Frederik and Gerrit Braun, energetic twin brothers with no shortage of dreams, have just finished construction of the world’s largest model airport. With 40,000 lights, 15,000 figurines, 500 cars, 10,000 trees, 50 trains, 1000 wagons, 100 signals, 200 switches, 300 buildings and 40 planes, Knuffingen Airport is both a wonder to behold as well as a technological tour de force. The best part of Knuffingen is that it’s alive. Forty planes and 90 vehicles move about autonomously.
posted by Trurl
on May 12, 2011 -
26 comments
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of his awesome abstract compilation album
Miniatures,
Morgan Fisher (of Mott the Hoople fame) has started going through
the 51-track masterpiece from the beginning in, well, minute detail, updating readers on the current status of the featured band, providing relevant links, explaining his compilation process, and, of course, streaming each track.
So far the first 7 tracks are featured, but start here with the bonus track added to the 1994 CD re-issue of Miniatures –
"The Miniatures Miniature".
[more inside]
posted by carsonb
on Jan 6, 2011 -
11 comments
After being beaten into a brain-damaging coma by five men outside a bar, Mark Hogancamp built a 1/6th scale World War II-era town in his backyard. Mark populated the town he dubbed "
Marwencol" with dolls representing his friends and family and created life-like photographs detailing the town's many relationships and dramas. Playing in the town and photographing the action helped Mark to recover his hand-eye coordination and deal with the psychic wounds from the attack.
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posted by dobbs
on Mar 16, 2010 -
40 comments
Sally Wallace creates highly detailed miniature dollhouses, including several from the Harry Potter films (
Olivander's wand shop & Honeydukes,
Hogwarts,
The Stairs).
Via.
Warning, every single annoying web 0.9 trick in the book is employed somewhere on this site, including but not limited to: embedded midi files, that java fake reflecting water deal, virtual exploding fireworks, etc. ugh.
posted by jonson
on Feb 10, 2007 -
4 comments
Minimundus is an Austrian theme park with seemingly all the major architectural wonders of the world rendered in miniature; while their primary site is woefully low on imagery,
here's three pages worth of photos of their better exhibits.
posted by jonson
on Jan 23, 2007 -
20 comments
British Portrait Miniatures at the V & A. 'These pages developed to compliment the Miniatures Gallery tell the story of the portrait miniature in Britain, from its first appearance in the 1520s, at the court of Henry VIII, to the height of its popularity in the early 19th century.'
posted by plep
on Mar 2, 2005 -
5 comments
This is one of my favorite
miniature knitting sites. I am a very bad knitter, being only able to make long rectangles (a.k.a. scarves), so I'm constantly amazed at the people who do this and do it well. I think I'll stick to
Hardanger.
posted by eilatan
on Oct 16, 2003 -
12 comments
Books Go To War Between 1943 and 1947, the Council on Books in Wartime published 1322 small-format
books (4 in. x 5.75 in. — designed to fit easily into the pockets of service uniforms) for distribution to United States service personnel. These books were
unabridged volumes spanning a variety of topics: popular fiction, humor, classic literature, music, psychology, war stories, etc. Because the books were distributed
only to overseas troops, and printed on cheap paper (intended to be read, passed around, and discarded), they've become hard-to-find, the subject of
museum exhibits and, in the case of the
rarer titles, the
object of
collectors' desire.
posted by jdroth
on Jul 25, 2003 -
7 comments
The work of Russian miniaturist Nikolai Syadristy is amazing - sculptures, watercolors, engravings, all mere millimeters in size. It's a shame, however, that the best online galleries for displaying his works are so limited.
This Flash based virtual museum and
this horrendous gallery were the most extensive collections available online. Still, his work is worth suffering through the bad user interface & limited English translation to enjoy, for those who wish to know just how many angeles truly can fit on the head of a pin.
posted by jonson
on Jun 9, 2003 -
4 comments
A while back, I linked the
world's smallest web site, which was 32px
2.
Of course, someone would take that as some sort of a challenge.
So here's the new smallest site in all its glory:
Dot16.
If you revisit Guimp, you'll note they're not too pleased about this.
posted by Su
on Jul 19, 2002 -
13 comments
Enduring Freedom: The action figures Hong Kong hobbyists collect action figures with an intensity that in Japan would be labled Otaku-like. These action figures are more than toys, they are miniature replicas of real and modern weapons. Now you can buy your Covert CIA Agent Jones action figure and direct Long Range Airstrikes at home.
posted by AsiaInsider
on Feb 8, 2002 -
5 comments
