Normal service has been rather disrupted by the thickness of my head these last couple of days. I’m hoping it’s just a short term thing that will be remedied by orange juice, duvets and dumb movies. Rest assured everything of interest I’ve come across is flagged ready to be turned into blog posts as soon … [Read more…]
Some follow-up to the Creative Director notion blogged about on Sunday: Stef Lewandowski asks What Is Birmingham’s Creative Direction? putting the development of the city into the framework of a project. Paul Groves says Birmingham’s creativity can’t be stifled by politics. There are also some interesting comments after Joanna Geary’s post on the subject.
D’log has started filling up his 2008 calendar with a load of arts-based events. Well worth a gander.
The Post follows up the story about Curzon Street Station being boarded up which I blogged about last Monday adding a bunch of research and quotes from persons involved.
John Tighe of the Spotted Dog pub is Brummie of the Year 2007. Well done John!
The mighty D’log went to the Creativity and Creative Sectors, Clusters and Networks event at the Birmingham University Business School on Friday and wrote up his notes and impressions in three posts (one, two, three). A lot of it went over my poor head but a few things jumped out and raised an eyebrow. When … [Read more…]
Congrats to Birminghamusic.com on winning the BDI Industry and Genius award in the category for Products and Genius: Digital Design. They write about wining it here: The panel received over 100 entries for the awards and in most cases 3 entries were shortlisted, as in the Digital Design category that Birminghamusic.com was in. It was … [Read more…]
Ooh, I wish Vivid had some way to link to specific things on their site. Something like, I dunno, a blog. Hint hint. Here’s a couple of interesting things currently on their front page. The first is a European Media Artists in Residence Exchange. The newly established European Media Art Network will give 16 production … [Read more…]