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New photos of an old MOC.
Back in 2017, I submitted this to LEGO Ideas. At the time it was rejected for the "Adult" IP it comes from.
Something has changed within the LEGO Group since. There's an awesome Seinfeld project by Brent Waller gaining traction right now. If you haven't given it your support I encourage you to do so. Because it would be so cool to see an offically released Seinfeld Set.
Today though, I just wanted to share some new photos of an old MOC - Seinfeld, Apartment 5A
If it is good enough for Costanza .....it's good enough for Ireland.
Eat your heart out ladies!
For 365 days, FGR, Old School Glamour Shots & Half Nekkid Thursdays
9.5.07
the state or quality of being serene, calm, or tranquil; sereneness
or as Mr. Castansa would say "SERENITY NOW"! ;)
What a difference a few hours can make. I uploaded this image earlier and started to write my "I feel sorry for myself "grumblings, but was interupted and had to delete it for the time being.
I came home tonight and grabbed a book that I've had laying around to take into the bathtub with me. Many things in this book really made sense. "I" am in control of my actions and my attitude. Sure stuff happens in life and I've been fortunate to this point in life that there haven't been many things major. Of course someone is going to eventually cut me off in traffic, my child runs around the house like a crazy person some days and I'm having a hard time lately seeing eye to eye with hubby. I cannot control other people and most situations, I just can't. And just realizing THAT has made me feel better already.
I pray that if I can get my own attitude in check, that all other things in my life will start to filter in around me and fall into place. If not, then at least I will strive to remember all the blessings in my life.
What started all of this is that I've been having headaches for almost a year now. Some lasting several days. The doctor tried a few things and said that if they didn't work he was going to send me for an MRI. After talking to me today, he truly believes that these headaches are caused by stress. Mostly because they are in the back of my head and because......well because I was a blubbering idiot in his office ;)
So tomorrow my friends, I'm taking D to school and then going for a walk. I hope that getting some exercise will help get rid of some stress and make me better prepared for what's thrown at me during the day.
Thanks for the therapy of letting me ramble tonight. Checks in the mail ;)
*Explored - wooooot!
While this place is immediately recognizable to most people as Monk's, the restaurant where the Seinfeld gang hangs out, it's actually called Tom's Restaurant and it's a very popular diner in Uptown Manhattan. If your ever in the neighborhood, drop in and ask for the Big Salad!
As this was a commission piece, and because it couldn't be glued, I put together this handy-dandy "how to" guide.
(Sorry, I don't do LDD yet, but this should give everything you need to make your own)
This was taken near the southwest corner of the Great Lawn, with the pond and Belvedere Castle in the background. I was trying to get a nice crisp shot of the four people in the foreground, but even on a "manual" setting, I just couldn't make it work … grr!
In case you're interested, the tall building in the far background is the Beresford luxury apartment building, located at 81st Street and Central Park West. Among the celebrities who have lived here in recent times are Jerry Seinfeld, Diana Ross, John McEnroe and Laura Nyro.
You can read more about it here on Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beresford
Note: I chose this as my "photo of the day" for October 1, 2013. And I chose it as the "best of the best" photo within this particular set.
Note: this photo was published in a Mar 1, 2015 blog titled "10 Enchantingly Beautiful Places That Don’t Feel Like You’re in NYC."
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As I wrote in another Flickr set a few years ago, you can be reasonably sure that there will be lots of interesting scenes to photograph in Central Park if you happen to visit when the weather is nice. My typical plan, on such photo expeditions, is to walk through and around several different parts of the park -- in order to see different groups of people, and also to take advantage of different scenes and backdrops. But it means that I don't spend very much time in any one place, and most of my shots end up being "ad hoc" in nature, with almost no planning, preparation, framing, or composition.
On this particular weekend in mid-September, I decided to restrict my wandering to just one area -- the "Great Lawn"; that's more-or-less in the center of the north-south expanse of the park. I walked around the sidewalk perimeter of the large grassy area, starting at the north end (because I had entered the park at 86th Street), heading down to the south end by the Delacorte Theater and the Belvedere Castle, and then back north again to my starting point.
I had a 16-50mm wide-angle zoom lens on my Sony Alpha-65 camera while I was walking, which made it relatively easy to capture some closeup scenes of people just a couple feet away from me. And I did take a few such photos, but my primary purpose was something altogether different: I wanted a change from the usual, hectic "street photography" situations in which I usually find myself, and instead find some nice wide-angle landscape shots where I could frame and compose the photos without worrying that the scene would change in a nanosecond. Indeed, what I really wanted was a few good panorama-style landscape shots taken from the north end of the Great Lawn, facing south across the expanse of the lawn itself, and framing the mid-town Manhattan skyline in the background.
