MetaFilter posts tagged with miniatures and art

Tiny Food

Gator — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 09:45:07 -0800

Incredibly detailed miniature food sculptures by Shay Aaron: Flickr, Etsy.

Paper Ligers

absalom — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:08:04 -0800

Fantasy Paper Minatures does exactly what it says on the tin. One Monk Miniatures has more variety. Papercraft previously.

Rewarding Attentiveness: Street Level Urban Art

cross_impact — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:56:47 -0800

Ben Wilson's Chewing Gum paintings and Slinkachu's sculpture rewards the attentive pedestrian. The former paints tiny pictures on sidewalk gum. The latter sets up tiny urban tableaus with humor and sly social critique. Pays to watch where you walk. (hat tip -- Raw Vision)

Marwencol is a fantasy world created by Mark Hogancamp.

dobbs — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:33:48 -0800

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. Through his homemade therapy, Mark was able to begin the long journey back into the "real world", both physically and emotionally - something he continues to struggle with today.

Real people... MADE OF PLASTIC!

Manhasset — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:22:54 -0800

50 Beautiful Examples Of Tilt-Shift Photography - "Tilt-shift photography is a creative and unique type of photography in which the camera is manipulated so that a life-sized location or subject looks like a miniature-scale model."

Inner City Snail

jonson — Mon, 26 May 2008 18:30:03 -0800

Inner City Snail is the sister site of the (previously Mefi'd) Little People ongoing outdoor art installation. Like the Little People project, it takes place in London & features tiny figures, only these ones are alive & vandalized.

It seems wrong to call a gun 'cute'...

quin — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:21:07 -0800

Minature gunsmithing is an amazing art form. The firearms are exact replicas of their full sized counterparts, down to the smallest details, and the creation of one was often a requirement to be considered a master gunsmith. Though if you want to collect them, they are not inexpensive.

Insect Vs Fairy To The Death

jonson — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:26:51 -0800

Artist Tessa Farmer sculpts nightmarish scenes of winged insects being attacked, harnessed & even ripped apart by tiny skeletal faries. Partially found via.

The incredible shrinking artist

jonson — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 23:24:29 -0800

Urban Fiction is the ongoing art project of Xing Danwen, who takes photos of miniature buildings and then photoshops tiny versions of herself into the frame, doing mundane things amidst the tiny scenery(click the "Detail" images to see a zoomed in shot).

Ladybird

cali — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 21:59:53 -0800

Ladybird (aka Helen Nodding). You might have already heard about her moss graffiti project, but she has other projects worth checking out. Interview here.

British Portrait Miniatures

plep — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 03:38:48 -0800

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.'

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.