Positivity

There has been a quote in my mind lately. I came across it in the book I got for Christmas.

"There can be an intense egoism in following everybody else. People are in a hurry to magnify themselves by imitating what is popular-and too lazy to think of anything better. Hurry ruins saints was well as artists. They want quick success and they are in such a haste to get it that they cannot take time to be true to themselves. And when the madness us upon them they argue that their very haste is a species of integrity."

I posted it this morning as well. I see it a lot in design and I feel that at sometimes its my job to be like others. At the same time its my job to make something my own and different. Clients don't always see it that way. Classmates as well.

The quote is from a book that my book was quoting. That is on my list of things to read now as well.

Today was my first day back at the print shop and it was great! I am glad to be back there and I'm looking forward to some things coming up there! Angie has asked me to give a presentation at the next Pecha Kucha on the 29th of this month! It's theme is resolution and I might be able to come up with something for that. If I manage to, I'll post about it here and you can see what I talked about!

Headed back

After having an awesome week and a half off I finally came back to St. Augustine. Being back home with my family was nice but it's good to be back here again.

In the morning I stopped by the post office and picked up my final degree! It was pretty exciting to finally have it in my hands. The postal service did a terrible job trying to get it to me, but I'm happy to have it. It was well worth the semester I took to attain it!

From there I set off for Deltona and Deland to stop and see some friends. I met up with Aaron and Nick to go longboarding. It was freezing outside but really, in the end we all had a good time. Those two guys are so awesome! After longboarding I went to meet up with Gloriann and got sushi! I ended up being kind of late to her house and we missed the plans that we actually had set up which was a bummer. I should have taken some pictures on my adventures but I completely forgot!

I rolled into St. Augustine around 10 and met up with Tommy, Mere, and Andrew and went over to Lauren's house for a movie. Despicable Me 2. Really the minions make that movie worth watching. It wasn't bad though.

It it was a day packed with seeing my friends and I wouldn't have wanted to have it any other way!

Family Time

Today is the last day I am spending in Bradenton with my parents for this holiday break. I have really enjoyed it, I always do. The food is good, the friends are fun and the feeling is welcoming. I'll be glad to get back to work though and back to life as it was. This holiday season has been nice and relaxing. A low key one with the family. Christmas was great and New Years was entertaining.

I stopped per to have lunch with my mom in Sarasota today at P.F. Changs and saw this awesome chandelier. I thought I'd share it. It looked like fragments of a kind of honeycomb shape.

Im almost finished with a book I got for Christmas called the accidental creative. When I started it I was skeptical. There are a lot of self plugs in it and mentions of "learning this in coming chapters" which I found odd. As I delve further into it, it became more interesting to me. It's similar to Imagine which I really enjoyed (even though Jonah got himself in trouble. I find it still valid). It takes the principles from imagine and makes them easier to understand and then kind of guides you on how to make them work for you. How to offer yourself the best kind of help when it comes to getting creative ideas out and making it happen consistently. It seems like more of the books I've found recently are relating design to psychology and that could be why I enjoy it so much. Figuring out why people like something over other and how to make something they would want it be able to recognize!

RIP 2013

It's a new year and time to try and keep up with some new projects. For me, that means more blog updates with projects I'm working on along the way :) I hope everyone had an awesome 2013 and 2014 is here for the long haul!

Things I'll shoot up here on the blog are inspirations, projects in process, photos from day to day, and anything else I feel I should record for myself and have catalogued. I'm excited for some of the projects I have lined up for this new year and can't wait to get started!

On your mark, get set, go!

BFA-#toptagsforlikes

New York is an incredible place. The New York Arts Practicum was such an awesome experience. I got to do so many things, meet so many people, and create and challenge myself in a way I never have.

