Showing posts with label Pittsburgh Arts Festival. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pittsburgh Arts Festival. Show all posts

Friday, June 27, 2008

Happy Anniversary to me! My wife has put up with me for a whole decade.





So, no matter how comfy the couch is at Brother Bean, it's not the spot for videotaping.


Etsy is hosting a bunch of great how-to s in July. The schedule is here




The Erie Arts Festival schedule is up.


I am being stupid or am I missing something (I guess that's not really an either-or)? Wouldn't it be easier and better just to donate the 500K that you're spending on fireworks to the organization rather than trying to get 25,000 people at $20 a pop to pay to see fireworks (to equal $500K)- which are in the sky - which means that you can't stop people from looking at them for free?



The Pittsburgh City Paper checks in on how the Pittsburgh Arts Festival is going green:
In this first year of a planned three-year initiative, Walsh, 28, had hoped to divert half the waste from landfills. But 12 days into the 17-day festival, preliminary figures indicated that, by volume, some 80 percent of the post-consumer waste had either been recycled or composted -- a big success.



Pittsburgh's 707 Penn Gallery hosts f295 an Exhibition of Contemporary Alternative Photography


Free and Legal Downloads:
Calexico - "Carried to Dust"

Mason Jennings Live at Phoenix Concert Theatre on February 26, 2007

Animal Liberation Orchestra Live at Harmony Festival on June 10, 2007

Billy Bragg Live at Birchmere on March 26, 2006

Monday, June 02, 2008

This year's Arts Festival in Pittsburgh is:

. . . shedding for good the familiar yellow pavilions that for years sheltered the visual arts component of the festival, and doing away with the professional curated exhibition, as well. In their place will be 10 huge shipping containers...

"shedding". Get it?



postcrossing is a site that connects postcard-pals across the world.



There's a whole slew of alternative audio tours ready for this summer's vacation. My favorites?

Capitol of Punk - Former Fugazi frontman and all around music legend Ian MacKaye walks you through historic punk spots in our nation's capitol.

Sound About Philly combines hipster shopping with African American History




It's not too late to enter The North Faces' outdoor photo contest.



Has the e-book's time finally arrived?



Are cellphones ruining the concert experience? Yes. Yes they are.


Although I think a velodrome would be a great addition to Venangoland's nascent bike culture, I'd be almost as happy if the one proposed in The Cleve took off.


Two films I'm trying to find a screening of? Chasin' Gus' Ghost and Who Does She Think She Is?


ReRip is a website to purchase and sell used surf, skate, and snow sporting gear.


Okkervil River has released their fall tour dates. They'll be at Mr. Smalls in Millvale on October 9th.


Free and Legal Downloads:

...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead Live at Vk* on May 18, 2008 (flac)

Nora York "Song of Love" (mp3) from Alchemy

Vetiver "Blue Driver"(mp3) from Thing Of The Past

Salsa Celtica "Esperanza" (mp3) from El Camino Buy at Rhapsody