The Little World

So the annual weekend in the hall is to be kaput. Now we think up the new show.

You’re soaking in it; the internet. The always-there screen that steals your images and time. The ever-present menace to your credit card. But this time it will be fun.

If there is a reasonable pot of money…and we have been assured that there is…hire a web consultant to make a dedicated web page that is a constant show. For those people who are not on Instabook or Facetwit, make it a regular website – one that can be run with WordPress and is extremely simple. Pick three people to run it, and have them trained by the web consultant to make the thing work.

Then open the electronic doors to:

A. An online model display hall. People take their own pictures, send them in as jpegs, and the website operators show them for a week or a month at a time. This caters to the builders as well as the illustrators, and the public is entertained – without being able to break bits off the models.

B. An on-line modelling contest. Here the models will have to be illustrated more comprehensively, but the website can ask an entry fee for the various contests. The judging can be the same sort of thing that happens at the hall and the criteria can be as complex as the judges want to make it.

C. Modelling articles with pictures submitted by the audience. Let’s face it, some write better than they build. Stop staring at me…

D. Advertisements submitted by the local shops. Even the ones that can’t be arsed getting to the exhibition might get their unsalable kits sold by shaking the boxes on screen in front of the bored and cashed-up.

Think of it for the organisers. No hall fees. No trestle tables. Better food and coffee. No sweeping the floor. No losing the deposit. No missing out on a weekend booking and having to delay the thing.

And still the same executive power. They can accept images, articles, and ads…or ignore them. They can still sit in divine and awful judgement. They can still make the rules whatever they wish them to be. They can induct themselves into halls of electronic fame and go virtually viral. Or belatedly bacterial.

Really a win for everyone.