Upon completion of the program, I headed back to Florida. I am back at Flalger College for one final semester as an alumni to get my BFA. The show is actually coming up pretty soon, December 12th! This new work I am making is not like any other I have made before. Its more conceptual and also more sculptural than most of my other work. That is exciting and terrifying at the same time for me. I have some exciting things planned for the future of my work. I will be making more paintings soon and I should have some process shots up soon for that as well. I'm sorry this #toptagsforattention work didn't get much process shots, but things have kind of been all over the place. I want to start keeping up this blog more. In the art tab you can find the new work. Here is the poster I made for the show and I'm really excited about it and get to share it with everyone else!

Overdue

It really has been a while since my last post. I have been doing a lot of really awesome things. I know that is probably how almost all of these start, but seriously, my days here in New York keep getting better as things develop. Let me see if I can remember them all for you!

Since being in New York I have been introduced to a print studio in Gowanus, ie the Gowanus Studio Space. This is a gang of sweet printmakers. Actually the studio space allows for all kinds of artists, but the have a full print shop, wood shop, and metal shop! Their print shop has presses for etchings, engravings, silk screen, wood block and lithography! I am helping an artist by the name of Noah Breuer a printmaker and adjunct professor. He also has some space at the Gowanus Studio Space. It has been awesome to get to work with him. We printed some lithography prints for another artist. It was the first time that I had ever done that, I think it will come in handy later for me! He also has made prints for Kiki Smith, which was mind blowing to find out! I am going to be doing some work with him in exchange for using some of the space to produce a book that I am working on all by hand.

The book interestingly enough, to me at least, are interviews with graphic designers in New York who work with print as a medium. Caroline has been able to put me in contact with some of the more well known people that she actually knows on a personal level. I am super stoked about this! Next week I am going to interview Ellen Lupton! We are also preparing for Stefan Sagmeister. I have interviewed two designers, Derick Holt (freelance), and Rafael Esquer (creator of Alfalfa Studio). They are both really incredible, down to earth designers. Derick reminds me so much of St. Augustine and Flagler. He just has this sort of be beachy-bum kind of way about him. Although I have no idea if he goes to the beach. He was just dressed really casual and in flip-flops! You can check out his work here. It isn't too up to date, but I saw some of his work he has been working on when I went over and its looking great!

Rafael from Alfalfa Studio was also really a genuine designer. He met me at the office on Sunday and there were no other employees there. He gave me a tour of the place and really talked one on one with me. He showed me a project that they are working on currently with Adobe Muse which was awesome to see them translate something that had initially been a print work into something more interactive online. The studio is a dream come true for me. It's a small creative agency that really takes and interest in doing things by hand which I really admire. I am working on polishing up my portfolio and I am going to head back and show them what I have! You can check out their work here.

So the program has started now and we have gone to MoMA together and saw Caroline and the Exchange Café. We have presented our work to each other and now we are familiar with what each other are making! Everyone in the program is friendly and have a variety of work. No one oddly enough is working directly with the figure, aside from the performance artists, and video artists, just an observation. Video also is a huge player in a lot of young artists, technology in general. Its all taking a turn towards that I feel, more art that is.

I went to hangout with some of the participants in the program and hand't eaten. We stopped in a little deli and there was a cat just chillin in there. That explains that photo.

I went to go look at a new apartment for July and its in Clinton Hill! It is really nice and amazing. I'll get some pictures when I move in!

There have been other things that I have been able to do also, I went to the opening of the IPCNY show (a printmaking show), I've met a lot of different artists and people around, I've taken a lot of photos for the flickr account, eaten Nutella and been in the rain more than I was in Florida! I love it all still! Huge things to come :)

Experienced Newbie

Today was the first actual day of the New York Arts Praticum! I have been in New York over a month now, helping Caroline with her work through this program and today was the day to meet the other students and the director, Michael. Everyone that I meat today seemed really nice and tomorrow I will present my work to everyone in the group, about 18 of us I think! In doing that I will get to see what the other students and participants in the program make as their work!

The day started off in the Chelsea area and a walk along the high line. It started to rain, and we didn't really get to spend much time up there. We quickly walked along it into the Meat Packing district and briefly saw that. From there we got on a train and into SoHo for a quick stop and look around (still raining) and then over to Bushwick. In Bushwisk we saw some more graffiti and street art and then stopped into a chocolate factory. We got to sample some delicious dark chocolate that they make their on site!
After that we were free to go. I headed back to Eyebeam to see Caroline.

