Tiny worlds, tiny bottles, tiny dinosaurs

July 15, 2011 8:33 AM

Akinobu Izumi puts tiny worlds, and tiny dinosaurs, in tiny bottles.
posted by IvoShandor (18 comments total)

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
posted by Gator at 8:43 AM on July 15, 2011

This has pushed my "TOTAL WANT" button. I thank you, but in a few minutes, my husband sure won't.
posted by Kitteh at 8:46 AM on July 15, 2011

Pretty damn cool.
posted by InfidelZombie at 8:54 AM on July 15, 2011

I will name that stegosaurus Gustav and carry him with me wherever I go. WE WILL BE BEST FRANDS.
posted by elizardbits at 9:01 AM on July 15, 2011 [8 favorites]

Pardon me, but his name is George and he's shy.
posted by Gator at 9:09 AM on July 15, 2011 [2 favorites]

I saw these on The Daily Wh.at and told my husband I needed one. He just looked at me like I'd grown a third eye and said "You're crazy, you know that right?"

Yes, I know. That doesn't diminish the fact that I need a leetle dinosaur skeleton to put in my pocket.

*****

His name is STANLEY!! Stanley the Stegosaurus.
posted by TooFewShoes at 9:12 AM on July 15, 2011 [2 favorites]

Those tiny paper dinosaurs are seriously cool.

I am not snarking here, because I really like this and I'm glad you posted it, but I have just realized that although tiny dinosaurs in tiny bottles are all well and good, they are not quite pushing all my inner geek buttons.

What I really want, no, what I absolutely need, right now, is a regular-sized bottle (the kind you build ships in) with an entire small-scale paleolithic world full of tiny dinosaurs and miniature volcanoes.

Oh, yeah.

And if someone could find a way to make nearly-visible little pteranodons appear to fly in the clear blue, cloudless sky, over the minuscule volcanoes (which naturally are erupting with roiling masses of red-orange-golden lava running down the charred and pitted sides), that would be SWEET.

Thank you.
posted by misha at 9:13 AM on July 15, 2011 [13 favorites]

clearly it is time for tiny dino battle bottles.
posted by elizardbits at 9:13 AM on July 15, 2011 [6 favorites]

Bastard halibuts are bottom of the sea in a tiny bottle.

I didn't know that was the actual name of a fish. I just thought this guy really disliked halibut for some reason.
posted by TooFewShoes at 9:17 AM on July 15, 2011 [5 favorites]

Misha, I think I love you.
posted by TooFewShoes at 9:19 AM on July 15, 2011 [2 favorites]

I like the cut of your jib, misha. Someone needs to make this happen.

(or just buy me the tiny stegosaurus. But I'd rather they make misha's thing)
posted by Tknophobia at 9:22 AM on July 15, 2011 [1 favorite]

Heh. I assumed "bastard halibut" was Engrish. More fool me.
posted by Gator at 9:25 AM on July 15, 2011

I want a tiny katamari in a tiny bottle.
posted by Faint of Butt at 9:35 AM on July 15, 2011 [1 favorite]

Brings to mind Willard Wigan's Miniature Sculptures.

Previous FPPs - 1 | 2.
posted by ericb at 9:42 AM on July 15, 2011

I wasn't really impressed at first, but then I read that these are all SUPER tiny.
posted by orme at 9:48 AM on July 15, 2011

Anyone who likes this might also like this, which I think is a lot more interesting.
posted by blaneyphoto at 10:27 AM on July 15, 2011 [2 favorites]

Aaah, blaneyphoto, I love the tiny bicyclist consulting his tiny map (photo #5).
posted by Glinn at 1:36 PM on July 15, 2011 [1 favorite]

tiny bubbles
posted by stinkycheese at 3:34 PM on July 15, 2011