I knew ahead of time that
today (It's now June 28th) was going to be a fairly slow day for me here in the
city. Since my mom got out of school for the summer last week I thought it
would be the perfect opportunity to bring her into the city for the day because
she doesn't get in that often and I thought she'd have fun running around with
me. At 10am I had my shoot with New Balance in Copley. It was slightly
intimidating because since they are such a corporate company, they had team
members from corporate meet me there to help set up the shop as I wished. I didn't have too many
suggestions because I typically go in and shoot fairly as is as long as the
client is comfortable with the set up. Everyone was really friendly and eager
to help, and overall the shoot only took me about 15minutes. I then brought my
mom into the office with me to meet a few people (though Samantha wasn’t in).
Knowing my second shoot of the day wasn’t until 3pm near Fanuel Hall, my mom
and I walked down the Greenway to the park that I love near the aquarium and
grabbed lunch at Fanuel Hall/Quincy Market. We then found out my shoot was
actually pushed back til 4pm so we had plenty of time to explore the city. It
was a gorgeous day so it really was perfect to walk around with my mom. I’m
glad she was able to come in because I’ve been wanting her to see what one of
my days is like here and I’ve been wanting to show her so many of the places I’ve
been talking about.
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Family Day
Emerald, Empire, Dior
Yesterday all I had to do was
bring in the shots I got from last week and put them into the system. After
that I caught up with Samantha for a heads up on upcoming shoots and whatnot.
Later, Kianna and I attended
the Emerald Lounge opening in the South End to get Bostonians. The place was
really fun and had a good amount of people.
Tonight we went to a
restaurant opening called Empire Lounge on the seafront along with a party featuring
a sneak peak of Dior’s fall collection. We met up with our assistant editor,
Paul, at Empire and he told us not to focus too much on that particular venue
for Bostonians, but to get to the Dior event as soon as possible. Empire was a
gorgeous restaurant, that I definitely want to go back to. The appetizers and ou
d'oeuvres that were passed around along with the sushi and drinks were amazing,
with huge portions considering.
Kianna
and I then scooted over to the Mandarin Oriental Boston, a really high-end
hotel, to attend the penthouse suite Dior party. The penthouse suite and Dior
clothing was incredible but we ran into a major snag. The PR rep holding the
event had gotten in touch with Paul telling him that no media coverage was allowed
because it was SUCH an exclusive event. This left us in a very awkward scenario
because we then essentially had nothing to do there and it was such an
exclusive guest list, no one looked familiar from past events. We mingled long
enough to be courteous then headed on our way.
More Cupcakes!
Today was a hot one. Record
breaking for Boston at 98 degrees with the recorded temperature coming off the
pavement being 120, I may as well be in Florida. I’m currently waiting for my
next shoot in a patch of shade at a seaside park, and the breeze off the water
is so refreshing.
Earlier in the week I shot at
Georgetown Cupcakes. The staff there was so friendly, despite or crowded the
shop was at the time. I shot several different styles of cupcakes along with
some of their décor. One cute thing about the shop is that at all of their
different locations they have a completely bedazzled mixing bowl machine that
is a different color per shop. Ours happens to be green for the Green Monster.
I photographed both that and the cupcakes because I thought the whole idea of a
customized mixer per shop was really cute. Another plus of shooting at yet
another cupcake boutique is that the staff and manager would not let me leave
the shop until I had an entire box filled with 12 cupcakes. I went back to the
office to share what I had got, and
was able to bring the rest home. After returning back to the office I went back
out to Copley with Paul to walk around and get some street shots of BoDs. We
were able to find some really fun people, so I think they’re going to turn out
well.
I then walked around the
Copley shopping area for some time before catching up with a family friend for
dinner at one of the places I had featured for Panoramas Guide To, Charlies
Kitchen in Cambridge. SO GOOD!
Uber Planning
Today was a fairly easy going day of planning upcoming photo shoots along with one quick shot. I am currently planning a shoot at Georgetown Cupcakes on Newbury, the same company that is on the tv show DC Cupcakes. I'm also looking into setting up a time to shoot at the refurbished New Balance store in Copley on Boylston.
The one shot I did do today was for a company called Uber. They are a black car business in Boston with an accompanying smartphone app. On the app, you store your credit card info so that you never actually need cash on you. On the app also, you can select the closest black car to you at the time, and have it sent toward you. I was photographing Regional Manager, Nick, with one of the drivers and cars in Kenmore Square.
Aside from that not too much going on, but I will be going to both New Balance and Georgetown on Thursday.
The one shot I did do today was for a company called Uber. They are a black car business in Boston with an accompanying smartphone app. On the app, you store your credit card info so that you never actually need cash on you. On the app also, you can select the closest black car to you at the time, and have it sent toward you. I was photographing Regional Manager, Nick, with one of the drivers and cars in Kenmore Square.
Aside from that not too much going on, but I will be going to both New Balance and Georgetown on Thursday.
