Tiny Existential Figures in London

September 12, 2006 7:10 PM

Little People is a London street art project featuring tiny statues of people acting out the daily chores of full sized people (tourists, beggars, daydreamers, etc). Reminiscent of crash bonsai, or better yet the tiny food dwelling characters found @ minimiam.
posted by jonson (8 comments total)

I'll see your tiny people and life-sized objects and raise you life-sized people and tiny objects.
posted by hydrophonic at 7:28 PM on September 12, 2006

Neat. See also.

The food people in particular are hilarious. My fav is the the astronauts exploring the surface of a creme brule.

I'm somewhat amazed that out of all these sites, I've yet to see anyone portray angels on the head of a pin.
posted by gsteff at 7:31 PM on September 12, 2006

Astronauts, right? Or is that a hazmat team?
posted by gsteff at 7:37 PM on September 12, 2006

I'm somewhat amazed that out of all these sites, I've yet to see anyone portray angels on the head of a pin.

Willard Wigan's (also previously discussed) 'Angel on a Pin' ...


posted by ericb at 7:48 PM on September 12, 2006

Proper link: *also previously discussed*
posted by ericb at 7:52 PM on September 12, 2006

Kinda related: The New York Times had a photo (taken in August) of construction at Ground Zero using the tilt-shift lens technique.
posted by dhartung at 8:00 PM on September 12, 2006

Pretty cool. I've seen the food people before, and was a fan then, and still am. Reminds me of my model railroading days.
posted by craven_morhead at 8:07 PM on September 12, 2006

I approve, of course, but none of modern stuff can touch the miniature wood carvings at the Wallace collection, and it is killing me that I cannot find links to pictures of them
posted by IndigoJones at 5:57 AM on September 14, 2006