Model Photography

Canada Malting Silos
Originally uploaded by Squeakybear.

No, not that kind of model. Olivo Barbieri and a bunch of Flickr photographers are making "tilt-shifted" photographs which use laborious Photoshop trickery to make an actual place or thing look like a scale model or toy. They're amazing, and hard not to stare at for a long time.

(Via Kottke's "The Best Links 2006" post, a black hole for bandwidth and attention.)