A couple good miniature-related items.

First, apologies if you’ve seen this elsewhere, it’s all over the place, but it’s so cool - little people - a tiny street art project is what it says. Tiny little handpainted people left in interesting situations on the streets of London.

Second, miniature gunsmithing.

Wow. These are a bunch of Japanese people who do doodles in air using lights and long camera exposures. You have probably seen such before. I remember these little ‘grain of wheat’ lightbulbs that were good for doing this. The thing these guys do that I had not seen before is animate themselves. I guess pixillate might actually be the correct term.

Anyhow. Wow.

I know pixely art is so five years ago (ten? twenty?) but I still find it one of the finer forms of eyecandy. I think it hits a deep nostalgia circuit for teen videogame play (see also post below on sylvaniah and gamma bros.). Anyhow, what this here is is an entire city rendered pixely.

(requires le quicktime)

This is a new kids show with some connection to Paul Frank. A couple little samples on the site look promising and I’ve seen it compared to PeeWee’s Playhouse somewheres. Wondering if, when and where I’ll get a chance to see a whole show. They are probably waiting for the internet hype machine to really crank things up, so I’m only too happy to oblige.

Via bibliodyssey.

I’m a big fan of little flash games but the real problem is that there are so many slapped-together crappy little games out there. Today I’d like to draw your attention to two that I’ve found that I adore.

Curse of Sylvaniah is an excellent medieval-enchanted-forest platform run’n'jump’n’slasher.

Gamma Bros. is a space shooter with some faint echoes of one of my favorite classic arcade games, Galaga. What really makes this game is its sense of style - really nice understated pixel graphics, excellent non-annoying music.

Via Drawn, this combines two of what I would like to be the current themes of this blog; giantism and miniaturism. This is a giant little girl marionette in Antwerp.

Another great photoset from Papelcontinuo. This appears to be some sort of French novelty cards (card game?). I dunno what it is. Babelfish translates ‘catetos’ as ‘legs’. The design reminds me of another great French card game, Mille Bornes. Would like to see a photoset of the original (c. 1960s) Mille Bornes cards but there doesn’t seem to be one out there as yet and I’m too lazy and/or busy to scan mine.