At Eyebeam, Caroline and I had lunch together and she got to work on some of her Monday tasks, and I geeked out watching the Apple keynote. iOS7 is seriously so beautiful! I can't wait to get it!! The new Mac Pro looks sweet! There is a new OSX for desktops, doesn't seem too radical, maybe a little convenient? Oh well, iOS LOOKS SO NICE!

Tonight for dinner, Michael had us over to his house. We had delicious food that him and some of the other willing students prepared! Everyone got to know each other a little bit better and it was a nice format to get to meet everyone. After dinner a couple of us went out for a drink not too far from his place and conversed some more. The people in this particular group were almost all from the Portland area. Three of the six people in the group knew each other from the area oddly enough, one is from California, and the other is from Ohio. Its a good mix of people and they all seem friendly and awesome as artists alone! I can't wait to see what tomorrow brings!

I will get more pictures tomorrow for sure. Most places we went today were oddly enough, kind of dark. For sure more tomorrow!

Yesterday, I stopped at Eyebeam to grab the nice camera and go to MoMA to get some pictures to show off things that Lika made! She is the fashion designer that created the garments that are worn in the café by the facilitators. I will have a couple of those up later as well.

Lunch With Luis

The past couple day I have had a very odd schedule and it has been nice to focus harder on my own projects. I still haven't gotten painting supplies and I'm waiting for the deposit back from the St. Augustine house.

Luis and I met today for lunch and then went to Eyebeam to work on our project. We are still in the construction phase of it, but it looks like we are going to create some sort of typeface and a few other fun things to go along with it! I really would like to expand on typography in my portfolio so I think it will be a nice addition and I know Luis is thinking the same. Tomorrow we are regrouping now that we have a little more solidified plan and making more progress of what will be happening with it! I'm excited to see what happens with it!

I went to Dick Blick and got a calligraphy pen and I really would like to learn that so I am trying to be patient and work on that these next coming weeks :)

I am also working on a project with another friend, Clarizza! She is awesome! We have never met in person but we have spoken numerous times online and in letters. She is a designer in the Philippines. Our project together is really sweet as well. We are making a mixed CD of 12 songs that we have shared back and forth over the time that we have known each other. With those 12 songs we will illustrate each song and screen print them as post cards (in reference to our letters), phone wallpapers (we've been able to communicate through phone apps now for a while), and also potentially desktop wallpapers or posters. Its a personal project, but it seems fun and will showcase some illustration work for the two of us!

I met with an artist who is a printmaker and interested in some of the same type of things that I am. I will be helping him every Thursday, which I am very excited about as well. With him I will be able to have access to screen printing again, and even a letterpress at NYU!

Its been a good couple of days and the practicum starts on Monday! Its going to be exciting to see what the other students have and what the other artists are doing!

At my own pace

Things have been really great lately! Since the café is up and running on its own I get to focus on a lot of other work! The past two days I got to do a lot of personally fun things.

Caroline told me the other day that June Berries are ripe and in season now on the Highline. I went out and grabbed some. They are delicious! Caroline and I have been starting to ask around about a source book for artists in New York. A book that can list all kinds of possible materials an artist would need from scrap metal to polished silver to rubber. It sounds like its not a real thing already, which is good for us, because now we can make it into something! It will allow us to explore New York together which I am really excited about and also to meet a lot of people who have amazing things to offer! Its still in the works, but next Wednesday I think we might make some more progress and I'll keep you updated on it!

Today, I went into Eyebeam and started prepping some things for my personal projects. I cut down a couple surfaces to start getting some paintings ready. I just need some money now to buy supplies. I should have a deposit coming back to me from the St. Augustine house soon which will help out! I also have a new track on which to paint pixel paintings. Today I cut one iPad and two iPhone sized surfaces to start and see how these go. I also messed around with the laser cutter and a morié pattern I made and it came out pretty sweet!

