What the mefites had to say
Thanks, MetaFilter, for all your kind comments this weekend! And thanks, Josh, for posting.
The MeFites had some great small links of their own. Puke & Cry reminded everyone of Harvey Birdman’s nemesis, the Reductor. Rhomboid found a series of keychain drives even smaller than Sony’s. And quin had a story about this tiny cat.
On the art front, ericb had Willard Wigan’s microsculptures, and this eensy weensy street art that’s been popping up around London. And miniature books too. I really like the origami-like copy of Robert Frost’s A Patch of Old Snow. The descriptive blurb is longer than the poem.
ClaudiaCenter mentioned the fantastic Tumbleweed Tiny Houses, which were recently featured on Oprah, and was actually one of the inspirations for me to start blogging about small things. (Yes, I occasionally get ideas from Oprah. No, not that “The Secret” crap.)
They’re truly works of art, in that they challenge the way we see shelter. The house becomes a thing within a larger environment, instead of an escape from the environment. It’s the absolute opposite of a McMansion, which absorbs every square foot of its lot.
That said, they also seem to suffer from the SUV commercial fallacy: Sure, if you had acres of land in Montana to have one as a camping spot, it’d be a fun trip. But am I really going to tow one of these to an empty lot in Westchester?
