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Last week I posted about Paul Nosa’s Sewing Tour project on Kickstarter. Paul is an artist based in Tuscon, AZ who is planning to travel across the country with his solar and bike powered sewing machine. I posted about the project because the video is awesome (check out the video here) AND he is bringing the tour to Pittsburgh. The first Kickstarter more
Sewing Tour 2012 is project that came up on Kickstarter. We have posted some Kickstarter projects here before – Kickstarter is a website that lets your croudsource funding for projects and businesses. I am sharing this project because it has a really nice little video and I think it is a neat little project. While I don’t do much of it myself, more
Over the holidays, the Post-Gazette reported that over 30 restaurants opened in Pittsburgh last year! Which new restaurant was your favorite? We are looking forward to trying a bunch during Pittsburgh Restaurant Week. 2012 is already looking like another great year for the Pittsburgh food scene as well. Here are a few openings to look forward more
Last week I saw the the Kickstarter project for Wear You Live – prints made with figureground maps of different US cities. We have been blogging about lots of map related things over on BlogLocal and I have been on the hunt for anything map related. The maps that we use are called figuregrounds. This type of map is commonly used in the fields of more
Kickstarter.com is a website where people can croudsource funding for all sorts of projects – from books, movies, festivals and cool new products. Project managers post a project – usually with a video and a bunch of pledge gifts – based on how much you give you also receive something in return – usually related to the project. We have blogged more
Blackberry Meadows Farm, an an organic farm in Natrona Heights, is working on a project to preserve endangered foods. Endangered foods? Yes, according to Slow Food USA there are nearly 200 foods in danger of extinction – check out the whole list here. In response Jen Montgomery and Greg Boulos from Blackberry Meadows Farm and organic farmer Paul more
I have been excited about this ideas since we first got an email about it last month. Fleeting Pages is a project to turn the East Liberty Borders – which closed for business a few weeks ago into a pop-up independent book store. With the help of a lot of different groups – Fleeting Pages will be open for a month. Fleeting Pages is also putting more
