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.
