Lilliputian tenements...

Street side power boxes, wiring junctions, concrete blocks and ruined building foundations are painstakingly stencilled by the Berlin artist(s) EVOLS to look like miniature tower blocks circa 1960. The effect is truly awesome if not necessarily ground braking.




More of the Flickr photo stream here.

Life-Size

I've always enjoyed things that are out of scale. Like when mugs or glasses are huge and it makes me feel like a borrower...you know like Ian Holm in that TV series I used to watch. But there are not normally many opportunities to enjoy the reverse of this...until now.

Camera

Door

Life-Size is a series of photographs by Cynthia Greig from Detroit. The images are of her friends and family holding and struggling to utilise everyday objects in miniature. She says that as "smaller scale surrogates of the original, the miniature seems to imply the existence of some kind of alternative universe where we are like gods, omnipotent and in control." Interesting concept and the photos...well, they are gorgeous.

Magnifying Glass

By the way, I found Cynthia's work through a new favourite blog Please Sir. You should go there next.

A few weeks ago I bought a new toy for my camera

My camera and I have been drawling over macro lenses since forever but as they cost (roughly) the same as a well situated newly refurbished house I settled for these metal extension tube things that go between the lens and camera body.

A flurry of uninformed photos later and I'm pretty pleased with the results considering my meagre £6 investment!

(see the rest of the Flickr stream here)