1925 Leica A + Days' Cottage Hotel, Provincetown, MA
atelier ying, Nyc.
My recent design for a homage to Gustav Mahler was both a metaphysical shrine and a camera. It also surreptitiously introduced another feature that I would like to develop here, a rooftop camera.
In this proposal, a new camera has been erected behind the original facade that rises above the existing facade and merges with it in an intriguing fashion. Although it can arguably be done, six tiny pinhole cameras firing off simultaneously over an early 1925 Leica A is a little overdone, even to me. So the rooftop will operate simply as a greenhouse superstructure and community garden for six cottages commemorating a few artists who would make for very interesting company together in an artist's retreat. The six tiny households qualify for this to be the World's smallest portable Hamlet. It would qualify as a village if one of these were a local church. Finally, the iconic uncoupled vertical rangefinder is a reminder of a Cape Cod lighthouse overseeing the piano nobile of guest rooms below.
The initial idea for this proposal came from the memory of two brief summer trips to Provincetown, MA that I made. Just before my bus reached the end of the Cape Cod Bay in Truro, the highway narrowed and there was water on both sides of the road along with a strip of tiny one-room cottages built in 1931, each named after a type of flower. You could wake up in one of these artist cottages in the morning, open the back door and jump into the ocean.
With summer now fast approaching, even those of us here in Chinatown will turn our thoughts to perfectly grilled seafood, long evenings and sipping cranberry cobblers. On the fantasy guest list for the cottages for its opening: Gustav Mahler, Arnold Schoenberg, Georg Solti, Igor Stravinsky, Edward Gorey and Vaslav Nijinsky. Please see below for frequent updates of new invitees.
Note: Both of these, the Leica A and Voigtlander Brilliant V6, are my personal favorite cameras. I own neither one. But these two and a Ricoh GR21v and perhaps a Hasselblad SWC (what the hell, add a M6) would more than satisfactorily fill my dry cabinet.
A Special guest list for 5-29-13, the 100th anniversary of Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps:
Serge Diaghilev, Vaclav Nijinsky, Pierre Monteux, Maurice Ravel, Igor Stravinsky
Design Drawing is copyright 2013 by David Lo
1925 Leica A + Days' Cottage Hotel, Provincetown, MA
atelier ying, Nyc.
My recent design for a homage to Gustav Mahler was both a metaphysical shrine and a camera. It also surreptitiously introduced another feature that I would like to develop here, a rooftop camera.
In this proposal, a new camera has been erected behind the original facade that rises above the existing facade and merges with it in an intriguing fashion. Although it can arguably be done, six tiny pinhole cameras firing off simultaneously over an early 1925 Leica A is a little overdone, even to me. So the rooftop will operate simply as a greenhouse superstructure and community garden for six cottages commemorating a few artists who would make for very interesting company together in an artist's retreat. The six tiny households qualify for this to be the World's smallest portable Hamlet. It would qualify as a village if one of these were a local church. Finally, the iconic uncoupled vertical rangefinder is a reminder of a Cape Cod lighthouse overseeing the piano nobile of guest rooms below.
The initial idea for this proposal came from the memory of two brief summer trips to Provincetown, MA that I made. Just before my bus reached the end of the Cape Cod Bay in Truro, the highway narrowed and there was water on both sides of the road along with a strip of tiny one-room cottages built in 1931, each named after a type of flower. You could wake up in one of these artist cottages in the morning, open the back door and jump into the ocean.
With summer now fast approaching, even those of us here in Chinatown will turn our thoughts to perfectly grilled seafood, long evenings and sipping cranberry cobblers. On the fantasy guest list for the cottages for its opening: Gustav Mahler, Arnold Schoenberg, Georg Solti, Igor Stravinsky, Edward Gorey and Vaslav Nijinsky. Please see below for frequent updates of new invitees.
Note: Both of these, the Leica A and Voigtlander Brilliant V6, are my personal favorite cameras. I own neither one. But these two and a Ricoh GR21v and perhaps a Hasselblad SWC (what the hell, add a M6) would more than satisfactorily fill my dry cabinet.
A Special guest list for 5-29-13, the 100th anniversary of Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps:
Serge Diaghilev, Vaclav Nijinsky, Pierre Monteux, Maurice Ravel, Igor Stravinsky
Design Drawing is copyright 2013 by David Lo