tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26536759Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:09:16 +0000http://www.toistudio.com/blog/blog.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dru McKeown)Blogger533125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26536759.post-4605929586323746860Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:00:00 +00002008-07-22T22:09:16.644-04:00Design Rants Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2008 I just wanted to share. Things around Ceveland I would have liked to see time lapsed videos of... Euclid Corridor going in. CSU Student Center going down (it is still going on). The erection of the Rock Hall's structure. The CHUH Library walkway going up and being filled in with glass. A freighter winding its way through the flats and out to Lake ErieI just http://www.toistudio.com/blog/2008/07/folly-time-lapsed-serpentine-gallery.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dru McKeown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26536759.post-4599108912330243944Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:47:00 +00002008-07-21T19:04:09.588-04:00Cleve. Events Friday, July 25th, 2008 1240 Huron Road, Star Plaza, Ground Floor 8.20pm Part of ingenuity so the cost is to get into the whole shebang. Could you explain what you do in 20 seconds per 20 slides? Could you show your voice, your talent, your interest? Could you sell your purpose 6 minutes 40 seconds to a crowd armed with nothing but a quick powerpoint, a stopwatch and your wit? I hope you can.http://www.toistudio.com/blog/2008/07/pecha-kucha-night-cleveland-vol-1.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dru McKeown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26536759.post-7591863085443200216Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:12:00 +00002008-07-20T16:47:45.647-04:00Design RantsLakewood Walk and Roll What happens when you shut down a city street to motorized vehicles? Can you celebrate the walkability of your community? Lakewood, Ohio sure can. Offering a plethora of eating establishments, shopping and professional offices a community that celebrates its diversity and its density happens to be one of the most enjoyable places I have had the fortune to call home. http://www.toistudio.com/blog/2008/07/potential-of-city-street.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dru McKeown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26536759.post-2832266074282685954Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:04:00 +00002008-07-19T13:28:59.857-04:00Environmental On July 17th Al Gore issued a public challenge to the country to take the effort and make the necessary sacrifice to guarantee the future of the American way of life. While the short term sacrifice may seem harsh or difficult I am reminded that this country has faced the need for such sacrifice before; through World Wars, economic turmoil and political upheavals. These changes, these http://www.toistudio.com/blog/2008/07/together-we-can-meet-challenge.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dru McKeown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26536759.post-5310908172227706542Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:34:00 +00002008-07-17T23:37:38.159-04:00Cleve. EventsWhat: Cleveland's King of Speed Bike Race + King Of The Court Bike Polo When: Friday, July 18th 5:00PM Where: Starts @ Cyrus Waterfront Lounge & Patio Cost $$: Its Free!!! For More Info Email: dizi4444@yahoo.com Pedal Republik of Cleveland hosts Bike Polo every Sunday, behind the West Side Market @ 11am/Noonish til whenever everyone is tired. Beginners Welcome! Its just about the most fun one http://www.toistudio.com/blog/2008/07/clevelands-king-of-speed-bike-race-king.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dru McKeown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26536759.post-8751381662166416024Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:50:00 +00002008-07-16T07:36:04.178-04:00Design Rants I ride my bike past this development once in a while during my commute. I watched these townhouses go up and while I was happy that they don't have the typical Cleveland Townshack base geometry and crummy materials (well, at least they aren't already falling apart). I wonder how many were to be built to give the complex a completed face as well as tie it into the mainstreet (this area doesn't http://www.toistudio.com/blog/2008/07/whats-in-name.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dru McKeown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26536759.post-7017317744337042461Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:27:00 +00002008-07-15T12:29:20.981-04:00Cleve. Events Thursday, July 17th, 2008 Bela Dubby, Lakewood, Oh 7.30pm until it is over Have you tried the cake? You should try the cake. The cake is AMAZING!http://www.toistudio.com/blog/2008/07/launch-movie-night-idiocracy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dru McKeown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26536759.post-7143771499204874929Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:02:00 +00002008-07-11T19:07:30.550-04:00Cleve. EventsI have mentioned the old Lifeboat Station #239 before. If you were at all intrigued you may like to know that the Wendy Park Foundation are holding a Painting and Cleaning Day for the Station. Here is the notice! The Wendy Park Foundation and U.S. Coast Guard Station Need Your Help!!! Help Restore the Historic Coast Guard Station!!! Save the Date!!! On Sunday, July 20, 2008 from 9:00 http://www.toistudio.com/blog/2008/07/help-restore-historic-coast-guard.