Another MTB interview to put on the list.

City is finding new source of strength

I missed the performance Jeff describes, and really wish I hadn’t. I heard great things about it.

jeffschuler.net : ingenuity: progression, projection (Jul 18, 2007 - 20:47)

More great photos of the fest w/ bikes…

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From Bill Callahan:

In New York, he said, everyone talks to street musicians. In Cleveland, nobody does. They just walk by like you’re not there.

Callahan’s Cleveland Diary is a founding member of the MTB network of blogs.

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Make sure you add your Flickr photos to the Flickr: Ingenuity Cleveland group. Stu Spivack has a bunch of excellent shots (again).

Cool’s blog: IngenuityFest 07 & Guerrilla Asphalt Repair

Ingenuity 2007 - a photoset on Flickr

Another look back at the build up to this years fest:

“I think people are going to come [to the festival] thinking that Cleveland is a declining industrial economy full of smokestacks and steel, and leave jaw-dropped about the new-economy ideas coming out of our region,” Rich Weiss said…

Your reaction?

Adding cool technology to the Ingenuity Fest - Plain Dealer Entertainment & Pop Culture

Thanks for the link, Jill:

The annual summer shindig for sentient beings known as the Ingenuity Festival ends today, just as another event devoted to the creative juices begins a two-month run on the shores of Lake Erie. This one is about science and social animals — how they solve problems, and how, by working together, they manage complex systems.

The Cleveland Museum of Natural History is sponsoring demonstrations about swarm intelligence on Saturdays, peeking into a rapidly emerging area of research that asks and tries to answer this question: Individual creatures often aren’t ingenuous, but their colonies act intelligently, how can they behave so wise and smart

Maybe they’ll use Bill’s phrase in their marketing next year—”A shindig for sentient beings”.

The Daily Bellwether: Cleveland, Ohio And Ingenuity: Anyone Knows An Ant Can’t

Love to see people blogging about their involvement with the festival:

Daniel and I set up the kiosk and Dr. Mark Tebeau of CSU and Greg Peckham of Cleveland Public Art were there for the “unveiling ceremony”. One of Dr. Tebeau’s grad students, Jim Calder was there as well. Everything went off without a hitch and we were glad to see people coming up to interact with the kiosk…

Northcoast Lifestyle : Interactive Life of Kyle Roth, Interactive Web Designer, Cleveland Ohio

One of the things that I’ve been reflecting on is all the interviews that Meet.The.Bloggers* have done in year 2. I did a google search to make sure I wasn’t missing any of the Ingenuity coverage, and came across this interview we did with James Levin last August.

Meet the Bloggers » Ingenuity Festival Director James Levin

Everything you need to know about the fest but were afraid to ask:

Anywhere you go around the country and perhaps even the world, the words that immediately spring to mind when someone mentions Cleveland are “arts,'’ “culture'’ and “technology.'’

Well, perhaps those aren’t the first words generally used to describe the city. But though they are currently (way) behind “the Browns,'’ “industrial wasteland,'’ “burning river'’ and “LeBron,'’ if the creators and staff of the Ingenuity Festival have their way, that trio of nouns will easily roll off the tongues of locals and visitors…

Beacon Journal | 07/19/2007 | Ingenuity - It’s a 4-day festival

The “Doctor” cites Way-finding, Un-informed docents, Organization, and Lack of Content as areas that needed improvement Thursday night. I’d tend to agree, but from my experience, things really got rolling when they needed to—Friday evening. Things picked up a bit around Friday at lunch, but then slowed back down until almost 6PM. Yesterday afternoon, it was slammed. Seems like it tapered off again until Grandmaster Flash. I forget who I talked to yesterday that commented on how the composition of the crowd changed throughout the day. It’s a shame there weren’t more people listening to Rich Weiss, Ed Morrison, and Valdis Krebs lecturing.

What are your thoughts on the festival?

