Vamos Bien is an exhibition by Junc at the Jibbering Records Gallery in Moseley. Here’s the private view invite. And there’s some blurb on Whatoninbrum: If you’re into UK hip hop, you’ll be no stranger to Junc’s slick design work. As part of the illustration team responsible for animating the thought provoking Braintax music video, … [Read more…]
The next 7 Inch Cinema night is this Sunday November 25th at the Hare and Hounds, Kings Heath. Amongst the usual oddities is work from local animators The Brothers Mcleod, a DIY flip-book challenge and work from the back catalogue of American animator Don Hertzfeldt. Here’s one of his shorts to whet the appetite. Starts … [Read more…]
Picked up a rather strange looking flyer the other day for an exhibition at the Central Library called More Captioned Pictures by Robert Geoghegan. It’s on the 3rd floor in the Arts and Lit dept and runs until the end of the month.
Nick Booth has organised a get together for Birmingham bloggers. Details are on Facebook but if you’re not that way inclined here’s the skinny. Thursday, January 10, 2008, 5:30pm – 7:00pm at the Kitchen Garden Cafe, Kings Heath. Then on to the Hare and Hounds. All are welcome. “First chance for Birmingham bloggers to get … [Read more…]
Richard Kaye has been posting some interesting photos up on Flickr using the slit-scan technique. A full description is at that link but if you think about the effect produced by moving a document over the glass of a photocopier as it’s making a copy it’s a sort so similar thing. Here’s a few of … [Read more…]
D’log draws my attention to a short film, Birmingham: The Creative City, focusing on two artists who benefited from the Equal: The Last Mile program which helps creatives turn their art into a business. If you filter out the shiny-happy aspect there’s still some interesting stuff in here. The film was put together by Creative … [Read more…]
ClickforArt.com are holding their first Birmingham show in the run up to Xmas. It is with great pleasure we announce our next show at 100 Holloway Head, Birmingham. Running for three consecutive weekends from 22 November until 9 December. Opening Friday, Saturday & Sunday of each weekend. We will be transforming an old furniture salesroom … [Read more…]
They just keep coming. The latest nomination to grace Catherine O’Flynn‘s What Was Lost is the Costa Book Awards where she’s in the running for best first novel. The Costa’s were previously known as the Whitbread’s and are pretty well respected in the book trade for bridging the gap between high-falutin literary and populist. Lest … [Read more…]