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dru McKeown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26536759.post-8566244539620135129Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:23:00 +00002008-07-10T07:41:33.665-04:00Cleve. EventsLAUNCHies, plan for another evening of fun! Old Angle Tavern 1848 W. 25th St. Cleveland, Ohio 44113 Meet around 6ish A group of Cleveland based designers (mostly architecture types) who realize they don't live in a city with a very strong design culture and want to change that instead of just moving away. People can sit around and complain about it or get off their butts and change it. We arehttp://www.toistudio.com/blog/2008/07/launch-social-tonight.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dru McKeown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26536759.post-6890656108603531229Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:50:00 +00002008-07-07T12:15:35.066-04:00Cleve. EventsTremont Art Hop Tremont Art Walk Friday, July 11th, 2008 Tremont neighborhood, Cleveland, Ohio 6pm - 10ish pm for most galleries. Another fine excuse to wander around Tremont looking at things and finding places to eat and drink. Yay!http://www.toistudio.com/blog/2008/07/tremont-art-hop.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dru McKeown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26536759.post-300667968983176149Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:06:00 +00002008-07-06T12:26:13.782-04:00ClevelandEnvironmentalCleve. Diet While wandering around downtown Cleveland on the 4th I stumbled across the Burning River Garden, a little urban pocket garden where the Veteran's Memorial Bridge meets W. 10th on the East Side of the Cuyahoga River. The corner is a rather nice spot that gets some good afternoon sun and marks the East entry of the Veteran's Memorial Bridge Tour. According to the BRG website the plots were http://www.toistudio.com/blog/2008/07/burning-river-garden-discovered-urban.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dru McKeown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26536759.post-5755486834771191477Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:27:00 +00002008-07-04T14:48:55.872-04:00Cleveland I have been meaning to get out to the Cleveland State University campus and watch the painful demolition of Don Hisaka's 1974 student center. I was never one who was sold that the student center was a weak demarcation of the entrance to the campus, mostly because as a commuter school a proper entrance seemed unrealistic to expect. Now that CSU is moving to create more on site residence halls http://www.toistudio.com/blog/2008/07/hisakas-csu-student-center-photo-update.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dru McKeown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26536759.post-3647692228821229389Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:46:00 +00002008-07-03T15:03:38.772-04:00ClevelandIt was a perfect dreary morning for starting to begin reading through the ridiculously large pile of books that has accumulated near the living room chair (Not to be confused with the gigantic pile of unread books in the office. These take precedent, they are from the library). I thought I would start out with the smallest of the bunch, a softcover book published by the American Planning http://www.toistudio.com/blog/2008/07/drinking-beer-in-cleveland-park-on.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dru McKeown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26536759.post-8614259601463558082Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:18:00 +00002008-06-30T19:19:41.363-04:00Design RantsStep -by-step guide There are many reasons to hire a professional designer or design consultant to facilitate a project however there may be some difficulty in quantifying the value of hiring a person who has specifically been trained in the art of design. This is where the Design Council wants to helps out. This specific guide contains chapters on; - how to find a designer - how to choose a http://www.toistudio.com/blog/2008/06/design-council-finding-and-working-with.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dru McKeown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26536759.post-6928425637946973475Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:04:00 +00002008-06-29T15:08:52.200-04:00Cleve. Events 1/3 Movie Night Thursday, July 3, 2008 Bela Dubby 13321 Madison Ave. Lakewood, OH 44107 7.30pm to 10pm Free and open to the public. brought to you by LAUNCH clevelandhttp://www.toistudio.com/blog/2008/06/13-movie-night-wet-hot-american-summer.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dru McKeown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26536759.post-1623496236118232835Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:56:00 +00002008-06-28T16:14:18.135-04:00Cleve. Diet One of the things I enjoy most about the summer time (besides the "surprise" rainstorms, the longer sunny days and the prevalence of cooking out) is that so many local communities are now having "farmer's markets" which as far as I can determine are just wonderful excuses for wandering around a parking lot on a sunny day and buying delicious veggies and fruits, possibly locally or organically http://www.toistudio.com/blog/2008/06/summer-of-food.