- Independent Of The Month – Style Birmingham
Lora Leedham – Studio 6, The Merlin Centre of Contemporary Design, Hockley - Isaac – a man of many talents who redefined the word legend
Roger Shannon pays tribute to the late Isaac Hayes in an article most remarkable for the idea of a band consisting of Isaac Hayes, Huggy Bear and Taurean Blacque with Lovejoy as their manager. Oh, scrap that – I just got to the bit where Roger auctioned Hayes’ boxer shorts… - Birmingham pubs Google Map
Tom Scotney’s putting together a map of Birmingham pubs. Check it out and maybe give him a hand – it only takes a sec to add your local/fave - Animation Forum WM research report
“The Animation Forum West Midlands’ research report is now online for all to see. The report looks at the region’s ever-growing animation sector, and the role Animation Forum WM has played, and has to play in the process” - Interview with Birmingham Opera Company’s Graham Vick
Why does Birmingham Opera Company need 2,500 tonnes of mud to stage a Mozart opera? Its director tells all to (The Guardian’s) Erica Jeal - Home of the Autumn Store Blog – How to Put Bands on and Not Lose Loads of Money
“The next in my occasional series about how to put on a gig” - Death Cassettes
A new cassette (not record) label – “Limited to 100 copies.. On One of Four Coloured Cassettes, Hand made Artwork and Covers, And free digital downloads of the tracks tooooo for yr ipodz” (Spotted by Dunc at Autumn Store) - Finally, if you’ve not had a chuckle at the council yet…
They went and used a picture of Birmingham, Alabama’s skyline on a leaflet. They seem to have used the first pic that came up when they searched ‘Birmingham skyline’ with Google – not that they were prepared to admit that at first, which is probably why every man and their blog has written about this now. Ah well.
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This whole issue of Birmingham Council using a photo of Birmingham, Alabama they found on ‘Google Image Bank’, as I’ve heard it called so many times, should raise another far more important issue – one of companies using images legally.
Just because the Internet has opened up images to the world doesn’t mean that they’re not legally someone’s copyrighted work and I think it’s pretty appalling that an in-house design department (or worse, an agency, if BCC used one for this) is completely clueless about the legal use of sourced photography.
@dave, I’m not being an appoligist for BCC, but the image comes from iStockPhoto – whose images are watermarked so they couldn’t have just downloaded it.
I was worried about this too, so I spent a good while comparing the images available on Google — some are similar (it must be a popular Alabama vantage point), but the one used is definitely from an image library.
When you get there it’s clearly labelled Alabama, so they may be stupid, but not ignorant of copyright.