Adventures in NYC

Sunday, September 9, 2007

Sunday

Pictutres from yesterday's makeovers:

Commercial Modeling.... ugh... ameteurs

Model Fierce:

The posts are getting shorter because I'm getting busy.

Today I slept in again! yay! get some lunch and did some cleaning of the room-ness and went to the show.

We saw Carmen Electra whom I love and I really wanted a picture with her but she was super busy and I wanted to be respectful.

Check out this slideshow of pre-show pics and pics of Carmen Electra (there is one of me with her in the background.

More of the girls went this time. 13th-floorers. Apperently the five of them who came in late (plus Patricia who just happened to be there) got in the tents before the rest of us and got to be seat fillers (meaning you find empty seats and sit in them). Three of the girls who don't really give a damn about fashion week, models, or Reem Acra got to sit front row. But we were okay with it because Patricia got a front row seat as well. And she loooooves fashion week and models. So we were happy for her. We also hooked it up so she can go to the Carolina Herrera show. It's kinda a mutual agreement because she's ga-ga over all of that.

We actually got seats this time. Kelly and Sarah sat next to each other. Jewlie and I found seats near the center of the fourth row. It was nice. I felt important. I'm planning on sneaking in next season. My makeup artist Gilbert told me how... hehehe.

The show was beautiful. I would actually wear most of it! We got pictures with Nigel Barker. Which wasn't as big of a deal as seeing him. But it was still wicked cool.

We then went around to the back of the tent to look for models/famous people. We saw Isabeli Fontana, Jessica Stam, Coco Rocha, Izabel Goulart, and lots more.

I got my picture with Izabel who is one of the Victoria Secret Angels and is super sweet.

We also saw Mr. Jay of ANTM. He was walking in the tent for what we think was Diane Von Furstenburg but we don't know.

I met dylan around 5 thirty and we had Thai food again. Got changed and then Dylan, Susan and I went to Yoga for the People.

Came back to the apartment, watched the beginning of the VMA's just to see Britney Spears only to see her sunburnt, only in a bra and panties, in a stupidly themed latex stripper dance, bad blonde weave on top of her dark brown roots, completely unenthusiastic, badly lip-syncing performance. It was so funny. It made my night.

Got lots to do still. Much love. I'm out!

Saturday, September 8, 2007

Saturday

I stayed up a bit too late (going to bed around four) just doing laundry and kicking it with Susan. I got up at one, had a waffle and fruit and was out the door for our 2:30 appointment at Sephora.

We got there and it was really high energy. There were makeup artists running around. Tons of people promoting stuff and of course fellow makeup junkies looking to score the magic product.

We signed in and got a VOSS water and they put shots of this special pomegrante vitamins stuff in it. It was very posh. They told us that they had a chair ready so I was up first.

Gilbert was my makeup artist. He is from LA. He is on Sephora's pro-team. They fly them in for special events from all across the country and he was also doing some fashion shows. He said he was at Gottex and I said so was I.

-Side note: after looking through lindsay's newly posted gottex picture I found this one:

See that guy in the gray shirt standing up? yeah that's Gilbert. How craaaazzzzyy freaky is that!?!?-

Anywho so mine took the longest. Gilbert was very good. I asked for a dramatic retro eye. It was really cool. White eyeshadow and black winged eyeliner like I have never been able to do! He totally sold me on three products without saying a word.

Fabi got a smokey shimmery grey eye. Susan got a trendy deep purple and Jewlie rocked a shimmery gold.

So we hunged out. Got free cookies and I was checking the back of the cookie packet to see where they were from when I saw it: made in Stewart's Kitchen, Norfolk VA. Homesickness hit me like a ton of bricks. Just seeing my home in that unexpected place really rocked me. Not so fun.

We spent an hour or so just poking around. We got our pictures taken on this green screen and they gave you an 8X10 of you in front of a Miss Sixty billboard. It was fun. Mine is as Tyra Banks says: super fierce.

We walked back and went into a store called Nessacary Clothing. I got a silky red dress for $35.

