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!
