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...

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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.

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".

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…

Imagine if we suddenly shrank and the world around us became huge for us. How would we live? We would have to rebuild our homes from different things, bugs would be a much scarier threat, and traveling would take much longer.

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A scroll through Tatsuya Tanaka’s Instagram chronicles the everyday happenings of a cleverly designed world in miniature. The Japanese artist (previously) has spent the last decade reimaging life-sized objects like pencil sharpeners, sponges, and slippers as tiny sets for his cast of characters: a “P” key rests on a painter’s easel, bobsledders barrel through aContinue reading "A Daily Project by Tatsuya Tanaka Turns Everyday Goods into Quirky Miniatures"