Category Archives: Visual

Support a Pittsburgh Filmmaker, Madagascar and check out Kickstarter

I am really excited to learn about this project that Pittsburgh filmmaker Ben Hernstrom is working on about Madagascar.  Ben has worked on some great films about Pittsburgh.  You can learn more at Ambulantic.com and check out some of his other work on youtube.  Check out the interview with Bike PGH’s Scott Bricker and his feature on Modey Lemon.

Ben has just set up a page for a film about Madagascar on this great site Kickstarter – I had hoped that someone would create a site like Kickstarter and I think it is agreat way to build community support for projects.  I did a search for Pittsburgh on Kickstarter and couldn’t find any projects yet – so please let me know if you add a Pittsburgh project to thier site.  I had fun browsing the site and found some interesting projects to support.  I think that Kickstarter works like the website ThePoint – if the project doesn’t meet the fundraising goal then the supporters cards aren’t charged for the donation.  It is a nice way to give money to projects that have a broad base of support.

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Fanboys and Last Weekend For Vader Project at Warhol

Vader Project HelmetImage by Official Star Wars Blog via Flickr

This is the last weekend to see the Vader Project – collection of 100 Darth Vader helmets which decorated by artists (see our Vader Project post) which will be at the Warhol until May 3.

For anyone who is interested in Star Wars – the film Fanboys will be shown on Saturday and Sunday at 12:30.

A comedy about a group of friends who, eager for the premiere of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace travel to Skywalker Ranch to steal an early copy of the script.

More info about Fanboys at the Warhol including a link to buy tickets is available here.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUwOMqQgOtg[/youtube]

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Artists from University of Wisconsin and Beyond Light Up Braddock this Weekend

Braddock, Pennsylvania.Image via Wikipedia

I really want to highlight this event for this weekend – I am going to try to stop by on Friday or Satruday evening.  I met the founder of the Unsmoke Artspace a few years ago and I have really enjoyed seeing his dedication to Braddock and the region.  Braddock Light is an exhibit that will include artists from the University of Wisconsin and other locations – all who work with light as an artistic medium.  I have attended a variety of events in Braddock over the past few years and each time has provided an opportunity to see interesting works of art, the architecture of Braddock and meet some interesting people.  Here is a picture from a light installation in Braddock in 2006.

Braddock Light

Who: over 35 light and video artists from the University of Wisconsin – Madison,
Pratt MWP and the Pittsburgh area.

When: dusk till midnight, Friday April 24 and Saturday April 25

Where: Unsmoke Systems Artspace, 1137 Braddock Ave, Braddock PA, 15104
Braddock, PA – Join us for the 2009 light art exhibition hosted by Unsmoke
Systems. The two day event is a unique and exciting art event that exhibits
works of art from artists around the region For the past 20 years, the University
of Wisconsin-Madison has been hosting national exhibits for artists who use
light as a medium. This year they have decided to take it on the road, to Braddock and
come and transform Unsmoke Systems. This event is presented by the University
of Wisconsin – Madison Art/Glass Dept. and Unsmoke Systems.

Some other blogs that have posted about Braddock Light: Oranje,  Pittsburgh Art and Gallery Info, Graduate Contextual Practice – (I am not sure exactly what this blog is about but I love the blog design and there are some great pictures posted here too) and the Pittsburgh discussion group on Flickr.

Some other blog coverage of Braddock:

  • This American Dream looks at Braddock going Greeen
  • Rust Wire has a nice summary of some recent press on Braddock – Rust Wire is doing a great job blogging about the Great Lakes “rust belt” cities – I had a change to catch up with these bloggers at the last month in Milwaukee – check out their blog for more great info.

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100 Darth Vader's at the Warhol

The Vader ProjectImage by Official Star Wars Blog via Flickr

The Vader Project opens this weekend and The Warhol

100 works by contemporary international artists utilizing 1:1 scale authentic prop replicas of the Darth Vader helmet used in the Star Wars films.

From Vinyl Pulse (a blog about designer toys)

The exhibit officially opens this Saturday, February 28th (12-4) with a make-your-own-vader mask event. Come out dressed up as your favorite character.The Vader Project opens at the Warhol this weekend.

From I like the Warhol museum for alot of reasons – I am not really sure if Andy Warhol would like the Warhol museum but that is anothr conversation.  If it weren’t for the warhol museum this blog wouldn’t exist.  After a trip to the Warhol on a rainy sunday afternoon – I decided to teach myself to screen print.  The first t-shirt I printed was an IheartPGH t-shirt.  A few year later, I had forgotten about t-shirts and was working on campaigns when we started the IheartPGH blog and brought back the t-shirt idea.  The t-shirts and the blog have been a good thing.  It was an IheartPGH reader that left a comment about Spreadshirt and I was happy to find a great source for IheartPGH T-shirts and now I work for Spreadshirt and when I am not writing about Pittsburgh, I am writing about t-shirts here.  I had no idea when I dragged friend of IheartPGH to the Warhol musuem back in 2003 that it would be so influential. Continue reading →

Jefferson Presents

I heart Pittsburgh experimental film!  JEFFERSON PRESENTS… THE 2008 LOCAL PITTSBURGH EXPERIMENTAL FILM SHOWWHEN: Sunday, December 14, 2008 @ 7PMWHERE: Garfield Artworks, 4931 Penn Ave.HOW MUCH: $5/$4 studentsThe 6th not so annual local screening features recent short experimental films by Pittsburgh based filmmakers and artists including Tony Balko; tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE; Bill Daniel; Gordon Nelson; Tara Nelson; Ross Nugent; Brian Dean Richmond and Rebbyro plus a reading by David V. Matthews and some other surprises. All films presented in the original formats.