The walls have eyes
I went and saw Mr Haas today. He’s an ocularist, and has been making glass eyes for me since I was four years old. He’s probably made about a dozen for me over the years. He’s the only ocularist in the UK working in glass. The glass itself comes from Germany, as does he.
It’s amazing watching him work, but I can’t hope to do justice to the process in words or pictures. About 6 years ago, after Tommy and I had just launched the first iteration of Ploggle, I went to see him, and produced this plog. You can see from the picture quality how early it was in the evolution of camera-phones.
Fortunately, today Mr Haas was kind enough to let me film him creating my new eye. I have a couple of hours’ footage I need to condense into a couple of minutes, so it’s likely to be a little while before I have it wrapped, but I thought I’d post these photos in the mean time.
Tags: ocularism
February 7th, 2011 at 5:16 am
This is amazing. There was a video posted on the internet of him more recently. I wonder if he ever has apprentices? I would love to apprentice under him.