Digital Arts Service Corps - moving

Month 1

Sharon Small — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:55:18 +0000

Still loving the job. Zumix is closed this week to students (we're in between "semesters" right now, classes start up again on Sept. 14th) so it's eerily quiet in here. I can only hear one guitar right now as opposed to a rock band practicing, a drum lesson, radio show, and general chaos that comes along with working with high schoolers.

Anyway, it's going really well! It's a pretty exciting time for Zumix because we're getting ready to move over to the Firehouse, which is going to be our new operating space and is 3 times as big as what we have now. I've been inside a few times and construction is coming along pretty quickly. It's crazy to think about how much space we'll have to work with. We're hoping to move in November/December, and then hold classes starting in January. It looks like for now we're pretty much on schedule.

We're also getting ready for our Harvest Festival, which is this Sunday, Sept. 6. I've been helping out with a lot of the planning/coordinating and outreach. This has been everything from contacting bakeries to try to get them to enter our apple pie contest to actually walking around East Boston and hanging flyers for the Festival in store windows. It should be a good time.

Still working on a lot of the underwriting stuff as well. It's turning out to be quite a process. We went out to a couple businesses last week and are realizing what we need more of and what types of things aren't really necessary. (For example, getting stats for our website = SUPER important. Thank you, Google Analytics.)

We're also gearing up for next semester, interviewing kids and trying to work out placement and schedules. I'm excited for classes to start up again because I love the energy when all the kids are everywhere :)

Stuck On You Like Glue

AJ McGuire — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 19:40:46 +0000

In Brief:The Kids: some of them are finally getting it together, projects are rolling, cameras are getting turned on and pointed at things, footage is on various computers and there is much running around and talk about football and cliques. The Materials: cracking out some workshop prototypes and test-driving them, got a website up to help things run and make materials available to all.The Organization: we're moving down the line to new office space in the Roxbury Mall trying not to go nuts... naw, ain't gonna do that.

First Day on the "Job"

Tim Wescott — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 22:46:52 +0000

Well, it seems most people have been at their postions for at least a week. I just started today. I'm working for Aspiration in downtown San Francisco, which is incredibly cool. I got a nice computer and a nice workspace. This morning Heather (my supervisor) went through all the tools I'll be using, and I'm looking forward to getting my hands on them. Gunner (my other supervisor) took everyone at Aspiration out to lunch (that's easy when there's only 3 people). Right now they're at a meeting, and I've been playing around with my computer and the Social Source Commons (which Gunner will show me more about when he gets back).

Last week I spent moving. First driving down to South Carolina where I gave my parents my car, and then flying to Oakland on Tuesday. My furniture all arrived on Thursday, and my wife and I were completely unpacked and organized by Sunday (more or less). We actually invited a few people over for a movie Sunday night as inspiration to us to get everything done.