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dru McKeown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26536759.post-4341182625644519794Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:15:00 +00002008-06-24T12:49:39.574-04:00Cleve. CompetitionsThe Challenge: Create highly transportable and deployable play spaces that are sustainable infrastructure nodes Location: Capao Redondo, Sao Paolo, Brazil Submission Period: June 15 to June 30, 2008 Sponsored by: Google SketchUp Award: $1000+ Open Architecture Network Let’s create Sportables. Where resources are scarce, we can create Community access points to deliver vital services. Let's http://www.toistudio.com/blog/2008/06/sportables-quickfire-competition.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dru McKeown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26536759.post-5211961589025564371Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:29:00 +00002008-06-23T19:40:06.140-04:00Cleve. Events What more can I say? Saturday, June 28th Beachland Tavern 9pm $2 Right? right. thanks, Music Saves!http://www.toistudio.com/blog/2008/06/music-saves-4th-birthday-part-bash.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dru McKeown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26536759.post-8486252964430544111Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:20:00 +00002008-06-21T22:51:17.320-04:00Cleve. EventsEnvironmentalKamm's Corners Farmers Market Grand Opening Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 The Kamm’s Corners Farmers Market is in the municipal parking lot located at W. 168th Street and Lorain Avenue, near Rocky River Drive. Parking nearby is free and plentiful. It is not at Kamm’s Plaza Shopping Center. map 10am - 2pm ...with all the talk of eating, shopping, thinking, living local nothing spring/summer is the besthttp://www.toistudio.com/blog/2008/06/kamms-corners-farmers-market-grand.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dru McKeown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26536759.post-733014545269161539Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:44:00 +00002008-06-17T12:50:38.360-04:00Cleve. Events1/3 Movie Night presents Amarcord Bela Dubby 13321 Madison Ave. Lakewood, Oh 7.30pm - 10pm Amarcord IMDB page Ted F's evil twin brother, Ted Alexander, was interviewed by Scene Magazine regarding 1/3 Movie Night...the kid is a STAR! Come on out to watch a movie and as an added bonus, meet TED (which ever Ted shows up)!http://www.toistudio.com/blog/2008/06/13-movie-night-amarcord.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dru McKeown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26536759.post-7967334940632190Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:08:00 +00002008-06-15T14:20:29.564-04:00Cleve. EventsStraight from wiki-land: Bloomsday (Irish: Lá Bhloom) is a commemoration observed annually on 16 June in Dublin and elsewhere to celebrate the life of Irish writer James Joyce and relive the events in his novel Ulysses, all of which took place on the same day in Dublin in 1904. The day is a secular holiday in Ireland. The name derives from Leopold Bloom, the protagonist of Ulysses, and 16 June http://www.toistudio.com/blog/2008/06/bloomsday-celebrate-your-neighborhood.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dru McKeown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26536759.post-6657122207953862412Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:48:00 +00002008-06-15T12:55:00.937-04:00Cleve. EventsOhio 21st Century Task Force Meeting Tuesday,June 17th Joseph E. Cole Center Cleveland State University 3100 Chester Ave. Cleveland, OH 44115 Presentations 4-6pm Public Comments 6-8pm There are currently scheduled a series of public "Task Force" meetings that will take place around Ohio. We are slotted to have one this Tuesday. The main issues of concern is how the current rising gas prices http://www.toistudio.com/blog/2008/06/ohio-21st-century-task-force-meeting.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dru McKeown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26536759.post-534661370104780346Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:48:00 +00002008-06-13T07:51:12.617-04:00Cleve. EventsTremont Art Walk June 13, 2008 Tremont Neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio 6 to 10pm Locations and link to map It may be hot and hazy but that can be easily beat with air conditioning and cool drinks. Go explore one of Cleveland's jewel neighborhoods.http://www.toistudio.com/blog/2008/06/tremont-art-walk.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dru McKeown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26536759.post-4516311202104069926Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:46:00 +00002008-06-07T12:54:21.968-04:00Cleve. Competitions |re|design cleveland has launced the second query based upon rethinking and reusing a "public" space. This particular site for intervention is located at West 54th North of Detroit Avenue in the Detroit Shoreway neighborhood and runs from June 4th to August 4th. You can find more information here. |re|design cleveland is part of the LAUNCH family.http://www.toistudio.com/blog/2008/06/redesign-cleveland-query-2-up-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dru McKeown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26536759.post-8540796556288908385Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:54:00 +00002008-06-04T22:00:00.997-04:00Cleve. EventsEnvironmentalThursday, June 5th, 2008 About World Environment Day 2008 World Environment Day, commemorated each year on 5 June, is one of the principal vehicles through which the United Nations stimulates worldwide awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and action. The World Environment Day slogan for 2008 is Kick the Habit! Towards a Low Carbon Economy. Recognising that climate http://www.toistudio.com/blog/2008/06/kick-carbon-habit-world-environment-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dru McKeown)