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Modeling the end of the world
Posted by Tim Kidwell on Monday, November 25, 2013 8:14 AM

Artist Lori Nix completes three dioramas each year and photographs them before tearing them apart.

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Posted by subfixer on Monday, November 25, 2013 11:25 AM

What?! No skeletons??!!

Neat stuff there, Tim, thanks for the link. Maybe Bethesda Software could get some ideas for their next Fallout game from her.

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Posted by Gamera on Monday, November 25, 2013 11:57 AM

Wow, great find Tim, those are beautiful dioramas!

I was kinda thinking Fallout and oddly 'Beneath the Planet of the Apes' while looking at them.

Beautiful and somewhat depressing. Yes, it does sound strange coming from someone who mostly builds models of stuff designed to shoot people, blow them up, set them on fire, and otherwise do painful and unhealthy things to the human body. Still to me they're kinda melancholy and sad...  

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Posted by pyrman64 on Thursday, November 28, 2013 8:09 AM

That reminds me of History Channel's series "LIFE AFTER PEOPLE" - I watched an episoe yesterday and they were showing a school in Detroit that's been closed for two years....no windows, peeling paint, falling plaster, plant life growing inside, etc.Dead

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Posted by DeafAviator on Friday, November 29, 2013 1:19 AM
Speaking of Fallout I'm definitely eagerly anticipating Fallout 4 on my new Playstation 4!!

What I'm wondering though is WHY are the dioramas destroyed??

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Posted by Tim Kidwell on Tuesday, December 3, 2013 9:17 AM

DeafAviator


What I'm wondering though is WHY are the dioramas destroyed??

I'm guessing, but the piece says she doesn't build the diorama as a display piece, but to be photographed from particular vantage. It's like a set you'd design for television. Once she's taken the photo, the "show" is done. Tear it down and start another one.

I've seen a similar behavior in model railroaders. After years of building a layout for the Santa Fe (or whatever railroad) in the (insert extremely specific region) during (insert extremely specific year), they'll run some operating sessions, then tear it all down--even the benchwork--and start over.

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Posted by DeafAviator on Wednesday, December 4, 2013 1:30 PM

Seems like such a waste to me... but I guess this definitely fits in the "whatever floats your boat" category.


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