With Joyce's new found love, photography, we find ourselves in NYC almost every Sunday where the subjects for her photo homework are so much more interesting than in Stamford CT.
One of her favorite haunts is the meatpacking district of Manhattan. Located on the revitalized West Side no more meatpacking goes on in the meatpacking district. Instead it is the beginning or end of the High Line, there are way up scale clothing stores where a pair of Levi Strauss jeans, in the Levi Boutique can sell for over $200! For denim! No self respecting cowboy, do they still exist, would think of buying $200 dungarees and in a boutique no less!
There are some very hip hotels in the neighborhood, along with women with very high heels which are next to impossible to use on the cobble stoned streets. Joyce need only spend an hour or two and she gets some great shots of beautiful people just itching to be photographed.
As I act as spotter I have noticed that a few clubs are up and running, blasting techno music, with big guys at the door, inspecting those hoping for the daytime nod to enter and be deemed beautiful if only at the ungodly hour of 2:00PM.
Watching this unfold I was amazed that several people were in fact rejected from the honor of eating LUNCH at a place that charges $21 for eggs, not even Benedict! At one velvet rope entrance I wathed a couple get into an argument with a BIG guy, who was obviously conflicted when he had to tell this couple they were not hip enough for the 2:00 crowd. Really?
Well as the Soup Nazi would say, No Lunch for You, come back 1 year!
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