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Web site seeks to reunite gloves, owners
By JENNIFER C. YATES, Associated Press Writer
PITTSBURGH - It's like an online dating service for long lost gloves. No, that's not a typo.
A Texas native who experienced her first snowflakes in Pittsburgh last year was miffed by the lost gloves she spotted all over the city last winter. Whom did they belong to? Wouldn't they want them back? Why were people just walking past them?
So Jennifer Gooch, who is pursuing her master of fine arts degree at Carnegie Mellon University, started onecoldhand.com in an effort to reunite dropped gloves with their mates — and in the process spread some goodwill.
One of her first ones was a moist, lambskin glove that someone had propped up on a ledge on campus. She was worried about taking it at first. What if the owner came back to claim it?
In its place, she left a small rectangular sticker. A drawing of a black glove is scrawled on it and says, "Missing a glove? onecoldhand.com."
Gooch displays the gloves on the wall in her basement art studio at the university. There are 21 so far, each tacked up with push pins. Small yellow Post-it notes and slips of scrap paper hang there, too, chronicling where each was found.
One reads, "Found by Shaun Tuesday, Nov. 20 Penn Ave. between 29th & 28th." Below it, the finder drew two gloves — one outlined in a solid line, its mate outlined with a broken line.
Some appear to be expensive, others not so much. On the wall hangs a beige, left-handed woman's glove, with a dangling, sparkling rhinestone charm.
"That's a great glove," Gooch, 29, beamed Friday. "It's leather. It's got bling, but it's so useless now."
Gooch, originally from Dallas, photographs each glove and puts the picture and information on her Web site, where people can report found gloves and request stickers. She hasn't made any glove connections in the two weeks the site has been live, but it's OK if that never happens, she said.
"It's kind of whimsical and bittersweet," Gooch said. "It makes you feel there's this opportunity for benevolence."
Gooch would love to see One Cold Hand projects sprout up in other cities. She's working with two women in New York to start a similar effort there. They hope to have onecoldhand-nyc.com up and running soon.
Gooch is even talking with local businesses about creating glove dropboxes all over the city where people can leave their fabric finds.
Like socks that disappear in the dryer or plastic grocery bags that fly away and get in trees, Gooch believes there's something about gloves that is universal.
"If I have one person find their glove, then the entire thing is totally worth it," she said.
Update от 22 декабря: 4 перчатки нашли хозяев!
Web site reuniting gloves makes matches
By JENNIFER C. YATES, Associated Press Writer
Sat Dec 22, 7:25 AM ET
PITTSBURGH - Jennifer Gooch's mission was to create a simple Web site where people could go to find their lost gloves. Even if no happy reunions ever took place, she was just content to spread a little goodwill.
But just a month since http://www.onecoldhand.com went live, the Carnegie Mellon University art student is busier than ever. She's reunited four gloves with their owners, is working on similar sites for cities around the globe, and is planning a book to showcase her found gloves.
The first glove match was made about a week ago, when a CMU intern from Germany heard about the site and checked it out for her missing beige glove. She found it on the page, under the description "woman's leather glove with bling."
Sarah Altmeyer said she bought the gloves a few years ago in Germany, but later lost one at Carnegie Mellon's Simon-Newell Hall. She heard about the Web site Gooch created and thought she'd check it out.
Much to her joy, she found the missing glove there. "It was a very popular glove. I was actually kind of happy it was our first reunion," Gooch said.
Gooch's Web site got 55,000 hits in the 10 days after stories about her project ran all over the world.
"It's been amazing. Once the surprise kind of waned, I realized that it's something a lot of people can relate to, and for different reasons," Gooch said.
More than a dozen businesses and other offices in Pittsburgh now have drop boxes where lost gloves can be placed. Gooch gathers the gloves, photographs them and displays the picture on her Web site with information about where the glove was found.
Gooch's site has grown from 21 gloves to a collection of 75. A site started soon after, http://www.onecoldhand-nyc.com, had three gloves posted online as of Thursday. Sites are also planned for Manitoba, Milan and Philadelphia after Gooch was contacted by strangers who wanted to spearhead similar efforts in their cities.
At the end of April, Gooch plans an art show with the photos of her gloves, along with an accompanying book.
