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 →
Category Archives: Miniatures
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 →
Weekend 275.0+
Posting and cycling (sigh) have been sporadic because of the Limestone HQ move (then there were some unexpected technical challenges requiring an entirely separate post) but a return to normalcy Continue Reading →
Weekend 235.0
(1) D23 Presents Armchair Archivist: The Magic of Models and Miniatures (2) Last Exile: First Impressions (Twenty Sided) I finished the series and now I’m thoroughly depressed (like when I Continue Reading →
Weekend 214.0 (Almost)
(1) The scan is from The Art of the The Secret World of Arrietty. I can’t scan the entire book BUT will add the abandoned gazebo (not tea house) in Continue Reading →
Weekend 213.0 (Arrietty)
My one sentence review of Arrietty. “Arrietty is adorable, diminutive, and special and the last scene features a tea house with stained glass windows.” I can’t draft anything that isn’t Continue Reading →