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There are no small parts. Only small sets.

Thin Lizzy — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:11:29 -0800

On the Set: Miniature recreations of famous television studio sets such as Cheers, Seinfeld and The Price is Right built by Charles Brogdon. Each complete with its own lighting rig and indexed by studio.

Fashion Survivors

kathrineg — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:03:45 -0800

Ah, Fashion. The shows. The designers.
The styling.
The photography.
The models.
The news (including the colors).
The street.

Beautiful women

mojohand — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:39:10 -0800

Classic models without artifice

The market - conducting 'experiments' with real money

woodblock100 — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:31:28 -0800

A philosophy professor takes on the financial system. Or perhaps that should read - a philosophy professor's take on the financial system. Daniel Cloud, teacher of philosophy at Princeton University and a founding partner in two hedge funds, makes the case in a recent opinion piece that "... complicated explanations about derivatives, regulatory failure, and so on are beside the point. ... The truth is that ... models are most useful when they are little known or not universally believed. They progressively lose their predictive value as we all accept and begin to bet on them."

Lego Construction Site

7segment — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:57:45 -0800

6x4x2 wheel configuration with Ackermann steering and hybrid live-axle suspension. Telescoping boom. Impressive 1kg lifting capacity.

Jennifer Clark builds amazing things with lego.

Thomas' Pixelated Pickle: Or The Year in Thomas

Artw — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:51:02 -0800

Just over sixty years ago the Reverend W. V. Awdry told his sick son a series of stories based on real life incidents with trains, which he later wrote up as the Railway Series. Now Thomas the Tank Engine and the other engines of the Isle of Sodor (somewhere between Barrow-in-Furness and the Isle of Man) are a global phenomena, with toys, books and of course the TV series - filmed using model trains on more than 70 1:32 scale 16-by-20-foot sets, and voiced by the likes of Ringo Starr and Alec Baldwin. 2008 has been a rough year for Thomas: George Carlin, who voiced the series in the US up until 1998, passed away (previously), as did David Mitton, who had written and directed over 180 episodes (and who has previously worked on the special effects for Thunderbirds). There's changes ahead for Thomas as well - this year saw the faces of the engines, which had previously been cast in silicone and attached with double sided tape, replaced by CGI faces, and from 2009 onwards Nitrogen studios in Canada will be taking over production with an entirely CGI Thomas. Meanwhile a group of British students continues the tradition of model engine-based storytelling with their YouTube based British Railway Series.

legoloverman

Brandon Blatcher — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:15:51 -0800

There are many good swooshing opportunities here.

Embryonic Journey

chuckdarwin — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:28:17 -0800

Using ground-breaking photography techniques, revolutionary 4D scanning techniques and anatomically accurate models, Channel 4 shows us Extraordinary Animals in the Womb.

Howl's Moving Castle papercraft

jonson — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:33:19 -0800

Howl's Moving Castle - in papercraft. Stop motion animation of the assembly here, flickr set of the finished product here, details on the kit here. Found via.

Fashion Week NYC: The Movie

ThePinkSuperhero — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:29:17 -0800

Was your invite to Fashion Week lost in the mail? Have no fear- you can watch video of some of your favorite designers and models at the official Mercedes Benz Fashion Week website. If you're more into schadenfreude than Sean John, check out the Zac Posen show to see Karen Elson take a tumble .

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)

Dope wars for policy wonks

PeterMcDermott — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 09:58:54 -0800

Historically, drug laws have been a reactive response to a moral panic. Increasingly though, some governments are now seeking a more rational basis for drug policy. For the first time ever, all interested parties have been invited to get involved in the creation of the UK's next ten year drug strategy though many senior government advisors have been openly critical of some of the premises. Ultimately, arguments about drug policy often boil down to arguments about personal values, and the extent to which individual liberty trumps the collective good. For a long time though, we passed laws based on hypothetical future scenarios that may or may not have been sustainable by the data. One tool for making rational decisions about drug policy is modelling. In the past, this tended to be limited to policy wonks working in government departments, academia or think tanks. However, the Drug Policy Modelling Programme at the University of New South Wales have published their modelling tools and methods on their website. Now you too can download SimDrug and test your own assumptions about what would happen with illicit drug markets if YOU were drug czar.

