For nearly a decade since the late 1970s artist Takanori Aiba worked as a maze illustrator for Japanese fashion magazine POPYE. The following decade he worked as an architect and finally in 2003 decided to merge the two crafts—the design of physical space and the drawing of labyrinths—into these incredibly detailed tiny worlds. Using craft paper, plastic, plaster, acrylic resin, paint and other materials Aiba constructs sprawling miniature communities that wrap around bonsai trees, lighthouses, and amongst the cliffs of nearly vertical islands. I would love to visit every single one of these places, if only I was 6 feet shorter. See more of Aiba’s work here.
TONIGHT!!!
“Teen-agers on Parole! Too young to know better … too hard to care!”
Lobby card for “The Violators,” (1957) directed by John Newland (“One Step Beyond”), starring Nancy Malone, Fred Beir and Arthur O’Connell.
Guinness - Good things come to those who wait. Love the effectiveness and simplicity of the stills.
Appenzell, Switzerland (by byb64)
The lovely Amanda Jasnowski
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The smokin’ Amanda Jasnowski
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she waits.
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