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