.:N'yark
Santa: I've been to New York thousands of times.
Buddy: Really?
Santa: Mm-hmm.
Buddy: What's it like?
Santa: Well, there are some things you should know. First off, you see gum on the street, leave it there. It isn't free candy.
Buddy: Oh.
Santa: Second, there are, like, thirty Ray's Pizzas. They all claim to be the original. But the real one's on 11th. And if you see a sign that says "Peep Show", that doesn't mean that they're letting you look at the new toys before Christmas.
~Elf
I'm not sure where to begin, so I'll summarize and then explain how these circumstances came to be. I am being sent to New York on January 6th, and will be leaving on the 9th, to capture footage and edit together a submission for the Deloitte Film Festival so they can be in the running for a Clio Award.
The Clio Awards are for marketing, and usually the stuff you see in SuperBowl commercials win each year. Big names like Budweiser, Nike, Burger King, Apple... stiff competition for the top prize usually. Well, this is a category about reaching out to others with a unique way of marketing.
So, for 3 days, I'll be staying on Broadway, traveling back and forth from my hotel to edit footage taken with my camera (which I'm shipping up there), and editing on my own desktop (which I'm also shipping up there).
Evidently the creator of the Deloitte Film Festival (who is based in San Francisco... who I'm meeting at 6am on Jan 8th) liked The Green Dot enough to get the person who did the writing/editing/whatnot and bring them to New York to do something with the footage. This is very exciting and humbling, especially when Deloitte has a couple of major media divisions. But, then again, they could just be busy. At any rate, it's incredibly exciting, and I haven't been to New York since I was 13 when I was on an extended layover for 5 hours.
Also, it looks like I'm not the only member of my family traveling to NY, NY in January. My sis-in-law, Mary, is interviewing with Dolce and Gabbana for an internship, and Sarah is going to go up there with her too. Sounds like a lot of fun. Maybe someday my wife and I can travel together to exciting locales... ;)
That's basically it for this post. Oh, David and K are staying with us, which is awesome, and it's nice to see some friends for an extended period of time.
Oh, like Santa, does anyone have any NYC travel tips for a cotton-headed ninny-muggins like myself?
vcD,
-R
P.S. This post is rife with links... I like the word rife... I'll have to use it more often...