Mini Israel is a miniature park located near Latrun, Israel in the Ayalon Valley. Opened in November 2002, the site contains miniature replicas of hundreds of buildings and landmarks in Israel. The tourist attraction consists of about 350 miniature models, most of which are on a scale of 1:25.
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Bonsai Architectures and Pebble-Infrastructures
Artist Takanori Aiba has been sculpting his miniature worlds for nearly a decade. His Lilliputian constructions are dense, meticulous works, detailed to a manic degree that easily diminishes that of their Disney predecessors (which the artist cites as inspiration). Aiba, who previously worked as an illustrator and architect, designing the eating hall of the Shin-Yokohama Ramen Museum in 1994–for which he recreated a small Japanese urban cloister circa 1958, complete with era-store fronts and fictionalized histories and landmarks–fuses sprawling networks of scaffolding, stairways, windmills, and turrets to his bonsai and suiseki mediums.
thomas doyle: miniature catastrophic glass-contained memories
‘my work mines the debris of memory through the creation of intricate worlds sculpted in 1:43 scale and smaller. often sealed under glass, the works depict the remnants of things past—whether major, transformational experiences, or the quieter moments that resonate loudly throughout a life. in much the way the mind recalls events through the fog of time, the works distort reality through a warped and dreamlike lens.’
-thomas doyle
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On This Day in Pittsburgh History: February 19, 1968
“Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” the longest-running program on public television, premieres in America. [Family Communications, Inc.; The Neighborhood Archive]