Calm
So After running around a bit on Thursday morning to get the remaining 3 photo shoots done, I got to the office around 11am to submit all of my work and go over it with Samantha. We pulled up the layout that we use for Panorama Guide To to start plugging in the photos. Giving her a variety of everything I shot (interiors, exteriors and food) we tried to diversify it a bit and that end result was really nice, as posted on my last post.
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Busy busy day
In highschool, my principle, Mr. Anderson had given me the nickname of 'Lost in Boston' after a project I had done for his class. I won't get into the details on THAT but let's just say that that would have been a very accurate name for me again today.
I got into the office today and Samantha had a huge photo assignment for me for the day. I was going to be shooting for our Panorama Guide to.. portion where we do a full page spread of a certain activity in Boston. For example, in our last issue it was Panorama Guide to Outdoor Shopping, featuring 10 different locations. This issue we were focusing on Hidden Gem Restaurants within the city and surrounding areas. This meant that I had to 1. Find the contact information for each restaurant 2. Actually get in touch with their PR rep to set up a shoot for THAT DAY and 3. Get to all of these places within a day even though I had virtually no idea where they were located (the whole thing was to focus on little, off the beaten track restaurants) nevermind where they were in relation to one another. Samantha said that I could also finish them up the next day, being Wednesday, but my family and I had already all taken that day off from work to spend as a family, so Wednesday was out in my book. I was able to contact the initial 7 and set up shoots for that day fairly easily, but the remaining 3 were proving themselves tricky. By the end of the planning phase I had a plan to shoot 7 on Tuesday (still a LOT of work) and the remaining 3 on Thursday morning before I had to have the photos submitted by noon on Thursday to go to print.
I tried to plan so that the restaurants I was going to were at least in an order so that I could go to ones close to each other in a cluster, but of course that was not able to happen, so I spent a good part of the day running around like a chicken with my head cut off.
After getting lost going to good old shoot number 2, and having no idea where my prefered and reliable source of transportation would bring me near these places, I quickly learned it was my day to start taking Boston Taxis.
Fun Fact (or more annoying actually): During the 1930's in the Great Depression there was a cap limit put on the amount of taxis cabs that were allowed to be in Boston. For some unknown reason, this law is yet to be changed. Making it EXTREMELY difficult to obtain a taxi in this darn city..
After everything go rolling I actually had a LOT of fun for this assignment. As stressful as it was a times to find the locations I was going to, and keep on my very tight schedule I feel like I really started learning my way around the city today. Most of the restaurants could not have been more fun, interesting, or nice. I went everywhere from Sports Bars, to high-end Mexican restaurants, to Gay Bars, to Roast Beef Shops, and Fine Dining establishments to hole-in-the wall Burger joints. Being 'Hidden Gems' many of these places didn't have more than 10 tables, with about the same amount of bar stools.
I quickly learned that this was another way to go for Dining in Boston. Food trucks and Hole-in-the-Wall places.
This is a snapshot of the images taken by me and used for Hidden Gems of Boston
I got into the office today and Samantha had a huge photo assignment for me for the day. I was going to be shooting for our Panorama Guide to.. portion where we do a full page spread of a certain activity in Boston. For example, in our last issue it was Panorama Guide to Outdoor Shopping, featuring 10 different locations. This issue we were focusing on Hidden Gem Restaurants within the city and surrounding areas. This meant that I had to 1. Find the contact information for each restaurant 2. Actually get in touch with their PR rep to set up a shoot for THAT DAY and 3. Get to all of these places within a day even though I had virtually no idea where they were located (the whole thing was to focus on little, off the beaten track restaurants) nevermind where they were in relation to one another. Samantha said that I could also finish them up the next day, being Wednesday, but my family and I had already all taken that day off from work to spend as a family, so Wednesday was out in my book. I was able to contact the initial 7 and set up shoots for that day fairly easily, but the remaining 3 were proving themselves tricky. By the end of the planning phase I had a plan to shoot 7 on Tuesday (still a LOT of work) and the remaining 3 on Thursday morning before I had to have the photos submitted by noon on Thursday to go to print.
I tried to plan so that the restaurants I was going to were at least in an order so that I could go to ones close to each other in a cluster, but of course that was not able to happen, so I spent a good part of the day running around like a chicken with my head cut off.
After getting lost going to good old shoot number 2, and having no idea where my prefered and reliable source of transportation would bring me near these places, I quickly learned it was my day to start taking Boston Taxis.
Fun Fact (or more annoying actually): During the 1930's in the Great Depression there was a cap limit put on the amount of taxis cabs that were allowed to be in Boston. For some unknown reason, this law is yet to be changed. Making it EXTREMELY difficult to obtain a taxi in this darn city..
After everything go rolling I actually had a LOT of fun for this assignment. As stressful as it was a times to find the locations I was going to, and keep on my very tight schedule I feel like I really started learning my way around the city today. Most of the restaurants could not have been more fun, interesting, or nice. I went everywhere from Sports Bars, to high-end Mexican restaurants, to Gay Bars, to Roast Beef Shops, and Fine Dining establishments to hole-in-the wall Burger joints. Being 'Hidden Gems' many of these places didn't have more than 10 tables, with about the same amount of bar stools.
