found by: ally reeves and jennifer gooch
found at: Entry to Newell-Simon Hall where it had been placed on a sign's tripod for several days.
1/04/2008
men's dark brown leather glove, CMU
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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.
2 comments:
Hello, nice to see you here again.
I first learned about the existence of this Web site through AP Radio News. I am a Korean man and live in South Korea now. The news about your creative and kind action reverberates even as far afield as here in South Korea, literally half way around the globe, through AP Radio News.
Personally, I really like such productive people as you. Thank you for some kind of inspiration that you've, maybe inadvertantly, given me.
I visisted your personal blog too. I don't have a knack for indie music, but I could see you were producing something original.
The following is a transcript for your article on AP Radio News--produced by a friend of mine and editted by me.
Everyone has lost a glove at least once, right? Well, owners of missing gloves now have a website devoted to their dilemma.
The mission of onecoldhand.com is to match missing gloves with their rightful owners.
It's the brainchild of Pittsburgh art student Jennifer Gooch.
"We have drop boxes set up throughout the city in libraries and coffee shops, and erm ... and people can drop the gloves off in the boxes or mail them to me, and ... I catalogue them and photograph them. "
Then?
"If someone sees the glove on the site, they e-mail me a picture of their other gloves. I make the match, and I mail it to them for free."
Since the site went online about a month ago, there have been 4 matches, and it's spawning similar sites across the world.
PS. Did we transcribe your interview correctly? And, by the way, how do you pay for all the expenses for mailing the gloves?
Hi Jennifer and Ally. The metaphor of the glove or mitten that has lost its partner, one hand naked and alone in the cold, the other engaged in a hopeless search for reunification, poignantly captures the modern condition. This may explain the sudden popularity of the story of onecoldhand.com. Your story certainly captured my interest. Thanks for the unique creation.
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