Harry in House Beautiful

Very exciting! Harry Heissmann is featured in the July/August of House Beautiful Magazine. Harry was chosen to do the 'Instant Room' where the designer can make a space in to anything he or she wants with whatever windows, walls, and floorplan then jazz it up in their own style and spec . They usually produce a rendering done with artists markers and pencils, very nice. Not Harry. He is friends with Jeremiah Goodman, a world-renowned artist, known for his beautiful paintings of interior spaces. Here is a link to a piece on him, pretty interesting:

http://habituallychic.blogspot.com/2010/09/at-home-with-jeremiah-goodman.html

Actually, on my second day at Harry's, he showed me the painting that Jeremiah had done and took me to a framer in our building and let me help pick out the mat for the framing. 

We got this delivered to our office and Harry had me unwrap it so he could hang it. Vewy coo.

Here's a crummy scan of the magazine article:

Feel free to 'like' Harry on FB. But for the love of all that is holy, please do not post anything on his page about his intern. I will KILL. 

 http://www.facebook.com/pages/Harry-Heissmann-Inc/196636401132

WEEKEND UPDATE 3: in mostly pictures

We had a 3 day weekend so we wanted to go to the beach...

Let's start this post off with a freakin' KICK! 

...or at least a picture of a weirdo Asian at the beach doing weirdo tai kwon do 

in the middle of the day on a busy beach. 

Hai-Yah!

*KICK!*

*PUNCH!*

*RAISE THE FRIGGIN' ROOF!*

*GIVE ME A 'C'!*

oh man, this is EXACTLY why this place is called Guido Beach. This guys is soooo awesome.

Personally, this is my favorite pose of the day.

I thought it might be interesting to show you how far we have to travel. We start out in Manhattan on the top left, take about 3, usually 4 trains, depending on the weekend if there is construction on our line or not. We go through Brooklyn and Queens, past JFK Airport right before crossing a body of water onto the peninsula and finally on to the beach. 

This is a shot of the train, mostly to show that huge surfboard and yes, the person that it belongs to is underneath the board. Yes, weirdos.

That night, we took a trip to Target, my most favorite place in the world, tied with Costco & the temple. This particular target is in a 5 story enormo warehouse where, yes, Costco is on the ground floor. 

4TH OF JULY

We slept in then got up and made get this: whole grain banana chocolate chip pancakes. Seriously delicious. If you'd like, you can order them from me when I get home. I'm a pro. Anywho, we made a big breakfast with the pancakes, eggs, sausage, muffins, orange juice, and some fruit. 

Some people like to relax while others cook and slave...   :)

I went to a really great bookstore called Strand. This is the rare books floor. All leather bound books and smelling of rich mahogany, very important-ish. 

This is the rare design book section. Very cool. Some of these books were hundreds of dollars.

This was a poster in Strand. It was...well, this is what it says if you can't see that small:

Introducing SIZE-QUEEN brand

transgender condoms

Strong enough for a man but made for

the woman in all of us.

What the crap right?

This shot is in Greenwich Village, the building to the left is the building that the tv show Friends used for their exterior shots. Note the crowd of people on the bottom right, it's an important stop on alot of tours. 

Ooh. This is a cool store called Sockerbit, a Scandinavian candy store in the village. 

Really cool and really yummy. 

Busy corner...

Oh wow, this guy is wearing jelly shoes. Ga-ross.

Busy stairway out of the subway station...

Madison Square Garden, right by Penn Station. We caught a train over to Hoboken, NJ for a better view of the fireworks over the Hudson River. 

This is our view towards Manhattan. They shoot the fireworks off of a pier. 

I had to make a stop by Carlo's Bakery. I love this place!

Busy busy busy.

Hey that bald guy in the back looks familiar...

This is where Buddy sits with his peeps that come in to order custom cakes, ex: Snookie and him sat there when she ordered her cake with her 'poof' on it. Classic.

It's Mauro, Buddy's brother in law! I was nervous to ask him for a picture but I heard him telling some little girls that ofcourse he would take a picture with him and there was nothing to be nervous about so my friend Sophia and I asked and he was super nice! 

aww... so nice.

it was 4th of july so they were super busy. they were almost sold out by the time i got there, right before close.

view towards Manhattan right before sun down.

wait for it...

yay! and the rockets red glare! the bombs bursting in air!