Web site seeks to reunite gloves, owners
By JENNIFER C. YATES, Associated Press Writer
PITTSBURGH - It's like an online dating service for long lost gloves. No, that's not a typo.
A Texas native who experienced her first snowflakes in Pittsburgh last year was miffed by the lost gloves she spotted all over the city last winter. Whom did they belong to? Wouldn't they want them back? Why were people just walking past them?
So Jennifer Gooch, who is pursuing her master of fine arts degree at Carnegie Mellon University, started onecoldhand.com in an effort to reunite dropped gloves with their mates — and in the process spread some goodwill.
One of her first ones was a moist, lambskin glove that someone had propped up on a ledge on campus. She was worried about taking it at first. What if the owner came back to claim it?
In its place, she left a small rectangular sticker. A drawing of a black glove is scrawled on it and says, "Missing a glove? onecoldhand.com."
Gooch displays the gloves on the wall in her basement art studio at the university. There are 21 so far, each tacked up with push pins. Small yellow Post-it notes and slips of scrap paper hang there, too, chronicling where each was found.
One reads, "Found by Shaun Tuesday, Nov. 20 Penn Ave. between 29th & 28th." Below it, the finder drew two gloves — one outlined in a solid line, its mate outlined with a broken line.
Some appear to be expensive, others not so much. On the wall hangs a beige, left-handed woman's glove, with a dangling, sparkling rhinestone charm.
"That's a great glove," Gooch, 29, beamed Friday. "It's leather. It's got bling, but it's so useless now."
Gooch, originally from Dallas, photographs each glove and puts the picture and information on her Web site, where people can report found gloves and request stickers. She hasn't made any glove connections in the two weeks the site has been live, but it's OK if that never happens, she said.
"It's kind of whimsical and bittersweet," Gooch said. "It makes you feel there's this opportunity for benevolence."
Gooch would love to see One Cold Hand projects sprout up in other cities. She's working with two women in New York to start a similar effort there. They hope to have onecoldhand-nyc.com up and running soon.
Gooch is even talking with local businesses about creating glove dropboxes all over the city where people can leave their fabric finds.
Like socks that disappear in the dryer or plastic grocery bags that fly away and get in trees, Gooch believes there's something about gloves that is universal.
"If I have one person find their glove, then the entire thing is totally worth it," she said.
Update от 22 декабря: 4 перчатки нашли хозяев!
Web site reuniting gloves makes matches
By JENNIFER C. YATES, Associated Press Writer
Sat Dec 22, 7:25 AM ET
PITTSBURGH - Jennifer Gooch's mission was to create a simple Web site where people could go to find their lost gloves. Even if no happy reunions ever took place, she was just content to spread a little goodwill.
But just a month since http://www.onecoldhand.com went live, the Carnegie Mellon University art student is busier than ever. She's reunited four gloves with their owners, is working on similar sites for cities around the globe, and is planning a book to showcase her found gloves.
The first glove match was made about a week ago, when a CMU intern from Germany heard about the site and checked it out for her missing beige glove. She found it on the page, under the description "woman's leather glove with bling."
Sarah Altmeyer said she bought the gloves a few years ago in Germany, but later lost one at Carnegie Mellon's Simon-Newell Hall. She heard about the Web site Gooch created and thought she'd check it out.
Much to her joy, she found the missing glove there. "It was a very popular glove. I was actually kind of happy it was our first reunion," Gooch said.
Gooch's Web site got 55,000 hits in the 10 days after stories about her project ran all over the world.
"It's been amazing. Once the surprise kind of waned, I realized that it's something a lot of people can relate to, and for different reasons," Gooch said.
More than a dozen businesses and other offices in Pittsburgh now have drop boxes where lost gloves can be placed. Gooch gathers the gloves, photographs them and displays the picture on her Web site with information about where the glove was found.
Gooch's site has grown from 21 gloves to a collection of 75. A site started soon after, http://www.onecoldhand-nyc.com, had three gloves posted online as of Thursday. Sites are also planned for Manitoba, Milan and Philadelphia after Gooch was contacted by strangers who wanted to spearhead similar efforts in their cities.
At the end of April, Gooch plans an art show with the photos of her gloves, along with an accompanying book.