Miscellaneous: UFO invasion? Nope, these incredible photographs were taken with Star Wars toys!

Date
17 January 2014

I may well spend my days gazing fixedly into the cyberwebs with my eyes as wide as saucers, but sometimes even I am surprised with the sheer brilliance of the stuff that the internet throws up in my face. Such is the case with this; a series of photographs of disconcertingly realistic seeming spaceships parked outside garages, zooming past trees and abandoned in the snow. Because they weren’t taken by an off-duty astronaut wandering around the car park at NASA, no sir, but by a bored dad playing with his kids’ Star Wars toys.

They’re toys! Plastic miniatures! Positioned just so to create that weird perspective-bending effect. The person responsible is Avanaut, A.K.A. Vesa Lehtimäki, a Finnish artist and illustrator and now something of a hero in our eyes. Frankly he just seems like the coolest man, taking these while hanging out in the garden mischievously considering the possibilities. Here’s to a weekend of taking carefully-angled photographs of miniature stuff next to normal-sized stuff. You can find more information about how he does it here.

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Avanaut: Star Wars

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Avanaut: Star Wars

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Avanaut: Star Wars

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Avanaut: Star Wars

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Avanaut: Star Wars

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Avanaut: Star Wars

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Avanaut: Star Wars

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Avanaut: Star Wars

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Maisie Skidmore

Maisie joined It’s Nice That fresh out of university in the summer of 2013 as an intern before joining full time as an Assistant Editor. Maisie left It’s Nice That in July 2015.

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