GQ Run-In

I started this blog because I am spending the summer working for MKG Productions in NYC. Basically, the company is a super fresh, innovative production company that plans events and other parties. I am a production intern, but what I'm doing is far from the tasks imposed upon Andy Sacks in the Devil Wears Prada. I go to Starbucks on my own time, the CEO actually knows my name, and I get to spend my day finding the little nitty grittys that become essential to an event. There are a lot of events that we are prepping for the month of June. I am on the team for designing and executing the Delta Float for the Gay Pride Parade in Chelsea. On the 6th, MKG is producing the benefit for the Hentrick Martin institute in East Hampton to raise money for a safe school for in-danger gay and lesbian students. We are also working with TIMEX, doing a launch for Tropicana's Trop50 with spokesperson Kyra Sedwick, and doing AXE's new fragrance, Instinct, launch party at the Hard Rock Cafe with Rolling Stone at the end of June. That's pretty much the big picture. Day to day I am becoming more and more familiar with Manhattan and really getting a sense of where a lot of things are. Yesterday I had to go deliver invites for the Hetrick Martin benefit to the editor of GQ. I took a wrong turn on the way down 43rd Street and knocked into a man entering the back door of a theater. Not knowing who it was, I kept walking until I heard someone behind me ask the same man for his autograph. When I turned to see who it was I noticed it was Matthew Broderick entering the theater for his new play the Philanthropist! That was a thrill in itself. Then I travelled over to the Conde Nast building where, with some trouble, I was led up to the 7th floor, where both the GQ and Vogue offices were. After dropping off the invites, I went back int the elevator, and while watch the light transcend along the floors I ntoiced all the different publications under Conde Nast. I was in awe. After leaving, I headed to Penn Station and caught my train home to Shrewsbury, NJ. Everyday I wake up at 6:30 to catch the train to New York and don't return home until 8:30 at night. It's a long day, but totally worth it!

Intro

Hey everyone! Just wanted to say hello and make sure I am doing this correctly! More to follow!