[PW] Hollow Hairs and Circuses

[Bye, Dan J]

Something like this, you mean?
http://www.mjt.org/exhibits/hagop/Animals.html

Images from Hagop Sandaldjian.
http://www.mjt.org/exhibits/hagop/hagop2.html

However, you should know that the Museum for Jurassic Technology is not necessarily what it seems.  Some reports say this stuff is real, others that its a postmodern thing.

Another artist in microminiature is: Mykola (Nikolai?) Syadristry http://microart.kiev.ua/en/galery.html.

Try searching on those names?


Dan

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> [mailto:project-wombat-bounces at lists.project-wombat.org] On 
> Behalf Of Jeffrey Pike
> Sent: 07 November 2007 16:32
> To: Project Wombat
> Subject: [PW] Hollow Hairs and Circuses
> 
> Patron says as a child, about 30 years ago, she read in 
> National Geographic about a man who hollowed out a human hair 
> and placed inside it stone sculptures of circus performers. 
> She has asked if we can "..find out more about this...". We 
> have tried searches of National Geographic to 1980 on 
> Infotrac, general Infotrac searches, and Google searches, and 
> we have browsed the titles in our National Geographic on 
> CD-ROM collection through the 1960s and 1970s.
> 
> In a followup e-mail, we asked the patron if she could 
> provide any more detail, perhaps including the man's 
> ethnicity or citizenship, and whether the article was devoted 
> just to him, but she has been unable to supply additional information.
> 
> I frankly doubt the human hair part, and have searched 
> substituting bone for hair, thinking that would be a more 
> likely medium, but still no results.
> 
> Jeffrey Pike
> Technology Services Librarian
> Groton Public Library
> Groton, MA 01450
> jpike at gpl.org
> 
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