A two-color rendition of the Cathedral of Learning.
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Cathedral of Learning in Postcard Colors
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Top of the Arrott Building
The top of the Arrott Building, rendered in old-postcard colors by the Two-Strip Technicolor script for the GIMP.
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The View from Mount Washington, in Two Colors
The skyline on a perfect day, rendered in old-postcard colors.
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Log Cabin on the Pitt Campus
This is an old log house—probably about 200 years old—brought in from the rural exurbs of Armstrong County to represent the log cabin that has long played a prominent part in Pitt’s origin story. From 1787 until its first building was ready, the Pittsburgh Academy used a log building. That building is long gone, of course; this one was donated by a rich alumnus. It looks a bit silly among the sophisticated Gothic extravagances of the Stephen Foster Memorial, the Cathedral of Learning, and Heinz Chapel.
These pictures were taken back in February; for some reason old Pa Pitt never got around to publishing them until now. They are rendered in two-color old-postcard style for no very good reason other than that they looked better that way.
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Christmas at PPG Place
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Tower of St. Bernard’s, Mount Lebanon
The tower of St. Bernard’s peers over the trees in Mount Lebanon, brought to you in old-postcard colors thanks to the Two-Strip Technicolor plugin for the GIMP.
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Sweeping the Cathedral Steps
In old-postcard colors, a view of the front steps of St. Paul Cathedral in Oakland.
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Entrance to Phipps Conservatory
The entrance to Phipps, rendered in old-postcard colors by the Two-Strip Technicolor script for the GIMP.
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Shelf Fungus
For no very good reason, Father Pitt decided to see what this picture of a log covered with little bracket fungi would look like if it had been printed with one of the limited-color processes sometimes used for books of popular science in the 1930s. There is actually a plugin for the GIMP that imitates two-color Technicolor, which suited his purposes well enough. What do you think? Would this not have made an admirable illustration in The Child’s Book of Wonders of the Fungus World?
Camera: Olympus E-20n.
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The Gulf Building
The Gulf Building, an Art Deco tower with a top modeled after the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, is rendered here in old-postcard colors through the marvel of modern digital technology.
