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Creative Marathon
September 30, 2007
The Creative Treehouse held the 24 Hour Creative Marathon over the past two days. From Friday to Saturday night, with a 24 hour time limit, artists gathered to create pieces based on a theme (this time’s was “lost and found”). The event culminated in a public gallery showing (during which time the finished works were available for sale), with food, drinks, and live music.
I was out of town during the bulk of the weekend and was expecting to miss everything, but thanks to Twitter (what’s happening?), owning an iPhone (how do I get there?), and some wonderful people, I made it for the last two hours of the final show. The art was impressive, the bands enjoyable, and the room warm. I was beat after arriving at the venue immediately after a couple hours of driving, but the visit was worth the detour, if even only for the company.
(Hey, it was nice to see you all.)
Categories: Daily, Pittsburgh
September 30th, 2007 at 12:43 am
I would appreciate it if you stopped going to such cool-sounding things. You’re making me lamer by the moment.
September 30th, 2007 at 2:46 am
Are you sure you should be meeting other bloggers in real life? You’re going to make the web implode.
:)
Did you buy any of the arts?
September 30th, 2007 at 8:43 am
Ok, so, speaking of creativity…
You know how they brought over that awesome professor from CMU to teach your fiction class last semester? She’s teaching one of my graduate courses now.
So we’re doing flash fiction, and we got one of those massive packets of published works to read and emulate.
I get to the fourth one in, a wonderfully horrifying little piece called “Pulse,” and I read the author’s name, and I’m like, “her name sounds familiar.” Oh yeah, it’s the same as yours.
And I’m thinking, “that’s a coincidence. Two writers with the same name that write awesome freaky stuff.” So I google the name and no one comes up but you, and I e-mail the prof to “get info on the author”, and she answered me…
“Glad you enjoyed it. That piece actually belongs to a promising former student…”
Sorry, longest comment ever. But yeah. Thought you’d like to know.
September 30th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
Wow!!! What a neat idea for an event!
I need to move closer to the city…
September 30th, 2007 at 5:12 pm
I was there on Friday night, and it was an absolute blast. I wish I could have made the Sat. night art show, but alas couldn’t make it.
I plan on staying over for the next one!
September 30th, 2007 at 5:41 pm
Lisa - Unfortunately, no, but many of the pieces were really incredible.
Robert - GET OUT!
September 30th, 2007 at 8:42 pm
food, drinks, and an opprtunity to get together with fellow artist. *I’m sold! :D
October 1st, 2007 at 1:37 pm
Thank you very much for coming and thank you even more for blogging about it. (I’m posting a link to this page from the creative marathon website.)
We are an enthusiastic bunch and seeing people blog about Creative Marathon makes us giddy. Which means there will definitely be a Creative Marathon 3.
Don’t hesitate to drop us a line if you have any ideas for the next one. Or if you would like to help plan the event. creative.marathon@gmail.com
October 1st, 2007 at 3:15 pm
[...] you might have read elsewhere already, the Creative Marathon event this past weekend was a smashing success. [...]
October 1st, 2007 at 3:32 pm
Thanks for coming out and supporting the event. Hope to see you again soon at the next cool local shindig.
October 1st, 2007 at 10:43 pm
Sorry I missed you. I was there for the first hour or so.
What year did you graduate from North Hills? I graduated in 2002. Small world, eh?
Hopefully I’ll see you at another event soon.
October 6th, 2007 at 10:33 am
Thanks for coming out. Looking forward to having you out there more often :)