As corollaries to the pop artist Andy Warhol's bromide that in the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes, I present the following:
In the future everyone will be famous in homeopathic doses.
In the future, everyone will be listed on imdb.
I'm glad I got that out of the way. What I really want to do is list a couple of P-G articles that I saw today.
One is a story on empty retail space Downtown. Actually, rather than leaving the space empty, the geniuses (and I don't use the term facetiously, these were the folks that came up with the fountain and the skating rink) at PPG Place decided to fill the space with all kinds of fabulous stuff. Marylynne Pitz covers the story.
After having visited the convention center and the regional showcase last night, I'm convinced that Pittsburgh's task is to come up with amusements that can fill dead space. The convention center is a beautiful building, but filled with foot after foot, yard after yard, rod after rod of dead space.
Perhaps we can't get along in life just making amusements. What about things one actually makes, useful things? One story by Joyce Gannon covers the product development of a carboy scrubber, a carboy being the glass water jugs used by home-based beer and wine makers. Although I think you can get by with using a mild bleach solution for cleaning out most anything in a bottle, the device is both clever and non-toxic.
Posted by mastr at December 12, 2003 09:36 AM