Miniature town tells many tales

Mark Hogancamp, an ex-navy man, was beaten and repeatedly kicked in the head by five men outside a bar in Kingston, New York eleven years ago. His injuries were so brutal that, after being hospitalized for 9 days in a coma, he couldn't walk, talk, or eat without assistance. His own mother barely recognized him. For twelve months, the ex-Navy man received state-sponsored physical and occupational therapy, which totally helped him regain his lost motor skills. Without medical insurance, however, Hogancamp couldn't continue to pay for treatments. So he embarked on his own rehabilitation project, building a miniature Nazi-besieged, World War II era town in his backyard at 1/6 scale.

He populated the model town with miniature alter egos of him and his friends. Each one is a personality in his anachronistic narratives, which he tells through staged photographs that read like frames in a comic book.His town is called Marwencol. The name is a combination of three names of real people: Mark (Hogancamp), Wendy, and Colleen...two women he has crushes on. “There was one rule in my town,” says Hogancamp, “That [people] be friends, be friendly with each other, behave. So they did, they were.”
There are giant holes in Hogancamp’s memory from before the attack — the entirety of his Naval service, for example. At one point during his rehabilitation, Hogancamp even had to rediscover that he enjoys wearing women’s clothing and that this was the reason his attackers beat him.
To see all the images go here!
http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2011/04/marwencol/?pid=703

Also, here's the trailer for a indie film made about him. I cant wait till I can get the DVD!