After I had done all I could at Eyebeam I decided to go to the Dick Blick store, which I have been excited to go see and visit, but haven't had a chance! Let me tell you, I'm in love. I want to buy so many things! Dick Blick and New York Central Art Supply are such amazing stores I could go broke dreaming about them. I snapped a few photos of it....and my dinner tonight, just because.

Lost in a sea of shorter people with iPads

Welcome to June! Its a warm one. It is usually blaring hot here in New York or has been raining. Thank goodness MoMA finds it necessary to air condition the studio space to probably 65 degrees constantly!

The past couple days I have had off from Caroline which allowed me to really do whatever I wanted. I used the time to go to MoMA and check out some of the work up on display now, make a little more progress on some side projects I am working on with some friends to strengthen my portfolio, and actually cook myself some good meals!

I recently had a photoshoot for that magazine about Flagler Alumni I mentioned a few weeks ago, and they sent me over a list of questions for me to answer. They want to have me as a feature in their magazine or publication, or whatever sort of material they seem to be sending out. Anyway, I spent a good part of last night doing that!

It was a lot of fun getting to go to the museum and see the work they had on display. It seems like so many people their had iPads, like you couldn't get into MoMA unless you had one! It was the weekend of course so it was crowded with people in the way, like always I guess... It really was nice to reflect on some of the work and during my time here in the practicum I would like to work on some paintings, some more pixel paintings, but I want to do them smaller, maybe roughly iPhone sized or iPad sized. There is a little bit of progress still being made on the projects I am working on with some friends and when those get more developed I will share some of them. This weekend should be a good one for getting some things done in that department.

Caroline says that she has found me a little work to do! Its in accounting and running some things through quick books. It isn't something that is too permanent, but it is a job for now. Plus I am interesting in seeing how a business is run. I think in the scope of things I'd like to have my own!

I have a lot of photos for you today! Enjoy :)

Roll of Thunder

Not too much has been going on lately. The café is now open so there are people on a schedule working on things regularly, and during the week it isn't open!

Today I went into the city and stayed at MoMA for a while. Some of the developers of the exchange archive website were there to have a conversation with whoever wanted to learn about it. It was really interesting what they are doing. Some of them are professors at Vanderbilt University! You can check out the website they are making, here. It was really interesting being surrounded by so many smart people. These guys build code and games to help children learn how to write code even. After the talk we got to stick around MoMA for a while and then I headed out with Caroline and her friend, I forgot his name already, to Chinatown to get some food and also to get some ice cream! It wasn't too eventful of a day but tomorrow I am planning on going to the rest of MoMA to look at the museum and all of the work inside which I am excited about! I have some projects coming up that I am working on with other people that I think are going to become something really awesome! More on those to come soon!

I have really been into this song lately.

Team Caroline

Today was the grand opening of the Exchange Café at MoMA!!! It was a big day for everyone who contributed to the project and Caroline deserves this incredible moment. Sarah and Sheetal also deserve a moment for their involvement in this whole operation. I'm getting ahead of myself though. Let me start with the beginning of my day.

This morning, after I got ready I headed out, oddly enough, back down to the 36th street stop off of the D train near Sunset Park. I was meeting up with Rich Watts, one of the guys I mentioned a few posts ago who works at the vodka distillery. He has an awesome cast-iron paper cutter. I was visiting him to to have the exchange archive books that I had made the other day, cut down. I don't know if I posted anything about them yesterday so I'll be sure and post some pictures of them today too!

It was incredibly hot today and if course it was the day that I work a long sleeve shirt, pants and a tie.

After I left the distillery I headed into MoMA to meet up with everyone. The café ran its scheduled hours for the day and I worked on a few projects here and there that needed to be done before the grand opening later that night. I took some more pictures with another Eyebeam camera and I should have them edited and posted soon too. People started coming in for the event and soon enough, they were announcing Caroline to talk! It really was an incredible night for all. Everyone has worked so hard on everything and it has come together and paid off in the end. I am truly happy for Caroline and what she has done. This experience is something that I wouldn't have traded for anything. Everyone on the team is incredible and I look forward to each day working with them. I live the life.

