tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post1483334125348047540..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: Sculpture MiniaturesAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-39103875410167553922014-07-13T16:19:22.249-04:002014-07-13T16:19:22.249-04:00There is a children's book about the Throne mi...There is a children's book about the Throne miniature rooms called Sixty-Eight Rooms by Marianne Malone. AVI's wife<br />Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-29626277876068392982014-07-12T15:58:12.385-04:002014-07-12T15:58:12.385-04:00Seconding Earl's recommendation.Seconding Earl's recommendation.jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01792036361407527304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-37752875552917545572014-07-12T15:04:40.274-04:002014-07-12T15:04:40.274-04:00This is like a modern version of the Thorne rooms ...This is like a modern version of the Thorne rooms at the Chicago Art Museum. These are a historical sequence of doll-house-scale rooms, tracking American interior design from early colonial times to the 1950s.<br /><br />See:<br />http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/thorneEarl Wajenberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03972213104063301125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-75423411260838702502014-07-12T13:19:29.963-04:002014-07-12T13:19:29.963-04:00This guy makes amazing miniatures posed in front o...<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/24796741@N05/" rel="nofollow">This guy</a> makes amazing miniatures posed in front of real-life backgrounds, in such a way that the miniatures look like part of the scene.<br /><br />Like <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/24796741@N05/13823117655/" rel="nofollow">this one</a>.<br /><br />(Here's <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/24796741@N05/13894238056/" rel="nofollow">how it's done</a>.)<br /><br />Hypnotic to make and think about the details, yes. I am perilously close at the moment to starting to make miniature gardens in a dish, despite having an actual garden that's a mess. There's something compelling about the tininess of it, the staging of each part.<br /><br />(I once speculated that this impulse is why the British royal family is so fascinating to Americans. The genetic relationships, the crowns and scepters and thrones, titles, events - royal weddings, royal christenings, royal walks in the garden - perfect in every tiny detail! Wonder whether anyone else sees the same similarity of the impulse. It feels very similar to me.)jaedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03328666344764784829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-5840291631154074792014-07-12T11:13:19.565-04:002014-07-12T11:13:19.565-04:00Realistic miniaturization is hypnotic. I once los...Realistic miniaturization is hypnotic. I once lost myself for months in the construction of an elaborate dollhouse. I almost bought a kit for needlepointing miniature Persian carpets, complete with a fly-tying magnifying glass. To this day I regret not grabbing it. If my niece weren't too old to appreciate her dollhouse any more (she's a doctor), I'd probably crochet tiny bedspreads and curtains using gossamer-weight thread.<br /><br />My husband has the same bug, but his outlet was always aircraft and the like. My neighbor across the street is fantastically skilled at making radio-controlled aircraft perfect in every tiny detail.Texan99https://www.blogger.com/profile/10479561573903660086noreply@blogger.com