81. Bond 007: Pierce Brosnan + Alligator Aging Room
atelier ying, nyc.
This fantastic vehicle originated in Octopussy and later was seen again very briefly in Die, Another Day.
The Alligator surveillance device is given an upgrade in this proposed design. Instead of being hung on a wall in Q's laboratory, it is made into a centerpiece, the ultimate humidor--- itself a tiny room or a most beguiling chaise longue for a most elegant smoking room. It is dedicated to the wonderful actor Pierce Brosnan.
Some of my James Bond designs are thoroughly modern enough, but most of them are set in Ian Fleming's era, or more accurately stated, at around time of his novel "Goldfinger", which employed a rather fully equipped Leica M3, by today's standards.
I set the stage this way to make the fantasies more palpable, enjoyable and to be experienced as reveries, kind of as a quasi-mirror image to Fleming, who created his stories under thick clouds of cigarette smoke fueled by many martinis before a manual typewriter inside a room on his island home he named Goldeneye. Fleming admitted in his letters to being a non-communicative husband who only lived for tomorrow, as opposed to his wife who was more of a traditionalist, but his personal style was nothing but escapist. My work is usually finished in a fraction of the time he used to write a novel. In this, I like to employ the metaphor of a camera here: my design is but a tiny viewfinder's image, perhaps taken as a hipshot at times or as a more studied portrait at other times.
The vehicle's base has been expanded and outfitted with a side opening. Mr. Brosnan could fit in the cockpit (which has a Leica M3 with flash gun and a Ricoh GR1, a much more sensible recon device, both perched on a tiny shelf) and look out of its mouth as was originally intended. It has a polished wood floor and pillow so that one could even read a book in this position whilst puffing away inside. For this reason the Cuban Cigars (over 60 boxes of vintage El Rey Del Mundo coronas and robustos) are kept behind glass on shelves. The main door opens with the assistance of a hydraulic lift and the manual from Q has been wisely substituted with a cigar journal. As an electronically humidified aging room inside an alligator, it is without parallel.
PS: my design expansion into vehicles and humidors for street photographers carries on with upcoming designs for Weegee and Mothra.
Design, text and drawing are copyright 2013 by David Lo.
81. Bond 007: Pierce Brosnan + Alligator Aging Room
atelier ying, nyc.
This fantastic vehicle originated in Octopussy and later was seen again very briefly in Die, Another Day.
The Alligator surveillance device is given an upgrade in this proposed design. Instead of being hung on a wall in Q's laboratory, it is made into a centerpiece, the ultimate humidor--- itself a tiny room or a most beguiling chaise longue for a most elegant smoking room. It is dedicated to the wonderful actor Pierce Brosnan.
Some of my James Bond designs are thoroughly modern enough, but most of them are set in Ian Fleming's era, or more accurately stated, at around time of his novel "Goldfinger", which employed a rather fully equipped Leica M3, by today's standards.
I set the stage this way to make the fantasies more palpable, enjoyable and to be experienced as reveries, kind of as a quasi-mirror image to Fleming, who created his stories under thick clouds of cigarette smoke fueled by many martinis before a manual typewriter inside a room on his island home he named Goldeneye. Fleming admitted in his letters to being a non-communicative husband who only lived for tomorrow, as opposed to his wife who was more of a traditionalist, but his personal style was nothing but escapist. My work is usually finished in a fraction of the time he used to write a novel. In this, I like to employ the metaphor of a camera here: my design is but a tiny viewfinder's image, perhaps taken as a hipshot at times or as a more studied portrait at other times.
The vehicle's base has been expanded and outfitted with a side opening. Mr. Brosnan could fit in the cockpit (which has a Leica M3 with flash gun and a Ricoh GR1, a much more sensible recon device, both perched on a tiny shelf) and look out of its mouth as was originally intended. It has a polished wood floor and pillow so that one could even read a book in this position whilst puffing away inside. For this reason the Cuban Cigars (over 60 boxes of vintage El Rey Del Mundo coronas and robustos) are kept behind glass on shelves. The main door opens with the assistance of a hydraulic lift and the manual from Q has been wisely substituted with a cigar journal. As an electronically humidified aging room inside an alligator, it is without parallel.
PS: my design expansion into vehicles and humidors for street photographers carries on with upcoming designs for Weegee and Mothra.
Design, text and drawing are copyright 2013 by David Lo.