Micromoscow
typed for your pleasure on 2 November 2009, at 9.30 pmSdtrk: ‘House of Kaya (Jim O’Rourke remix)’ by Merzbow
Remember that article I’d written highlighting New York City in miniature? Well, Soviet-era Russia did the same thing for Moscow, back round 1976.
‘New York is now small? Bah! There is no smaller city than glorious tiny Moscow!’
This is a Moscow city scale model. It is back from USSR times, when Soviet leaders had a little craze on making such epic compositions. It was ordered from an artist Efim Deshalyt in 1976. The size of the model exceeds 400 sqft. […] After the Soviet era ended, exhibition started loosing the interest among visitors, it attracted only foreigners, travellers to Russia from USA, Europe and other countries. It has been said that some museum workers even wanted to destroy it because it “takes too much space and electric power”.
taken from this site
Apparently it’s for sale as well. Current asking price: $3 million USD. Hmm.
Wouldn’t it be something if somewhere, in the vastness of that HO-scale city, there was a couple endlessly walking the streets, trying all the doors of every building, wondering why none of the cars will start or go anywhere, periodically shouting to see if anyone will help them, and yet receiving no answer? And when they finally do encounter people, they’re all gorgeous-yet-motionless women that all have the same three faces? That’d be pretty wild.
Wait, hang on — the, ah, ghost of Rod Serling has just phased through my front door, and wants to have a word with me about something
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November 8th, 2009 at 9.14 pm
Moscow has to be one of the loveliest cities I’ve visited to date.