ww2 toy story.

[Ledfeather]

After being beaten into a brain-damaging coma by five men outside a bar, Mark built a 1/6th scale World War II-era town in his backyard. Mark populated the town he dubbed "Marwencol" with dolls representing his friends and family and created life-like photographs detailing the town's many relationships and dramas. Playing in the town and photographing the action helped Mark to recover his hand-eye coordination and deal with the psychic wounds from the attack. Through his homemade therapy, Mark was able to begin the long journey back into the "real world", both physically and emotionally - something he continues to struggle with today.



http://www.marwencol.com/

there is now a documentary about mark, and he is selling the first part of the story he created as a photography/story book.

 

[StetsonHomburg]

:eusa_clap

 

[Flat Foot Floey]

:eusa_doh:

Ok, if it helps him. But I find it rather disturbing. Getting back into his "real" life with some neurotic inglorious basterds fantasies? and the dolls represent his friends and family?

[huh]

 

[Undertow]

:eusa_doh:

Ok, if it helps him. But I find it rather disturbing. Getting back into his "real" life with some neurotic inglorious basterds fantasies? and the dolls represent his friends and family?

[huh]

lol

I have to admit, you have a point here. Although I'm sure if you've gone to the extent of recreating (in such amazing detail) these scenes, you most likely have already created fantasy lives for your friends and family as well.

These are great pictures, and the scenes are quite lifelike. Perhaps he should consider a profession along these lines?

 

[dhermann1]

Strange, but interesting. I'm pretty sure that allied soldiers never shot any German spies in quite the way depicted. It has come out that German prisoners were occasionally killed in the heat of battle, but there certainly would not have been that kind of firing squad.

 

[Silver Dollar]

That's some major incredible model and dio building. True, there may be some disturbing aspects of the dios, but any time you depict a war, and a lot of us do this through our own model building, you're going to get some disturbing subjects popping up. By making a dio look inoccuous, you're really only sugar coating the issue. Model aircraft, model tanks, model ships and all the dios they go with depict nothing more than killing machines. We just don't show the blown up and burned bodies. The movies are way worse.