Giant and Midget by Ryuji Nakamura
Ryuji Nakamura decided that he'd turn himself into a giant. A virtual giant. With some paper, a sharp blade and a few minutes of careful cutting and folding, Nakamura came up with this webcam covering house, which makes any video conferencer look as if they are a huge monster, peering one-eyed through the window of a tiny home.
Nakamura's model comes complete with a minuscule dining suite of table and chairs, and was built for the DesignEast exhibition at the end of last year. What I like best about the piece, called Midget and Giant, is that the outside is as carefully made as the inside. You can't see the overlapping roof or any of the upper floor from the webcam, but they are there, cutely propped atop an old iMac.
While you could just snap yourself as a giant and forget about it, there may be more practical uses, too. I imagine a miniature replica of the office to use when chatting to my editor, Dylan Tweney, via Skype, or a virtual cocktail bar to make me look more cosmopolitan when I send pictures to dating sites. It seems foolproof, except for one thing. I'll have to explain why I have grown so huge. Dylan should be easy to fool — I'll just tell him I'm testing out a new shrinking machine and it went wrong. The dating site? Well, that could be a little trickier.
Giant and Midget [Ryuji Nakamura via Unplggd]
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