BLOG ON THE CITY: Ingenuity Festival

Great to see Ingenuity inspiring these questions and analysis about our city:

Last night I stood on the sidewalk on the newly completed Euclid Corridor section at Playhouse Square at the Ingenuity Festival. The sidewalk there is paved with a sort of shiny brick-like pavers rather than concrete, but I kept looking for the tree planters. Cleveland Foundation’s logo is a tree right? So where were the trees? There were none to be seen at that corner. I was standing right at the entrance to the building that houses the Cleveland Foundation’s offices. Didn’t they release a statement saying that all applying organizations must state their sustainability goals; that all capital projects applying to the foundation must meet LEED Standards? So I began to wonder; with our county leaders hell bent on a hypocritically “greenbuilt” administration building project (which entails the demolition of a cultural icon – the Breuer Tower), when will we see the Cleveland and Gund Foundations going green? What are each foundation’s stated sustainability goals? Do they offer RTA passes for their staff members? Have they invested in carsharing so that their executives and program officers can ride the train to work, but use Citywheels to attend meetings outside the offices when necessary? Do they have residency requirements like the public servants in Cleveland? How could they drive the green infrastructure needs of the region through their own example? Have they suggested to their landlords that energy audits be performed on the building that houses their offices…?

Nice work, Susan.

last night in front of the Hanna Building | REALNEO for all

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Next door to the Meet.The.Blogger* palace…

Tim Ferris’ experience:

We’re having a good experience with the Ingenuity Festival, but it brings to the fore things we’d like to see around Cleveland.

First of all, the bus service has not been very good. Thursday, the first day of the festival, Gloria and I took the 79 in at different times of the afternoon. Each of us had to walk from Public Square out to Playhouse Square. The 6 and the E-Line did not accommodate us at any time in our 15-block trek. That means, to me, that they’re running too infrequently to be useful, unless you have all the time in the world and can hang out around a bus stop until something shows up.

In the evenings, we’ve had to cut short our time at Ingenuity to catch the last bus home. They should run all night. They should be something you can count on.

They run way too infrequently. We have had far too many hour-long waits. They should run at quarter-hour to half-hour intervals. The routes should interconnect, on a timed basis, and you should be able to leapfrog your way across town in any number of combinations. For this to happen, I would think the routes have to be shorter.

Specific to the Ingenuity Festival, it seems the buses don’t come near it. We found we had to walk from East 14th Street down to East Ninth Street before we had access to the E-Line. It should be routed onto 14th Street for the Festival, to bring people in and take people out of the area. This is a major happening, and it deserves better public-transit support.

Another thing we’d like to see are more restaurants and coffee shops in the downtown area that are open later at night. The Town Fryer is not open for late food any more. There are no 24-hour places until you get to West 117th Street, or Memphis, and I don’t really count the Rapid Stop on East 55th as a place where anyone would want to hang out…

Tim Ferris: from our Ingenuity Festival experience: things we’d like to see

Great explanation on Thu events:

What a show! The Drums drumming down Euclid Avenue led by Marcos Santos were incredible. Who knew that those drummers would exorcise the “rain demon” that plagued last year’s festival. A whirlwind flew down Euclid Avenue accompanied by its own drummers of pelting rain. Canopies flew and people ran but it was gone as quickly as it descended. Everyone ventured back out on to the street, quickly setting things right, and going on with the show. What an incredible group of people-the vendors, the volunteers, the restauraters and their staffs and even festivalgoers pitched in to straighten out the street so that the show could go on. Amazing!

But that was only a small part of it, the NASA Glenn Exhibits, the photos inserting my own face inside of the space suit of an astronaut standing on the moon, Sarah Morrisson’s Dance Troupe, The Audio TuTus, The Breuer Tower exhibit up at 12th Street, “The Fire Inside” the extended hours of the delis, coffeeshops, and restaurants along Euclid, the smell of the fried veggies, the fat, juicy sausages, the incredible gyros, the $4.00 GLB brews, the people dancing and drumming up Euclid, the spectators joing in the celebration, and then, and then…

There were the incredible smiles on the faces of the children who attended yesterday’s festival. To me, those smiles were the crown jewel of this festival. Family after family strolled past our Meet.The.Bloggers booth in the anteroom between the State and Palace Theatres…

Gloria Ferris » Blog Archive » WOW! The Ingenuity Crew Does “IT” Again!