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Interesting contrast in City of Cleveland service workers. On GeorgeNemeth.com, the garbageman that left my can on purpose and the building inspector who came to look and the new furnace. I hope for the city’s sake there’s more of the latter than the former.

In Part I, I told you about the emergence of the first killer app of open fabrication (formerly known as open source digital fabrication).

In Part II, I showed you that it works.

Now, Part III – Cliché Time

The train has left the station. It’s Game On!

Though leaves are falling and that Arctic wind is close…things just get hotter and hotter…

Now, a mere three months removed from Part II, not only am I using my open source 3d printers to print 3d objects, I’m also manufacturing parts to improve these machines and I’m shipping these parts all over the world.

And, there is a good article (with a silly title) and accompanying video on the WSJ homepage today about the resurgence of Making. (If you watch the video intro carefully you’ll even see MakerGear whiz by) From first print to WSJ cameo in three months…it’s happening, happening fast and happening everywhere. Well, except for Cleveland…

Where have all the makers gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the makers gone
Long time ago…

Maybe we can start to change this at Cleveland Startup Weekend. I have one more ticket to the event and I’d like to take a local maker. Let’s spark a local resurgence…tap into this wave of innovative energy…Surfs Up, Dude.

Let me know if you want to Hang Five at #SWCLE.

Press play to hear the Hawaii Five-0 theme.

Rick

Looking forward to Startup Weekend Cleveland Nov. 20-22. It is going to be a fun-can-do-action-packed event. Get your tixs: http://cleveland.startupweekend.org/tickets

Can’t make the whole event? Buy a Sunday Night Demo Ticket for only $20 and join us Sunday evening around 5pm for drinks and final presentations.

ThatGirl writes: “All your empty homes and broken dreams, annually reselling our souls and our firstborns to men in suits who suck us dry, and girls go missing but no one pays attention because they’re from “that side” of town. You get drunk and complain about your losing sports teams. You listen to the same old songs on WMMS or KISS FM…”

My sentiments exactly.

Read the letter @ Cleveland Love: open letter #5: Dear Cleveland.

“Shields imagines a day when the Botanical Garden and the city collaborate on an urban farm with a large-scale composting facility and an all-season greenhouse that operates with renewable energy.”

Growing more than food in inner city | GreenCityBlueLake

An email from Dan Hanson:

Friends,

I submitted a project to celebrate Cleveland’s diversity through art to a company that awards an annual grant.

We are one of 10 finalists. The winners are chosen by Internet voting. You can vote once each day at http://www.markhammarkofdistinction.com by selecting us (ClevelandPeople.Com) from the View and Vote for Finalist section and leaving your name and e-mail.

Please vote each day and spread the word to your lists to make this project happen in Cleveland. It will result in lots of work for local artists, ways to beautify the community and celebrate our cultures.

Thanks,
Dan

Please help out if you’re so inclined. I am.

“Ten Living Cities” Symposium & Arts Festival is looking for professional photographers to submit work showing why the “10 Fastest Dying Cities,” as selected by Forbes magazine in August 5, 2008 issue, are “10 Living Cities”.

via Photos — Ten Living Cities.

Got a message from a friend at the Cleveland City Mission (where my dad is Director of Facilities) and their emergency food pantry is empty (see the picture on their homepage). If you’re so inclined your donations will be gratefully received.

via GeorgeNemeth.com – The City Mission.

Great quote Frank:

“I know it sounds counterintuitive, but right now, in a recession, is when you want to open a business,” said Revy, a slightly scruffy-looking but professional-sounding 38-year-old financial planner who had Mangia restaurant in Lakewood in the 1990s.

“But if you make it now, imagine your success when the economy turns around.”

Waterloo Cafe is the missing piece in the Waterloo Arts District pie – Cleveland.com

A big thanks to Neil @ CTS for reaching out re: this post:

Cleveland, Ohio’s Historic Warehouse District is a model example of shifting from the declining industrial, manufacturing economy to the high-growth, economically sustainable knowledge economy.

The district is Cleveland’s first neighborhood and downtown’s oldest commercial center, an industrial center from the late 1800s through the middle of the 1900s until manufacturing declined across the country and businesses left…

via CoolTown Studios.