The Soviet solution to the same navigation problem was an elaborate electro-mechanical box of rods, wheels and cogs surrounding a miniature painted globe of the Earth.
This piece incorporates a miniature snow globe of NYC placed in an apparatus constructed by the artist that constantly shakes the globe while recording its inner landscape.
It was as if I had been looking at a paperweight snow globe watching miniature snow petals fall in the miniature world and suddenly someone had flipped it over and exposed the price tag.
"It's the relationship with a miniature world with yourself as voyeur and omnipotent being looking down at this scene and you can make it snow," said Mr. Martin, explaining snow globes' appeal.
What it has instead is a neighborly, fresh-air quality; all the doors in the miniature snow-globe of a town are open, as is the chatter and curiosity about everyone's familial intrigues.
Can anyone sell a toy yellow cab or a toy N.Y.P.D. police car or a miniature skyline snow globe and label it Big Apple, or do they have to get city approval or license the name from the city? A. You don't need permission for "Big Apple" or a skyline, but you do for yellow cabs or New York City police cars that have detailed city markings, to name two examples you mentioned.
Grimacing gingerbread men stare out of bakeries, old-world porcelain dolls with green velvet dresses cluster at the windows of toy shops and everywhere you look snow globes of miniature Viennese landmarks are trapped in perpetual storms.
He then decided to place the miniature in the glass water globe with the white grit.
Chilled glass beauty globes, which look like miniature barbells and feel like ice cubes, announced the session was over.
If Michael pitched his idea on Shark Tank, would he send out adolescent flood victims in daisy-dukes and bikini tops carrying miniature FEMA trailers or Superdome snow globes?
"La voix du sang," a small Surrealist image of 1948, depicts a tree of which the trunk opens to reveal a white globe and a lit-up miniature house locked inside.
