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Things trudge onwards at Codeblooded.



5 BTR: Glockenspiel Addendum record covers were returned to their birthplace on Monday, but this time filled with the records they were made to hold. Cory had me take them over to Kayrock Screenprinting for those guys, and also to put in an order for another 200 covers to get printed.
There were only 300 records made, but you can have one (or more) for yourself IF YOU ACT NOW!!! Jump over to Cory's website and jump again from there to Paypal.

Since Cory's show at Team went up, things have been a lot more errand-based. Thus is the nature of the beast - pre show was lots of production for the show, and then in the aftermath the business rolls back in. All in all the show was real successful, Cory sold some pieces (Colors sold out!), it got a bunch of reviews and press, and lots of important New York art people came to see it. Nothing went wrong technically speaking, and the change over to the next show was smooooth.
A bunch of my duties have been Team Gallery related, gathering things together for Cory, cleaning up. We figured out how to get all the screens of the various projections to freeze frame so a photographer could come shoot stills. I went to pick up the record player, records, and DVD sync machine, along with other ephemera of Cory's that got left at Team.

One day we rode bikes down from Eyebeam to Team, to meet a friend of Cory's, a young collector named Paul who has just decided that he's gonna open a gallery in his hometown in Canada. He expressed his urge to bring what he likes about the art scene and bring it back to the place he grew up, instead of just leaving home for wherever the center of the scene may be. I admire that, makes me think of starting something up in Boston.
After come coffee we went back to Team, and Cory gave a guided tour/explanation of the show to Cynthia Allen's Digital New Media class from NYU. I took the class last year, and Cynthia also asked me to speak a bunch about what my duties are working for Cory and what the work environment is like at Eyebeam, to give some advice to the other students in the class.

I've been to the post office a lot, mailing posters. I have mastered the PayPal postage self-printing system, as well as the customs form for international orders. Cory has also been out of town a bit - he showed Sweet 16 at a college in Virginia, and went down there for the opening, which included a live glockenspiel performance of two tracks of the addendum record. Cory says "I messed up a lot, I was really sick." We tried to digitize the video footage of the performance, but the camera is real old and the format was giving us troubles. I've been up to MoMA a few times, dropping things off and picking up other things for Cory. On Tuesday Cory was leaving to go teach in Milwaukee, and it became my job to clean off the desk that I had been working at at one point but had steadily become storage/clutter, to make it available for the new group of R&D fellows that have just started their resedencies. Since Cory isn't around, I have been hanging out more with the GRL guys, helping them with production, brainstorming, being a lookout on some test missions, and doing documentation.

Charles is gonna be taking over my job next semester - good news - I'll be in London at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, thanks in part to Cory writing me a reccomendation letter. "I'm getting pretty good at them," Cory says.