Enlargements, Miniatures, and Other Matters of Scale
The Ring Gun
Great article here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Oct 06, 2019 -
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Category: Enlargements, Miniatures, and Other Matters of Scale, Weapons, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
How We Do Things in Kansas
I love this genre of postcards that feature oversized common things like fish and various crops. This is one I had not seen before.
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 19, 2019 -
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Category: Agriculture, Enlargements, Miniatures, and Other Matters of Scale, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Horticulture and Gardens, Humor, Regionalism, Surrealism, Twentieth Century, Postal Services
Miniature Cusine
Lots more here.
Article here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jul 26, 2017 -
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Category: Enlargements, Miniatures, and Other Matters of Scale, Fey, Twee, Whimsical, Naive and Sadsack, Food, Foreign Customs
Giant Grocery Cart
The Shopper Chopper is the world's largest shopping cart and you can hire it for events! Reminds me of the cart races in the movie Jackass!
Posted By: Alex - Mon Jun 13, 2016 -
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Category: Engineering and Construction, Enlargements, Miniatures, and Other Matters of Scale, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough
Flying Squirrel
You just can't trust anyone now a days!
Posted By: Alex - Fri Oct 09, 2015 -
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Category: Animals, Enlargements, Miniatures, and Other Matters of Scale, Flight, Toys
Gustav Fassauer-Ferron
Although he was hardly as famous as Stradivarius, Gustav Fassauer-Ferron created some violins that still have their fans today. As one site says, "Pupil of Oswald Schaller of Frankfort (Germany), with whom he underwent a thorough training, proof of which is found in his work. Well made instruments after the Guarneri I. H. S. model, adorned with an orange oil varnish. His violins are esteemed by both artists and amateurs." You can hear one of his instruments in the video.
But when he wasn't busy making full-size ones, he turned out the occasional miniature. Don't you wish you had this for those times when you wanted to mock someone's self-indulgent hard-luck story?
Here is an image of the creator with his miniatures. Copyright prevents reproduction here.
Source of story.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jun 18, 2013 -
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Category: Art, Crafts, Eccentrics, Enlargements, Miniatures, and Other Matters of Scale, Music
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