Author: Pete Ashton

7inch November

The 7 Inch Cinema listings for November are online for your perusal. As usual, a film bias that bleeds into other things Ian and Pippa are into.

Ask Beattie

Post journalist Joanna Geary is interviewing Trevor Beattie soon and is soliciting questions from the public on her blog. Beattie was responsible for inflicting FCUK on us but let’s not hold that against him. Too much. Questions about branding Birmingham will no doubt occur.

CiB on Facebook

I’m not a big fan of Facebook apps, but that’s mainly because most of them are stupid and get in the way of using Facebook properly for serious things, and also because I’m a miserable git, but here’s one I can get behind 100%. I present to you the Created in Birmingham Facebook App. How … [Read more…]

Gigbeth Survey

There’s an online survey for Gigbeth which it’d be cool if you could complete if you went to anything. If you give your address you might also win an iPod Shuffle.

Digital Festival confirmed

Birmingham a pioneer of the digital age is the mildly eyebrow raising headline of this Post feature by Culture Secretary James Purnell about our Digital Film and Media Festival scheduled to take place in October 2008. The details of next year’s festival are still being put together, but I can reveal that it will be … [Read more…]

Urban Watercolours

Change in the Midlands – Urban and Industrial Watercolours is a new book of paintings by Arthur Lockwood, a member of the Birmingham Society of Artists. From the publisher’s site: Without making judgements, Arthur Lockwood has dedicated himself to recording the demolition of nineteenth-century buildings and the construction of new landmarks such as the Bull … [Read more…]

Things

Charlotte Dunckley is looking to turn her zine Things We Love into a more professional magazine called Things and is seeking feedback on what people would like to see in it, not to mention contributors both online and off. Full details at the link.