Tuesday, May 10, 2011

New York - Day VII

WEDNESDAY

After hanging around the village thinking about having to head back to California later that evening, we decided to take a quick trip uptown to The Met to seek out some inspiration. We walked most of the way enjoying the sun and trek up 5th Ave and Central Park. We spent some time shooting Micael CP again at the Carmine Street flat and then packed and headed to midtown to have tea with my cousin Matthew and his friends. We had a great visit and headed back to say our goodbyes to Jeffrey and Carmine Street--for now. We took the A Train to the Airport and had a long safe flight back to California and that was that.  Period.

Monday, May 9, 2011

New York - Day VI

TUESDAY

Bill and I went down to the famed NYC The Players Club in Gramercy Park to meet with playwright Bill C. Davis about putting a film project together. I took the opportunity to take a few shots of Davis. We then ran over to meet up with friends of mine, Steve Cordera, Jared Byer, Amy Greenberg and Adriana, to enjoy Szechuan cuisine at my favorite Szechuan resturant in NYC. Steve, a total Anglo, speaks fluent Mandarin Chinese and it was fun having him order up some of his favorite Chinese dishes for us. We spent the time catching up with Jared who is working with John Varatos and Amy who is a great photographer. We didn’t talk much shop since the conversation dwelled on (not my) revenge, “Que viva la vengaza!,” which was decidedly best served cold but, the dinner was hot, hot, hot and the company rich.  Unfortunately, no cold beer this time to go with the hot food.  Whoops, a little license violation. Damn, hot toungue and no alcohol.

Friday, May 6, 2011

New York - Day V

MONDAY

We met up with Angelos Styliano, a Cypriot, and shot him at the Carmine Street flat before we had to rush off to dinner with Jeffrey and friends. Angelos told us that he would hook us up with another model Michael Cp who was a friend from Greece.


Thursday, May 5, 2011

New York - Day IV

SUNDAY

Bill went to the Rangers hockey game at Madison Square Garden and I hung around Carmine Street. After the game we went to have a visit with my cousin, paper couture designer Matthew Sporzynski, at CafĂ© Cluny. Matthew brought some wonderful friends and I talked a bit of shop with photographer Peter Ross. We spent the rest of the evening with Jeffrey and friends.