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Pitt-starter: Pittsburgh Alternate Histories Book

October 4, 2018 Lindsay

Alternate Histories of Pittsburgh bookPitt-starter is our occasional series about local crowdfunding projects on websites like Kickstarter. You can see our past Pitt-starter posts here.  Pittsburgh artist and author (and DJ) Matthew Buchholz is running a Kickstarter campaign to fund his new Pittsburgh Alternate Histories Book, “Pittsburgh in Olden Times.”  Buchholz published Alternate Histories of The World in 2013; the book is available on the Alternate Histories website and Amazon (pro tip – if you order the book from the Alternate Histories website you will receive a signed or personalized copy from the author). Not familiar with the book?  You may have seen some… Read the rest

Filed Under: Pitt-Starter, Uncategorized Tagged With: Alternate Histories, books, In Bed By Ten, Kickstarter, pitt-starter, pittsburgh authors, The Independent Brewing Company

Truly Investing Local, an Interview w/ Honeycomb Credit

December 19, 2017 Ben

Are you a ‘buy local’ person? Did you ditch the big box stores and shop small for this holiday season? If so, then you get a gold star! Buying local is investing in your community. It’s taking your hard-earned cash and giving it to your neighbor. That transfer of money doesn’t go out of town; it stays right here in Pittsburgh. But, shopping small is not be the only way to support your favorite local business. There is now a way to ‘invest local!’ We spoke with Ken Martin, Co-founder of Honeycomb Credit, to learn about the struggles small businesses… Read the rest

Filed Under: Community Resources, Pittsburgh Businesses, Shop PGH Tagged With: arts & culture, invest local, investing, Kickstarter, Millie's Ice Cream, pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Juice Company, retail, shop small, small biz, small business

Have You Seen Me? A Memorial to Slavery. Artist Talk & Kickstarter Party

July 6, 2015 Lindsay

Pittsburgh artist Alexi Morrisey is in the final 2 weeks of funding for his Kickstarter project for “Have You Seen Me? A Memorial to Slavery.” One of the reasons I think this project is worth a look is that it brings together several different types of story telling medias – milk bottles, advertising, oral history – to tell a story. One of the many interesting things about this project is that it uses the 1980’s “kid on the milk carton” to create a memorial to slavery: By putting the faces of real slaves on hand-crafted, archival, milk bottles, we are… Read the rest

Filed Under: Pitt-Starter, Uncategorized Tagged With: Alexi Morrissey, arts & culture, have you seen me, Kickstarter, porcelain, Slavery

Pitt-Starter: Robot Repair Shop at the Pittsburgh International Airport

June 11, 2015 Remy Porter

robot repair shopThis summer, you might spot a white cargo van with NASA markings unloading some mysterious-looking technology at the Pittsburgh Airport. No, it isn’t partnership between CMU and NASA to explore the final frontier from Pittsburgh. It’s artist Tobey Fraley bringing back “Fraley’s Robot Repair Shop”. From 2011–2012, for 17 months, Pittsburghers and visitors were tickled by “Fraley’s Robot Repair Shop” downtown. The Lonely Robot waited for his human return, and Pittsburghers did their best to keep the robot company. Mr. Fraley wants to bring the storefront back, and he’s turned to Kickstarter to make it happen. Mr. Fraley’s NASA themed… Read the rest

Filed Under: Pitt-Starter Tagged With: Kickstarter, robot repair shop

Pitt-starter: Less than 24hrs to Help DuoScreen Reach Goal

October 14, 2014 Lindsay

Pitt-starter is our series of blog posts on Pittsburgh related crowdfunding campaigns.  You can check out past Pitt-starter posts here. It is down to the wire for this one, but Pittsburghers are good at lastminute comebacks.  DuoScreen is a Pittsburgh startup that is part of the ThrillMill incubator in East Liberty.  I have had the opportunity to get to know the founders of DuoScreen over the past 10 months and I really like these guys.  Not only will they sit around and let me talk about social media for hours, but they have a great ideas, they are super nice… Read the rest

Filed Under: Pitt-Starter Tagged With: Crowdfunding, DuoScreen, Kickstarter, Laptop, pittsburgh, Second screen

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