And even that wasn't enough: I wanted to get some sunset and post-sunset photos, so I could take advantage of the late-afternoon/evening "golden light," as well as the dark blue/purple sky as the lights were being turned on in the buildings themselves. So I brought a tripod and a wireless remote … and for some reason, I decided to incorporate a bunch of HDR shots as well.
When I got home, I decided to review the Wikipedia article about the Great Lawn once again, to see if there was anything I had forgotten from earlier times. I didn't expect to find much, because -- as far as I knew -- the Great Lawn had always been part of Central Park, and had always been the same. But I had forgotten the historical development: as I read once again in Wikipedia, today's Great Lawn is situated on a flat area that was occupied by the 35-acre "Lower Reservoir" that was constructed in 1842 to supply water to the residents of the city. After the Croton-Catskill reservoir system was completed, the Lower Reservoir became redundant -- but political battles ensued for several decades before the city finally settled on a plan for an oval lawn.
That plan basically fell apart because of the Depression, and the open area was filled with a "Hooverville" of improvised shacks for quite some time. Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia finally brought in the legendary Robert Moses (the visionary force behind so many other parks around New York City and the rest of the state) to implement the plan -- and it was essentially finished in 1934.
And there's more to the history, too, but I'll let you read that on your own if you're interested. (You might be interested to know, for example, that in 1995, Pope John Paul II held an open-air mass for 125,000 on the Great Lawn. Yes, it is that big!) Actually, the main reason I mention this is that I stumbled upon a massive collection of portable iron fences that were being set up all around the Great Lawn, as well as some frantic construction work taking place to erect a bandshell at the north end of the Lawn. There's a photo of it at the end of this small collection of photos, and there was a huge free concert a few days after my park stroll; I'll give you the details when I upload that photo in a few days...
In any case, I ended up at the north end of the Great Lawn, and hung around until well after dark as I captured a bunch of nice HDR shots. The twilight/office-building photos weren't so good, and I decided not to upload them to Flickr at all ...
My dog is such an imposing beast. Weighting almost 4 pounds, he can protect us from wild and dangerous animals such as butterflies, little birds and squirrels... cats are usually too big for him...
The title is a reference to Seinfeld episode "The contest". That is funny because my dog had a spay/neuter surgery but he is in love with a stuffed Tinky Winky toy. Knowing how he behaves with this toy, we surely can say that my dog is not "master of his domain" if you know what I mean... :-)
He, I'm half way through my 52 project!
Strobist info :
SB-600, bare, right of subject
As this was a commission piece, and because it couldn't be glued, I put together this handy-dandy "how to" guide.
(Sorry, I don't do LDD yet, but this should give everything you need to make your own)
LEGO 21328 Seinfeld
Ideas 2021
Jerry Seinfeld
George Louis Costanza
Cosmo Kramer
Elaine Marie Benes
Newman
LEGO Ideas #36
Designed by Brent Waller
Central Park West 30/04/2015 14h55
Driving along Central Park and the American Museum of Natural History we looked up towards this huge building which is The Beresford.
The Beresford
The Beresford, at 211 Central Park West, between 81st and 82nd Streets, is a luxury, 23-floor "pre-war" apartment building in New York City. Designed by the architect Emery Roth, The Beresford, completed in 1929, is one of the most prestigious addresses in Manhattan and one of city's most elite co-ops running along Central Park West. In recent years, apartments have sold for between $3 million and $22 million. One unit is currently listed for $62 million, making it one of Manhattan's most expensive properties.
The massive block is opened to the west, giving it a U-shape, wrapped round a central court. Three elevators give separate access to small foyers, originally each accessing two apartments of a scale that was eliminated in New York, both by the stock market crash and the new Multiple Dwellings Law.
The building's residents have included comedian Jerry Seinfeld, singer Diana Ross and tennis player John McEnroe.
[ Source & some more Info: Wikipedia - The Beresford ]
Here's the platform at the abandoned Texaco site that Elie and I stood on to get our shots during our Night in North Carolina adventure. In case you can't tell, its about twenty feet up, and once you climb the stairs there's no guardrails around to keep you from slipping off the metal grate onto the pavement below. We were extremely careful, but it makes it all the more miraculous that the cop didn't run us off the property.
You can see my previous story on this or better yet, visit Elie’s wonderful stream, and see an excellent shot showing the full view of the platform and read more about it.
The risk was worth it, however, as I was able to fulfill a life-long dream of getting a close-up shot of a genuine "Brodie Meter." I think most of us have met someone during our lifetime with that name, and even if its their last name people always call them "Brodie" like it was their first name. I always think of that guy in Seinfeld that brought a video camera into the movie theater and then sold the bootleg copy of the video on a New York street corner.
