I decided to photolog my sunday out…
Cause…
well…
Just cause.
Anywho…
Here is a montage of my Sunday…
by
Le Me
I ended heading out of my apartment to catch the train @ the Atlantic Avenue Center Mall around 4PM…
After fueling up @ Starbucks…
I was off to 34th Street…
“Why?” you may ask…
Well Peter over at MacboyX / Oh My Pod
got me a hook up on a ticket for the
Digital Life Expo
that was happening at the Jacob Javitz Center
(Oh BTW… I would like to take this opportunity to just state:
Peter Rocks! Thanks Peter!)
I had heard about the expo online and was interested in going…
But it hadn’t been at the top of my list…
(Hell, I might have missed it… if Peter hadn’t reminded me.)
Anyway
I got to 34th St. and 8th Ave…
And begun treking my way to 10th Ave…
And…
I quote…
“It’s a twister!!! It’s a twister!!! Auntie Em!!! Auntie Em!!!”
Like… HUGE gusts were coming from the Hudson River…
And since 10th Ave is close to the water…
I was getting full blast of it all…
Sheesh…
But anyway…
I ventured forward and made it to the Jacob Javitz…
I got my ticket…
And as soon as I walked in…
My inner geeked started to pant..
I entered the ropes and
I was immediately bombarded by plasma screens everywhere…
NICE!
I was mainly there to see any new developements
with the next generation video game consoles…
And any type of peripherals for my sony PSP…
But it was great to see the gadgets, programs and services
that the market has and is to about to offer…
I could go on for hours with all that I saw…
But I’m only going to focus in on the highlights…
First…
Multiplayer tournaments
There were nurmerous LAN first person shooter tournaments being held…
I had always seen these things happening on G4 TV…
(Where multiple people are connected on the same network and play together on multiplayer games…)
But I had never seen one up close…
Real cool…
Seeing multiple screens set up next to each other…
Showing different perspectives of the same gamefield…
Gunfire and carnage at it’s best…
There was also…
*gulp*
A tournament for…
(LOL)
I sh1t you not!!!
I was extremely amused…
Cause…
1. The conestants were DEAD SERIOUS about what they were doing…
(But I guess I would be too… I think there was prize money involved…
like $2000 or something.)
2. As a person in the music industry…
the music used on these games are hideous…
and these guys aren’t really dancing…
It’s really like Pavlovian Riverdancing.)
and
3. The strong gamely smell of geek sweat was wafting through the air…
(Cause they were “gettin down” like nobody’s biznatch.)
And geek sweat is much different from normal sweat…
I think its the regular diet of Doritos and root beer…
It was a hollar and a half…
Next…
Accessories
Cause…
Well I’m gay…
(OK… not all gays love the accessories… but… work with me…)
I didn’t really find anything for my PSP…
(darn)
But there were bushels of Ipod accessories….
The most ineresting ones…
The ipod purse…
Functional and fashionable…
A seperate and pronouced pouch for the lady on the go…
(That sounded kinda dirty… hee hee hee.)
The IGuy and IKitty…
(Awwwww so cute… meow.)
And this one…
I have no idea…
But I thought Peter would have wanted this if he had made it to the show…
(Or at least had gotten a whole hearted “gafaw”… 
)
Then
The Odd
Virtual Bowling?
So let me get this straight…
You made a sport video game to get kids into being active
based on a game where men who can’t run 5 feet without panting
cause they bulit up a gut from all the beer they consumed
while sitting on their fat asses in between getting up walking 2 feet and tossing a ball?
Nice.
And next…
Ummm…
Why?
Just sooooooo bad…
And finally
The Brilliant
Yay!!! Rampage!!!!
Conferenced Music Jamming…
(LIke one person plaing the drums here… someone playing the horns in the East Village
And someone playing the guitar in Florida…. awesome.)
Yay!!! Golden Axe!!!!
Guitar Hero… Think Karaoke for the air guitarist in all of us…
And…
WOW…
The XBox 360…
I just have to say…
Even though, I’m more than likely gonna be getting the Playstation 3 when it comes out…
The Xbox 360’s gameplay and graphics are INSANE!!!
Beautiful… just beautiful…
Speaking of beautiful…
After about an hour or two…
I started getting bored…
So like many other gay men with a digital camera on hand…
I decided to take a couple of pictures of some cutes guys that were there…
(And surprising… there were pleeeeeenty.)
The gratuetous security guard shot…
and the on the sly…
“Hey look at that screen. I need to take a pic of that.”
While secretly snapping a photo of the guy you think is cute…
By getting him in the corner of the frame…
*sigh*
But that lasted for only so long…
So I moved on to
The Eagle for it’s Sunday Beer Blast…
(It’ was only a couple of blocks down… so )
I hung out with the guys for a bit…
Sucked down some beer…
Played some pool…
(Which I still not have learned that I should never play when I’m drunk.)
And had a “blast”.
After a number of brewskies…
I was well lubricated for the next vernture of my trip…
The 3rd anniversary party of the 718 Sessions…
Danny Krivit’s Monthly bash held at Deep…
This was the perfect topper for the night…
Great music…
Good people…
And FUN… FUN… FUN…
God… It was sooo much fun…
Sunday was brilliant…
And looking back on these photos…
I’d just like to say…
New York, New York… A hell of a town.
*grin*
