How to Make a Great Diorama, or at least watch some...
Sandra Dodd
http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail184.html
This is a StrongBad e-mail that will be more educational (or more
amusing) for those among us who went to school, particularly anyone
who has been assigned a diorama, or has helped someone else make a
diorama.
Seriously.
Sandra D'Odd
This is a StrongBad e-mail that will be more educational (or more
amusing) for those among us who went to school, particularly anyone
who has been assigned a diorama, or has helped someone else make a
diorama.
Seriously.
Sandra D'Odd
Heather
On Jan 18, 2008 7:01 PM, Sandra Dodd <Sandra@...> wrote:
a kid.
funny...the one I remember the most is the diorama I made of my dentist'
office - complete
with little dentist chair & a picture of a tooth on the wall. I can't for
the life of me
figure out what the purpose of making that diorama could have been....
heather
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> http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail184.htmlhe,he...My kids & I just watched this. I told them about making dioramas as
>
> This is a StrongBad e-mail that will be more educational (or more
> amusing) for those among us who went to school, particularly anyone
> who has been assigned a diorama, or has helped someone else make a
> diorama.
>
a kid.
funny...the one I remember the most is the diorama I made of my dentist'
office - complete
with little dentist chair & a picture of a tooth on the wall. I can't for
the life of me
figure out what the purpose of making that diorama could have been....
heather
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harmony
I loved making dioramas in school.
My 8 year old just watched this with me and asked "can we make a diorama?" I said yes and excitedly she said "we'll need to get a shoe box, shoe boxes work the best"
So for some kids, they are just fun. I have a feeling my daughter will soon have a bedroom full of them.
Harmony
My 8 year old just watched this with me and asked "can we make a diorama?" I said yes and excitedly she said "we'll need to get a shoe box, shoe boxes work the best"
So for some kids, they are just fun. I have a feeling my daughter will soon have a bedroom full of them.
Harmony
> -------Original Message-------
> From: Heather <swingdancechick@...>
> Subject: Re: [AlwaysLearning] How to Make a Great Diorama, or at least watch some...
> Sent: Jan 18 '08 10:47pm
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> On Jan 18, 2008 7:01 PM, Sandra Dodd <[LINK:
> mailto:Sandra%40sandradodd.com] Sandra@...> wrote:
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> http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail184.html
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> > This is a StrongBad e-mail that will be more educational (or more
> > amusing) for those among us who went to school, particularly anyone
> > who has been assigned a diorama, or has helped someone else make a
> > diorama.
> >
>
> he,he...My kids & I just watched this. I told them about making dioramas
> as
> a kid.
> funny...the one I remember the most is the diorama I made of my dentist'
> office - complete
> with little dentist chair & a picture of a tooth on the wall. I can't for
> the life of me
> figure out what the purpose of making that diorama could have been....
>
> heather
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
Sandra Dodd
-=-I loved making dioramas in school.
My 8 year old just watched this with me and asked "can we make a
diorama?" I said yes and excitedly she said "we'll need to get a shoe
box, shoe boxes work the best"
So for some kids, they are just fun. I have a feeling my daughter
will soon have a bedroom full of them.-=-
They're fun if you want to make them, and torturous if you don't.
That's why unschooling works! It avoids "torturous."
Barbie rooms. Those are dioramas, pretty much.
Disney's "It's a Small World." Animated dioramas.
In Salt Lake City there is a museum of the history of the church, and
there are some cool dioramas.
Museums of natural history often have animals (fake or stuffed) in
naturalish scenes, with that cool painting effect that makes it seem
to go on at a distance.
Window dressings in stores are dioramas (sometimes even historical,
in antique stores, or exotic as at Banana Republic sometimes, or surf/
beachish in spring when they're selling water sports stuff)
Christmas displays (trains, lit-up miniature houses, reindeer on
rooftops) are dioramas. Creche scenes are traditional dioramas with
elements added at different times through the season.
What else?
Sandra
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My 8 year old just watched this with me and asked "can we make a
diorama?" I said yes and excitedly she said "we'll need to get a shoe
box, shoe boxes work the best"
So for some kids, they are just fun. I have a feeling my daughter
will soon have a bedroom full of them.-=-
They're fun if you want to make them, and torturous if you don't.
That's why unschooling works! It avoids "torturous."
Barbie rooms. Those are dioramas, pretty much.
