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Tiny still-lifes in toilet-paper tubes

Cory Doctorow at 10:02 pm Thu, Jan 14, 2010

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Artist Anastassia Elias builds miniature dioramae inside of toilet-paper tubes, using paper of the same color to create little dimensional scenes from life. Empty-loo-roll-day is always fun around our place, the cue to get out the stickers and markers and decorate the empty tube with Poesy, then run around the house playing kazoo or telescope. Maybe we'll level up to tiny still lives in a couple of years.

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I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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  • Genteel Bartender

    @freddiefraggles Your girlfriend is the wife of your boyfriend?

  • Agies

    Back in college I used to make ultra-low budget action figures by drawing characters on it. I’d then put them on the shelf above the toilet tank.

    Kind of reminded me of Teeny Little Super Guy except with really bad art.

  • Anonymous

    Cute, also like this: http://www.yukenteruyastudio.com/en/projects/notice_forest

  • Steaming Pile

    Brown Kraft paper, Exacto knife, glue stick. Now go forth (to the loo) and be creative!

  • Anonymous

    The ideas we come up with when taking a dump!

  • HowardsGrl

    beautiful!

  • arborman

    Empty-loo-roll-day is pretty much every day in our house. Whee!

  • glory bee

    Totally beautiful! And possible for anyone with skill in ,say, origami or handling small scissors. But above all she creates a miniature world full of life. I love it.

  • skeletoncityrepeater

    Dioramae?

  • freddiefraggles

    My boyfriend makes “Watchers” with finished loo roll – grab a sharpie, draw two large eyes and (if desired) write “I am watching the hat / you pee / for you to come home (etc)”. One time he got very bored and there was a very large pile of loo rolls, so he filled the bathroom with them to cheer his wife (my girlfriend) up. Unfortunately, he didn’t know her grandma had died that afternoon. Oops.