Collectors of Miniature Books
Großartiges Posting auf dem City Room-Blog der NYTimes über Sammler von winzigen Büchern. Die Mini-Ausgaben in dem Mini-Regal in der Mini-Bibliothek auf dem Bild sind echt, tatsächlich gedruckt und mit einer Lupe tatsächlich lesbar.
Neale Albert, 75, is a collector of miniature books, and he may be the most serious collector living in New York. By definition, miniature books are properly printed and bound, and for the most part no larger than three inches. Mr. Albert has over 4,000 of them, some the size of matchboxes and others smaller than a tab of chewing gum. Some of the books are worth many thousands of dollars. […]
Part of Mr. Albert’s book collection is stored in a “cottage” on top of the Upper East Side apartment building where he lives with his wife. A small bookcase built specifically for his miniatures, each shelf only a few inches high, is packed with rows of the stout creations, elegantly bound and held inside precious slipcases. There are more in his apartment and in 20-some boxes in storage.
NY Times: Redefining a Little Library
The Atlantic Wire: The Man with the Mini-Book Collection
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
Tiny Brontë-Books
40 Minibooks inside a Book as Kindle-Metaphor
Miniature Hamburger DIY-Kit
Youtube Direktyummy, via Jason Kottke
Von Youtube:
(1) It is edible. No artificial colours. No preservatives. This kit includes chicken and pork in a part of raw materials. 96 calories.
(2) It tastes like real hamburger, bread, cheese, ketchup, french fries and cola. It was delicious.
(3) It cost 258 yen.
Über den Kram gibt es ein komplettes Blog, das ist voll mit miniaturisierten Speisen zum Selberanrühren: youtube.com/RRcherrypie official blog.
Minitature Tool-Chest with tiny, working Tools
This is way beyond awesome: Eine grob 5 Zentimeter breite Replika einer Werkzeugkiste aus dem 18. Jahrhundert, komplett mit funktionierenden Miniatur-Werkzeugen. Und das ist noch lange nicht alles: Der Mini-Verschluss an der Mini-Kiste funktioniert und das Label auf dem Deckel wurde auf handgeschöpftem Papier aus dem 18. Jahrhundert gedruckt. Das Teil kommt von einem Herrn William Robertson und es hat 1000 Stunden gedauert, um das Ding zu bauen. Whoa!
Robertson’s tool chest contains all the same tools that were found in the original. All the tools work, even the plane’s tote (handle) is set a scale 1/8″ to one side as the original. The saw has 160 teeth to the inch. Robinson says that the hardest tool to make was the folding rule with 5 leaf hinge. It is about .030″ thick and hand engraved on boxwood. Things like the shears and dividers also have nice little joints.
Also included in the tool chest are a Kent-style hatchet, claw hammer, a riviting hammer, marking gauge, five gimlets, a smooth plane, backsaw, saw wrest, divider, awl, round file, burnisher, inside/outside calipers, bevel gauge, try square, three turnscrews, four brad awls, an oilstone in its case, three tanged chisels, a mallet and a beak anvil. As stated all the tools are fully functional, with blades made of steel. Other parts are made from brass with handles made of pearwood, boxwood, African blackwood, Bolivian rosewood and maple.
Tiny Brontë-Books
Ich hab’ die Gedichte der Brontë-Schwestern nicht komplett gelesen, aber immerhin Wuthering Heights. Was ich nicht wusste: Die Schwestern haben nicht nur unter männlichen Pseudonymen im 19. Jahrhundert eine Fantasy-Welt um die Sammlung Spielzeugsoldaten ihres Bruders erschaffen, sondern das auch in 20 winzigen Büchern aufgeschrieben.
In 1821, Charlotte’s mother died, leaving widower Patrick, a curate in rural West Yorkshire, to care for their six children. The two oldest died four years later of tuberculosis (which would eventually take them all before Patrick himself died). The four surviving children created what their father called “a little society among themselves.” Charlotte, age 10, and Branwell, 9, began a series of plays based on the adventures of their toy soldiers, set in their make-believe world of Glass Town and Angria in Africa. The youngest sisters, Emily and Anne, would follow along with stories, and the self-described “scribblemaniacs” kept at it into early adulthood.
