found by: jennifer gooch
found at: the corner of Craig and Forbes, in front of Kiva Han
12/22/2007
brown knit glove, Oakland
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"onecoldhand.com is a project that connects the Pittsburgh community through one unfortunate event - the loss of a glove. The website creates a method for dealing with the conundrum of finding these lost articles. Do you leave it and hope the owner comes back to find it? Do you pick it up? Throw it away? With onecoldhand.com, the abandoned object now becomes a symbol of benevolence and hope."
-----Jennifer Gooch
SEE YOUR GLOVE?
email a picture of the other glove to onecoldhand@gmail.com - we'll reunite them for free!
LOSE A PAIR?
We get pairs all the time. Email a detailed description of your gloves to onecoldhand@gmail.com. Unclaimed pairs will be donated to charity.
MEDIA INQUIRES:
contact Eric Sloss
412-268-5765
cell: 412-480-7246
ecs@andrew.cmu.edu
(I still have stickers, if you'd like them for nostalgia's sake.)
wanna be a finder? stickers available at drop-boxes or by mail!
find a glove, leave a sticker...
One Cold Hand is no longer, but there are plenty of lost and founds, Craigslists, and other means of trying to connect someone with the thing they have lost.
sister sites and fellow finders:
one cold hand London
one cold hand NYC
one cold hand Denver
Unloved Glove
Found Clothing
Paradise of Lost Gloves
This project supported in part by a Seed Award from The Sprout Fund.
Special thanks to interns Missy Dunaway and Wendy Byun.
26 comments:
Great photographs of the gloves!
Great idea.
Great concept! There are certain things that may have more value in their origination rather than their actual dollar value such as a gift of gloves from a close friend. Sadly one glove may get lost, but with this site the sadness can be restored to fond memories. KUDOS!
Yeah! How do you photograph the gloves to make them look so good?
This site is just wonderful. It's the apparent smallness of its objective, to find a missing glove, which magnifies the longings of hope for life we all carry inside. This is Art!
- J. Altamirano
Backpacking on Little Money
wonder how many stories similar to the movie Serendipity will be told through this website :)
is this a joke? buy a new one.
MAYBE IF YOU LOST IT YOU DONT DESERVE IT!!
Hahahah.
but honestly now, get real.
Serously right now instead of making some stupid website you could be out actully helping the world!!! You think this helps???
I recently lost - and found again- a glove that I had had for many years. They were given to me (well, everyone else got a pair as well, but that's not the point) at work several years ago. I took them off when the steering wheel in my truck warmed up and put them in my coat pockets - right in the right, left in the left. When I got to the parking lot at my apartment I noticed that my roommate's parking spot (he rolls in a wheelchair) was still snow-covered. I spent a few minutes that cold winter morning clearing the space, and then went inside to sleep after a long, boring night shift. To my dismay, on my next attempt to put on my gloves I discovered that the right one was nowhere to be found! My obvious distress was observed by the boss at work, who mentioned in passing that we were all going to get some new gloves in the near future. So, it seemed as though my loss would soon be everyone's gain - but in the meantime, I was still was missing my right glove. A few days later, after some of the snow melted - I saw a black object sticking out of the remaining snow bank near the Handicapped Parking sign. Yes, it was my wayward glove, returned to me by some twist of karma. I can't take public credit for the new gloves my employer will soon issue to my coworkers and me - but I am content in the knowledge that my few days without a glove were not for naught.
You should give united gloves to the homeless. I could see more participation if there was a worth wild charitable cause associated with your project. Just a thought.
not even god cares.
Keep up the good work!
Forget the naysayers. I doubt that even one of them has created a website, nor been covered on CNN.
Your site looks beautiful and
serves a purpose.
Peace.
This is so nice of you to do this. Don't let those bad comments discourage you! Hope you have a nice holiday and a happy new year!
From California~
Heard you on NPR.
As I was listening to the article on NPR this evening (driving with one glove since the other was missing. Found it at home on the floor. Yay!) I was wondering if you were running your web site for the people mourning their lost gloves or for the gloves themselves. And there it was. You are doing it for the glove finders (which hadn't occurred to me, but is very sweet) but mostly for the lonely gloves. That's the way I feel when socks lose their mates in the wash. I have to comfort the lost clean sock, assuring it I will find its sole mate quickly. And then when the 2nd sock appears I reunite them and they happily do a little dance. OK maybe they don't but I like to think they do. It's a mild sickness to ascribe all these feelings to inanimate objects, but there are a whole lot worse maladies people suffer from. Like the silly people throwing cold water on your nice web site. Thanks.
Meg
Jennifer,
Did you live in Garland? Did you go to preschool with my little sister, Kim Rowe? We were just talking about you the other day, and then I heard you on NPR! I remember she used to call you "the Gooch". I didn't think it could be you because they said you were in Pittsburgh, but then they said you were from Dallas. I mean, how many people are named Jennifer Gooch?
Anyway, congratulations on your success. Please email me back and I will send it on to Kim.
Kathy Rowe Bradbury
You know, it's not even about the gloves, it's about someone that actually gives a rat's ass to take the time to care. What a new concept, yet you have the the negative people that for some reason have to poke fun or just continue being negative. You'll see someone will have to have a negative comment about this. If more people take the time for positive reinforcement the negativity will be washed away. It's all in the SECRET!
Thanks for the immensely enjoyable interview you gave on NPR - it made my night during a long ride home from work. And it was great fun to explore the website when I got home. What a brilliant idea! Well done! -Christina in Portland, OR
Heard you on NPR and I smiled. Truly lovely. Thank you
Couldn't you do a site for lost earrings? I care more about earrings I lose than about gloves.
If we don't take care of the little things, we wiil never be able to tackle the big ones. Happy new year
wow!!! ure great!!! thx for haing this sweet n awesome site... i saw ur page on news n i think u totally rock!!!! n to those naysayers, y not just get d hell outta here if u dun like this site??? do u actually halped others??? if not, go to hell, dude.
First off, I commend this lovely idea and wish you (and all the gloves) the very best. However, I thought did occur to me after a conversation with a friend...
I was recently told a story about a homeless woman who entered a soup kitchen with only one glove. She had found it, and was quite delighted at the prospect of warming her hands (even if only one at a time). Though I love the idea of reuniting a pair of gloves, perhaps we could be encouraged to leave a pair in its place to help out those less fortunate. They wouldn't have to be new, I'm sure many of us have several pairs and many we no longer use. Just a thought. Keep up the great work!
Anonymous said...
Serously right now instead of making some stupid website you could be out actully helping the world!!! You think this helps???
December 24, 2007 3:32 PM
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To you who will not post your name,
I say first off, get a spell checker. Secondly, what have you done today to help the world or your fellow man besides come to this site and invest your time in slighting someone you never heard of until today. Go wash your hands, I think I heard your Mother calling you to come out of that basement where you live and have dinner.
Gabby Sullivan
After visiting a very crowed Carnegie Museum yesterday, saw a cotton glove flattened by passing cars on the road near Dithridge. Then, remembered the piece on NPR, and backtracked my footsteps to pickup the poor injured garment. Walked to Kiva Kan on the corner of North Craig and Forbes, thinking that it would have a dropbox, but didn't see one. Now that I am reading this website, I know where to drop off this orphan.
Kiva Han for some reason tossed out our box, but there is one just down in Carnegie Library.
Thanks for picking up the lonesome glove...
Reunited gloves are returned to their rightful owners. Pairs and gloves that are left over and can be paired will be donated at the end of the project.
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