Now, it's not that I've ever wondered what an $18 million apartment looks like, but apparently tomorrow, I will find out. Say what? Yes, as another chapter in the "Weird , But Cool Things That Happen In My Life" book we are taking our graduating class photo tomorrow...in the most expensive apartment in downtown Vancouver! I'm not exactly sure how it came about, but apparently my class can talk its way into anything (let's hope that works for jobs too)!
We were discussing ideas for the photo...we wanted something "different"...and for the most part nothing was clicking. Half the guys wanted us dressed in suits, which I said was boring and stuffy...and the other half wanted "fun". Some suggestions were "re-enact a silent film by putting someone on a railroad track and all wearing goofy mustaches", "everyone wears a robe or housecoat and slippers", "we line up gang style with half dressy and half slobs in a West Side Story-esque stand-off", "naked" (with guys, ugh, someone always says that..weirdos), or "stand in front of the beluga tank at the aquarium". We all liked the beluga tank thing, but one call from our program manager to the school's marketing team resulted in an answer to the effect of "if we let you do it, we'll have to let every class do it". Which really makes no sense as we'd still have to convince the aquarium to let us do it, and so what if others want to try and do that later? Let them put in the work! For the record, I really hate those kind of answers because MOST of the time, it means whomever is giving it is too darn lazy to either put any thought into a real answer, or too lazy to have a spine and say "no" at the right times.
I guess you're wondering how we got a pricey apartment shoot when a seemingly mundane request in comparison was turned down? I think our manager just decided not to ask until we booked something this time (because he was so bummed by the negative response before)...and...depending on how the photo is shot, you're never really going to know where it was taken. Anyway, someone in our class had recently seen the web page with the sales detail of the most expensive Vancouver apartment, and since people wanted to "dress up", he suggested in there...that the guy selling sounded like the kind of guy who would go for such a thing. Uh-huh...right. I said that if we got that location, we should do a cocktail party kind of thing...I'd dress up for that!
That idea seemed to be a hit, so our class rep just cold called the realtor listed on the website...even he didn't think this was going to work. But he got off the phone and said the realtor was totally cool with it, but he had to ask the owner, so could we send him an email with the details? ..That way he could forward the request to the owner. Um...ok! We still figured it was a long shot...I mean the owner was probably half way around the world doing business or something! As our class rep was not confident in his writing abilities, I wrote the email. The guy who originally suggested things said to be sure to put a lot of name-dropping and kiss up stuff in the email. Some of that felt a little odd to me, but I did it. Oh my...you should have read this letter! Honestly, the icing on the cake was the end paragraph that mentioned things like admiring the building all year from school (it's right next to us and has a glass pointy ceiling that looks like a witch's hat)...and that only a photo there would represent the class and elegance we've all come to fall in love with while living in Vancouver. Or something like that! I had two people review it and make some minor changes...and boom! it was sent!
I guess it worked because tomorrow at 1pm, we're all walking to the building and dressing in our fanciest attire to take a party photo in the most expensive place we could find! That just cracks me up! Now, because we want "cocktail party" as our theme, we're bringing glasses to fill with water, but apparently we can't "promote drinking alcohol in a school photo" according to the stuffy marketing people. I think the photo is CLEARLY a staged artistic photograph, but whatever. I guess we can have the FUN photo on our poster, and the "boring" version in the VFS graduating class book. I guess that works. ;)
I really can't wait to see this place. It's never been lived in, so I'm not sure if it's furnished, and our one provision is that we're not allowed to wear shoes (what a bummer, my shoes make my dress)...but it should be fun! This apartment is on the 26th floor or something and has it's own private garage and entrance. Crazy! I'll be sure to bring my camera and get random other pictures too. I hope the weather cooperates and we get a nice photo with a good view out of it! Here's to another crazy chapter in my life of crazy chapters!
Here's a link to the property listing: http://www.benkielb.com/propertyListing.php?id=859
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you should ABSOLUTELY bring party hats and noisemakers, like new years or a kids party. Kids party would be way better, especially if you could hang a pin the tail on the donkey, and maybe party crowns instead! How could would that be? Donkey in the millions dollar apt in fancy cocktail dress! So much better than alcohol glasses.
Oh, I'll be so sad when you don't do a shot that way. Frown already sinking in =(.
I wonder if you could wear your shoes if you brought a carpet square or doormat to stand on ?
I mean really, you're a girl. You get special privileges, especially in regards to shoes.
(next time maybe I'll put all my thoughts in ONE comment :p )
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