About 20 of these texts took the form of handsewn miniature books two inches tall. Harvard’s Houghton Library has nine of them, given by the poet Amy Lowell.
Tiny Brontës (via tywkiwdbi)
Mold-covered Miniatures of abandoned Houses
Daniele Del Nero bastelt Miniaturen verlassener Häuser und lässt sie dann wortwörtlich verschimmeln. Der Pilz stirbt ab und hinterlässt eine Spinnenwebartige Struktur auf den Modellen. Die Dinger sehen aus, wie die Häuser aus der grandiosen King-Verfilmung „Der Nebel“.
Grown over several days, the mould used to create these stunning models then dies after two weeks leaving a layer of dust akin to a spider’s web which gives the miniature houses their creepy and mesmerising look. “I’ve always been fascinated by old ruined buildings,” says Del Nero, in an interview. “We are used to imagining our cities as permanent and definitive, but it’s amazing how little time it takes for nature to reclaim its spaces.”
After Effects (via Neatorama)
Bookmarks for July 22nd: Pizza Jingles, Tom Waits for no one, Why People eat Dirt
Pudgies Pizza Radio Jingles 1970s & 1980s – YouTube: Pudgies Pizza is a chain of pizza restaurants located in Upstate New York and parts of Pennsylvania. To me, this was the only pizza there was. <br />
Here's two radio jingles that bring back the memories of when all it took was a slice of pizza, some sunshine and smile on your face to make everything A-OK! I like the 70s jingle the best; short, catchy and funky! In typical 80s fashion, the jingle was doubled in length and the drums machine is pounding away while girls work out in leg warmers. But hey, it's all good. By the way, you'll hear mention of "Horseheads" in the 80s song. Horseheads is a small town in New York. Seems each Pudgies battles for superiority with other Pudgies!
Make: | Are Google+ Hangouts the Next Hackerspaces?: For makers, something interesting started to happen almost immediately with the video collaboration feature. The video chat within Google+ is called “Hangouts” and you can have up to 10 people interact via video, text chat, YouTube, and screen images. Within the first week, makers started to experiment with Google+ Hangout video, and I immediately helped arrange the first “DIY electronics show-and-tell.” It was like a mini Maker Faire, Instructables front page, and hackerspace all rolled into one.
The Ruins of Villa Epecuen – Alan Taylor – In Focus – The Atlantic: Back in the 1920s, a tourist village was established along the shore of Lago Epecuen, a salt lake some 600 kilometers southwest of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The resort town, named Villa Epucuen, soon had a railroad station, and it thrived for several decades, peaking in the 1970s with a population of more than 5,000. Around the same time, a long-term weather event was delivering far more rain than usual to the surrounding hills for years, and Lago Epecuen began to swell. In 1985, the salty waters broke through an earthen dam, and Villa Epecuen was doomed. A slow-growing flood consumed the town until it reached a depth of 10 meters (33 feet) in 1993. The wet weather later reversed, and the waters began to recede in 2009. AFP photographer Juan Mabromata recently visited the ruins of Villa Epecuen, met its sole inhabitant, and returned with these images.
Billionaire in Abu Dhabi makes his name visible from space
BibliOdyssey: The Artillery Book – 16th century explosives and fireworks
World’s heaviest spider title challenged at Museum | Natural History Museum: The contenders were the Hercules baboon spider, and the current Guinness World Records (GWR) holder for world’s heaviest spider, the Goliath bird-eater.Museum bug expert George Beccaloni was contacted by GWR life sciences consultant Karl Shuker after reports of a possible rival. Karl asked George if he could check the size of the Hercules baboon spider as the Natural History Museum has the world’s only known specimen and George is the author of the Museum book, Big Bugs Life-Size.GWR Editor-in-Chief Craig Glenday came in to adjudicate when George measured the two spiders. Using a jar of alcohol and the Archimedes' Principle, both specimens were submerged to discover the volume of alcohol they displaced, and therefore the volume of their bodies.
