Playing With Tiny People

Work Ethic Sculpture from Roo Tune on Etsy

Some artists have been playing with tiny life like people. Putting them in all kinds of settings, taking photographs of them, making jewellery and assemblages with them, having fun.

From The Minimiam Universe by Pierre Javelle and Akiko Ida, pastry chefs and photographers, diptych photograph seen on Paint Alicious

Maybe it’s all an illusion

Scene Stealers Spencer & Kate Necklace from Sherry Truitt on Etsy

a trick of light

Think Outside the Box Business Card Holder from One Eyed Collie on Etsy

and our universe exists

Mending Time assemblage by Spinneyhead on Etsy

down the cracks

Cameron Necklace from Alheure Delapero on Etsy

in the spaces

in between the spaces

They Came to See Her Diorama by Running With Sizzors on Etsy

of a world inhabited

Mini Egg Mining photograph by Dan Jackson on Etsy

by ‘other’ peoples
where it’s now playtime

Life As We Know It by highly successful London street artist Slinkachu. Slinkachu makes his own little people, places them in streets around London photographs them and then leaves them to fend for themselves. Visit his blog for more information about his projects, exhibitions and book.

and the day hasn’t ended yet.

If you haven’t got your own little people to play with, you can get a similar photographic effect by using a tilt shift technique. By blurring the viewer's gaze and directing it away from parts of the image the photographer want to deemphasize, the depth of field of the image is altered. Australian Keith Loutit’s Time Lapse Video below cleverly uses tilt shift to give the impression of tiny plastic people.

You can use this technique yourself with a dedicated lens, or with photoshop, or go to Tilt Shift Maker for a free basic tool that is fun to play with. I took this photo at the ferry stop this morning and then played in this site for a few um hours. But be careful, you can get lost in there.