Indonesian block nut Kosmas Santosa’s adorably mundane creations.
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Headline courting US fashion designer Rick Owens’ models modelling models at his Spring/Summer 2016 womenswear show.
It’s who you’ll be wearing next season, dahling.
MORE: Rick Owens’ Models Wore Other Models on the Runway (Yes, You Read That Correctly) (COMPLEX)
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A limited edition 3D printed doll by photographers Santiago and Maurico celebrating the gap toothed blowfish pout and ‘unconventional beauty’ of replicant supermodel Lindsey Wrixon.
MORE: Modoll (Models.com)
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An abandoned 1:3 scale wooden replica of the Russian VKK Orbiter shuttle (used as a wind tunnel model in the 1980s), currently mouldering away in a corner of Zhukovsky airfield in Moscow, documented by aviation photographer Aleksander Markin.
MORE: Wooden Shuttle: Rotting Wind Tunnel Model from the Abandoned Buran Space Programme (urban Ghosts)
LEGO Will’s reconstructions of some of the vehicles of Mad Max: Fury Road.
The Princess and the Gigahorse look great.
The simpler lines of the Interceptor don’t translate quite so impressively to LEGO.
More here.
50,000 coins of ten denominations stacked using chopsticks by Chinese artist He Peixi and arranged into a model of his hometown on the Yangtze river (recreated with agate stones)
‘The Planet’ – a fully functional LEGO turntable (with matching tube-amp and speaker cases) made by Korean block enthusiast Hayarobi using 2,405 pieces of LEGO, a LEGO Power Functions battery box and M-motor and just one non-LEGO component – an Audio Technica phono cartridge.
Exhibited at the 2014 Seoul Brick Pop Art Exhibition
Note the clever use of LEGO tyres as tonearm counterweights.
Watch a demo here.
(Thanks Atticus)
An old anatomy model at TCD, photographed – on the verge of being dumped, having provided years of service to med students – by Anthony Edwards (Senior Clinical Photographer at St. James’s Hospital Dublin) – one of the finalists in this year’s Wellcome Image Awards.
The winner will be chosen on Wednesday.
G’wan the Tony.
MORE: The art of science – Wellcome Images 2015 (BBC News)
(Thanks John Gallen)
A short documentary about model maker and photographer Michael Paul Smith and the wonderful world of Elgin Park – a meticulously detailed diorama series featuring miniature buildings and cars of the 1950s America brought to life with a hawk’s eye for detail and a nice line in forced perspective.
Now available in book form.
Related : A Model Town
The meticulous construction of a detailed remote-controlled model of the L350F wheel loader.by LEGO technic engineers in collaboration with Volvo Construction Equipment.