Collectible People

Sometimes I see a person in public and wish that I could have a small model of that person and keep it with other small models of people I would collect in my Collectible People collection.

It's a fun pastime to see people and ask yourself if you would collect them.

To create and collect these models would be an act of art.  The makeup of the collection would reflect my apprecation of their existence, yet, I would be copying them into objects in a menagerie on a shelf or to be displayed in an exhibit.

These copies would be all at the same scale, normally 8" tall.

The inventor & artist would create special photographic scanning equipment that would be setup and allow an agreeable subject to be quickly and automatically photographically scanned while standing or seated.  The images would then be stitched together by computer and data generated that could be converted into the model using existing 3D modeling output device.  I don't know if color is already being output by these devises, so, if not, the models would be handpainted from photography.

I'd definitely collect the locally famous Intellectually Disabled artist, black, very large, with a perpetual incredibly large grin and buggy eyes.

The Paranoid Schizophrenic from the Coffee Shop with long grey hair and long beard nicknamed Yosemite.

I happen to work with many Intellectually Disabled, some of whom I would collect.

But many people of all ages and descriptions have that certain collectible impression in my eye.

The invention is both the Collectible People sculpture series and the specialized image-collecting equipment.