Anyway, guys named Brodie are like that; they're a dangerous lot. Fortunately, the Brodie Meter was invented. It will register how many "Brodie" guys are nearby, with a handy crank to adjust to your definition of "nearby." Thankfully, there were zero Brodies nearby at the time. Makes me wonder how many guys named "Brodie" there are if you need to have up to four digits to count them!. That's a lot of Brodies .
Took time out today to take new shots of an old MOC. Hands up if you recognise the apartment.
And a special shoutout to Cheepjokes for his encouragement and support. (This was always for you Andrew)
Today's edition of Armchair Traveling takes me back to our visit to Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City a few years ago. We were part of the studio audience for a taping of "Jeopardy", but we went early enough to take in the Studio Lot tour in the morning. The famous set from the Seinfeld sitcom has been faithfully maintained - just like a time capsule !
Exterior shot used on the Seinfeld show. Interior filming was done in Hollywood. It's really called Tom's restaurant. The word "Tom" appears on the neon around the corner. Located at the corner of W 112th St and Broadway.
To read the article about the AVN awards in Las vegas or to see more, go to:
www.vegasdeluxe.com/blogs/luxe-life/2009/jan/08/bold-and-...
At Seinfeld's place, it is a dreamy, surreal atmosphere as Skeletor regales the fab four with terrifying tales of his adventurers as a merciless conqueror of worlds...
Skeletor: -and that was when I saw a full unboxed carton on the top shelf! A complete case of the limited Schnozzle Edition of Febreze sock sachets, mint in box!
Jerry: Whoa! You must have cleaned up on pBay!
Skeletor: AAHAHAHA! I did indeed! AAHAHAHA!
Elaine: Why do you laugh like that?
...laughter...
Jerry: Elaine!
Elaine: What??
Skeletor: It is my mighty victorious laugh! All evil conquerors have one.
Elaine: But yours is so high pitched.
...laughter...
Jerry: Elaine, would you stop?
Elaine: Like a cackle. You should really call it your mighty victorious cackle. And probably drop mighty.
...laughter...
Skeletor: Are you mocking the evil laugh of Skeletor??
Kramer: Hey, Skelly, finish the story about the sock sachets! How much did you make?
Skeletor: Did you just call mighty Skeletor, Skelly??
...laughter...
Skeletor: I am now... OFFENDED!
Jerry: You see, this is why we can't have guests!
...laughter...
...applause...
An ode to Skeletor's most annoying laugh in the original cartoon series.
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
Funko
Mini Moments
Seinfeld - Jerry's Apartment
Jerry
George
Mega Construx
Masters of the Universe
Skeletor
Battle for Eternia 5-Pack
Meanwhile, at Jerry's apartment...
Jerry: "A camera?"
Elaine: "A camera."
Jerry: ... ... "Why??"
...laughter...
George: "It's a crew that records everything they do. They're planning to make it into one of those reality programs."
Jerry: "George, they hired you, which tells me there's nothing realistic about this company."
...laughter...
Elaine: "But it's not just at the office! The crews follow them everywhere. They were with us at the beach!"*
Jerry: "At the beach!? This guy's running around with a camera crew even when he's on a date out of the country? Are you sure you're not dating Kramer?"
...laughter...
George: "Well, it's their thing. You know, we got our thing, they got theirs."
Jerry: "What thing?"
George: "The laugh track."
...laughter...
Jerry: "Oh, right, right. Your boss was a bit surprised at our laugh track."**
George: "So, the question is, what did he say about the laugh track when you two were together?"
Elaine: "It wasn't there."
George: "I knew it! I don't have the laugh track when I'm at work! They're rippin us off!"
...laughter...
Jerry: "Ripping us off? How?"
George: "How come they always get the camera crew and we don't always get the laugh track? Huh? Tell me that!"
Elaine: "Yes, that's right! This is unfair... ... whatever!"
...laughter...
Jerry: "Well, I didn't see his camera crew when he came here."
George: "Oh, that's true. Ah, well, it's just a laugh track."
Elaine: "But he heard our laugh track when I met him!"***
Jerry: "See, that was outside my apartment. I think it depends on whose turf we're on."
George: "I like that. 'Turf.' It's like we're in a gang war!"
...laughter...
Elaine: "But you're on both teams!"
...laughter...
George: "My allegiance is right here, baby!"
Jerry: "Don't worry, Elaine. George's loyalties are always against work."
...laughter...
Elaine: "But our trip to the date wasn't on anyone's turf."
Jerry: "That's right! So maybe they are ripping us off!"
George: It's time to throw down!!"
...laughter...
...applause...
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
Funko
Mini Moments
Seinfeld - Jerry's Apartment
Jerry
George
Elaine
* As seen last week!
