Why I’ve not been blogging these last few weeks: I’ve been helping organize a terrific event that will happen Saturday. To wit: BootCamp PGH is a free one-day, immersive "entry level" workshop designed to educate students, small businesses and corporate communications professionals on the power and possibilities of new media. (That is, blogging, podcasting, social …
Tag Archives: Pittsburgh
“I’ve never thought twice about the safety”
I’ve been on a video shoot this morning, so I haven’t read much of anything about the convention center collapse in Pittsburgh. But from what I’ve read so far here here and here, the David L. Lawrence Convention Center seems to be turning into Pittsburgh’s version of Boston’s John Hancock Tower. The building’s most dangerous …
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Have lunch with the Human Baton
Things are busy here at My Brilliant Mistakes HQ, and I apologize for the even-lighter-than-usual posting. Given that I’m very busy, it’s about time for me to cram something strange and needlessly time-consuming into the schedule. Right on schedule: I’ve signed up to help transport the Human Baton for a leg of his cross country …
Event: Artists with a Cause
Artists with a Cause – Benefiting the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Photographer George Mendel is working with the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation on his next gallery show. This coming Thursday December 14, 2006, George will be featured with two other artists at Coby Gallery North Side, in Pittsburgh. The work of all three artists was inspired from …
Something To Be Desired
Some nice press in today’s Post-Gazette about Pittsburgh’s own web-based soap comedy, Something To Be Desired: "Something To Be Desired," or "STBD" for short, is a hybrid of sitcom and soap opera. Its characters live in Pittsburgh and mostly work at a fictional radio station –WANT-FM — which is going quickly down the tubes. Their …
Creative Cafe of Elisco Advertising
New creative/social venue opening in Lawrenceville: Elisco Advertising will open up its Creative Cafe located in Lawrenceville to bring together artists, musicians, poets and chefs for regular happenings, just to get the creative juices flowing. And the public will be invited to many of them. Elisco has a reputation for alternative advertising. But they also …
City Theatre special event: “Stage Directions”
Unique discussion TONIGHT (Monday 11/13) at City Theatre: "Stage Directions," a discussion by the Artistic Director Tracy Brigden and Artistic Associate Kellee Van Aken. From the e-newsletter: [They] will lead a talk about casting and directing plays that have never been done before. Free and open to the public, the discussion takes place at City …
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Man Is Man at the Sage Building
Something to do tonight or tomorrow night (if you need a break from PodCampPittsburgh): A new adaptation of "Man Is Man," the anti-war comedy by Bertolt Brecht, with live music, performed in an abandoned children’s clothing store. MAN IS MAN by Bertolt Brecht November 8-11, 2006 at 8 pm The Sage Building 1029 Fifth Avenue …
BlogFest 8: The Ocho Wrapup
BlogFest 8 was a small and very fun gathering. We must remember to take pictures at these things — but even that wouldn’t quite capture the sense of the evening. More representative would be a short video of someone looking at their watch and saying, in some consternation, "It’s 9 o’clock already?" Lots of bloggers …