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Hello, this is Jennifer and this is a chat with Essential Machine, a band based locally out of Greensburg, PA. We talked to them shortly after their new album, Underneath the Earth, was released. Ess…

Hello! It's Jennifer here a great session of a new feature called—The AP Collection After Dark! Tonight, Jerome Charles joins us as we talk about the past week in Pittsburgh, including a discussion a…

Hello everyone, this is Jennifer, the intern!

I had a pleasure of sitting in on this chat with Ziggy Sawdus: woodographer. This is a term he made up for wood carvings he creates, which is somewhere b…

Instead of a regular interview I wanted to do a little diary post to talk about the things on my mind and what's going on in Pittsburgh. 

Jennifer and I talk about BOOM Concepts, why you should follo…

Ray Whitehouse was generous enough with his time to come through and visit with the AP Collection before marking off one more milestone for his project, the American Baseball Journal. That milestone …

June was a busy month for all of us and that's no different here at The AP Collection. Jennifer Huang, the new intern, has begun working hard on recording and posting chats to the site; I am  working…

Note: For the record, writing a post about a writer can be daunting. Keep your judgey-judgey to yourself!

This post is as much about Joshua Young as it is about the importance of travel. When we move…

Chris Goodman is an "ographer" because he just does so many things that he can't choose one category that defines him. Chris is a videographer, photographer, interviewer, writer, and the list goes on…

Ryan Keene is a visual artist based in Bloomfield, whose work deals with themes of loss, especially the loss of innocence. In this chat, he speaks candidly about his own childhood experiences that pr…

Hello Inernet! this is Genevieve, the is the AP COlelction and this is a chat w comedian Gio Attisano. I'm keeping this intro short and sweet so just follow @apcollector on twitter / theapcolection o…

This is the first post from AP Collection intern Jennifer Huang!

Jenny Chan is a photographer and blogger, who embarked on the 100 Happy Days project just to see if she could stick with it and wound …

Brian Howe a.k.a Sikes is an MC and musician who started rapping in high school, "as almost a joke really." He'd been tinkering with beat making since an early age and it just made sense to start noo…

photo from orphanjane.com

Very rarely, I find myself in a "perfect room". This is referring to the acoustics of a room that I am recording in and I found my second perfect room in the administrative …

In the past, I've spent very little time in Brooklyn. Not for any reason other than I had no objective to fulfill in that part of New York. It was exciting to connect with Olivia Barr and check out N…

Screen printing culture is thriving in Pittsburgh. I've talked to a few printers in the past few months, (including Dan Rugh: Commonwealth Press, Amy Garbark: Garbella, and Dave Kaule: Troika Skate a…

Trained as dancers since childhood, Anna Thompson and Taylor Knight have been collaborating on multimedia experiences including movement, light, and sound in both live and recorded performances since…

Before you meet Dave Kaule you hear the same thing from everyone who knows him, "Dave is fucking best dude! Love that guy!" At this point in the project, I meet most of the interviewees I talk to thr…

Jordan Taylor, (DJ JCT45) and Joe Kennedy, (Professor ASAP) are the two musical powerhouses behind Tracksploitation, a Pittsburgh based DJ performance duo. They are also the biggest music buffs with …

Action Camp by their own admission are "doom pop / art rock / electo" but I dislike using labels when taking about music. Maybe because I'm terrible at talking about it in the way which most people p…