Manhattan in Miniature

Randy Hage is a Los Angeles-based artist on a mission to preserve the crumbling storefronts of Manhattan--one 1/12-scale miniature at a time. The project started when Hage noticed the generic and mass-produced logos of chain stores and restaurants shoving the small, worn shopfronts right out of the city. “My goal is to document and bring greater attention to those disappearing storefronts,” he said. There are more examples of Hage's awesome miniatures in the capsule he curated for How to Be a Retronaut. http://www.howtobearetronaut.com/2011/07/manhattan-in-miniature/