{"id":40278,"date":"2013-10-13T03:19:22","date_gmt":"2013-10-13T03:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=40278"},"modified":"2013-11-24T01:15:30","modified_gmt":"2013-11-24T01:15:30","slug":"08e-russell-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=40278","title":{"rendered":"Jonestown Community Emerges on Smaller Size"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"08e-russell-2\"<\/a>In the past, I have designed scale replicas of figures associated with the Peoples Temple and Jonestown story, ranging from a figurine of Jim Jones, fully garbed in his preacher’s robes, to the NBC cameraman who came to Jonestown with Rep. Leo Ryan during that final week. More recently, as I wrote in last year’s edition<\/a> of the jonestown report<\/i>, I have turned my attention to the creation of a small-scale model of the Jonestown community as it appeared from high above.<\/p>\n

Using familiar photos from that time, I’m close to completing my 1\/12 scale recreation of the main pavilion stage. This project should provide for some good photos once I set everything up.<\/p>\n

For the larger community model, I used small scale greenery, paints, sand, and cut and sanded wood as well as various tins and aluminum cutouts from old pop cans. I am also using a blown-up photo that I printed off Google as a guide to creating this desktop model. I plan to have a clear case made for display along with a title plate. This is the first time that I’ve done this type of work. However, it has generated a great deal of curiosity from folks who have seen me working on it and tell me that they are impressed with it.<\/p>\n

This model is a prelude to a larger more detailed version that I plan to start on later this year. In fact, I consider the current project to be a model of a model. These photos show my progress on the model without the clear-case top. I am pleased that an artist exhibition in California has approached me about displaying this work, and I look forward to working on it in years to come.<\/p>\n

(Daniel Russell can be reached at <\/i>russellscaledown@gmail.com<\/i><\/a>.)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the past, I have designed scale replicas of figures associated with the Peoples Temple and Jonestown story, ranging from a figurine of Jim Jones, fully garbed in his preacher’s robes, to the NBC cameraman who came to Jonestown with Rep. Leo Ryan during that final week. More recently, as I wrote in last year’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":40242,"menu_order":35,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-40278","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40278"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50358,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40278\/revisions\/50358"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}