Thursday, November 09, 2000

A Real.com-ity check

The number of parties per night increases proportionately to when conferences are in town. This week AdTech was filling up the nightlife with some soirees and Real.com hosted their lively, trendy, nightlife-ala-London-scene at 545 West 34th Street. The joint was jumpin with skinny young girls and boys all smoking cancer-sticks. I did a lap around the perimeter and snapped a few shots of Lisa Sandbeerg, Andres Orrego and Stacy Katzen of The Lord Group and Nate Elliott, Cathy Connolly, Tami Sapperstein, Don Norton and Andrew Mishalove of Doubleclick. "Reza" of Doubleclick was a solo shot. Doubleclicks' Frans Vermeulen and Gina Perino were a duo by a lava lamp. Around the room flat plasma screens flashed psychedelic images and hard-techno beats pulsed sound waves. San Francisco-based Iconocast's Veronica King introduced me to their new hire, Julie Chervenak. This hip crowd was content with being cool by just looking cool, smoking and drinking all the free booze...