![]() ![]() Held since the 1860s to celebrate Chinese culture in the United States, this parade draws in hundreds of thousands of visitors each year and is the largest Lunar New Year event outside of Asia. Joseph Zawada provided a detail-filled scene of how the Lunar New Year is likely to be enjoyed next month in San Francisco, California. With the Chinese New Year less than a week away, we’re seeing a number of creations inaugurating the Year of the Pig and a new calendar for over 20 percent of the planet. The handles on the windows and the door are a great idea too, using pearl gold minifig arms to achieve a very classy look. The room has a few interesting details as well, especially the little marbles on the table, which seem to be made of either levers or antennas. ![]() I also really like the moon, built with a round tile and a white rubber band around it that gives a glowing effect. The build itself seems quite simple, with a cute city skyline in forced perspective as the background, using different shades of yellow as windows with a bit of variation, making for quite a realistic effect. ![]() It is actually so beautifully mundane that I can not help but relax and go to sleep now… Wait, nope, there are some chains on the floor and I have no idea what they are there for. This scene captures the ambiance of fresh night air so well that I can almost feel the cool breeze. Her latest creation is a nighttime scene of a room with an open window. If you happen to come across the obscure Flickr photostream of why.not?, you will likely be asking yourself the question “why?” more often than “why not?” The builder seems to specialize in very obviously giving her builds a message, but more often than not, the message is hard to pin down. Go check out the builder’s photostream or something or better yet, here is a previous time we featured this same builder. Don’t judge me, I am not proud of what I am about to do. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’d like to be alone with an entire box of doughnuts. I can just smell the fresh-baked doughnuts wafting through the air. The added sun rays in the last photo adds warmth to this cozy and inviting interior. The left section of this modular boasts the aforementioned doughnut shop ( mmmm doughnuts) and the apartments above are adorned in rare sand red while the right side sits a cozy Asian noodle shop.Įach floor lifts for maximum playability within, and like all good modulars should be, each interior space is well appointed. Here Eastern meets Western design elements, as many buildings do in crowded cities. Diabetics may want to turn away now because you’re about to watch a writer lapse into a sugar coma as Tong Xin Jun has rendered the perfect doughnut shop to sweeten any town layout. Once mastered, builders can use them to imagine new modular buildings of their own to construct a cohesive town layout. More than a dozen have come out since 2007, and while each is unique, they follow a certain set of rules. ![]() You may have seen the LEGO modular building sets, the newest being the 50s Downtown Diner and the Corner Garage. The two bikes on the left side of the diorama are either stolen and discarded or the property of whoever is filming clickbait YouTube videos inside… There are a few characteristics of abandoned buildings as well broken windows, graffiti (wonderfully brick-built examples here!), cracked pavement and uncontrollable vegetation sprouting everywhere, including a bit of moss on the roof. There is a little guard house, a railroad access, all sorts of hoses and air vents on the roof and other must-haves for any factory, abandoned or not. The scene has just about everything you could ask for. Judging by his photography website, he seems to be inspired by abandoned industrial architecture, and his recent LEGO recreation of an abandoned factory is filled with all the functional details one would expect in a factory. Dutch LEGO builder and photographer Niek Geurts probably isn’t homeless, and I doubt he is an edgy teenager. Such locations attract all sorts of people, from graffiti artists to homeless people and edgy teenagers looking for adventure. Abandoned factories seem to divide people into two camps: those who for some reason find them beautiful, and those who think such structures should be demolished as quickly as possible. ![]()
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