MetaFilter posts tagged with miniature

Tiny books in Russian

twoleftfeet — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:49:25 -0800

Tiny books in Russian and some contents at this site. (Previously)

Big things have small beginnings

Joe Beese — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:20:38 -0800

Charlotte and Branwell Brontë wrote many of their stories of Angria on tiny sheets of paper in nearly microscopic handwriting. This particular example consists of four sheets of notepaper folded into sixteen pages. The individual sheets are approximately 4 ½ inches long and 3 5/8 inches wide, and the entire text contains about nineteen thousand words.

Richard McMahan's Miniature Art Museum

mediareport — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:41:31 -0800

Richard McMahan's Mini Museum For the past 18 years, artist/art historian Richard McMahan has been making tiny replicas of the world's masterpieces, from ancient Egyptian tombs and Lascaux cave paintings to Joseph Cornell and Marcel Duchamp. Charleston's Halsey Institute of Contemporary art has an online exhibit and 8-minute mini documentary. A short interview. (In case it's not obvious, just click on any pic in the gallery to bring it closer and click again to send it back.)

Miniature Illuminated Manuscript

peacay — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 08:40:44 -0800

The Morgan Museum currently have an exhibition featuring the 1517 Prayer Book of Claude de France, a gorgeous miniature (2.75 x 2 inches) illuminated manuscript, together with the Prayerbook of Claude's mother, Anne de Bretagne. [via]

What's up bud!

msaleem — Tue, 20 May 2008 14:49:42 -0800

Marijuana harvesting like you've never seen. Brought to you by the same folks that unpacked your iPhone (not really).

The Edible Battle of Pelennor Fields

madamjujujive — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 22:49:23 -0800

What I did over Christmas vacation - a scale model of Minas Tirith during the Battle of Pelennor Fields from Tolkein's The Return of the King. In candy. (via oink) Photo gallery of the construction Other notable models of Minas Tirith: 1/72nd scale model Lego model (via boo_radley)

Crackdollhouse? Dollcrackhouse?

jacquilynne — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:56:03 -0800

The Baltimore Block Real life in miniature.

"the debris of memory through the creation of intricate worlds sculpted in 1:43 scale and smaller"

Burhanistan — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 21:03:07 -0800

Reclamations - Distillation - Bearings - Miniature work of Thomas Doyle.

scholar's rocks

nickyskye — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:09:52 -0800

Known as scholar's rocks or gongshi, viewing stones are rocks of complex shapes that suggest worlds within worlds, microcosms in stone. In Japan they are called Suiseki, from the Japanese characters for water "sui" and stone "seki", placed on a daiza, a carved wood base. They are at once a miniature landscape and a point of imaginative departure…

creative fun

nickyskye — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 17:38:00 -0800

Toy art: tribal scooters, spider car, little animal robots out of broken electrical parts, a color changing house designed by a 14 year old boy, of wood, wind-up, MunkyKing, Ugly Dolls, out of beer cans, with balloons, Cute Things, artoyz, toys from trash, tiny knitted dolls clothes and accessories, vintage and retro at Tick Tock Toys.

Vroom tick tick tick vroomvroom

mediareport — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:28:23 -0800

Miniature motorcycles, made from watch parts. [via It's Knuttz]

History in Miniature

marxchivist — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 09:05:03 -0800

Joseph Neumeyer's Dynamic Dioramas has tons of cool photos of dioramas with miniature soldiers and ships from many different historical eras.

The Miniature Dramatic Still Life of Lori Nix

jonson — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 23:36:37 -0800

Lori Nix is an artist who makes miniature landscapes with distressing details & then photographs the scene. Her two collections I've found online are "Accidentally Kansas" and "Lost". Lori's work previously partially linked via this post

Miniature earth

darsh — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 12:47:00 -0800

Miniature earth is a flash movie of the results of the 'State of the Village' report by Donella Meadows in the 1990's.

It's A Small World

MiguelCardoso — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 21:32:50 -0800

Nice Whisk(e)y: Shame About The Size! Behold a wonderful, almost infinitely explorable repository of miniature bottles of whisk(e)y; a Japanese one-guy Smithsonian that's quite probably the only resort for those looking for labels of ancient and/or abandoned delights. American straight whiskey fanatics (like me) will be specially surprised. Worth exploring, though exploration isn't easy: it's full of unexpected riches, but never easily had. [Previously offered in the course of a classic languagehat post.]

Small

e.e. coli — Fri, 01 Aug 2003 09:48:34 -0800

The miniatures of Angie Scarr are astonishingly lifelike, and heartbreakingly charming. Instructions are provided for the nimble-fingered. Of course there's small, and then there's small, and then there's small, and then there's small, and then there's really, really small.

It's that time of year again.

crunchland — Mon, 23 Dec 2002 00:04:47 -0800

Miniature Earth ... Sure, you may have already seen something like this before... but as we're about to turn the calendar over for another year, it's as good a time as any to thoughtfully reconsider the world we live in. Miniature Earth is a flash presentation that compresses the world's population down to a community of 100 people, and gives statistical proportions. Work with passion; Love without needing to be loved; appreciate what you have; and do your best to make a better world.

plinth — Mon, 08 Jan 2001 08:35:28 -0800

The Infinity Project Josh Simpson makes glass planets. Tickle his fancy and you too may have the opportunity to hide one for posterity.