As we were walked back towards the apartment my eye (which as been bothering me all day) was really getting irratating. It only felt werid when I blinked. I had notice this for about two weeks and only when I had my contacts in. So I stopped by the Wellness Center (NYU doctor's office). Half an hour later I walk out with a prescription for eye drops to prevent an infection in my newly discovered eye cyst.

I had to find a place to put the prescription in. I kinda bummed around and wrote one of my papers for my class. Ate dinner. We did a ben and jerry's run at around ten. And kinda just hanged out hanging more pictures of magazine ads on the walls.

Tomorrow I'm leaving at 9:30 to go to the MET for my writing the essay class. The MET (unlike MoMA) is just a suggested donation of $10 so its cheaper even if you pay the full donation. I have to find a painting, picture, sculpture I relate to and sit in front of it for about an hour (I prorably will cut it short) and then write a short little page on describing in detail what I saw. At 2:00 I leave for the Reem Acra show. Come back. Eat dinner with Dylan, maybe see the AuH20 fashion show, and go to yoga at seven. At 8 Dylan leaves and I take a shower. Around 10 I will start my plato and write my paper on it. So it's tight but it's not too stressful and I'm cool. But I do need to go and take a shower so I can at least get around six hours of sleep for tomorrow. I'm not too worried because I slept like a rock the night before and I'm planning on going to bed at midnight tomorrow.

Much Love,

K Fergie Ferg

First Day of Real Studio Classes

-coming soon-

Thursday, September 6, 2007

First Day of Academic Classes and 2nd Day of Studio

So yesterday was my first day of academic classes. I really didn't like my first teacher. But then that is to be expected. But I think I'm just gonna try to bare through it. I'll try to think of it as a challenge. It's writing the essay: art and the world. Currently I have two mini essays going on. I have to find a piece of art this weekend to sit in front of for about an hour and make observations on. But then I have to go back to it multiple times in the next two months or so. I also went to that Richard Serra thing at MoMA. I have to write a paper in reaction to that by Sept 17. I think I'm going to do it one weekday next week. So I can kinda spread out my workload.

I also have the beginning workings of another paper in my ITS (Intro into Theatre Studies) class. It's on this book by Plato. I have to start reading it tonight. For a half an hour to an hour. Maybe in the common room.

After lunch with Jewlie and hanging out for a bit. Jewlie, Kelly, Sophie, Fabi and I went to go check out some cool vintage stores on 7th street around 2nd and 1st avenue. I had looked it up online and they turned out to be super cool. I don't know really how to describe them. One was vintage toys, memorbila, and clothes. Another was consingment high fashion. Some made their own clothes. Some did both. They are really cool. I bought a necklace at AuH2O which is owned by a graduate of NYU named Kate Goldwater (get the title of the store?). It's a tiny cameo on this silver industrial looking chain. I also got a hat at this one of a kind hat store that was full of hats and headdresses that nearly made me cry at this pretty-ness. It's a green and brown tweed newsboy cap with a leather strap across it for only $42. My cameo necklace was $16.25.
Lastly we went by Urban Outfitters where I bought a decroative plate for my desk at only $12.

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So I tried to sign up for a reserved spot (tickets are free for me) at the adler show's Independance and Glengarry but all the weekend shows are completely booked with a long wait list. I didn't mind really. It means that both will have a full house which is what I was partly going for and the other part is to see good theatre but surprisingly that's not hard to find in New York City. Surprise Surprise. There is a production of Cymbeline this weekend and it's free and it's shakespearE! but I think i shouldn't strecth myself so I'm just gonna go ahead and blow it off.

Today though, I walked to Adler. I say I walked because apperently people take the subway. I don't know, it seems kinda expensive to me. Plus it's about a mile and a half for the whole roundtrip and it's really good exersice. I also get to see alot of that area of the city which is completly different from the village. Much more city like. I walk through Union Square on the trip to and from but on the trip to I go up Broadway which is shorter than Fifth Avenue but I take fifth back because it's a less crowded street and there is much more interesting things to see.