Disney's "It's a Small World." Animated dioramas.
In Salt Lake City there is a museum of the history of the church, and
there are some cool dioramas.
Museums of natural history often have animals (fake or stuffed) in
naturalish scenes, with that cool painting effect that makes it seem
to go on at a distance.
Window dressings in stores are dioramas (sometimes even historical,
in antique stores, or exotic as at Banana Republic sometimes, or surf/
beachish in spring when they're selling water sports stuff)
Christmas displays (trains, lit-up miniature houses, reindeer on
rooftops) are dioramas. Creche scenes are traditional dioramas with
elements added at different times through the season.
What else?
Sandra
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Robyn L. Coburn
<<<< Museums of natural history often have animals (fake or stuffed) in
miniature dioramas that were viewed through windows. They were my favorite
part of the place. Tiny little dinosaurs. Itty bitty trees.
Disneyland has more than just Small World - there are the store windows on
Main Street illustrating all the animated movies and California Adventure
has miniature dioramas illustrating the history of tortillas.
The Museum of Natural History in Los Angeles has beautiful miniatures of
California history - scenes, missions, a cut away model of a ship -
beautiful miniature/scale work.
Is trompe l'oiel life size work the same as a diorama? I always thought of
them as being miniatures, but I could be wrong.
Robyn L. Coburn
> naturalish scenes, with that cool painting effect that makes it seemThe Museum of Natural History in Sydney used to have, and may still have,
> to go on at a distance.>>>>>
miniature dioramas that were viewed through windows. They were my favorite
part of the place. Tiny little dinosaurs. Itty bitty trees.
Disneyland has more than just Small World - there are the store windows on
Main Street illustrating all the animated movies and California Adventure
has miniature dioramas illustrating the history of tortillas.
The Museum of Natural History in Los Angeles has beautiful miniatures of
California history - scenes, missions, a cut away model of a ship -
beautiful miniature/scale work.
Is trompe l'oiel life size work the same as a diorama? I always thought of
them as being miniatures, but I could be wrong.
Robyn L. Coburn
Pamela Sorooshian
Theater set designers make dioramas - often with electricity, moving
parts, and curtains. They can be exquisite!
Also, doll houses.
-pam
parts, and curtains. They can be exquisite!
Also, doll houses.
-pam
On Jan 19, 2008, at 5:59 AM, Sandra Dodd wrote:
> They're fun if you want to make them, and torturous if you don't.
> That's why unschooling works! It avoids "torturous."
>
> Barbie rooms. Those are dioramas, pretty much.
>
> Disney's "It's a Small World." Animated dioramas.
>
> In Salt Lake City there is a museum of the history of the church, and
> there are some cool dioramas.
>
> Museums of natural history often have animals (fake or stuffed) in
> naturalish scenes, with that cool painting effect that makes it seem
> to go on at a distance.
>
> Window dressings in stores are dioramas (sometimes even historical,
> in antique stores, or exotic as at Banana Republic sometimes, or surf/
> beachish in spring when they're selling water sports stuff)
>
> Christmas displays (trains, lit-up miniature houses, reindeer on
> rooftops) are dioramas. Creche scenes are traditional dioramas with
> elements added at different times through the season.
>
> What else?
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Ed Wendell
Don't know if this is technically a diorama or not:
Right now Zachariah (age 13) has half the family room set up as a WWII battle scene.
He has trenches made with blankets, the camera tripod is covered in a sheet to make a look out tower, the "GI Joes" are lined up along the trench with riffles and various armament aimed / posed. The couch is also draped in an afghan for a mountain side with men posed in combat.
He had me rent the TV series "Band Of Brothers" for him to watch.
With the tripod he wanted my opinion if it was high enough to be a mountain, radio tower or look out tower in scale to the GI Joes' height. We decided it was more to scale to a short look out tower.
Lisa
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Right now Zachariah (age 13) has half the family room set up as a WWII battle scene.
He has trenches made with blankets, the camera tripod is covered in a sheet to make a look out tower, the "GI Joes" are lined up along the trench with riffles and various armament aimed / posed. The couch is also draped in an afghan for a mountain side with men posed in combat.
He had me rent the TV series "Band Of Brothers" for him to watch.
With the tripod he wanted my opinion if it was high enough to be a mountain, radio tower or look out tower in scale to the GI Joes' height. We decided it was more to scale to a short look out tower.
Lisa
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