Wrecked & Abandoned Sci-Fi Models

jonson — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:49:17 -0800

The winners of StarshipModeler.com's "Wrecks" challenge are a mixed bag, with some absolutely incredible destroyed sci-fi models, both kit-built & free modeled, and dioramas. And then others that are less impressive.

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a flying puppet!

MrMoonPie — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 05:19:08 -0800

Carl Rankin builds awesome RC planes out of straws, plastic wrap, tape, and foam take-out boxes. (via)

Apocalyptic Manhattan

Armitage Shanks — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:39:31 -0800

Apocalyptic Manhattan (in An Apartment). More pictures when you scroll down.

Lautrec's models in photographs

taz — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 06:42:13 -0800

Photographs of the dancers, actresses, cafe-life figures and prostitutes who were the subjects of Toulouse Lautrec's paintings, including such luminaries as Sarah Bernhardt, "La Goulue" (Louise Weber; remember this?), and Jane Avril, who was the model for this last, iconic, Lautrec poster. View pages of the art matched up with photos, here, here, and here, and go to this page to rummage around in even more collections that include photos of Lautrec, his friends and family, street and location scenes, and lots of other tidbits. [Spanish language site; NUDITY]

Let's build...

OmieWise — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:25:27 -0800

Let's build...Blarney Castle, a model building to test on an earthquake simulator, Thoreau's cabin, a stirling engine, the NYC transit system, a model bridge, Galileo spacecraft, the Mars Polar Lander, a flying Martin XB-51, Aliens universe papercraft, a train layout under your bed, a stereoscope, a flying saucer. Or we could let The Swell Maps do it: Let's Build a Car. And don't forget, "Your country needs scale model planes for the emergency."

Detroit can be a hairy place...

QIbHom — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 20:28:25 -0800

Hair? We got it. We fix it. We flaunt it. We film it. We report it.

Miniatures!

nj_subgenius — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 21:10:06 -0800

M i n i a t u r e s!

Gigantically tiny scale models of cities

jonson — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 20:59:15 -0800

scale model cities: moscow, new york, edinburgh, shanghai, shanghai (ii), nanjing, london, london (ii), old jerusalem, sydney, san francisco, 4th century rome, singapore, havana, beijing, cincinnati, pompeii, futurama (via)

The Internet Museum of Crafstmanship

snsranch — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:32:19 -0800

An online version of a real museum in Vista, CA. The page is a bit hokey looking, but the photos inside are worth checking out.

Hogwarts in Matchsticks

jonson — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:42:35 -0800

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry recreated to scale using 526,000 matchsticks is the latest model being constructed over at Matchstick Marvels.

Is Tyra A Workplace Tyrant?

jonp72 — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:07:47 -0800

America's Next Top Picket Line Writers from America's Next Top Model have gone on strike after the Writers Guild of America West began a campaign to unionize reality TV. How many strikes do you know have their own MySpace page, Television without Pity interview, and a model "working it" on the picket line? Ironically, a previous 1988 writers' strike encouraged the current boom in reality TV, as this article argues.

How to Create an Aerial Panorama from Google Earth

nthdegx — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 07:09:08 -0800

How to Create an Aerial Panorama from Google Earth. The Digitally Distributed Environments blog, and others following their tutorial, have created Google Earth panoramas of Belgium, Moscow, Paris, New York, London and the Sydney Olympic Site. They also note Panogames, who use a similar process to create panoramas from videogame worlds. This follows their Frank Lloyd Wright architectural/videogame walkthrough demo using the Half Life 2 engine [mefi thread] following which they appear hard at work formalising a clear method for importing CAD models into Half Life 2 for architectural visualisations.

The Toymaker: "Make toys! Play more!"

taz — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 02:23:46 -0800

The Toymaker offers over 40 free paper toys and pretties you can print out (PDFs) and make yourself, as well as "Stories to be Told by Firelight" - online versions of author/illustrator Marilyn Scott Waters' children's stories and lots of other fun goodies. For people who have kids, people who know kids, people who are kids, and people who love papercraft, illustration, toys, and tales. [more...]