So that concludes my 4th of July weekend. It was a good one...

WEEK 3

So week number 3 starts out with... a YANKEE GAME! We took the train up to the Bronx and joined some real life people in the new gargantuan Yankee Stadium. Check out the pic:

My phone doesn't do it justice. Seriously, it's huge. It's in a really bad part of town and it's actually kind of funny to see thousands of people filing off the train, through a McDonalds parking lot and a dark alley to get to the gates. We sat all the way up at the tip tip tippy top and our tickets were only about $8 and my hot dog, diet coke and side of fries to share with a friend cost like $18. What the crap was I thinking? But at least it was good. There was a family of 4 black people sitting in front of us that had a HUGE bucket like the xxl ones that you buy popcorn in full of fries and mini burgers then when they were done with that the dad got up and went and got them all big hot fudge sundaes. The dad was really overweight and was sweating so much, he had a bath towel around his neck and would just randomly wipe off his sweaty bald head with it. Seriously, sweat dripping and soaking his tshirt. So gross!
Anywho, so the game was cool. Here's some more pics:

Me, Megan, Madison, and Kim

The Yankees played the Milwaukee something or others, and hey they won. But I guess they better because they have an enermo brand new stadium and the game was sold out.

The next day at work, it was like 1pm and Harry looked over at me and asked if I knew how to draw. I told him that yeah, i knew how to draw. He set out on the floor a huge set of 24"x36" construction documents and showed me how he had taken an empty shell (just walls) of a floor plan that the architect had given him and he had sat down with the client and they roughed out some furniture plans with pencil and he wanted me to trace it and make it look like a presentation document for a client meeting the next morning. He gave me an architectural scale, a protractor, pencil, eraser, and masking tape and told me to go for it. 

This is what Harry gave me to work with.

I worked on it for 3 hours and it looked so shizzy, this is all I had:



I asked Harry if I could take it home and work on it over night. He said yes and so I set it up all over my kitchen table like so:

Harry told me to only do it in pencil even though his are done in pen. My first draft was all in pencil and I didn't like it so I went to the store and got a sharpie pen and went over it for a final copy.

I worked on it for about 6 hours at home, busting my freakin hump! My back was killing me and I stayed up til 1 am working and this was the finished result:

On this picture, the top white drawing is an example of one of Harry's presentation documents and the yellow one below is what I came up with!

So here's the story of the client meeting with this drawing. The next morning, Harry sent me the address of the clients and told me to meet him a few minutes early. I was hoping to have him look at the drawing and tell me what he thought before hand but I was standing on the sidewalk in front of the building and then the client and her mother (who is another client of ours who I've met and she recognized me) walked up and they said hello and told me to ride up on the elevator with them. I rode up to their freaking penthouse and eventually Harry got there and said good morning. SO here's everyone that was there, the architect and his 2 assistants, the contractor and his assistant, Harry & I, the mother of the wife, and the clients (husband and wife). Right away the architect wanted to talk about the furniture so Harry says 'Oh well, let me get out our plan...' I handed him the final and he looked at it with huge eyes. I don't think he thought that I would make it look so good after what I was showing him the day before. He asked if I did all of this and I said yes. He told me that it looked really great and then layed it out over the architect's plans. They lined up perfectly!!! The client asked Harry if he had done the drawing and every one was ooing and awwing over it. Harry told them that I had done it and showed them what I had been given and what I had turned it in to. Through the rest of the meeting, everyone kept calling it 'Autumn's drawing' and telling me how good it looked. The architect even asked me to carry it around from room to room when we started look around the apartment so that we could have it to look at. So here's the kicker: I didn't know this until we left and I did some google-ing but the clients are kind of a big deal. The husband his a prominent politician in New York and the wife is a PR person for Carolina Herrera, a famous fashion designer. Crazy right?!
It was a crazy night preparing and then a whirlwind meeting that day but it felt so good to have everyone tell me it looked great. The architect had to take the original but he told me as he was leaving that he would make a copy for me and have it sent over to our office. And as I left, Harry told me that it looked really good again and said thanks. WORTH IT!

I can't really remember what else happened that week. It feels like forever ago!!

I'll post again soon...

