Above is one of the photos from John Davies show, The British Landscape, which has been shortlisted for the prestigious Deutsche Borse Photography Prize. The Birmingham shots were commissioned by Birmingham Central Library in 2000. The Birmingham photographs form part of Davies’ larger project, Metropoli, which documented the changing face of the post-industrial city scape … [Read more…]
Click on the above to get a massive high resolution copy of Chu’s Hole in the Wall mural on Goodall St in Walsall, a record breaking attempt made last September. Here’s photos of its creation and there’s a Flickr group for you to add your own. via D’log who informs it works with 3D glasses!
Punch Records are running a competition for desginers to create an advert for this year’s BASS Festival “highlighting this year’s theme of The Four Elements of Hip Hop – BBoying, DJing, graffiti, and MCing.” There will be a cash prize of £500 and the winning design will receive huge exposure by appearing for six weeks … [Read more…]
From kate&drew Photos are posted here from the Birmingham Flickr community. Click on the image for more details.
Missed this one, but then I don’t go up to Victoria Square very often these days. Design City 08 is a “celebration of design focussed experiences, bringing alive the rich culture of Birmingham to demonstrate British talent and place the region firmly on the map of national design excellence” that’s been running this week – … [Read more…]
Spotted on the Punch Records site – a new-ish book about Bhangra by Birmingham-born academic Dr Rajinder Dudrah, senior lecturer in Film and Media Studies at the University of Manchester. Bhangra music is a genre that comes from the Indian subcontinent and sung in Punjabi. Bhangra: Birmingham and Beyond traces its birth in the UK … [Read more…]
A press release through from Marketing Birmingham tells us that TAK! have gotten the tender for the new Visit Birmingham website. I wouldn’t normally blog about such things but this is, I feel, pretty interesting. 1) TAK! is a relatively small web design company, not the sort of operation you’d expect a major City project … [Read more…]
I just wasted two hours of my life writing about the 10 Birmingham bands I think are quite bloody marvelous so the least you can do is go read it. There’s even audio to back up my assertions, and the invitation to draw my attention to other potentially bloody marvelous bands in the region. Get … [Read more…]