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...