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/53503163284/
** As seen in BP 2023 Day 19!
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/52637493544/
*** As seen in BP 2023 Day 26!
Took time out today to take new shots of an old MOC. Hands up if you recognise the apartment.
And a special shoutout to Cheepjokes for his encouragement and support. (This was always for you Andrew)
To Celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Seinfeld, I recreated Jerrys Apartment, Jerry, Elaine, George, Kramer and.....Newman
ideas.lego.com/projects/763f0060-42c3-4329-9a39-d7dec10f72ce
It's now on LEGO Ideas! please vote and share if you would like this to become a real LEGO Set!
At Bruce's Bar in Bahía Concepción...
"Wow, Michael... you said this date would be special, but Mexico!"
"I'm supportive of Mexico. I... support... Mexican things. Plus, it was our anniversary date."
"Our anniversary date?"
"It's our third date."*
"Oh! Well, if the third date warrants an anniversary of this magnitude, I can't wait until the fourth!"
"It will be... amazing. Amazing. Yes. I hope you like it. Because... because, Mexican."
"Because, Mexican?"
"Well, I love all of our neighbors south of the border. And their third-world charm."
"Michael... I'm not getting where you're going with this."
"I just... I just didn't want you to have any misconceptions about my... my love for your people."
"My people? Michael, I'm not Mexican."
"Oh... your name is Benes?"
"Yeah! But I'm... you know, just white."
*mumbles* "Well that was a lot of money on airline tickets..."
"What was that?"
"Ah! Well! Haha! We will just enjoy this time as two... as two white people! And, um, hey, it's a great first time for us to see the view."
"Oh, I've been here before with Jerry, Kramer, and George."**
"You have??"
"Yeah. We came down because Jerry had extra seats for a show he was doing down here. Oh! It was so funny! Jerry got scammed into buying this totally junk motorcycle."
"... ... Just a moment."
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
Funko
Mini Moments
Seinfeld - Jerry's Apartment
Elaine
2021, Funko
Funko
Mini Moments
The Office
Michael Scott
Mini Moments
She-Hulk & Hulk
Bruces Bar
2022, Funko
* They first met outside Jerry's apartment in BP 2023 Day 26!
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/52651328658/
* Indeed! As seen in BP 2023 Day 234!
In an episode of Seinfeld the character Kramer gets lost in NYC and calls Jerry from a payphone at the corner of 1st and 1st. He claims he must be at the nexus of the universe. It turns out there is such an intersection in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan.
Back at Jerry's apartment...
"Mail theft?!"
"Oooh, Jerry, I've been waiting for this moment!"
laughter
"Newman, the only moment you wait for is unwrapping the next Twinkie."
laughter
"Well, Mr. Seinfeld, theft of mail is a felony in Paprihaven."
"Who are you, again?"
laughter
"I'm Officer Chase of the Paw Patrol.* I serve with the Paprihaven Police Department."
"What, Newman, you couldn't get Officer McGruff?"
laughter
"Laugh it up, Joke Boy, Officer Chase is a fully licensed peace officer!"
"Peace officer, or treat officer?"
laughter
"I actually know McGruff. He takes a bit out of crime. So, Mr. Newman contacted us because he believes you have stolen his mail."
"What would I want with time-share offers and coupons for the Greasy Freeze?"
laughter
"They were in YOUR mailbox, Seinfeld! I showed him!"
"And how would you be able to open my mailbox, Newman?"
"As a licensed Paprihaven Postal worker, I have keys that grant me access."
"And, Newman, which mailman happens to have the route in which our mail resides?"
"That... would be me."
"Well, Officer... Chase, was it? It seems any explanation for Newman's mail being in my box would have to come from him."
"That does sound reasonable, Mr. Newman."
"Blast you, Seinfeld! I'll get you yet!"
"Is that all, Officer?"
"Yes, Mr. Seinfeld, I'll close this case."
"Who's a good boy! You're a good boy!"
laughter
"I will bite you."
"Police brutality!!"
laughter
applause
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
Funko
Mini Moments
Seinfeld - Jerry's Apartment
Jerry Seinfeld
Cosmo Kramer
Newman
George Constanza
Paw Patrol
Chase
Mini PVC
2013, Spin Master
* Chase has been seen inspecting the Bijou Planks way back in BP 2018 Day 301:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/30662728857/
And patrolling Saturday Night Cruising in BP 2022 Day 148!
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/52104955716/
Another fine Bijou Planks entry from Grab Bag #15!
These 76 cm tall modular buildings are based on 10270 Bookshop as well as 21328 Seinfeld and 10291 Queer Eye - The Fab 5 Loft. All floors are illuminated with components from Light My Bricks.
4K UHD Video: youtu.be/5XtBj5Sc43w