Jun 20 2008Here Grandma, I Got You A Pretty Snow Globe
Snow globes are glass spheres filled with little scenes and some plastic snow that whirls around when you shake the thing. These ones just happen to be filled with very unusual scenes. Like, well, a police officer putting a bullet in some dude's melon. There's a shit-ton more after the jump, which I suggest you peruse because I just spent like thirty hundred billion hour-years editing them and posting them for you. They were all made by artists Walter Martin and Paloma Munoz and are part of a limited edition of 250 pieces. Each goes for about $750.
These two artists have been working together since 1993. They sculpt miniature figures set in snowy outside scenes that depict sometimes horrible situations. Each snow globe tells a story and it's up to the viewer to fill in the blanks of those stories. Some of these miniature people seem trapped in a fairy-tale like story.
So what's the story behind the scene in that globe? My guess is an officer is practicing his close range shooting skills on the back of some guy's head while another copper watches and, quite possibly, gets aroused. Freaking classic, just like mom used to read me before bed.
Hit the jump for a ton more (men throwing kids down a well, gun toting grandmas, etc.) and feel free to fill in the stories if you want.
Shake Up The World With Creepy Snow Globes [inventorspot]
Thanks to Lee, who has snow globe sized nuts and isn't afraid to show them to you at the bar
Reader Comments
1. Ariella - June 20, 2008 3:46 PM
first?
those are interesting
2. whistle - June 20, 2008 3:52 PM
I like the one with the stilts the best.
3. Tap - June 20, 2008 4:00 PM
Creepy!
Though the telescope one is pretty neat.
4. Momboelitist - June 20, 2008 4:02 PM
WooHoo!!!!
5. monica - June 20, 2008 4:22 PM
I have a weird "thing" for miniatures and miniature art is fantastic. Make it creepy or weird, and it's even better!
6. emily - June 20, 2008 4:47 PM
Too bad all I have to my name is a $14.43 Caribou Coffee gift card, half a pack of Stride, and about $3.20 in pennies and nickels. Otherwise I'd totally get one.
7. emily - June 20, 2008 4:50 PM
Oh, wait! I also have a sister! Quick, who wants to buy a 20-year-old girl? She's on sale!
8. Tenchi059 - June 20, 2008 5:00 PM
emily: we may have a deal.
9. blp - June 20, 2008 5:08 PM
So they make these instead of baskets in the insane asylum now.
10. bryan - June 20, 2008 6:35 PM
they always ask for to much money. its just a snow globe.
11. Clinch - June 20, 2008 7:32 PM
This is how I want to happen to me when I die (be put in a giant snow globe, so I can creep people out from beyond the grave)
12. pdrunk - June 20, 2008 7:37 PM
Occupational therapy has really made progress since last June.
13. pickle - June 20, 2008 7:44 PM
#1 is a man contemplating suicide after he just dragged that big ass schoolhouse up that precipice for precisely ZERO reason.
#2 is how the aliens on Saturn watch us here on Earth.
#3 is quite obviously a married couple wishing they were dead because now they're married and their lives SUCK.
#4 resembles a family photo I have of when my grandpappy threw Cletus down the well.
#5 makes me itch.
#6 is a re-enactment of the movie Falling Down except it takes place in Antarctica post nuclear war with giant spiders and no traffic and that kid is the spider's lunch.
#7 is also post nuclear war when Barbara Bush enlists Laura Bush and a lone, angry Amish woman to arm themselves and finally end the madness their feeble minded relatives have begun.
anyone?
14. pickle - June 20, 2008 7:46 PM
Thirteenth, motherfuckers!!
15. spiritkittykat - June 20, 2008 10:04 PM
OK some of these may be a tad "too soon", but WTF, don't read 'em then!
#1: And then the levy broke and Jeremiah contemplates if he should just "get it over with"
#2: As little Suzy gazes at the heaven with her giant telescope, Pappy peers into the gears...and then the Suzy changes the altitude setting and poor Pappy loses a head
#3: Frank contemplate whether, in this snow, with these chains he can kill Miranda, and gnaw off her leg to get free?
#4: The local Kentwood townfolk do away with the entire Spears clan.
#5: Jim and Lois just wanted to get away for the weekend.
#6:A giant spider escapes from a sci-fi channel original movie and eats people.
#7: When homicidal grannies gets dementia...and guns
#8: The towns local Pederast was at it again!
#9: Stilts!
#10: What happened to those cows in the flood area when they were left to fend for themselves.
#11: The rumors, apparently being false, have led Amy Winehouse, Blake Fielder and that other crack-head to get a case of "my heads stuck! Chip-chip-cheerio!"
16. Joey - June 20, 2008 11:45 PM
#1 Obviously the towel boy in that bathroom got a little too friendly with the officer, and now he's paying the price.
#2 Disheartened by the fact that no one has used his house in a movie since that time with Laurel and Hardy, old Tim Jacoby contemplates selling and moving to Florida, like he's been putting off for years.
#3 As Cindy is entranced by the image of a giant elephant through her telescope at the top of Who Mountain, her father searches for the release mechanism that will cause it to topple and crush her, thereby hiding the evidence that anything at all exists in "the great beyond."
#4 Looking back, Jim wonders if that marriage counselor was legit.
#5 "Hold her tight, Billy-Bob! She's going to watch this. Who's going to pretend to be stuck in the well again, Timmy? That's right, not you. Time for make believe is over! No one fools me three times in a row!"
#6 "Honestly, officer, I thought three-ways were legal in this state."
#7 "I'm going to ask you for the last time: WHO IS YOUR DADDY?"
#8 "Don't turn around and look, but I think Edna's off her meds again. That predatory gleam is back in her eyes."
#9 "I'm going to kill those f*cking kids! First the panty raids, and now this!"
#10 The student of Hogwarts never imagined that the wizard tournament would prove so challenging. First dragons, and now these damned hollow trees.
#11 The lone bull looks on as the pack turns on one of their own in an orgy of violence. Secretly he wonders if they'll accept him into the void left by the passing of one of his former brothers. He's torn between hope and fear that they will.
#12 "I think we can all agree that our first homosexual outing can be called a failure, can't we boys?"
17. M - June 21, 2008 1:08 AM
These are neat!
You might also like Lori's Nix's photography; it's very similar. http://www.lorinix.net/inside.php3?kateg=7
18. Kathleen - June 21, 2008 12:10 PM
Reminds me of my past winter.
19. Gadgets - June 21, 2008 4:13 PM
Bizarre - but I like the telescope one.
20. Jim Jones - June 21, 2008 7:37 PM
The first one reminds me of the snow globe that game with the special edition of Fargo way back when.
21. emily - June 23, 2008 11:53 AM
A snow globe that came with Fargo? Was it Frances McDormand and the dead state trooper? I'm disappointed I didn't get one! Actually, Fargo is what I thought of first when I saw this post. I thought the guys who make these should make one with Peter Stormare putting Steve Buscemi through a woodchipper. One for the kids.
22. mel - June 23, 2008 2:18 PM
Now thats what I call a winter wonderland!
23. Robyn - June 23, 2008 5:17 PM
I want grannies with guns!
24. b. - June 26, 2008 1:19 PM
damn my boyfriend would love the one of the kids being thrown down a well!!
why do they have to be $750....