Weekend 665.1
(1) Entrance Building (Flickr) Continental’s Big City HO kits were a short line of vintage injection-molded plastic structure kits for model railroads (HO scale, 1:87), produced in the late 1950s Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Miniatures
AI and The American Dream©
And we are split like Hopper. We are alienated from the very country we have built. We have lost our innocence, our individualism, and our strict small-town morals to mechanization Continue Reading →
Weekend 631.0
(1) Miniatua’s tiny handcrafted replicas of vintage computers (WAXY)
Weekend 623.0
“…clad in a mantle of silver and blue, fair as the twilight in Elven-home; her dark hair strayed in a sudden wind, and hew brows were bound with gems like Continue Reading →
What day is it?
(1) THE LARK ASCENDING (performed as originally heard) (2) BUILDING A SCALE MODEL CAR KIT : Volkswagen Golf Gti Mk2 Full Build – Step by Step – ASMR – Revell Continue Reading →
Modernity in miniature
(1) I’ve clipped the blog post title from a chapter in the excellently written British Rail Architecture 1948-97 by David Lawrence. “For centuries architects have used miniature versions of their Continue Reading →
Weekend 392.0 (Who am I, darling to you?)
(1) Artist Handcrafts Colorful Ceramic Pots That Can Fit in the Palm of Your Hand (2) Never Built New York: An exhibition at the Queens Museum exploring 200 years of Continue Reading →
Weekend 378.0 (…so you can wipe off that grin, I know where you’ve been)
(1) Small Stories: At Home in a Dollhouse (National Building Museum) (2) A quote from Staying Up Much Too Late by Gordon Theisen: “The Phillies sign does not overwhelm Nighthawks Continue Reading →
Weekend 371.0
(1) How miniature objects reveal bigger pictures (CBS This Morning)
Weekend 283.0 (You’re the bloody barrister!)
(1) Miniature City Models Around the World: From the Panorama of the City of New York to Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg, Germany, downscaled versions of real places (WSJ) “Why do Continue Reading →