102. Ada Louise Huxtable / Vivian Maier : Tessina Wristwatch Camera using Iphone
atelier ying, nyc.
In the 60s, during a banquet feast at the famed Port Arthur Restaurant on Mott Street in Chinatown, a very kindly salesman gave me a tie tack in the shape of a tiny golden lighthouse that lit brightly using a tiny battery.
These next two drawings show more or less one kind of process I use frequently. Cheap materials (xerox correction fluid, highlighters, ballpoints), a growing list of referents from anywhere in my mind that relate as I continue my design and a drawing style that complements this (I hope). The design is the drawing, text and references. In the Chinese style of funereal objects as Ming Qi, substitutes for objects and gifts for the dead abound.
Do these designs work? Only loosely. Are they functionally useful? Only loosely. Should they be built? Only abstractly, on paper and in thought. My fantasies are focused on the people and their lives for whom I am making these.
Here in this proposed design, the street photographer Vivian Maier inspires a remake of the Tessina for a watch camera dedicated to the late NY Times Architectural critic Ada Louise Huxtable whose book, "skyscraper-style" inspires in return a dedication to Maier's milieu. I like to work in doubles; if I could pick an iconic symbol for my own process, it would be a peanut in a shell.
The skyscraper cube detaches from it's wristband and extends to full-length before attaching onto an iPhone with a light tight seal of blu-tack that is originally stored in the skyscraper's base in a fresh plastic wrapper like a piece of gum. The top of the skyscraper is a dark slide that may have to be assembled and then inserted halfway in to use the viewfinder, the twin lens recalls Maier's Rolleiflex. Why did Leica never make a twins lens reflex design? When the subject is focused, pulling the dark slide all the way up allows the mirror inside to reflect the image towards the iPhone lens. By the time we all get to see this made in prototype, perhaps an iPhone app with an SLR function will have been invented to attach in this manner. Except for the iPhone attachment, this wrist camera function just like the legendary Tessina.
Please also view my design No. 52 of the Tintin Tessina Watch.
Design, text and drawing are copyright 2013 by David Lo.
102. Ada Louise Huxtable / Vivian Maier : Tessina Wristwatch Camera using Iphone
atelier ying, nyc.
In the 60s, during a banquet feast at the famed Port Arthur Restaurant on Mott Street in Chinatown, a very kindly salesman gave me a tie tack in the shape of a tiny golden lighthouse that lit brightly using a tiny battery.
These next two drawings show more or less one kind of process I use frequently. Cheap materials (xerox correction fluid, highlighters, ballpoints), a growing list of referents from anywhere in my mind that relate as I continue my design and a drawing style that complements this (I hope). The design is the drawing, text and references. In the Chinese style of funereal objects as Ming Qi, substitutes for objects and gifts for the dead abound.
Do these designs work? Only loosely. Are they functionally useful? Only loosely. Should they be built? Only abstractly, on paper and in thought. My fantasies are focused on the people and their lives for whom I am making these.
Here in this proposed design, the street photographer Vivian Maier inspires a remake of the Tessina for a watch camera dedicated to the late NY Times Architectural critic Ada Louise Huxtable whose book, "skyscraper-style" inspires in return a dedication to Maier's milieu. I like to work in doubles; if I could pick an iconic symbol for my own process, it would be a peanut in a shell.
The skyscraper cube detaches from it's wristband and extends to full-length before attaching onto an iPhone with a light tight seal of blu-tack that is originally stored in the skyscraper's base in a fresh plastic wrapper like a piece of gum. The top of the skyscraper is a dark slide that may have to be assembled and then inserted halfway in to use the viewfinder, the twin lens recalls Maier's Rolleiflex. Why did Leica never make a twins lens reflex design? When the subject is focused, pulling the dark slide all the way up allows the mirror inside to reflect the image towards the iPhone lens. By the time we all get to see this made in prototype, perhaps an iPhone app with an SLR function will have been invented to attach in this manner. Except for the iPhone attachment, this wrist camera function just like the legendary Tessina.
Please also view my design No. 52 of the Tintin Tessina Watch.
Design, text and drawing are copyright 2013 by David Lo.