Visualizing TV Dialog Using Closed Caption Data
Tom Waits For No One – Animated 1979 … John Lamb – YouTube: Tom Waits performed in 1978 live at the La Brea stage in Hollywood, photographed and rotoscoped.The original live action was shot with 5 cameras – 2 high, 2 low and one hand held.. shot by Dan O'Dowd and crew..The music from "The One That Got Away" blared in the background as Tom sang the lyrics. Donna Gordon is the dancer performing as the stripper, 6 takes and 13 hours of video footage were edited to make a 5 1/2 minute live action short which we turned into animation. A total of 5,500 frames were captured, re-drawn, inked and painted by hand onto celluloid acitate to create this film.
The WWI British Biplane on a Rooftop in Lower Manhattan – Metropolis – WSJ: For years, Shawn Hakimian has wondered why a World War I fighter plane sits on the roof of 77 Water Street.
Marlowe on Vimeo: We explore the life of a collector, artist and retired teacher and his history with a 40-year old Dodge Charger.
Why Some People Eat Dirt : Discovery News: After examining 482 cases of human geophagy and 330 records of the practice among animals in a meta-analysis, researchers led by Sera Young of Cornell University discovered that eating dirt had little to do with being hungry or seeking minerals the body might be lacking. Rather, the team found that geophagy may help stave off pathogens in the gut, especially for pregnant women and pre-adolescent children.
Bringing Parkour Back to Nature – Verzasca Run – YouTube: [Brausehersteller] relocated four of the world's top free runners from their urban turf to the place where parkour got its start: the great outdoors.Obstacles abound as far as the eye can see along the turquoise waters and elephant sized rocks of the Verzasca Valley in Switzerland – making it the perfect parkour playground.
The longest and shortest Videos on Youtube (571 Hours!)
What is Steampunk? | ChristWire: Steampunk is a new sexual fetish that is sweeping across hipster groups in liberal urban areas. It is a sub-genre of hipsters that like Star Wars, books from the wild west, and World of Warcraft.<br />
Steampunks like to pretend that they live in a futurist Victorian era with a hint of MMO cosplay and emo-like makeup and hair styles. It is like a acid overdose of a raped and ravaged version of a Julius Vernes novel. Think Mark Twain and Disney having a red headed, atheist step child.<br />
Steampunkers dress up like mechanical human train robots and goto festivals like “Burning Man” where they can have “steam sex” with other steampunkers. It is almost what a 1800′s version of Transformers porn would look like, or a back in time 4chan furry sex convention.
Miniature Hong Kong Exhibition July 2011 – a set on Flickr: Super cool mini models of old Hong Kong.
YouTube DMCA Takedown Grabs Track For Eminem | TorrentFreak: “I Just got a f*%king CRAZY email,” Skepta tweeted last Thursday. “I don’t know if I should be angry or privileged. This explains why the f*%k YouTube took ‘Dare To Dream’ off.”” It happened like this.
After “Dare to Dream” was put up on YouTube one of its early listeners was Jimmy Iovine, founder of Interscope records. Recognizing quality, Iovine had plans in his mind for Skepta’s track so, with help from parent company Universal, they had YouTube remove the song on copyright grounds. Armed with cash Interscope approached Boy Better Known, a group and record label founded in 2005 by Skepta and the team behind Dare to Dream. “Being in an industry where money talks, everybody involved in the ‘Dare To Dream’ project came to a conclusion to sign it to Interscope,” says Skepta.
So who is the lucky recipient of the track? None other than Interscope giant Eminem.
40 Minibooks inside a Book as Kindle-Metaphor
Rachel Walsh hat für eine Aufgabe („Explain something modern/internet based to someone who lived and died before 1900“) für ihr Studium an der Cardiff School of Art & Design 40 Miniaturbücher gebastelt und in einem Hardcover-Band platziert, als Metapher für das Kindle. Ich überlege ja grade, mir ein Kindle zuzulegen, da das Lesen langer Texte auf dem iPad aufgrund der Screen-Auflösung doch eher anstrengend ist. Für Comics ist das Ding absolut ausreichend, für Bücher ist ein richtiges eReader allerdings besser. Hat schon jemand Erfahrungen mit dem Kindle in Deutschland gemacht?
Jedenfalls: Hier die Cover der Minis im Vergleich zu den Originalen, von Gammasquad:
“I made the book start to finish over five days, and it took about 35 hours to make I reckon. It was pretty painstaking cutting out all the gaps in the book itself, and making the books to go inside. They’re all bound like actual books, so as I waited for them to glue and dry I would design the covers for them. All the covers are copies of real book covers. They include many of Dickens’s novels, his favorite childhood books, and some of my own.”
