What's it like to enter lilliput? The huge brain hole when I was a child has finally come true!

Japanese miniature photographer tatsuya tanaka tatsuya tanaka updates some new miniature works on INS every day.

Exquisite production and huge brain holes can also find passion for life from his works ~

"The more boring daily life is, the more interesting it is."

Tatsuya tanaka is a Japanese uncle born in 1980s. What he has to do every day is to look for brain holes in the most common things and then express them through photography.

The little details we ignore every day become vivid and lovely under his skillful hands. His works always make people smile and feel happy.

Starting from 20 1 1, tatsuya tanaka updates a pair of creations on his personal website every day. This series was named "mini calendar" by him, just like a "lilliputian world".

Today, tatsuya tanaka has been updating every day for 9 years and has never stopped updating. Now, more than 3000 works have been published on his personal website!

Latest update in February 2020

Now his Instagram followers have exceeded 240w, and more than 10w people have watched and praised his one-dimensional works! Netizens all over the world are deeply impressed by the brain hole praise of this Japanese uncle.

In his world, the little character model, like the real world, lives a comfortable life by entertaining himself. ...

People are waiting in line for the Shinkansen train made of bread.

A family of three, taking a bath in the egg hot spring.

On the mushroom boat, catch fish leisurely.

Stationery, snacks, vegetables and fruits ... tatsuya tanaka's model materials are all based on real life, and then after finishing and posing, they are integrated into the imagination.

Play a thrilling game on the beach next to the bread rock.

Enjoy flying under the cauliflower cloud.

It doesn't matter even if you are sick. Doctors and nurses are on call.

He is very good at using colors and shapes to simulate the texture of real scenes and take you into the situation in one second.

Fluorescent sticky notes simulate neon lights on the street, and the bustling crowd is very lively.

Four-color eye shadow, turned into an ice cream freezer, with drooling children next to it.

The musical staff became the track of the subway stopped at the music station.

A few magazines with post-it notes have become old houses on the streets of Hong Kong.

What is ordinary in your eyes and mine can no longer be ordinary, but in his world, it can be shocking and vivid!

"tatsuya tanaka:" I never have a day when my inspiration runs out. ""

Many people ask him: Why do you have so many ideas? Have you ever been uninspired?

But he replied: I never have a day when my inspiration runs out, because creativity comes from observing life.

For example, from our point of view, broccoli is just a vegetable. For tatsuya tanaka, broccoli is a big tree with several combinations!

In life, whether visiting the supermarket or taking children to the park, he is secretly observing things around him.

He will even bring his small model and bring it into the mode of narrowing the angle of view at any time, so that he will find many things that he can't notice on weekdays.

Cabbage can be a hot air balloon in your eyes.

The cherry blossom petals in your eyes can be a boat.

The ordinary brush in your eyes can be a farmer's rice field.

The needle in your eye can be a small fish playing in the pond.

Another example is this skyscraper built with nails. You can also draw inferences in this way and open your mind to think. Besides Staples, what else in life can be a model building?

Rubik's cube keyboard? Cosmetics? Patch panel?

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Let's take a look at tatsuya tanaka's different performances.

The keyboard is high and the flow is large.

A fashion street built with cosmetics, where young girls shuttle.

The workers are busy in the Rubik's cube building under construction.

The warm community in the sunset is quiet.

Even if it is a tall building, there are n possibilities in his hands, which will bring you different atmosphere and visual feelings and tell different stories.

Is it interesting and vivid? It seems that only you can't think of it, and there is nothing Tanaka can't do!

Books become climbing walls.

The tambourine became a ferris wheel.

The corn turned into a rocket.

In addition, tatsuya tanaka often uses word association to imagine a scene.

For example, what do you think of when you see this blue sponge?

Blue Sponge Wipe → Waves → Waves, so there is the story of capsizing to save people in this sponge "Waves".

Because the blue sponge rubs the waves, the yellow one is not the beach, but the green one is the lawn, which brings the happy scene of the beach and Shanghai waves.

Once you start this thinking mode, every time you see an object, it will be related to its color, texture and shape, and a brain-hole work will follow.

Hot springs soaked in soft mushrooms.

Skiing and playing in a snow-white notebook.

On the playground made of tableware, enjoy the carnival.

Have a motorcycle race on an old vinyl record.

Every work of tatsuya tanaka, from conception to placement to shooting, usually takes 2-3 hours. If the situation is good, you can finish three or four works a day.

Such high work efficiency is not only attributed to the observation of living bodies, but also depends on the accumulation of materials at ordinary times.

Now there are hundreds of ideas in his mobile phone memo that have not been realized before.

Several uncles are taking a bath in the toothpick hot spring.

The package of cold medicine became the window of the plane.

Bean flour and potatoes have become an excellent venue for girls' beach volleyball.

In order to make his works more imaginative, tatsuya tanaka will also show the children photos of miniature models and ask them what they look like. After all, children's imagination of the world is always bold and full of freshness.

And the child's feedback can also be his next creation.

In tatsuya tanaka's works, besides scenes, the most important thing is the representation of characters. Sometimes he will decorate and color the characters according to the needs of scenes.

Now he has more than 20 thousand miniature models, including people, animals, vehicles, plants and so on.

He classified models according to occupation, scene and category. Otherwise, every time I create, I want to find a suitable villain, maybe looking for a needle in a haystack.

"I didn't really start being myself until I was 30? 」

Tatsuya tanaka is 39 years old. In fact, before that, he worked in an advertising company for 1 1 year. Miniature photography was originally just his interest after work.

At the beginning, he took photos of his dolls and landscapes and posted them on ins, which was often praised. So he began to encourage himself to create a work every day.

20 12 works

20 1 1 In April, 30-year-old tatsuya tanaka took the first "mini calendar" photo, including several animals and people, simulating the scene of the zoo, and a separate digital calendar, which was the date of the day.

Very simple and straightforward, without too many storylines, as simple as a photo taken at random. Although it hasn't changed much from his previous works, fortunately he didn't give up.

He created more slowly. From the beginning, he didn't have a clue and didn't know what to express. To miniature and "process" a familiar thing into another thing, tatsuya tanaka became more and more handy and his works became more and more creative.

With more and more works published on the Internet, fans who like him are in an endless stream, and advertisements naturally come to you.

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Although he has more time to spend with his family and is free, sometimes an inspiration comes, even in bed, he will get up immediately and try to realize it first.

For Tanaka, making miniature photography is not only his job, but also a part of his life. It is something he really loves and is willing to invest time and energy unconditionally.

"Everyone should have had similar thoughts at least once in childhood. When you look at broccoli, you will think it is a forest, or a leaf floating on the water, which looks like a boat.

What we need to do is to keep such a childlike innocence. "

As adults, we often turn a blind eye to our own life, but Tanaka is always full of childlike innocence, and with his keen insight and ability to capture beautiful things, he looks for unknown pleasures in life.

In addition to work, you can also try boldly in life and stick to what you like, which may bring new surprises!

After all, tatsuya tanaka didn't start writing until he was 30, so it's never too late if you want to do it!