New book!

So, it's Christmas...kind of. Well, not anymore, but the January sales are on so I've been treating myself, perhaps a little too much, to some new goodies!
Including this great book by one of my favourite artists, Slinkachu.

I bought Global Model Village: The International Street Art of Slinkachu here after wanting another of his books ever since I got the last one!

Global Model Village: The International Street Art of Slinkachu, front cover, Boxtree 2012.

As always, Slinkachu uses the world around him to place tiny model people into human-sized situations. The book, cleverly, shows close ups of the set-ups, as you can see below, but also shows a wider angled shot, showing the background and settings and where, often you have to really squint to see the models.

 Hanging On: Slinkachu

All Star Nobody: Slinkachu

Ground Zero: Slinkachu

I love Slinkachu's work, not just for the cute quirkiness and huge skill involved but for the situations he portrays; things that every day people go through, problems that the world and its societies face and in this book, Slinkachu goes around the world, giving a more diverse range of worldly problems with interesting political and natural backdrops.

It seems the little people know how we feel! 

New books!

I got a couple of photography books for Christmas!


This one: London Street Photography 1860-2010; Mike Seaborne and Anna Sparham; is a great look back on London through past decades.
It's not quite in linear sequence which can be annoying but the images really make you think what London must have been like all those years ago! As the cover suggests, London was a very different place in the 1860s; the fashion, the transport, the commerce...  its fascinating to piece together how it changed and became what it is now. I find it intriguing that some of these people could be yours or mine relatives!
I love historic photographs and hope to do something involving my family's ancestral photographs soon.


I also received this book:

Microworlds; Marc Valli and Margherita Dessanay; a collection of images from different artists. I have a bit of an obsession with 'micro photography' at the moment so loved looking at how different artists and photographers have interpreted this genre in their own way. Even life-sized humans feature!
I really want to have a go at some micro photography myself very soon. I have some ideas whirring around in my head and they need to come out!

Check out more on both books here (London Street Photography) and here (Microworlds)