's equally prominent rear entrance is a flat arch. The Intrados is formed by the display cases which hold the client's personal collection of 20 antique fly fishing lures, each meticulously labelled in flowing red script.
Opening the camera back reveals the Impost of this quasi-arch, covered with a rich luxurious leather and embossed with the original Flyfisher Club's Latin motto.
This Polaroid would have to be digitized in order to provide the necessary extra space for the renovation. The digital modification is straightforward and is similar to my other camera modifications.
This design drawing and camera modification are copyright by David Lo, 2013
The Flyfisher's Club
Polaroid Big Swinger Model 3000
Atelier Ying, Nyc.
The client is a director of a well-known Canadian fishing association who has traveled to Europe on fly fishing expeditions. He enjoys cigars and scotch during his frequent trips.
The main task was to try to understand both the character of the client and the camera subject so that I could invent an alter ego. The client's British background helped me to locate a suitable structure and detail for his camera. Being an avid fisherman as well as a film luddite added to the personality detail that I was looking for to settle the design. His camera, a Polaroid Swinger Model 3000 was an odd and attractive canvas, very well suited to modification. The featureless gray body made a good contrast to the rich appointments of the interior and was crucial for allowing the eye to simply rest after seeing the completely renovated interior. This is necessary and is an important design feature that I wish to point out; that of letting the eyes rest on something, like an empty wall or the side of a building. This feature isn't normally part of my other designs but I relished the chance to show it off.
This very green camera design takes its initial inspiration from London's Bath Club on Brook Street, there since 1959, and one of a dying breed of traditional British gentlemen's clubs of the past century. An unusual feature is that one of the Bath Club's many rooms is set aside for the venerable but much smaller Flyfisher's Club.
Aside from this Polaroid Land camera's offbeat name and dull grey exterior, its interior is made into an annex to that famous club room and is the world's tiniest member-supported gentlemen's club. It is grandfathered with a dual membership to its owner for the other two London clubs as well.
This club offers a constant supply of Cuban Cohiba mini cigars, box aged at least 8 months. Two of these are kept humidified at any single time inside the camera.
The faux-concrete lightwell in the style of one of Tadao Ando's museums allows the photographer the vicarious experience of descending a series of winding paths into the underbelly of the camera to view the club's collection of fishing equipment, mimicking a feature of the London club. However, the London counterpart never had such an ingenious front entrance. The cigars are each banded with a commemorative club label and are stored also under the same dark theme of an aging cellar.
The lightwell's winding paths are lined with site specific moss, garnering for the club many deductions for going green. This moss garden is hydroponic and a plastic cover (not shown in the photo) keeps a good humidity that extends down by small tubing to keep the cigars humidified. A maintenance set is provided to hydrate the garden by osmosis through a tube with a wick in it.
The club's equally prominent rear entrance is a flat arch. The Intrados is formed by the display cases which hold the client's personal collection of 20 antique fly fishing lures, each meticulously labelled in flowing red script.
Opening the camera back reveals the Impost of this quasi-arch, covered with a rich luxurious leather and embossed with the original Flyfisher Club's Latin motto.
This Polaroid would have to be digitized in order to provide the necessary extra space for the renovation. The digital modification is straightforward and is similar to my other camera modifications.
This design drawing and camera modification are copyright by David Lo, 2013