Given the prompt to knoll something electronic, that had moving parts and that we didn't think we understood, a simple old analog camera didn't seem like the best option. BUT! Willie and I are both very interested in photography and cameras and decided to knoll it anyways. Good thing we did, this old thing was full of surprises! First, it was really well made, but not designed to ever be disassembled. We drilled out dozens and dozens of rivets to get it apart. Second, it actually did have a fair number of electronics to enable the "automatic" nature of it's exposure control. It looks like we'll be able to use the light sensor which was used to measure light for exposure, and potentially a timer circuit. There are other resistors that might come in handy also. Thirdly, we were just really impressed at all the moving parts and how they were engineered to interact together. And our photo is rad.
–Sam + Willie
Your photo is, indeed, rad. In fact, it's so rad, I'm swiping it to use as header art for a post I'm doing about an award-winning poem i read about a woman whose drug-addicted brother keeps taking apart polaroid cameras in his paranoid delusions and calling her for help in putting them back together. And if you can take that sentence apart, you deserve a great deal of credit (which I will give you for the photo, as well as a link back to this page).
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