I’ve got a chance to go to the Thailand Creative and Design Center (TCDC) where held the free exhibition “Life of Terada Mokei” showing the 1/100 scale paper models. The tiny models imitated general living things around us with the same composition as the real one. Actually, I wanted to photograph the paper models with Ricoh R6 which is good at Macro shots. However, I forgot to bring a SD card with me so I changed to use iPhone 4 for photograph. Surprisingly, the picture quality turned out to be quite good (in my opinion) as the outcome could capture certain detail in the models.
Why 1/100 Scale?
The 1/100 scale is the most popular scale when it comes to architectural building models.
From models of houses and apartments, to public facilities and shopping centers, all these different sized buildings are possible to represent. In addition, since interiors, furniture and similar objects can also be represented on a generic scale, accessory sets have become 1/ 100 in size. Also, I think the 1/100 scale makes it easy to create various abstract and distorted items. However the 1/200 and 1/300 scales are too small making for very little room to work within. As for the 1/50 and 1/30 scales, I’m concerned about the texture and the detail of the shapes. I think that 1/100 is the perfect scale for creating, as it creates just enough difference in the objects, such as between human poses and gestures, a folding chair and a wooden chair, and a Shiba Inu and a Golden Retriever.
Cherry Blossom – It’s amazing how pieces of paper can definitely convey the beauty of Spring season.
New York – Can you see the famous Logo? I (love) NY?
Bangkok – Yeah! Food stall in Thailand
Amsterdam – Ha… Tulip
Orchestra – Can you hear music?
Competitive Swimming – Phew!
Park 2 – There is a poop behind a dog and the owner is going to pick it up.
Food Stall -Oden!
Sorry that I had to break my own rules that I didn’t use iPhone apps to re-size and put credit as I’ve already transferred this set of photos to my computer, but all pictures were captured by iPhone4 Camera. This post participates in Phoneography Challenge, the Phone as Your Lens: Macro Monday.
All models were inside transparent boxes as you could see how small they were compared to person who tried to take photos of them.
More information on Terada Mokei can be found here.
Completely Disappear 
Charming, and I adore the one with the Cherry Blossoms. Happy Phoneography Monday.
wow the orchestra looks very complicated. You can spend a long time looking at all the little men and women, dogs and poop. :P
Ha Ha … I wish I had more time seeing them but I went there with my friend and she seemed to not interest in them as much as I was. So we spent about 30 minutes seeing around.
Love those!!
janet
These are really interesting! Love the cherry blossoms. Excellent take on the macro challenge.
Wow! Interesting exhibit well captured using iphone. The “Competitive Swimming – Phew!” makes me think of a toppling domino scene.