Rymo
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In addition to the Marksmann GPS prop I'm building from the film The Lost World: Jurassic Park, I'm also working on a few "props" of items that are mentioned in Michael Crichton's 1995 novel The Lost World (the book on which the movie is based).
There obviously aren't any visual references for these items since they only exist as descriptions in a book, so these are purely my interpretations of what I imagine these objects would look like.
The first is a portable satellite phone that is mentioned in the book. The book describes it as follows:
In the book, the sat phone is used to call a character named Dr. Levine. My future plans for this device are to put in a working LCD display that says "Dialing LEVN", back-lit keys, and the speakerphone in the device will play an excerpt of the call as described in the book. I'll likely use clips of dialogue from the audiobook narration.
There obviously aren't any visual references for these items since they only exist as descriptions in a book, so these are purely my interpretations of what I imagine these objects would look like.
The first is a portable satellite phone that is mentioned in the book. The book describes it as follows:
“Arby said, "You going to use the satphone?"
Thorne paused. "The what?"
"The satphone," Arby said. "Didn't Dr. Levine take a satphone with him?"
"How could he?" Thorne said. "You know the smallest satellite phones are the size of a suitcase."
"Yeah, but they don't have to be," Arby said. "You could have made one very small. …With that VLSI com board. …You could use it to make a one-pound satphone…”
Thorne's small office was located in a corner of the shed. Inside the walls were plastered with blueprints, order forms on clipboards, and three-dimensional cutaway computer drawings, Electronic components, equipment catalogs, and stacks of faxes were scattered across his desk. Thorne rummaged through them, and finally came up with a small gray handheld telephone. "Here we are." He held it up for Arby to see. "Pretty good, huh? Designed it myself."
Kelly said, "It looks just like a cellular phone." -Excerpt from The Lost World by Michael Crichton (1995)
Here is what I came up with. Because the novel was published in 1995, I used a vintage Motorola cell phone from 1995. I re-branded it with "Thorne Field Systems" branding and logos that I created in Photoshop. Thorne paused. "The what?"
"The satphone," Arby said. "Didn't Dr. Levine take a satphone with him?"
"How could he?" Thorne said. "You know the smallest satellite phones are the size of a suitcase."
"Yeah, but they don't have to be," Arby said. "You could have made one very small. …With that VLSI com board. …You could use it to make a one-pound satphone…”
Thorne's small office was located in a corner of the shed. Inside the walls were plastered with blueprints, order forms on clipboards, and three-dimensional cutaway computer drawings, Electronic components, equipment catalogs, and stacks of faxes were scattered across his desk. Thorne rummaged through them, and finally came up with a small gray handheld telephone. "Here we are." He held it up for Arby to see. "Pretty good, huh? Designed it myself."
Kelly said, "It looks just like a cellular phone." -Excerpt from The Lost World by Michael Crichton (1995)
In the book, the sat phone is used to call a character named Dr. Levine. My future plans for this device are to put in a working LCD display that says "Dialing LEVN", back-lit keys, and the speakerphone in the device will play an excerpt of the call as described in the book. I'll likely use clips of dialogue from the audiobook narration.
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