My Last Blog Post at Starworks

Hello Starworks readers. Today I write my final post for the Starworks blog. It’s been 4 years since we proudly launched this blog for all our Luxury brands, magazine clients, and overall friends in the industry. The years 2006 to 2010 have been a whirlwind of activity in the field of New Media, Advertising, Publishing, and Film — all topics you’ll hear me writing about on future endeavors at Sugar Barons, “All Things Digital, Film, Arts & Culture”.

As you know, my mind thinks in terms of music, so this has been the tune I’ve been humming all day…a joyful favorite — “Adieu, Adieu, to you and you and you”…. For my last post, I thought I’d cull together some flashbacks working for Starworks. Here ya go….

My Top 5 Memories at Starworks

(Spinning Costello Tagliapietra Fashion Show)

5- All the cool Fashion Week gigs I DJ’ed for Starworks clients and beyond — La Perla, Costello Tagliapietra, and Sue Stemp… in addition to the other Fashion Week days and nights backstage snapping pics for our blog with the most talented Starworks PR girls.

Read Fashion Week DJ post
Read Fashion Week post 2
Read about Colette Party / Fashion Week

(Underwater Model for Mnemosyne)

4- Shooting underwater in a pool at night at a Hollywood movie lot (where The Abyss was filmed) in order to film Daphne Guinness’ art short for Mnemosyne. Our entire crew was is scuba gear pulling an all-nighter, including David Parker and Kai Regan.
See the Making Of Video Mnemosyne
Read Daphne Guinness Q&A
See Behind the Scenes at Mnemosyne

(Director Brody Baker at Sundance Film Festival)

3- All the Sundance movie trips with Greg Krelenstein and Marni Golden, where we deliriously (yet blissfully) screened up to 5 movies a day trekking in the snow. My favorite year was when we cast the experimental art shorts for the New York Times website (T Magazine) entitled Take, Utah directed by Brody Baker.
Read about Take, Utah, series

2- My voyage to Art Basel last year to shoot a series of videos for New York Times website with 6 artists. The memory includes Director Crystal Moselle, Photographer Dan Martensen, several Scarface quoting in Miami, and pulling all-nighters editing the video for 24 hour turnaround on the website. Ahhh, the deadlines for New Media. We love the pressure.
Read about Art Basel series

and the #1 memory working at Starworks is… (drumroll please)

1- Strolling into the Rockstar Games headquarters in New York with Karl Lagerfeld on one arm and Daphne Guinness on the other — to discuss getting Karl’s image and voice into Grand Theft Auto IV. It was a “home-run” meeting. Pretty classic.