At Adler we had an hour meeting with Jason Little (the head of student affairs/dean). Policies procedures, etc etc. Then the artistic director, tom oppenheim came and talked. The head of acting for NYU gave a cool speech. He introduced all the first year teachers. Etc etc.

Jason also gave us a chance to sign up for different crews. One of the second year students expressly told me that crew is a good karma thing and gets you in good with everyone. So I'm planning on doing on of the big shows each semester and then whatever little projects I can fit in. I decided on the latest one (even though it is near the stressful end of the semester period). It's on the third year NYU adler student's show. It's also a classical (another plus).

Then a handful of second year Adler kids came by and did a little Q&A.

It was mingling and some soda and pizza. Then a two and a half slighty boring, extermely tedious master class by my scene study teacher Alice.

After which I leisurely walked back, grabbed a two mintue shower, threw on some eye makeup and a dress and was off!

We took the subway up to Byrant Park. It's really imposing at first because you walk to the front and there are all these photographers waiting for celebrities to pop up and there are like eight security guards at the top of the stairs. And there are all these people on the sides of the stairs because they can't block the stairway or security will like start yelling at them.

Anyway we were kinda stuck. We didn't have seat assingments (or standing ones) and we didn't know if we had to go somewhere to get those before hand or inside or what. Anywho. I saw another woman flip out something that looked like our invite and I gathered the girls and headed the pack up. Flipped my invite and was in!

It's very pretty. There is this huge fountation floral thing in the middle and each sponsor has a little booth. You get all these free issues of fashion magazines. In the lycra booth (well I say booth loosely, it's more like a mini room with no fourth wall), if you acted interested for a couple seconds you got free mascara. There were free drinks courtesey of MAC. A Moet Lounge. And a bunch of other booths. So finally I went up to a desk that looked official and we got in the line (grouping) to get our seating assignments. We stood in line for 20-30 mins and got the open admission sticker (standing in the back). In line I saw this girl standing off to the side were the people with tickets were standing. It was Nik, the runner up from America's Next Top Model cycle 5! But she walked off before I could take a decent picture. We then stood in this other line and waited for all the people with seats to sit before we could find a place to stand. When we walked in we got ushered to the left side of the stage and stood pretty much in the middle. It was crowded even in all the standing areas but we could all see. At the end of the runway is not like three cameras. It's a freaking wall of photographers and cameras. Like 60 or 70 minimum. It was freaky.

So the show started with a remix of Wind It Up by Gwen Stefani and all the girls walked. That's when I spotted him! Nigel Barker! I knew it was him because he had the best seat: center front row.

All the clothes were swimsuits or swim cover ups and were really pretty. In the middle of the show my camera died but it was ok because everyone else was taking tons of pictures. There were actually some pretty reconisable faces (models) in the show and all had a really good walk. The music was awesome! And loud! It made the whole tent vibrate. The show was pretty long. Most are about 12-15 mins. But this one was at least twenty.

Check out my video (including Nigel):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KUcCIGSOww

-Side Note: I found another blog that explains the actual show a little better than I do:

http://teenscenemag.com/publish/ -

After the show was over everyone started leaving to go off the bleachers on the stairs but I knew better. I grabbed Jewlie and shoved my way down to the catwalk (you can walk across the runway after the show, it's not like a faux pas or anything). I got about twenty feet away from Nigel Barker. But I made sure to keep an eye on him. I was goint to try and take a picture with him but he was really in a rush it seemed. So finally when I forced my way up (with Jewlie in tow) to his side I complimented his photography and he said thank you. He is actually really tall in person. I'm 5'5" and I was wearing heels and he was still taller than me.

So we kinda stalked him on the way out. All the way down the stairs, out of the tent and to the crosswalk where we stopped and waited by the sidewalk for the other girls to come out.

Patricia as the first out. She said that she got to take a picture of Nik. Apperently she got in the show after all and was walking out. I was kinda dissapointed but I talked to Nigel so that was cool. So I asked Patricia if she would like to go around to the back to see if any of the models were coming out. Well we were walking and Patricia says, "That's her!" It was Nik. She was walking right ahead of us.