I quickly learned that this was another way to go for Dining in Boston. Food trucks and Hole-in-the-Wall places.
Museum of Fine Arts, Gold Party
June 9th, 2012
(I'm paraphrasing from the hand-written re-cap of the night, while adding stuff in along the way, so sorry if the tense keeps changing throughout)
Tonight was the summer 'Gold' Party at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston. I was first asked by my editor, Samantha, to meet before hand at her friends apartment in Kenmore Square and then we would go to the event together along with her friends. Needless to say, I was nervous about the entire thing. In a lot of ways I was even nervous about meeting up with Samantha and her friends because I didn't know if I would fit in being at least 8-10 years younger than all of them, who are also in the higher class of Boston at the moment. When I got there I saw a couple of familiar faces from events I have been going to in the area, and some of the people were closer to my age than I had thought, so that was a relief from the get-go. Samantha, and her friends were all really down to earth from the beginning so I realized I didn't have as much to be worried about as I had thought. I still couldn't really believe I was involved with all of this throughout the night though, it seemed so surreal at times (once we got to the MFA especially). At the apartment, I didn't really feel as though I was out of my element, except for quick comments here and there (the shopping at Saks, and trouffle-infused cheese for cheese and crackers) so that was refreshing. We then took Uber cab service (the regional manager and recent Umass alumn was with us) which I would recommend to anyone in a city that has them!
Getting there, my name wasn't originally on the list, but once the people at the door learned that I was with a magazine I was profusely apologized to and let it (which was slightly entertaining, but cool). The event itself was amazing. Held in the main lobby of the museum, you had to go through several exhibits to get to the party. They had performing art installations along the way performed by School of the Museum of Fine arts. One was a guy in a tux holding a huge piece of red wax, standing infront of a hot light, while the wax melted all over him (better looking than it sounds). At the party itself there were 2 open bars, a dance floor with a dj, and so so many people. It was a black tie event so all the men were in suits or tux's and the girls were in ball gowns or elaborate cocktail dresses. I was just happy to see that what I was wearing did fit in enough with everyone there (did I mention it cost $500 dollars to get in unless you were working like I was?) I stuck with Samantha, and sometimes just her friends, while mingle-ing and working. I was shooting for Bostonian of the Day so asking questions and photographing people.
By the end of the night I had spoken with a lot of influential people within the city including presidents and founders of varying companies, as well as magazine editors, and became well acquainted with both the PR rep for the MFA itself as well as the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. So far this was definitely the best night I've had in Boston, and one of the most important for networking overall.
(I'm paraphrasing from the hand-written re-cap of the night, while adding stuff in along the way, so sorry if the tense keeps changing throughout)
Tonight was the summer 'Gold' Party at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston. I was first asked by my editor, Samantha, to meet before hand at her friends apartment in Kenmore Square and then we would go to the event together along with her friends. Needless to say, I was nervous about the entire thing. In a lot of ways I was even nervous about meeting up with Samantha and her friends because I didn't know if I would fit in being at least 8-10 years younger than all of them, who are also in the higher class of Boston at the moment. When I got there I saw a couple of familiar faces from events I have been going to in the area, and some of the people were closer to my age than I had thought, so that was a relief from the get-go. Samantha, and her friends were all really down to earth from the beginning so I realized I didn't have as much to be worried about as I had thought. I still couldn't really believe I was involved with all of this throughout the night though, it seemed so surreal at times (once we got to the MFA especially). At the apartment, I didn't really feel as though I was out of my element, except for quick comments here and there (the shopping at Saks, and trouffle-infused cheese for cheese and crackers) so that was refreshing. We then took Uber cab service (the regional manager and recent Umass alumn was with us) which I would recommend to anyone in a city that has them!
Getting there, my name wasn't originally on the list, but once the people at the door learned that I was with a magazine I was profusely apologized to and let it (which was slightly entertaining, but cool). The event itself was amazing. Held in the main lobby of the museum, you had to go through several exhibits to get to the party. They had performing art installations along the way performed by School of the Museum of Fine arts. One was a guy in a tux holding a huge piece of red wax, standing infront of a hot light, while the wax melted all over him (better looking than it sounds). At the party itself there were 2 open bars, a dance floor with a dj, and so so many people. It was a black tie event so all the men were in suits or tux's and the girls were in ball gowns or elaborate cocktail dresses. I was just happy to see that what I was wearing did fit in enough with everyone there (did I mention it cost $500 dollars to get in unless you were working like I was?) I stuck with Samantha, and sometimes just her friends, while mingle-ing and working. I was shooting for Bostonian of the Day so asking questions and photographing people.
By the end of the night I had spoken with a lot of influential people within the city including presidents and founders of varying companies, as well as magazine editors, and became well acquainted with both the PR rep for the MFA itself as well as the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. So far this was definitely the best night I've had in Boston, and one of the most important for networking overall.
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