CHAOS WAS THE WELL-NAMED venue for Webcinema and CNI Cinema’s party Tuesday celebrating the upcoming feature film production “Silicon Alley.” The invitation promised “the Digerati and Gliterati converge,” but I think it was more just a lot of actors posing for Jonathan Sarno and a few producers. Witness tall, svelte, milky-skinned Rhonda Roenfeldt, who was…
In this issue:Flatiron Partners’ new officesBaldwin and D'Caprio–and new media?Russian Web Girls 850th Celebration October 3, 1997 Flatiron Partners’ new offices Unveiling a stunning new office suite straight out of the pages of Architectural Digest that looked like it cost as much as many Silicon Alley companies have for seed money, the Flatiron Partners opened…
From the full issue: New York – October 3, 1997 (Full Issue) * Pictures compliments of Ken Schaffer and his Olympus Digital Camera 320DL. Legend at end of article Cut-crystal and silver buckets filled with mounds of fresh caviar were passed around at the Russian Web Girls second party at the Gallery at 678 Broadway…
Related Links:MSNBC, You Know Me!SonicNet, Sherry Netherlands, Conde Nast, PseudoOpen Sesame September 26, 1997 MSNBC, you know me MSNBC, you know me . . . Well we all already know about the little social faux pas that happened last week with the MSNBC party. It’s bad enough if you have to uninvite guests (especially if…
Unveiling a stunning new office suite straight out of the pages of Architectural Digest that looked like it cost as much as many Silicon Alley companies have for seed money, the Flatiron Partners opened a real-world monument to their cyberspace business last week that does everything but shout “class” up and down Broadway. Stepping out…
The party was still in full swing as I left to go uptown to an opening at the Sally Mann gallery. There was a hip crowd mostly dressed in black mingling outside smoking cigarettes and getting fresh air from the very packed show upstairs. While waiting Alec Baldwin and Leonardo D’Caprio briskly walked past, regrouping…
OPEN SESAME! echoMEDIA demoed its new product, Sesame-Ad, to a select audience Tuesday morning (9/23) at The New York Yacht Club on 44th Street. Based out of Rhode Island, this club a natural choice for this company’s demo. If you’ve ever walked down 44th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues, you may have noticed odd…
Later on Tuesday, 9/23, the Canadian Consulate General and Augustine Fou (go-Digital Internet Consulting Group) hosted this month’s “e-dinner” (Entreprenuer’s Dinner http://www.edinner.org). Set down in the concourse level of 1251 Avenue of the Americas, our trip to Canadian soil was a modern comforting experience. The fine blond wood paneled room with seafoam green marble tiled…
Related Links:New New YorkersTime Inc.’s West Bank BashColumbia University’s Center for New Media’s panelSCARS OF CYBER BARS September 19, 1997 New New Yorkers THE NIGHT WAS WARM and all of digital New York was out on September 11. Unlike other industries, ours didn’t slow down for one moment this summer, and all newbies needed to…
While all the big web music industry types were hobnobbing and breakdancing at the SonicNet party, I ended up on a unique span of New York’s nitelife. After meeting up with Ann Yokum, who currently works with the Metropolitan Museum of Art on a special photography magazine, we went to a black-tie event at the…