Umesh talked over but not to this slide. Drives me crazy.
Met Anita Harris at Panera Bread near UAlbany. Her mother is in a nursing home nearby. While waiting Janet Schnitzer, Germantown, former HAL President, appeared. She play majong there regularly. Small world. Continue reading
Talked with Silicus in Pune India. Then Jared Woodcock, Jan’s nephew, about Schuyler Duffy’s idea for growing vegetables in a shipping container. Drive to UAlbany for meeting with students.
Drove down to NYC to go to opening of Judy Henry’s exhibition at BravinLee Programs (526 West 26th Street #211, New York, NY 10001)
Judy talking with Karen.
More work on getting ready for taxes. Trip to Albany to meet with UAlbany students. Jan there too. Raining and cold.
Walked over to university art gallery. Current show: The Ties That Bind: Artists and Archives.
Most striking is Shane Aslan Selzer’s images in B&W. One image bleeding into the next always preserving elements of the earlier in the succeeding. Here is a sequence grabbed by iPhone from the video.
6:05 PM
Went early to go to Apple Store to pick up new iPad Air2. Then to UAlbany. Led discussion because Jan was attending an executive event at the Business School.
Left promptly at 1:30 to return to meet with Miranda Barry who is interested in the library. Gwen Gould also attended. Met at Cafe le Perche. Miranda is very dynamic, experienced educational media person. Long time with Sesame Street.Now with a new venture StarWalk Kids Media. She is very interested in participating in program development.
UAlbany trip.
Full house, SRO, at Peter Jung talk about Hudson River School painters at HAL
Worked on UTM. Spent time on phone with Tim Varney at Troy Web on new iTunes Connect provisioning system. Still very unclear how this works. Also cleaned up more of the investor presentation. Drove to UAlbany. Jan is sick so he attended most of the meeting by telecon.
Talked with Anita Harris for first time since late November. Karen had a photographer in for a portfolio review so I met Chad Weckler at Verdigris to talk about the makerspace project. Next steps, check in that we are on the same page philosophically.
Went to gym at 7:30 am.
Visited Albany Public Library Made Here Creative Space at Washington Ave branch (former main branch. The library is iun a former IRS building. Low ceilings, though they have made considerable improvements in its appearance and functionalities.
UAlbany students cancelled with less than one hour’s notice via email. Jan is skiing with his kids so he didn’t count in the equation.
Fortunately I could move my 2:30pm meeting to talk about their new makerspace at the Albany Public Library to 1pm.
Met with Sarah Clark and Ryan Slowey. Etsy’s main contribution was so stimulate the start of the space and a six week workshop on entrepreneurialism. Held last fall with sixteen participants. Staff funding is coming out of the regular budget. APL is a school district library so they get $42 per person for their budget from taxes. They will have official launch of the space shortly. Because of the layout the space can only be open during library hours. They don’t seem to have a very strong connection to their community and possible customer base.
Drove to Albany for a UTM meeting with Belvedere Home Care for a requirements gathering meeting. Jan Woodcock led the process. Very active customer inputs from four staff & CEO/owner.
Then on to UAlbany for the regular weekly meeting with the students.
My visit to Albany Made Here Creative Space at Albany Public Library was cancelled due to illness. Will see this next week. They are building this in partnership with Etsy.
Finished last of season five of The Wire. Now have seen the entire series again. Still most compelling TV.
