Tokyo City Symphony Brings Tokyo's Architecture To Life

Tokyo is already an incredibly lively and beautiful city, but with it's busy streets and constant change much of it's population has lost sight of it's architectural beauty. Tokyo City Symphony looks to change  the adapted mindset with not only the citizens of Japan but the world by dynamically changing how we can view the city. Using a 1:1000 scale model of the entire city of Tokyo, Tokyo City Symphony is given an incredible display perfectly set to music using 3D projection. The initial response is captivating and it truly creates an entirely different experience for the city, it almost begins to overtake your initial views on the city. What's even cooler is the entire project provides an a handson experience for you to create your personal Tokyo City Symphony.

By heading over to the Tokyo City Symphony website you can create your own Symphony and probably be lost for a good hour trying to perfect your track. It's damn cool.

The Incredible Miniatures Of Young C. Park

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Young C. Park is a formerHawaiian dentist/current hobbyist who decided to dedicate his spare time to model making. A safe and quiet way to spend one's time, considering Mr. Park is around 77 years old and retired. Everything so far sounds like a pretty common retiree activity, until you get to see the actual models Mr. Park has built over the years. I mean, the level of detail is beyond the realm of credibility. When I first saw the pictures I thought that the planes were  mock ups or pictures of full scale engines and fuselages, but boy I was wrong.

If you're a detail freak, like most hobbyists worth their salt are prepare to be amazed. After the break,  a selection of images of some truly incredible aluminum WWII planes recreated in 1:16 scale. Enjoy!

Portraits Of Urban Decay

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Ofra Lapid is an Israeli Artist who lives and works in Tel Aviv. This series of beautiful miniature recreations were created by reinterpreting photographs another artist took of decaying structures and decrepit buildings in North Dakota.

Ofra uses the photographs to build architectural scale models of run down houses, abandoned warehouses, neglected structures etc. These models are then rephotographed and shown as evidence of time, and economical and social shifts on the urban mesh. In this case, this set of miniatures are based off of the midwest. Five more images after the break!