Hive Days of Summer Pittsburgh Youth Media

Hive Days of Summer

video 30 Aug

Youth Invasion from Steeltown Entertainment Project on Vimeo.

By Justen Turner-Thorne

video 29 Aug

By DaMya Gurley

aside 26 Aug

Photoessay: Comics Camp

By Ananya Cleetus

: Literary Arts Bloom’s Comics Club Camp is a summer camp extension of their year-round Comics Club. A week long camp from Monday, August the 5th through Friday, August the 9th, the camp is held at Assemble, a community area for arts and technology, located at 5125 Penn Avenue. It is open to ages 8-12, both boys and girls, to anyone who wants to have fun and make comics.

: A hand-painted “No Fly Zone” mural covers the entire wall where campers have hung up their collaborative comic strips.

: The campers create various types of comics and cartoons through multiple different types of media, from using paint, crayons and markers on paper to making collages with cut up pictures from magazines.

: In a collaborative comic strip, each camper creates only one box of the story. Each box builds on the previous boxes, but the story keeps changing as each camper adds a little of their own flair and personality to the story.

: The campers cut out pictures from old editions of National Geographic and other magazines to design collages. Many of them supplement the pictures with their own drawings and captions. while others use the images to recreate a story.

: Liam shows off his “Adventures of Stupid Man Volume 1 & 2”. He created them using his own drawings as well as cut-out pictures.

: Layla proudly displays her “Crazy Things Collage”, a one-page compilation of well.. just about everything.

: Obadiah with his Mouseman and Rat Brat comic, part of a series of comics he’s created.

: Sean holds up his personalized skateboard he covered with drawings.

: The campers pose in front of their wall of hanging artwork along with their facilitators.

image 26 Aug

By Tracey Thomas On June 8th, 2013, the YMCA Westinghouse Lighthouse Project music group (also known as Profound Myndz) performed five songs from their third album New Future. Songs performed included Landmarks, I've Got You, Been Through It All, Out With A Bang and Fun Nights. The crowd was ecstatic and were clapping their hands and moving along to the beat. From little children to grown adults, everyone was enjoying the show. Profound Myndz was also having fun performing for the crowd. Read more [...]

image 26 Aug

By Tracey Thomas May 2013 marked my third year in High School Urban EcoStewards or Eco as most participants call it. I’ve really enjoyed working out in Frick Park to plant trees, flowers, shrubs, dig up invasive species and just sit in nature and write in a journal. I started Eco back in my ninth grade year when my afterschool program, the YMCA Westinghouse Lighthouse Project, introduced the program to a few of us. While most kids are exposed to nature. Eco is a way to be exposed Read more [...]

aside 26 Aug

Tribute: Teens On The Move

By DaMya Lea Gurley Teens On The Move is no longer an active organization, but it was a big part of my life. This alternative program started in 1997 for girls 10 to 15 years of age. In 2006, the program was expanded to included boys and girls up to 18 years of age. Founder Clementine "June" Smith established the organization to make it easier for children of the Glen Hazel neighborhood to find mentors, friends and even benefactors for college. Early in the organization's Read more [...]

video 24 Aug

By David Watkins (freshman, Emory University)

Pittsburgh Youth Media reporter, David Watkins, stops by the Hive Pgh Maker Party at Bakery Square’s TechShop.

aside 19 Aug

Music Production Workshop

By David Watkins

David Watkins visits a Hip-Hip On Lock music production workshop at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh in Oakland.

: The instructors answer questions about hip hop, recording, and the music business.

: One of participants demonstrates a beat he was working on.

: With the rise of technology, music studios have dramatically decreased in size.

: The participents are challenged to write eight bars of original lyrics.

: One of the instructors demonstrates professional skill on the mic.

: During the recording process participants put all they learned to the test.

: Many participants not only meet the requirements, but exceed them.

: Most have never done anything like this.

: Some participants need two or more takes. Others nail their verses the first time.

: Many display visible energy during the process.

: Software like Garageband and Pro Tools enable anyone with a computer to record and produce professional music.

: MIDI keyboards play a central role in hip hop music production.

: In just two hours, participants go from scribbling down lyrics on paper to recording a full length song.

aside 13 Aug

Articulab Teams up with Assemble

By Maddie Adamczyk (Senior, Hampton High School) and Sarah Parker (Junior, Pittsburgh Obama 6-12) Our visit to Assemble in Garfield gave us a chance to observe graduate students interacting with children as part of a research project as well as a chance to catch up with a few children ourselves. First, we had a chance to observe a Carnegie Mellon University Human Computer Interaction Institute program called ArticuLab, which describes its mission as studying how people communicate with and Read more [...]

aside 13 Aug

The Superhero Outside the Pages: LAB Comics Club Camp

By Ananya Cleetus As I child, I've always adored reading comics. Whether it was opening up the newest Tintincomic book or simply rediscovering an old Batman edition, I seem to have spent most of my childhood with my nose buried in some comic book. And it didn't begin with me. My father also had fostered a love for cartoons at an early age, just like his own father before him. In fact, my father was so fond of comics that he refused to part with them, even as he grew up. He's currently fulfilling Read more [...]

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