Yearly Archives: 2009

Summer Gallery Crawl in the Cutural District

: Image by now picnic via Flickr

The Cultural District has been organizing these gallery crawls for the past few years – I have made it down town for a few of these friday evening events and it is always a great and interesting time. All of the Gallerys along and near Penn Avenue open their doors and put out a spread of snacks. Since it is July and warm enough to be outside I think that tomorrow’s Gallery Crawl will be extra fun with lots of outdoor activities too.

Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District
Friday, July 17, 2009
5:30-9pm

Check out the entire huge list of gallery crawl events here.

Looking for something to do afer 9pm? check out Cosmopolitian Pittsburgh – a benefit for the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust (h/t to Chris Lugo for including this in his July Events List)

Share Your PGH Photos HERE!

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You may have noticed a new look for IheartPGH recently – we are trying to make the site easier to use and easier to find more information that you might be looking for about Pittsburgh. We have long wanted to show off more great pictures of this fine city! The front page here and the side bar are now displaying photos from the IheartPGH Flickr Group. If you are a Flickr user please join the group and share your photos! Currently the box on the front pages displays the most recent photo – I am trying to find a way to have it display a slide show and include more information about who took the photo too.

If you have any other ideas on how we can improve IheartPGH please share or if you are a webdesigner who would like to help us with a new wordpress theme we would love to talk to you too!

Getting Ready for the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix

Getting Ready for the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix, originally uploaded by IheartPGH.

Vintage cars are on display on Walnut Street in Shadyside for the upcoming vintage grand prix.

Born in Pittsburgh – Chalkbot is Making a Mark on the Tour de France

: Image by Mike Monteiro via Flickr

A few weeks ago the folks at DeepLocal sent me an email about Chalkbot – I took a look at the link to the web page about the robot and thought it was pretty interesting as they are often working on interesting projects. Fast forward a few weeks and the folks from DeepLocal and chalkbot have made the trip to Europe for the Tour de France. (I am really interested to know how one gets a robot to Europe).

Chalkbot as on commenter on CrunchGear put it is “a chalkjet printer, mega-sized and towed by a pick-up truck! Awesome!” Nike has taken chalkbot from Pittsburgh to the Tour de France to print out messages in chalk that users can submit on their website.

To see some great pictures of Chalkbot in action check out their twitpic photos and follow along on Twitter – www.twitter.com/chalkbot. You can also follow the Cahlkbot via DeepLocal’s David Evans who is blogging from France here – http://francebot.tumblr.com/ (Hi David!).

Here are the folks from DeepLocal talking about Chalkbot

Check out some of the early Chalkbot tests here –http://chalkbot.wordpress.com/. More coverage of Chalkbot from BikePgh and Pop City Media. Continue reading →

Shop Handmade at South Side Exposed this Weekend

Three Days of Crafts and Festivities in Pittsburgh!
Visit with 70 artisans and craftspeople during three days of arts, music & festivities as the I Made It! Market joins Pittsburgh’s SouthSide Works Exposed.

Artists Market will be open:
Friday, July 10: 5 – 10 pm
Saturday, July 11: 2 – 10 pm
Sunday, July 12: 2 – 6 pm

SouthSide Works Exposed is an amazing mix of a music festival, artist’s market, and sidewalk sales … but most of all a celebration of art in life. The setting for the event is in and around the Town Square of SouthSide Works.
Parking garage rates after 5 pm Friday and all weekend are only $3.00!