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mini because kind of a scaled down version.

When I look at your images like this I get all sorts of ideas about how the world of your creation might work. I'm especially intrigued with the way the tiny train's rails are out in the open, without warning gates or signs telling pedestrians to beware of approaching trains and to keep off the tracks. To me this is delightfully encouraging and a bit amusing because this simple fact means the creatures in your world have come to accept the presence of the trains on their right of way, much as folks here in this world accept the presence of automobiles on paved roads in the towns and cities. I kind of like to think the citizens in the world you've made are more "Socially Mature" too, and display a lot more common sense than people do in this world.

All the tiny trains would need is some sort of bell, buzzer or horn to get any creatures who stray onto the right of way of the track's attention. Nothing ear splitting loud, because none of the citizens I've seen yet encase themselves in sound muffling metal boxes on wheels or distract themselves by stuffing miniature speakers in their ears... Or other otic receptive organs.

And I couldn't help but smile when I saw the "Puppeteer" looking over the top of the structure. I'm not quite getting the gag here, but the building does remind me of a certain arts and performing hall on the campus of Cal Tech in Pasadena nicknamed "The Wedding Cake" which is a circular building, painted all white, except for the ugly, charcoal gray, free formed fiberglass, wire suspended lighting fixtures which the students have named "Raisins." Cal Tech which is famous for it's student pranks, has had several life sized manikins dressed in wedding wear placed atop the Architectural monstrosity through the years.

http://www.caltech.edu/content/beck.....n-auditorium-1

"Wedding Cake" Info.

i seem to forget i'm a bit of an odd one out, how i look at the world, what catches my interest more and less.

http://www.parkguell.cat/en/park-gu.....-and-creation/

kind of thought everyone knew about the art nuvau architecture of antonio gaudi and especially parc guell. although in recent years, his sagria familia and casa baltlo seem to get more attention. parc guell was origeonally commissioned as a kind of up scale yuppie housing development of its day, somewhere around a hundred years ago. i forget the details of why that deal fell through, but pretty much everyone agreed, or has done since, that it would make a lovely wonderful public park, which for most of its history since it has been.

i see now that portions of it have become restricted and require a gate fee to get in. this saddens me, but i have no doubt as to why it became needed. as much ware and tare was resulting from the huge number of visitors.

in my world of course, the tendency would be to build imaginatively, with any restrictions on doing so, a matter of local prerogative, and those rare.
much the reverse of what our supposedly enlightened and civilized western world has become.

particularly http://www.parkguell.cat/typo3temp/.....2461360a28.jpg

Oooooh! I like the mosaics. There was a small park in Richmond CA where everything like the benches, planters and stairs were covered in fragments of broken crockery. The park was the former site of a large ceramic factory which produced china and earthenware expressly for the Bay Area, and for the US Navy in the 1940s.

i remember seeing someplace like that somewhere too, but i don't remember where it was. well there have been several of them, i know that.
it was when i was really little, like before i started school i think. so it might have been down there in your part of the state.

there was also a link on one of the gaudi sites to a site with images and links to sited of people and places that did something like that. even the internet links were more then a decade ago, so other then the couple of remaining gaudi appreciation sites, i don't know if any of those others still exist. (though always possible that as many or more may have come to be since)

Found some info on the TEPCO ceramic works which were part of the Kaiser Shipyards in Richmond, CA

http://patch.com/california/elcerri.....m-tepco-shards

There's about five images to scroll through.

cups and saucers look reeal familiar. i may have washed dishes in a resteraunt that had them from there. and probably eaten at others. i'm almost certain someone must still be producing that pattern for the food service trade.
brings back memories of when resteraunt coffee was ten cents a cup, free refills and i used to put cream and sugar in it.
they must have made those by the thousands, or shared the pattern.

Hwy MISTER! Yeah... You on the Train! Can't you see the Eyeballs here? HEY! Stop! Cancha?

she be stopping just past that next tree for people to get on and off there. i had intended to build a stop shelter near there and just hadn't got around to it.

My bad. I thought the critter in the center of the screen was one of your "Grocci."

a feature of the actual parq guel in barcellona, is a mosaic lizzard in the center of a main entryway staircase.
used one of the shapes i'd made previously for other things and textured it accordingly.
kids would probably love to climb all over it, and since it would be made of sturdy reinfoced concrete i would probably let them.
at least in my world that never heard of an insurance industry or liability issues.

oh there is one of those guys on the prominade deck above though.