Are some events worth all the work?

In the last few days I have been working on a project for a client's 70th birthday party. after spending a whole day scanning and one and a half days organizing and editing then a day putting all these photos into  power point and movie to display during her birthday party. Is it worth the hours of work for a two hour event.

The last few days

I haven’t done anything super exciting lately but I have done a lot of really cool small things. Now that it is official I can tell you that Madonna has hired us to show teasers of her new movie MDMA. It is really exciting but better not turn out like the Kanye West job. Which by the way is over after tonight.

            I am Really glad about that. Our team didn’t have much time to scout out locations and find people to run the equipment and drive vans around to US. Kanye West and Kim Kardashian had their baby on Sunday, a baby girl. I think Erin had a great idea about how to release the name of the baby to the world. Instead of playing the regular “New Slaves” video we show a picture of the baby with the name. unfortunatly Kanye didn’t have the same idea. Instead he plays some video with Scott Deistic doing some American Psyco video, needless to say I haven’t seen it.

            But some other interesting things have happened. I worked on an event for Erin. It was a surprise 70^th birthday party. The décor and food were amazing. My job was to take a car service to Dumbo, Brooklyn and pick up a crock en buche then go to party city and pick up napkins and regular sized spoons.

            The bakery that I went to was a small French place. The chef was very French, I am French but this guy had the accent and everything. What he made was beautiful in the shape of a tower was cream-puffs with vanilla or mocha cream covered in a honey sugar to make it stick together Then in addition to that there were sugar pieces attached. It was beautiful. The chef helped me put it in the car and off we went to party city.

The Made in NY Awards

I know it is Wednesday but I just complied all the photos and videos from The Made in NY Awards.

This was a great event and learning experience my only wish is that it wasn't raining all day. I was late getting out of the house and came all the way from my home in Flemington to my office in Williamsburg. By the time I got there it was 10 and I had to be in the city at 12. So I spent my time resting and getting directions.

It rained and rained as I was walking from the subway to Gracie Mansion, thank god I brought my rain boots from home. Of course my luck gracie mansion was the farthest you can be from the subway. the grounds were beautiful it was almost like I was back in a park in Flemington. The house is a southern victorian house with a wrap around deck. The event was outside under a tent so I didn't get to go inside.

The tent was already set up when I got there. the people that were working the sound were there and working on setting benches and tables for guests. When the truck got to Gracie mansion we unloaded and I set myself the task of setting up the tent behind the tent to hold the lighting equipment. and of course as I was doing this it was raining.

After working on other odds and ends I was sent to get everyone lunch. The production assistants were all soaking wet from the rain and hungry coffee, tea and sandwiches were necessary. Brought back granola bars, sandwiches and 6 cups of hot beverages. In my head I was thinking how am I going to walk all of this back to Gracie Mansion. The solution was very innovated  The small asian women behind the counter put the cups into small paper bags and then into large paper bag. I walked about two blocks and nothing in the bag spilled.

After everyone had a much needed lunch, everything came together. A photo booth was set up cupcakes setup and lights ready to go then we just waiting until the guests arrive.

That was it then the event started we got to see some awesome people. Here are pictures and videos from that night.

What am I doing today?

Guess where I am going today? 

I am going to the Made In New York Awards at Gracie Mansion. 

I am excited maybe I will see famous people.

Crazy Event Clients

I know I haven't posted in a while but I thought it was time for an update while I have a few mintutes.

I recently went on a little adventure for a client of Erin's. The client is holding a party and wanted sandwiches from a specific store cut a certain way. Think of the most picky person every times it by ten and that describes most event clients. By the way this client also wanted us to find ice cream cones that are 1 1/2 inches tall. If you can't image how tall this is just take a ruler and look how small an 1 1/2 inches is, give you a hint it is super tiny.

 So my adventure was to go to this store and pick up sandwiches so Erin can see if they can be cut in the right way. I get off the train and start walking I walk all the way to the store and get there pick up the sandwich and get myself some food (a perk of doing this arran for Erin. Then there was getting home.

Of course New York there aren't any hills right? You would be wrong. The only hill on the upper east side was going back to the train. By the time I got back to my apartment it was 8 o'clock and I then went straight to bed.

This is the market we went to.

I got a Fishy!!

So while cleaning/ organizing the warehouse I took one of the fishbowls that we use for decorating home and I told myself I was going to get a fish. That night I went to the local pet store and picked up a beta fish and some things to put in the tank. When my roommate saw him she couldn't have been more excited to see a little fish in our room. She told me that she had never had a pet before even a fish.

Here is a picture of our little pet. I have not come up with a name yet so feel free to leave a comment below I might think about it.

My First Event Set Up

For my first event set-up I went to the Russian Tea Room. The event was for the Columbia engineering school class of 1962. We had two TVs and one mic to set up it was pretty simple. I think my favorite Part was getting to see the different rooms in the facility. This event was in the Hearth Room it was at the top floor.

The next floor down was a slightly larger room covered with mirrors with etched bears on them.

Then my Favorite floor was the second floor. It looked like it came right out of the great Gatsby. There were two large elements in the room. A large clear hollow bear and a gold tree with hanging eggs. 

These rooms are all small and long and for Wizard Studios there isn't much for us to do in these rooms. Mostly small stages, microphones and maybe a few televisions. It was my first time seeing an event getting set up and great time.