P.S. We totally bound the books with dental floss. It works really well!

P.P.S. Also saw fake Don Martin at MoMA tonight.

Acid Rain Check

So living in this new place has been nice, there are no windows in my room though. This helps get a good night sleep because its always dark, but waking up you never know what time it is and it always feels like its the middle of the night. That aside, I've slept great!

This morning I woke up earlier than usual because I met Caroline and Sarah (who wasn't feeling well) at this fantastical place called Material For The Arts. Its a magical place where artists and workers can go to get supplies all completely free! The only catch is that it has to be for a non-profit, or at least, that is how you're able to get in. There were so many things in there I couldn't even imagine. Things from filing cabinets to widow display models and tons of paper! We went there on a paper hunt for some of the things for MoMA and the Exchange Café and found a couple things. I was lucky enough to find an awesome large flat file box that can safely house prints! I'll get a picture of it later.

Once we finished up at MFTA, we sent Sarah home to rest and Caroline and I went to Eyebeam to get some work done today. As we arrived it started to rain and has continued to all day and even as I type this now it is. It's been a gross day overall outside. More progress was made though on the making of exchange cafe website if you want to see the things we have done!

Tomorrow we are finishing up some of the things that need to go into the space before the big opening with the trustees of MoMA and such so probably another work day tomorrow for me! I'll see Caroline at Eyebeam at 10!

The Exchange Café

I haven't put up too many pictures of the café since we have opened it to the public so this is a little taste of the space and what things are there!

Today is Memorial day and its been very relaxing. I went over to Caroline's around noon or so and worked some on the website for this and got to hang out with her for a while. We went to a park down the street for a little break and played a little basketball, we are very white and not very good. When we got back we worked a little more and then called it a day! There isn't too much to report on. Tomorrow morning we are going to materials for the arts, which is a non-profit that people can donate supplies to where artist can then use materials donated from sheets of paper to shopping carts! I'll take lots of pictures tomorrow :)

Up and running

I promise I'm not dead. I haven't posted in a couple days but we have been working a lot and late. Lets see...

The second day of the café being open, I worked on some digital things that needed to be printed up. The exchange archive is a catalog of works currently in MoMA's collection that Caroline has chosen that relate to exchange or bartering. There is a giant matrix on the wall and the works are placed to their corresponding place in time, whether it is a short term or long term exchange and then in space, is it a barter or swap or is it more of a conversation or encounter. Because the matrix is so large, some of the works are up higher and hard to read. Making a book at level seemed like a good solution, that was people can read about them and see them closer. We are hoping to get a publisher to produce this as well as everyone else contributions to the archive. So I worked on setting up the pages to the book and test printed some of the pages to make sure they are going to print correctly. It went pretty smoothly. The printers can automatically print double sided which is nice but the backside is upside down and I had to work around that. No big deal.

After the café closed we went back to Eyebeam to work a little more for the night. We got all of the pages printed that we needed and now we have to bind all of the pages somehow. We are still trying to figure out what the best way for this will be.

After we got to a stopping point Caroline asked if I'd like to go out and do something. I agreed and she took me to a place that is not far from where I was staying in Sunset Park. It was a distillery. Friends of hers from school have been working on a making vodka on a newish system that they have created! It was really awesome to watch them talk about it and see how they did it. Their space is also incredible! They have a lot of it and have done some nice things to it. I didn't want to be rude and start snapping off a lot of pictures. But trust me. It was awesome! The other sweet thing about it is that they not only make this vodka, but they also have a letterpress! A Chandler and Price new style, which is similar to the one that I used at Paper Co. Their link can be found here

Sunday was the day I moved out of the house that I was house sitting and into the new loft place! The L train isn't running this weekend for who knows why and that is usually the best way to get there. I met Will there though and he showed me around the place again and then around the neighborhood. He is a really good guy. We got some keys made for me and moved my things in. I wasn't there too long before I had to meet Caroline at Eyebeam for some more work.

