Archive for the ‘Events’ Category

The Creative Marathon Rocked

Monday, October 1st, 2007

As you might have read elsewhere already, the Creative Marathon event this past weekend was a smashing success. Everyone had tons of fun and we successfully raised money for the Creative Treehouse by selling artwork created during the 24 hour marathon. I helped out Friday and Saturday night by liveblogging and ...

Promote 24HourCreativeMarathon.com & Earn Free Show Admission

Friday, September 28th, 2007

I enjoy attending and supporting local events, especially tech-oriented or socially-conscious ones. However, I often find that such local events have poor or inconsistent attendance. When I ask some of my tech-oriented, socially-conscious acquaintances why they don't try to attend these events too, I often get the following two excuses: 1. ...

Pittburgh & Hollywood?

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

"Hollywood is a place where people from Pittsburgh mistake each other for stars." - Fred Allen (slightly edited by me) If you don't already know that Pittsburgh is Hollywood's secret source for affordable talent and backdrop locations, then you need to talk to Carl Kurlander of the Steeltown Entertainment Project. He ...

Bob Dylan’s Olympus Summary

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007



Liveblogging the Olympus Show

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

Update: Finally got home, still hungry and a bit tired. To explain what the timecoded notes below are, I was at the Olympus Show and Tell 2 event earlier today and blogged about the event live as it was going on. Every 5 or 10 minutes I would update the ...

Upcoming Pittsburgh Events

Monday, September 24th, 2007

At the request of Josh Sager, here's a brief list of upcoming local events that might be of interest: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 from 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm @ CMU CIC Lecture Hall Olympus Show and Tell 2 = It's just like those "show and tells" you had as a kid, ...