I’m not going to go crazy looking for them but here’s the collective memory post for Plus: Rich Batsford went to the Friday night party. Viggy La Q visited on the Sunday. Charlotte Carey reports on the Michael Wolf talk. Stef Lewandowski promises a series of posts: Moving Type Found is the first. Any more … [Read more…]
Came across this guy while searching for the record shop of the same name and am rather glad I did. PolarBear classifies himself as “A’cappella / Hip Hop / Emo” on his MySpace. Based in Birmingham and London he did a couple of shows at the Rep last month (If I cover my nose you … [Read more…]
Over the weekend I had two separate conversations with promoters (Al of Curates Egg and Rich from Project X) about MySpace, specifically how posting flyers into the comments of everyone in your Friends list is possibly the most tedious and long winded task ever inflicted on a human. Initially I smiled the smile of pity … [Read more…]
I could be wrong (to be honest I get all the Creative XYZ things mixed up in my mind and, yes, I get the irony of that) but I think Creative Alliance have a new website. Part of it is a New and events page which should be pretty useful. No RSS feed but this … [Read more…]
The Fine Art of Saying “Hello” was a presentation given by TAK! to young illustrators on how they might promote themselves. In a smart piece of meta-promotion Dom’s put the PDF of the talk online so everyone else can benefit from it. This act is an example of something I’m very much in favour of … [Read more…]
Jan Bowman writes: I’m writing a children’s picture book about Birmingham and the Enlightenment, which will be ready to send to publishers by December. Inspired by the work of Czech illustrator Sasek it will also show undiscovered treasures lurking in the city, such as the attached. I’m looking for other good visual suggestions and suspect … [Read more…]
Just came across Klunk.org, a collective blog that, while not explicitly Birmingham-centric appears to be based here. This website is the place to find information about the Klunk Kollective. Which basically is a bunch of like minded folks interested in creating digital media. My name is Gary Judge (aka Arcade) and I am the founding … [Read more…]
The Stirrer is giving away a couple of tickets to La Traviata.