Amy JarretE 116th St between 2nd Ave and 1st AveHeart Four · Location 448 · Drawn July 2004Download photograph 1Download photograph 2Download photograph 3Download photograph 4Download photograph 5Download photograph 6Download photograph 7Download photograph 8Download photograph 9Download photograph 10Download photograph 11Download photograph 12Download photograph 13Download photograph 14Download photograph 15Download photograph 16Show all 16 photographsVideo podcast0:00On the south side of East 116th Street, between 2nd and 1st Avenue, in July, in the summer of 2004, there was a lot of construction going on.0:11As of spring 2006, some of the results of that construction can be seen at 326, 116th.0:19The drawing was made on a plywood construction wall in the street, in front of what was to become the Flora Vista.0:27This is Amy Jarrett.0:30She was drawn in July of 2004.0:32Her drawing is counting one person.0:36[unclear] how you [unclear] from the iBook into what we have now, like that whole,0:42it's true, like the history of purchasing technology and basically for the past five0:48years we've reached critical breaking points where we realize we have to take every dollar0:53that we have available to invest in the next level of technology.0:57Half my income for the year last year went to this project.1:01Over half of every dollar I earned went to the HOPE project.1:06And then around February we emptied our last savings account and bought a G5 quad processor1:12and a 30 inch monitor.1:13Did we feel awesome?1:15Yes we did.1:16It was an amazing day.1:18It was great.1:20We don't regret it for a second.1:22second. It has sped things up. If you've ever sat in front of a machine of that magnitude1:28and felt its raw power, it has made us move so much faster. And it freed up the purchase1:35from two years previously, the maxed out 17 inch G4 PowerBook, which was every single1:41cent from one...1:43Scanners, the hard drives, the cameras.1:46Right, 3,000 gigs of backup.1:49External DVD burners.1:52without our own willingness into a technological mecca.1:57And you can sit and look at our main work table2:00and basically see the major milestones2:02of Macintosh's history for the last five years,2:05including the iPods.2:08These iPods, beyond being wonderful devices2:10for listening to music, have been awesome tools for us2:13for moving data, as hard drives,2:15and for showing photographs.2:19You know, every few months,2:20we had to make this trip to Warwick to Comp USA and then the last time we had to go to Guitar World2:25and get that thing so that we could input audio.2:28And it was this feeling of like, when is this going to end?2:32When are we going to have to stop buying things to support this terrible habit?2:36The answer is the 11th of September.2:38Amy and Jarrett, a flight attendant on United Airlines 175, loved to travel.2:44But the 28-year-old Miss Jarrett also kept flying because it gave her the resources2:49and free time to divide herself between Philadelphia, where her longtime boyfriend Kyle Rascone2:56lives, and the home she shared with her father and two brothers in her native Rhode Island.3:02The men in Miss Jarrett's life marveled at her organizational skills.← Location 447Heart Four · Location 448Location 449 →
