MetaFilter posts tagged with Model

Fold a Ford

mr_crash_davis — Thu, 02 May 2013 20:27:06 -0800

Got some time to kill? How about making some paper truck models?

Home Movie of Walt Disney Playing with a Model Train in 1948

zzazazz — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:02:06 -0800

Ward Kimball's home movie footage of Walt Disney playing with a backyard scale model railroad in 1948.

The Dark Side of the Miss USA Pageant

reenum — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 08:10:30 -0800

Donald Trump trumpets the integrity of the Miss USA pageant. The truth is a bit different.

Models and their Mothers

zarq — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 11:10:20 -0800

Models and their Mothers by Howard Schatz. Interview. The "Howard" link above goes to his online portfolio. Last year, his book "With Child" looked at pregnancy and motherhood. More photos at his site. (both links nsfw) Schatz, previously on mefi.

Students all over the world are demanding a new curriculum.

infini — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 09:25:28 -0800

A Renaissance in Economics The American President Ronald Reagan once quipped, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’” I get the same shivers when someone introduces themselves as an economist.

Now watch this drive

Blazecock Pileon — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 11:02:24 -0800

The Verge (video) and the New York Times (text) push the Tesla Model S electric car to its limits

Airfix - Making History

infini — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 12:23:30 -0800

The Royal Air Force Museum London will be launching in Summer 2013 a signature exhibition commemorating and celebrating the national institution that is Airfix. This will chart the history of this Great British Institution by displaying original Box Art as well as Airfix’s most popular models from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s in the Museum’s Art Gallery. In preparation, this post will focus upon the history* of the company, its founding in the late 1940s by a Hungarian immigrant, through its boom years in the 1960s, the later years of decline and under investment, and finally its current resurgence in the market place. Look at the ways in which Airfix products are developed, including the painstaking research and the cutting edge technology used to design and manufacture modern kits. (text inspired by numerous sources) *While technically accurate, this entry has a glaring error regarding the founder's names.

I'll see your model space ship and raise you....

Kid Charlemagne — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 01:49:20 -0800

In a sea of plastic USS Enterprise and Millennium Falcon model kits, models of the Doctor's TARDIS tend to be paper craft, DIY affairs or Cookie Jars, and imperfectly reflect some of the craft's more notable attributes. Until now.

Oh Brad, take me against the wall of our four-season lakeside cabin!

The Whelk — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 08:22:23 -0800

Snapshots of life with your new boyfriends, the men of LL Bean.

The wheels on the bus go meow meow meow...

Wordshore — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 14:39:39 -0800

My Cat is a Bus. Catbus is from the Studio Ghibli film My Neighbor Totoro. Also as a soft toy, clay model, birthday cake, and at Burning Man, inside and outside.

Iman

latkes — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 21:34:28 -0800

...the story said that they were trying to get me here to become a model, that I was a goat herder… I mean, I’d seen goats, but really? And that I didn’t speak a word of English. I spoke five languages! Totally mythology. I had no clue about that… I arrived, and the next day, I had 64 members of the press. An interview with Iman. Part I and II. (Via The Beheld.) Part I focuses on cosmetics, parenting and aging, part II on her history coming to the US and working in the modeling industry.

on Kate Moss, and "taking one for the team"

flex — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 09:10:29 -0800

On Kate Moss, and Taking One for the Team: "So, earlier this week Vanity Fair published a rare interview with Moss, in which the model, who is well-known for her circumspection, is unusually frank about the early years of her career. Moss was still a skinny, gangly teenager when she was plucked from mediocrity in Croydon and catapulted to superstardom. She was barely an adult, almost still a child, when she did her first topless photo shoot, with Corinne Day for The Face. In the interview, she talks about how uncomfortable this made her... This isn't the only the only revelation Moss made during the interview. It also turns out that the famous Calvin Klein campaign she did in 1992 with Mark Wahlberg gave her a nervous breakdown... Conveniently ignoring the fact that when the pictures were taken, Moss wasn't 'the face of the '90s', but a skinny teenage girl who cried because she was made to take her clothes off, Needham continues by saying that Moss' skinny frame 'seemed to encapsulate the euphoria of those long-distant times.'" *summary of the Vanity Fair interview at Vanity Fair *Alex Needham - How a 16-year-old nude Kate Moss ushered in the 90s: "Moss may regret that early shoot, but it took beauty out of the realm of fantasy glamour into something more wonky and fallible" *Kate Moss: the style icon who suffered in silence: "This week, a new coffee-table art book dedicated to Kate Moss is published... it will no doubt be a thing of great beauty, but it won't attract half the fuss that last week's Vanity Fair interview with Moss has." *Was Kate Moss exploited as a young model?: "In 1990 she was just 16 when a nude photoshoot launched her career. But it wasn't a happy time, says the supermodel" photos (may be NSFW for some): *her first topless photo shoot, with Corinne Day for The Face, 1990 *the famous Calvin Klein campaign with Mark Wahlberg, 1992 *Vogue UK shoot by photographer Corinne Day, 1993

Naked

Artw — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 21:41:38 -0800

The World of a Professional Naked Girl - Molly Crabapple on her time as a nude model.

