An amusing spoof at theSpoof.com with a Birmingham angle: Shoppers in Birmingham’s City Centre were confronted by the spectacular vision of the city’s Arts Czar this morning. As they feebly attempted to keep their minds on their Christmas shopping their imaginations were captured by the charismatic figure of Theodore Parker Bowles, Birmingham’s Arts Czar since … [Read more…]
Ben Neal rounds up some art and music stuff he’s done / been to.
Issue two of The Eccentric City, “the worlds first eccentric newspaper”, is out. D’log investigates…
The Great Grock. I’ll let you figure out what this is all about for yourselves. But here’s some photos.
The Outcrowd Collective’s Intervalometer: “This is a freestyle animation we made for fun, using a digital camera, some time lapse animation software, paint, pens, paper cut outs and our imagination” They’ve been posting a lot of stuff from their archives on the Outcrowd blog these last few days. Go check it out.
Birmingham studios face uncertain future. Grimley of The Post gives a great overview of the Artists Studios issue spotlighting some success stories and comparing the Birmingham situation with other cities. Well worth a read and if I wasn’t on holiday (did I mention that?) I’d go through and find links for all the people. If … [Read more…]
TAK! Papercrafts for the festive season for you to download and make!
Newtasty – an illustration / design company to investigate in the new year…