Well, obviously I wanted a picture with her but I couldn't just go up behind her and tap her on the should saying NIK OMG! PLEASE TAKE A PICTURE WITH ME. That would seem stalkerish. (although I did kinda stalk Nigel). So I had an idea. Patricia went ahead to the back but I knew Jewlie would want a picture with Nik too. So I ran ahead like I was in a hurry and went "come on girl catch up!" and then looked to first make sure it was Nik and then go "OMG! are you Nik from america's next top model" and she was like yeah. So I asked her if she could take a picture with us.

She was sooooo sweet. She told her group of friends to go ahead while she took a picture with us and when Jewlie's flash didn't work she waited for us to fix it to take a really good one. It was so nice of her.

Well then we went around back and met up with the other girls and caught up with Lindsey (she interns at fashion week and got us the tickets). I took a taxi home with her because I'm scared of the subway at night and basically came back and grabbed a not so yummy (cold) dinner from the dining hall and just ended up here!

New Upcoming Events:

Also on Wednesday I'm going by this really cool photo gallery near Washington Square just to go for art's sake. It also housing's Marilyn Monroe's last sitting before she died and tons and tons and tons of famous pop culture pictures. I'm really excited. It's called Stanley Wise.

stanleywise.com

Perhaps coming to a big casting call for NBC on the 13th of Oct.

Doing the 24 hour theatre project (write, direct and act a piece you write in 24hrs in 24hrs) on the 26-27 (you stay up all night).

Tuesday, September 4, 2007

First Day of Studio

So I had breakfast with Sophie and another drama gal this morning at our now open dining hall (more like a mini cafeteria). But it's super nice. Really clean and stuff. They had free bagels in the courtyard but I wanted a real breakfast. There was french toast, potatoes, omelletes, sausage, bacon, etc etc. Two waffle makers (regular and chocolate) and tons of sugary yummy things and cereal. And then of course bagels. And bananas and apples. It's like the perfect breakfast place for me.

Then we all headed over to the student center for the drama oreintation. It was two hours of boring speeches, empty advice, seeing the heads of the departments/studios/staff etc etc.

We also had an alumni speaker. She graduated from the Atlantic studio when it was just starting out. Kristen Johnston. She was in 3rd Rock from the Sun, Austin Powers, Music and Lyrics, the Flinestones Viva Rock vegas, and lotsa other stuff including some really awesome theatre like Shakespeare in the Park and other stuff. She is right now doing a show for Atlantic called Scarcity that I'm trying to be able to see. I actually happened to walk right by her as she got on the elevator with the Drama head and I said she gave a great speech and she said thank you. She's really full of energy and a very comedic aura.

Then I went by a church for a little bit and eat lunch at my dorm. Then off to Adler via Broadway and walked with a guy I met during welcome week. I found out my schedule and my group (B, which Rafie is in, a kid from my mentor group and that's pretty chill that I like being around) and we took a very exhausting but lighthearted movement class. Then improv in which we played theatre games. It was fun. In the movement class that teacher chose me to be her example person so I had to stand in front of everyone so she could demonstrate partner work and that was a bit awkward. In the second class I did two of the exercises and that was cool. I met a lot of really fun people and so not so fun. Some were really stuck up and some you know that they were like the diva of their high school and are know it alls. I hope the fourteen kids in my group aren't like that.

Anywho I do a monologue for the scenestudy class which is either this friday or sometime next week. I really didn't like the one I was planning to do but I remembered one I did for one act auditions that I felt was right for this occasion so I'm doing that.

Before I left I signed up for the shows and their times that I wanted to see during the Harold Clurman Festival. I made sure that Alyson and I (she was another girl in my mentor group) were at some events together.

Then I walked back (a shorter route I found) and ate dinner with Kelly, Sophie, Patricia, and Fabi.

This is a site with some of reviews of my teacher of my writing class. She's supposed to be awfully hard and never grades above a C.

http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=327139

The reviews on my theatre studies teacher are pretty good. They say she really cares about her students. Has a werid way of teaching. Demands a lot of work. And classes involve lots of open disscusions and she loves people to be involved.