LEGO Batcave

Egg Shen — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:51:48 -0800

LEGO Batcave

Hey! Gotta gotta pay back!!

juiceCake — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:04:29 -0800

Some ebook buyers are getting refunds. Pending approval by the court, a group of publishers (Simon & Schuster, the Hachette Book Group, and HarperCollins) have settled and agreed to pay back close to $70 million to consumers. They've also agreed to end Agency Model agreements with publishers. The lawsuit against the others continues and one company finds this settlement unfair.

Nuke me, baby

Artw — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 23:35:11 -0800

Homebuilding a 474mm tall model of "Robocain" from 1990's Robocop 2, complete with a working head. Clips of Robocain and the other Robocop prototypes from the movie. All photos from the project. Bonus music link: Front Line Assembly performing the Robocop 2 sampling Mindphaser live.

Visionaries

Artw — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 11:57:17 -0800

Revisiting Cinefex - a nostalgia wormhole into the golden age of model work and practical effects and the odd piece of early CG via backissues of the quarterly magazine of motion picture visual effects. The latest issues covered touches on Young Sherlock Holmes's Stained glass knight - mainstream cinema’s first fully-rendered CG character created by Industrial Light & Magic's Pixar group.

Let's Pretend We're Marionettes

BoringPostcards — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 06:14:37 -0800

When artist Troy Gua wanted a new project to cheer himself up with, he hit on the idea of making a tribute to his favorite musician. Le Petit Prince, a 1/6 scale doll of The Purple One, was born.

If you collect model buses you may want to avert your eyes as I decapitate the bus

netbros — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:01:24 -0800

Ambient bus arrival monitor from hacked Linksys WRT54GL. Transport for London has a wonderful service called Countdown that can give live bus arrival times. For example, here's a page showing live buses passing No. 10 Downing St. Underlying this is a simple JSON API that, while not public, seems to be usable by the average programmer. So with its details deciphered (hardly hard since the web site uses the API) John Graham-Cumming set about building an ambient bus monitor into a model London bus. The idea is to glance at the model bus and see the times of the next two real buses you're likely to want to catch, and know when to leave the house.

Model Polaroids

the young rope-rider — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:03:49 -0800

Model Polaroids

“You'll shoot your eye out, kid.”

teatime — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:08:52 -0800

Fundamentals Of Small Arms Weapons (Part Two, Part Three)
Ever wondered just exactly how repeating and automatic firearms operate? This 1945 U.S. Army training film will tell and show you the whole mechanism in-detail, complete with incredibly sweet hand-made models!

"Interestingly, she advanced in a male dominated field by co-opting the feminine tradition of miniatures."

Fizz — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 07:40:55 -0800

"The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death": an exploration of a collection of eighteen miniature crime scene models that were built in the 1940's and 50's by a progressive criminologist Frances Glessner Lee (1878 – 1962). The models, which were based on actual homicides, suicides, and accidental deaths, were created to train detectives to assess visual evidence. This seven-year project culminated in an exhibition and a book The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death (The Monacelli Press, 2004). [Image Gallery]

Ana Lee

Trurl — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 11:51:27 -0800

Ana Lee's fashion blog is in Russian but with its insane number of HQ photographs [don't forget to click the "далее"], you won't care. For example, her two posts about Carol Alt almost certainly comprise the greatest documentation of that model's career to be found anywhere in the world.

The Scale of Nature: Modeling the Mississippi River

T.D. Strange — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 09:11:26 -0800

In 1943 the Army Corps of Engineers approved construction of a 200-acre scale model replicating the Mississippi River and its major tributaries — the Tennessee, Arkansas and Missouri Rivers — encompassing 41 percent of the land area of the United States and 15,000 miles of river.

Disparity

Ambrosia Voyeur — Wed, 25 May 2011 11:09:07 -0800

Photographer Christopher Boffoli photographs daily life all out of proportion.