We are now working on a website that is about the making of the exchange archive. I am actually working on it now and you can follow along with us here

This black tea is no good

I don't even know where to begin on how to explain how awesome today was. Today was the opening day of the Exchange Cafe at MoMA!

The day started out with me meeting Caroline at her house to help bring a rolling cart to MoMA. I convinced her yesterday that she shouldn't take a cab with is and that she should just go on the subway with it an I would help her. It ended up being worth it. It wasn't that difficult to get it there. Although the workers down in the subway couldn't direct us even to an elevator that would get us to the ground level which seemed odd. Anyway, we got it to MoMA finally and started to set up for the day. We have to go upstairs to the staff cafeteria to fill up the giant cooler we have for hot water and then we have a large tea strainer that goes inside. It took some trial and error but we finally got a good mixture of water/tea/temperature. The tea we used in the beginning though seemed to be to dried out and it was no good actually which was disappointing, but we replaced it shortly after with some green tea that was much better.

Customers started to stroll in and at one point we were pretty steadily busy! It was awesome to interact with people who were adamant about what we were doing as well as helping explain to others what we were trying to do! I spent a good amount of the time in the space taking pictures of all of the works that Caroline made and that I helped in last minute assembly in. I'll have more photos of those later and link to the blog in a different post to show the making of everything that we have had to do!

Luis, Erica and Gabby came to the opening as well to see me! It was awesome to get to see them all again and it means a lot to me that they came out to support me. They are a good group of kids.

Here is a link from yesterday too!

Today was an awesome success and I can't believe that it is already here. This entire experience so far has been truly incredible. Thank you to everyone who has helped me!

Tomorrow is the big day!

Tomorrow is the opening of the space to the public! Caroline, Sheetal and Sarah havebeen working so hard on this to make it become a reality and tomorrow is finally the day!

I left this morning headed to Eyebeam to get the 7D from the department to take photos of the space and interactions of customer to document the process and right before I walked out the door it started to pour. Luckily it didn't last too long and I was able to finally leave. I was suppose to be at MoMA for a meeting about the workers of the cafe. I made it just on time and got to go up stairs again to the meeting room and learned the things that will be happening in the space and how to deal with people. Its going to be a lot of fun!

After the meeting Caroline and myself went to get some food with some of the other worker in the cafe. We ended up back at MoMA after and finished preparing the space. Its so crazy to think that this is finally coming together and that tomorrow is the first day! It is going to be crazy and hectic with everyone running around trying to figure out what to do for it being the first day for all of us who are working. I'll have a lot more pictures tomorrow of what its like to be operating and its going to be awesome!

Miriam is coming back this weekend and I will be moving into Will's room while he is in Europe and I can't wait to be in that space! More to come tomorrow! :)

Daily Tasks

Let me try and explain how awesome it is to be apart of something at MoMA. This blog post will not even come close to the amount of excitement I have about everything I am doing right now. Let me just say again, I love what I am doing. Caroline is incredible and this experience is truly a gift!

Caroline and I agreed to meet at MoMA this morning with some of the last few things we had to bring. When we arrived around 10 o'clock, the vinyl install people weren't there yet and from what I understood, they were suppose to have been. They ended up calling Sarah and Sheetal, (MoMA's workers who are managing things with Caroline) and informing them they were running a little late. They finally got there and started to install the giant banner that is above the space. We couldn't really do much in the space as far as setting up things until they were done and so Caroline and I decided to take lunch. On the way to the cafeteria, the alumni photographers called me. They were finally ready too. I met them out front and they directed me into taking some staged type photos, like me wearing my backpack on one shoulder and smiling while the MoMA sign was in the back. It ended up being alright in the end. I hope they got some good ones. They told me that the writer would be getting in touch with me too so I guess I'll have a little write up too.

After that I grabbed a quick lunch and made my way back inside. The graphics were almost done and we finally got to move some of the things back into the space and where they belong. One of the physical works showed up as well! A penny machine that flattens pennies with a design in reference to an oil spill in a New York creek.