WEEKEND UPDATE 2: BOSTON

Have you ever been somewhere and felt a connection like this is where you're the most happy? Boston is definitely that place for me. I love New England and am grateful for every chance I've had to be there. So when my roommates said that they wanted to visit last weekend, I was more than happy to help set it up. We payed $40 round trip for a Peter Pan bus ticket (which I'm told is way too pricey, my friend Niffer says there's a $1 bus company), and since we all get off at noon on Friday's, we met at Port Authority Bus Terminal and took the 4 hours bus ride up to Boston.

We got to Boston around 5 pm and took the T (boston subway) to our hotel in Caimbridge. Caimbridge, MA is the home of MIT and Harvard and just across the Charles River from Boston. Here's our view of the city from our hotel:

Not a bad view and only a 10 minute ride on the T to downtown. After we got checked in and layed on a real mattress for a few, we decided to go to the Boston Children's Museum. I have been to it a couple of times and loved it every time. The only down side is that if you are not bringing children to the museum, you have to wear a huge tag around your neck basically labeling you as a threat, telling everyone: I DIDN'T COME WITH KIDS, DON'T LET ME LEAVE WITH ONE. We went through alot of the exhibits including BOSTON BLACK (surprisingly a little racist) and THE JAPANESE HOUSE.  Here's a link for you to take a peek:

http://www.bostonkids.org/exhibits.html

It's really fun, I would compare it to the Exploritorium in San Francisco.

We walked over to Quincy Market for some dinner, we chose clam chowder then took the T to Newburry Street. 

It's a street that's maybe a mile long with shops, restaurants, salons, and office, all of them in great brownstones like this. We walked down for a little bit then cut across to see Trinity Church, one of my favorite things to see in Boston.

(i didn't take this photo but this is a good view of the church)

From here we went to a CVS Pharmacy and got some things for the morning then went to pick up our other roommate from the bus station since she had to come later because of work. We all rode back to the hotel, watched a weird show about gypsy brides on the television network that loves to exploit people (TLC) then went to bed.

THe morning we work up we got in comfy clothes and started on the FREEDOM TRAIL! Here's the definition off the web, it will explain it alot better than I can:

The Freedom Trail is a 2.5 mile red-brick walking trail that leads you to 16 nationally significant historic sites, every one an authentic American treasure. Preserved and dedicated by the citizens of Boston in 1958, when the wrecking ball threatened, the Freedom Trail today is a unique collection of museums, churches, meeting houses, burying grounds, parks, a ship, and historic markers that tell the story of the American Revolution and beyond.

I've never done it before so I was pretty excited. Here's a few shots from the day.

Bunker Hill Monument

U.S.S. Constitution  a.k.a. Old Iron Sides

Me walking, thanks to Amanda for the picture of me from behind. I will be seeking revenge soon...

The red line shows where to go on the trail. It will switch from brick to paint then back again but it's always there to show you which way to go.

Massachusetts State House

Inside Faneuil Hall. (it was the site of several speeches by Samuel Adams, James Otis, and others encouraging independence from Great Britain)

our friend amanda got called on to be a volunteer to this street performer at quincy market. she kept handing him chairs until...

it was pretty cool.

FENWAY PARK!

This is the Frank Gehry building on the MIT campus. MIT is currently suing Frank Gehry, famed architect because the $300 million building isn't sound, causing brick to crack, mold to grow, and drainage to back up. Pretty crazy stuff. We took this picture and posted it on FB, tagging our professor, Steve, also an architect. He always tells the story of this lawsuit in his systems class.

For dinner, we went to Legal Sea Food in the Prudential Building and I got to meet up with friends from Camp Vega, Niffer and Ashley! We ate for about an hour then stayed behind to talk for about 2 more. It was so good to see them and hopefully we'll be visiting Vega this summer for a little reminiscing. 

The next morning, we woke up to see crew teams rowing down the Charles River. So great! We walked around Harvard's campus and went to their bookstore for some Harvard loot. I finally got my bro Keenan a Harvard lacrosse t-shirt and some magnets to take home. 

We took the afternoon bus home and it was a strange feeling to feel relief once we could see Manhattan again and took the subway to our stop. I'm sure its nothing compared to what I'll feel when I come home to Logan. I miss home and all of my friends and family. I'm excited to see everyone but I'm enjoying my time here! 

I'll post soon on my 3rd week with Harry! Good story involving a politician and his wife and a Yankee game!