On the way to lunch yesterday, I was talking to a couple of friends (@aormerod & @danamart on twitter) about my Podcamp experience, about this very website to which we’d given birth. I had just explained the inspiration and purpose as I understood it, and we were talking about all the ways in which Pittsburgh is a surprisingly vibrant and fun place - and how undiscovered that vibrancy is to outsiders. Now, it might not surprise you to know - even if you just discovered this blog - that OMGPittsburgh’s reason for being is to expose just this vibrance. As we talked and walked, I kind of shuffled along, looking at my feet (to make sure I didn’t fall in any potholes n’at).
Now, I kid you not: It was at just this moment that I looked up and saw a gigantic Transformer looming to my left. Just a couple of days earlier, an empty lot had existed where this hulking tower of metal and monstrous coolness now stood. Why on earth would Pittsburgh install a Transformer on the intersection of Ft. Duquesne and 7th? That’s a fair question. And the answer is Serendipity. It was put there for Andrew and Dana and me to discover at just that moment. It was put there to rattle us. It was put there to keep us questioning JUST HOW MUCH we, Pittsburghers, know about this amazing city we call ours.
More than meets the eye. Goes for cities and menacing robots alike.
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