The folks at the Waffle Shop are looking for your big idea – really big ideas – and if your big idea is the best idea you could win $250 and Free Waffles for a Year! You don’t have to be in Pittsburgh to win either. If you aren’t in town to attend the idea event on Oct. 3, 2009 – they will have an actor stand in for you. Continue reading
I wanted to make sure to post about this before the spring semester ends. I have made a few visits to the Waffle Shop in the past few months.
The Waffle Shop is a class project for the undergraduate art course – The Storefront Project which is taught at Carnegie Mellon. Last semester it was Waffle Shop – a reality tv show. For the spring semester it is Waffle Shop – The Talk Show. The venue, which is the former tuxedo shop located at the corner of Highland and Baum in East Liberty has seen quite a transformation this semester. The professor who was serving up waffles when I was there recently said there are more design students in the class this semester.
I think this project has been great for the neighborhood – what was once a vacant storefront is now filled with a range of people – CMU students, waffle seekers like me and even some high school students from the neighborhood.
The talk show aspect makes this more than just a place to eat waffles but a place to start a community conversation. I am not sure what will happen to the shop over the summer – but I do hope that this project will continue in the fall – or someone will make this a real waffle shop. Continue reading
I cannot believe that I have been blogging about PGH for over 3 years and I have not published a word about the tech fair. One of the must do events of the spring when I was a kid was to attend the Tech Fair – year later when I was working at Carnegie Mellon for the summer – I was confused when everyone kept talking about this Spring Carnival – apparently it is called Spring Carnival by students today – but I am sure many other people refer to this annual event as the Tech Fair. Each year we would go to the Tech Fair and participate in the carnival games that were set up by the students – which are some spectacularly amazing carnival games and one of the fraternities would be giving away goldfish to the winner. It was then a competition among my school mates to see whose fish lived the longest. My sister had a fish that lasted for many years and might still be alive today if we hadn’t forgot to have someone feed it when we when on vacation.
Here are a few of the reasons why you should stop by the Tech Fair/Spring Carnival this weekend
Here is a picture of a nintendo themed booth from the 2007 Spring Carnival (Photo Credit: Daveynin). The 2007 Nintendo fun house was even profiled on Engadget.
Want to watch some carnival action from your desk? Check out this page which features live feeds from 3 different webcams on campus.
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If you are a regular reader you will know that we really like signs (and sometimes climb over guard rails to photograph them) and that we have been following the Pittsburgh Signs Project from its beginnings as a blog to a published book.
The book – Pittsburgh Signs Project: 250 Signs of Western Pennsylvania – is now available on Amazon.com. I have a copy and I gave some copies of the book to friends for Christmas. It is even easier to order a copy for your friends who don’t live in Pittsburgh.
If you would prefer to shop local…
Pittsburgh Signs Project: 250 Signs of Western Pennsylvania is now available for sale at Carnegie Mellon’s University Store in the shop or online, the Mattress Factory Museum (North Side) and Heinz History Center (Strip District) shops.
The book is also for sale at the Carnegie Museum of Art Store (Oakland), Andy Warhol Museum (North Side) and Silver Eye Center for Photography (South Side).
Image via Wikipedia
I stumbled upon this event while browsing weekend activities for this weekend at ThisIsHappening.org and this looks like my kind of event – Pittsburgh story telling. A bunch of historians from around Pittbsurgh are digging up some artifacts and stories from the Warhol Museum (I love Andy Warhol’s time capsules), The Homewood Cemetary, Pitt, Chatam and more. I don’t know much about the Archival Happy Hour Group but it looks like this is going to be a pretty amazing story hour.Unbeknownst Pittsburgh! from the Archival Happy Hour Action GroupFriday, Feb. 6, 2009 7pmMary Breed Lecture Hall, Margaret Morrison Building, Carnegie Mellon UniversityFree
A multimedia presentation of Pittsburgh stories and images you’ve never heard of! Eigh of Pittsburgh’s many archival repositories have agreed to raid their Hollinger boxes to bring you unknown and hard to believe stories, photos, songs and movies. Participants include The Carnegie Mellon University Archives, Rivers of Steel, The Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, University of Pittsburgh, The Archives of the Andy Warhol Museum, Chatham University, and The Homewood Cemetery. Come prepared for opera singers, safety films, time capsules, singing coeds, grown men in togas and 23-Skidoo!