it’s true
i love models- the smaller the better.
it seems that the owners of the company which employs me are planning to upscale the operation and build an office building–that’s right, not rent, not buy a building, but build a building. why? i actually don’t know. while our current digs are not swank, they’re more than adequate, but hell what do i know.
so what does this have to do with models? early this morn a group of what must be architects arrived and pulled out a mounted, enclosed model of the building to be. i love that shit, arch models, electronic battle fields, all that shit. sadly, i didn’t get to see it up close…yet.
i wonder if they have a dedicated model guy in the basement that is just contantly turning out these things. i bet he has a stock room full of little cars, trees, people. too cool. or do the archs do it themselves? or are there computers that do this shit now? who decides where the sun is in the model universe adn therefore where the shadows are to be for teh little people? how many people on the sidewalk is enough–or too many? crazy.
15 responses so far ↓
1 Wawa // Sep 24, 2004 at 9:41 am
Actually, I think the models are made by people called “draftsmen” . . . sort of like an apprentice to an actual architect. (of course, Campbell Scott in Singles made his own model tramway, and he was an architect, not a draftsman)
2 rcg // Sep 24, 2004 at 10:13 am
http://www.architectural-models.com/
Send in your resume. They’re in Oklahoma.
I bet there are trade shows for this shit.
3 rcg // Sep 24, 2004 at 10:15 am
http://www.howardmodels.com/supplies/index.html
That or go here and order supplies so you can make a model of your house…
4 Wawa // Sep 24, 2004 at 3:29 pm
Actually, Jeffy’s house is kind of like a model: Tall, Long, and kinda bulimic . . . A nice beautiful house . .. but skinny. Yup. It’s a model.
5 Don // Sep 25, 2004 at 8:29 am
All of the cars look like they’re from the 50’s. Where are the 2 fast 2 furious type car models?
6 Natty // Sep 25, 2004 at 1:08 pm
Jefke, you don’t listen to a thing I say. I’m convinced of that. My father, your father-in-law, is an architect and I have informed you (more than once) that he has made many models for his projects. Maybe I’ll have him give one to you for Christmas.
7 jefke // Sep 25, 2004 at 8:56 pm
natty, i don’t listen, nor do i read what you say, as we discussed this evening.
as for your father, i have no doubt the he is willing and capable of constructing his own models–however, in the end, he mostly works independently. i was, and am curious about bigger firms, and if they hire toy railroad enthusiasts to construct their models.
wawa, dont’ draftsmen, draft things, on draft tables and shit? i think the model people should be called modelsmen. i’d sign up for that shit.
8 jefke // Sep 25, 2004 at 9:00 pm
the howards models site so fucking cool—i’m serious here, it’s like a porn site to me, but with out the porn.
as for this, however http://www.howardmodels.com/replicas/Chrysler2003/index.html
i am quite sure this can be purchased on the streets of nyc for 1.50.
ass plug option is extra however.
9 rcg // Sep 26, 2004 at 9:44 am
I like the picture at the bottom, the array of Chrysler building-tops. I imagine making a bed of them and lying a-top like an acsetic fakir or something.
10 Natty // Sep 26, 2004 at 1:30 pm
Jefke, my point was that I think it’s the architects who amke the models. Part of what my Dad has his students do in the architecture classes is build models- it’s a part of their scope of practice. Speaking of scopes of practice, did you all know that it’s the obstetricians who perform circumcisions? I did not realize that until I started working at the hospital. I never really ever thought about who performed them (aside from moils at a Bris), but I would have thought it was the pediatrician- though it was a pediatrician who came to fix one of the botched circumcisions. Incidentally, if any of you Baltimore people out there plan on having a baby boy circumcised at St. Jo’s, I can tell you whom to avoid.
11 rcg // Sep 26, 2004 at 2:34 pm
“moil” ? Some sort of circumcision-specializing rabbi? We gentiles want to know…
12 jefke // Sep 26, 2004 at 6:55 pm
i thought moils are sores that witches have on their noses and shit…
oh wait…
wow 11 posts! it’s like the old days
13 Natty // Sep 26, 2004 at 8:13 pm
Richard, I thought your wife was half Jewish. Or did I just imagine that? Somebody’s wife is half Jewish. Am I half Jewish? If so, then I am owed a whoooole lotta Hanukah (Chanukah, if you prefer) gifts.
14 rcg // Sep 26, 2004 at 8:22 pm
Alex’s Dad is a Jew. It’s true. But I don’t think he’s practiced since is bar mitzvah, and he married an Anglican, and she took over, religiously speaking. So Alex knows less than I do about moils and gefilte fish and whatever else.
I simply though that all rabbis were circumcision-ready, on-demand IBM-style, and that there were specialists, viz. moils, was new to me.
Wonder if any moils have boils.
15 Natty // Sep 26, 2004 at 11:01 pm
My understanding is that not all moils are rabbis and not all rabbis are moils (I know that the latter is true). Some moils have boils and spoil their children and coil their extension cords and even use aluminum foil. They garden with soil and refer to the queen as royal.