Coming up: special year-end Cool-Off extravaganza!

This is a special edition of the Cyberpunk Apocalypse's monthly event, the Cool-Off. We're partnering with HackPittsburgh to bring you a bigger and more encompassing "what I did this YEAR" project showcase. To coincide with HackPittsburgh's weekly Friday Night Series, we've switched days this month to be the second Friday instead of the usual second Saturday.

Here's how it works: local creative types give very short presentations of the coolest project they've worked on during the course of 2011. Although it's free to get in and/or present, to vote costs $3, and the project with the most votes at the end of the evening wins half the proceeds (the other half being split between the Cyberpunk Apocalypse and HackPittsburgh as small-scale fundraising).

If you would like to present, please email cyberpunkapocalypse at gmail with a short summary, mostly so we can have an idea of how many people will be presenting. We're asking people to present projects that they have completed (as opposed to ideas for future projects) and also that this be limited to projects done NOT as part of one's job.

Have you been awesome this year? We bet you have, and we want to hear about it.

Friday, Dec. 9
7 pm sharp!
HackPittsburgh
1936 5th Ave., around back in the alley called Watson St.

Cool-off this week!

Now that the weather actually is cooling off, show your Pittsburgh cohorts what you've been working on this past month. Have you written something? Built something? Drawn a comic? Made a video? Something else? Bring it and $2-4 and present it. Or if you haven't done anything this month but want to see what other people have done, bring that $2-4 and gather 'round. At the end of the evening, all attendees vote on coolest project, and that person wins a trophy and half the door money. We're still saving up for a video projector, and the other half of the money will go towards that.

Saturday, September 10
7 pm SHARP!

front page newsworthy

The Cyberpunk Apocalypse is pleased to be featured on the front cover of this week's Pittsburgh City Paper. Pick one up if you haven't already. For folks who are viewing this web site for the the first time, welcome, and we hope to see you at one of the upcoming events. This weekend is going to be pretty spectacular, with both a cool-off (on Saturday) and a touring zine performance (Sunday). Both events start at 7 pm sharp.
www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws

In addition, it's never too late to sign up for the Zine of the Month Club.

March cool-off results

Congratulations to Daniel McCloskey for winning the March cool-off with his selection of comics compiled into one zine. In addition to half the door money, he also won the first-ever trophy made off-site. Also presented at the cool-off were sticky paintings, videos, a novel excerpt about a cat using a litter box, a zine idea, a design for a city birdfeeder, and of course, comics.

Coming up is our Lord of the Rings party on March 25. If you come by the house, you might even get to sample some of the tester-cakes building up to the one at the party with the flaming eye of Sauron on top.

February Cool-Off a success!

Thanks to everyone who came out for this month's Cool-Off. There were a lot of cool projects presented, including: two finished novels, two finished zines, a Pittsburgh pamphlet series, creepy cardboard paintings, a song, some screen prints, a plan for growing ginger in Western PA, and a demonstration of a handmade casting furnace with which the trophy for the winner was created DURING the event!

Now off to draw some comics and prepare for biking all over the city delivering candy and songs to people on Valentine's Day!

Stay warm, but do cool things!

Cooling off this December!

We are so busy around the house these days. Some nights we even invite some friends over and all sit around the wood stove working on projects at the same time. Certainly there's a lot of writing going on, but also comics. There's a local compilation comic zine called Andromeda, and it's really spurring a few of us to draw comics more frequently.

What are you working on that's cool? We'd love to know. This Saturday, December 11th is our second monthly Cool-Off, where we invite you to present your cool project to a warm room of your peers. Popular vote will decide who wins half the door money. 7 pm. Be timely, friends.

November Cool-Off reportback

Our first ever Cool-Off was a success. That is to say, people showed up, the wood stove created a warm atmosphere, and all the cupcakes got eaten.

There were readings, chili necklaces, videos, technological experiments, and a comic book slideshow. The Queer Negation Tour folks who have been visiting this weekend ended up winning, and will be taking half the door money and the golden torso trophy with them on their way to points elsewhere.

This event will be happening every month, on the second Saturday. Start doing cool stuff now so that you can present it on December 11!

THE COOL OFF

The first Cool Off is this Saturday at 7pm. Come and share what cool stuff you did this month, or just come and see what everyone else did.
2-4 dolla donations at the door. Half the door money goes to the coolest person there. Will it be you?

COOL OFF 7pm