How would you explain a kindle to Charles Dickens? (via Neatorama)
3D-printed MicroSD-Atari810 Diskdrive
Schicke Miniaturausgabe eines Diskdrives für den Atari810, das Gehäuse ist 3D-gedruckt und es frisst MicroSD-Karten.
The original 810 managed 90k per disk and had a volume of about 30,000 cm3. Assuming a 8Gig card the new version can store about 90,000 disks and at 5 cm3 only takes up 0.000167 times as much space. So it is a lot bigger and a lot smaller. Progress eh? […]
The microcontroller code emulates up to 8 Atari drives. At power on it checks for a microSD card, mounts a Fat16 or Fat32 file system and scans the card for .ATR and .XFD disk image files commonly used with Atari emulators. It also looks for XEX files which are Atari executables, another emulator mainstay. The code then “inserts” the BOOT.RUR image into drive 1 and waits for the Atari to start sending commands during bootup.
Working goldensilver Mini-Crossbow
(Youtube Direktcrossbow, via Make)
Eine funktionierende Mini-Armbrust aus Gold und Silber von den Leuten, die auch schon die funktionierende Mini-Kanone gemacht hatten.
Alan Wolfsons Miniature-Street-Sculptures
Alan Wolfson macht schon seit den 80ern Skulpturen in Form von miniaturisierten Straßenszenen. Die Details sind unfassbar. Meine Favs sind die U-Bahn-Station Canal St. Cross-Section und Peepworld. (via MyModernMet)
Lori Nix’ abandoned Miniatures
Lori Nix bastelt unfassbar detailierte Miniaturmodelle von verrottendem Kram, den sie dann fotografiert. Ganz groß! (via Imaginary Foundation)
Tilt Shift Timelapse-Sumo-Wrestling
(Youtube Direktsumo, via Pink Tentacle, Video: Bitter Girls)
Aus irgendeinem komischen Grund kann ich mit dem ganzen Tilt-Shift-Kram so gar nichts anfangen, aber Tilt Shift-Sumo-Wrestling in Zeitraffer? Das hat was… dachte ich mir so, als ich aus den Augenwinkeln bei Pink Tentacle noch laß, dass am Ende bei Minute 2:49 ein sogenannter Kancho stattfindet, ich also bei Wikipedia nachgeschaut und was lese ich? Das hier:
Kancho (カンチョー, kanchō?) is a prank often played in Japan; it is performed by clasping the hands together so the index fingers are pointing out and attempting to insert them sharply into someone’s anal region when the victim is not looking. It is similar to the wedgie or a goosing, although, as compared to kancho, the former mentioned acts do not involve physical contact which is quite as intimate or direct. A Kancho is often executed simultaneously as the offending party loudly expresses the second syllable of “Kan-CHO!”
WTF?!
Mathew Albanese Miniatur-Modelle
Mathew Albanese bastelt Miniatur-Modelle von Landschaften, manchmal während Katastrophen-Szenarien und fotografiert die dann. Und das da oben ist kein Vulkan, sondern „’Breaking Point’, made out of tile grout, cotton, phosphorous ink. this model volcano was illuminated from within by 6-60 watt light bulbs.“
My work involves the construction of small-scale meticulously detailed models using various materials and objects to create emotive landscapes. Every aspect from the construction to the lighting of the final model is painstakingly pre-planned using methods which force the viewers perspective when photographed from a specific angle. Using a mixture of photographic techniques such as scale, depth of field, white balance and lighting I am able to drastically alter the appearance of my materials.
Hier das Set auf Behance, hier seine eigene Website und auf Facebook gibt’s noch Making Of-Bilder Link (via The Junction)
Mini-Lego-NES
Flickr-User Arkov hat dieses winzige NES aus Lego gebaut. Hach!
LEGO Entertainment System (why didn’t I think of that?)
Und apropos Hach: Ich habe die „I ♥ this“-Funktion eben wieder angeschaltet, weil NC wohl mittlerweile auf dem neuen Server läuft. Es darf also wieder hemmungslos rumgeliebt werden hier.