I'm sure reading this is seeming like nothing special but these interactions with people and being a part of something truly bigger than I have ever been a part of is fantastic. I can't wait to see what the future holds!

After I left MoMA I met up with Gabby Ospina, a Flagler College alumni! She graduated in graphic design two years before me and she has been doing well here in New York which is great to hear about. We went out for crepes. I got a strawberry and Nutella one an d it was SO GOOD! Then we went town the street for a drink. Luis decided to bail on us, his loss. Maybe I'll see him on Friday at the opening? I love being here!

Back and forth

Time is really counting down on the opening day! Today Caroline and I met up at Eyebeam in the early afternoon. She ran some errands and I ran one too. She was getting things that cafe's usually have like menu holders and such. I, on the hunt for tennis balls. I really didn't know where to begin but since I got to go to Chinatown the other day I figured it would be nice to shop around on the south end of Broadway. I am really on the search for a good suit and have been checking out a few places to see what they have. The weather today seemed rather warm and I was sweating walking around looking for tennis balls but finally found a store downtown that had them! After that I was on my way to Eyebeam.

When I arrived, Caroline briefed me on what was up today, more edits and finalization on things for the cafe and that tomorrow is install day and figuring out where everything goes! I got to use the laser cutter a lot and its seriously one of the coolest machines I have ever been able to operate! We are making signs that are being engraved from the machine! They look really sweet and I will have some pictures up later of what they look like, maybe tomorrow.

Tomorrow the Flagler College Alumni are coming to take photos of me and the process in New York. We will see how that goes. It should be fun and exciting! I am also going to meet up with Luis again and Gabby who are Flagler graduates in graphic design! Awesome and incredible things are happening in my life and I hope they continue to come. This entire experience, just from the almost two weeks I have been here have been more than I ever thought! This is going to be awesome.

P.S. Caroline and I are brainstorming some things to potentially come to Flagler and put something in the Crisp-Ellert! We are still in the planning stages and talking it all out with who we need to, but maybe I will see you again sooner rather than later St. Augustine.

Meetings at MoMA

Today was the first day of installing at MoMA. I can see it on Caroline's face that she is excited and I can hear it in how she talks too. It is coming up incredibly quickly, Friday is the first day it will be open!

I met Caroline early this morning at Eyebeam to gather up the things and load them into a moving van that her friend was driving. Once everything was packed they took off in the van and I took the subway, there was no room for me in the van. I got to the museum and went inside and didn't see them anywhere. I was probably gone for 25-30 minutes. I went to go walk back outside and they pulled up as I walked out. I could have swore they would beat me there for sure! We unloaded all of the things from the van and moved them into the space. I met the two workers from MoMA that have been helping Caroline on their end, Sarah and Sheetal and they were very awesome people to meet and Caroline seems like she is in good hands with them. They were having the walls painted so there were no graphics on the walls yet and we aren't allowed to fully set up yet. Wednesday will be the day for that!

We went to Canal Street which is in Chinatown and got some foam and lunch. Lunch was delicious at a dumpling place, I will need to remember it and go back! We stopped in a rubber shop to get some foam for one of the pieces Caroline has made, and watched them cut it up for us. Not being near MoMA we headed back to Eyebeam first and to our surprise the currency that Marc printed had arrived! We scrambled to open the box and saw the amazement of 4000 pieces of currency on tyvek! Marc is seriously the man! They look so good! We had a lot of things to carry now and took a cab back to MoMA, my first cab ride in the city, ever!

We finally made it back to MoMA and Caroline and I met with Sarah and Sheetal and they talked about some of the things for the training while I worked on a few more files on the computer. MoMA offices seem nice and it was just a nice environment. Its was the directors birthday actually, and everyone in the office sang her happy birthday. It was a lot of fun and everyone was so positive! Caroline and I have been back at Eyebeam now for a little while getting as much of the digital documents as we can prepared before Friday. Tomorrow is a new day and brings on more errands! I love this all! Caroline Rocks!