Tiny world

Since April 2011, art director and photographer Tatsuya Tanaka’s imagination has built a magnificent number of miniature worlds (previously here and here). Through the artist’s clever lens, everyday activities like construction work, walking the dog, getting a parking ticket, and plowing through a blizzard become delight-inducing scenarios. Tanaka also plays with pop culture references, buildingContinue reading "Tatsuya Tanaka Continues Building Tiny Worlds in his Daily Miniature Calendar…

From crystal cityscapes on the backs of hermit crabs to entire buildings encapsulated in glass test tubes a new book pays a delightful homage to teeny art...

red carpet

What would you do with a swimming pool filled with tea? The tea is Nourishing Sencha from Teanobi. The models are HO scale. I was going for something playful and whimsical.

Tatsuya Tanaka’s photographs combines normal objects and tiny figures to craft surreal scenes. A phone becomes a fishing hole; a whistle becomes a slide. In each of these daily works, the artist uses scale and humor to make us re-examine the items we use each day. The blissful creations are part of an ongoing, daily project. An enormous catalog of these scenes goes back to April of 2011.

Lately I have been obsessed with the idea of miniature portraits. I like shrinking people (usually myself) into tiny beings and merging them with the surroundings. The tiny world fascinates me in so many different levels. These are the pictures of my series "A SMALL WORLD".

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László Adóba is one of the best diorama builder I know and I'm a big fan. I recommended his previous books here, in my blog before, now there is a new one. Of course I already have it (actually it's a dedicated gift from the author) and it's just wonderful. The descrition of the book and the sample pages are from László Adóba's website (http://adobadiorama.hu/), where you can buy all of his books. In the second volume of Building Dioramas, I’m going to present the process of creating…