Great writeup about a USF St. Petersburg entrepreneurship alumni in 83 Degrees Media this week!
Reuben & Hunter: Creative Duo Exude Energy, Ideas
Read the Full Article atReuben Pressman and Hunter Payne want you to know that they’re staying.
In St. Petersburg, that is.
Last April, the creative partners and best friends were catapulted into local fame when their proposal to create Swings Tampa Bay won the 10-100-1000 Challenge — a competition co-sponsored by Creative Tampa Bay and Creative Loafing designed to solicit ideas for projects that could make Tampa Bay a better place.
With their $1,000 award, Pressman, 22, and Payne, 21, launched Swings, a public art and community building endeavor with a simple premise: by placing hand-painted swings (each comprised of a flat, wood seat decorated as an artwork and hung between two ropes) in unexpected locations, they would inject a sense of play into the city’s landscape, getting people to “think differently,” Pressman says.
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