Darren's Work on Eat the Street

In case you think the life of the social practice artist is all about chilling and eating dinners, let me break it down for you. This has been my more-or-less standard schedule here.

6:00AM - wake up, make coffee and do some emailing for a bit and harassing the Bridgeview alumni to come to dinner. Some admin stuff with my colleagues in Toronto etc.
6:30AM - Transfer all of last night's video into imovie application, transfer all last night's photos from camera to computer.
7:00AM - Go through the photos and get rid of the bad ones, then convert all the good ones from 300dpi to 72 dpi.
7:30 - Go through the photos again and remove pics of people who don't want to be on the internet.
7:45 - post the photos on the blog.
8:00 - 12:00 edit and post the video. eat oatmeal while doing this and drink coffee. (this took longer at the beginning.)
12:00-1:00 type survey stuff into the blog.
1:00-3:30 - other work for Mammalian, research, study, email, shower, get dressed in suit.
3:30-4:00 - walk to skytrain
4:00-5:00 - travel to Bridgeview with Donna.
5:00-6:00 - travel back to Vancouver for the dinner. Make sure bus is fun
6:00-8:00 - eat the street. hosting, making sure people are seated next to good people for them. Seat shy kids near confidant people, seat confidant kids near shy people, seat funny kids near serious people, seat serious kids near funny people. Keep an eye on the whole thing to make sure that no one is having an awkward time. If someone is, then join the table and facilitate conversation. Run around with the kids, make sure everyone is happy with their food, or if they're are not happy then make sure I video their unhappiness to post on the blog. Make sure the teacher chaperone is feeling that everything is going well. Make sure there is no booze around the kids. Maybe eat. Maybe not eat. Often pick left overs off the kid's plates.
8:00-9:00 - travel back to Bridgview. Make sure the bus is super fun and rocking. Sit with crazy kids for awhile, sit with not-so-crazy kids, talk to shy kids. make sure everyone is having as good a time as I can manage. Dance. Sing an improvised opera about all the kids and the teacher.
9:00-10:00 - travel back to Vancouver
10:00-11:00 - transfer video from camera and eat some oatmeal with Mars Bars in it.
11:00 bed.
6:00AM - wake up.

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