Random posts that don’t fit anywhere else.
Deadline is a collaboration between Antonio Roberts and Jon Harington. In Antonio’s words: It’s a year-long project by myself and Jon Harrington about deadlines and waiting. It’s possible that we may post more information about it, but in time In Jon’s words: Deadline started on January 1st and since then one still image from Antonio’s … [Read more…]
From Creative Alliance:
David Gonçalves moved from his native Portugal to do an MA in Science in Design and Transport at Coventry Uni. Having passed that with distinction, he now works in Birmingham as an industrial designer. The picture above is of The Scarab, a single-passenger urban transporter that received a write-up from Wired. (Found via Behance)
Claire Burgess has won a competition to spend some time at a Dubai radio station on the strength of a documentary she made about The Big Issue. She also made a series of ‘audio portraits’ for the council’s ‘Sister Cities‘ project including: Steve Stirling – a city taxi driver Dannii Killilea – a Roller Girl … [Read more…]
Tru Life Magazine is a free, A5 publication I picked up a few weeks back when in the city centre. It’s a new urban chic lifestyle magazine for aspirational young women Justice Williams, the editor in chief, has her own blog over at Amariah’s World and the magazine has a Facebook page too.
I was chatting with Nikki Pugh at the Birmingham Social Media Cafe yesterday and we twigged that there’s probably enough people in the area interested in alternate reality games, or at least the idea of social games/playful experiences (per the Hide and Seek Festival), to merit a get-together. It’ll probably be in January some time. … [Read more…]
LUCID is a research project funded by Advantage West Midlands as part of Birmingham’s Science City project which aims to help SMEs in the area to develop content and applications for mobile devices. Screen Media Lab has created two workshops to bring ICT and multimedia SMEs in the West Midlands up to speed with the … [Read more…]
and the winner is… Johnny Doom from Kerrang Radio! Hoorah! The final standings for the nominees are as follows: Johnny Doom Paul Murphy Barbara Nice Little Chris Adam Smith/Steve Zacharanda TWM Driver Helga Henry Pogus Caesar Roshan Doug Head over to Birmingham: it’s Not Shit for all the info and a nice message from Mr … [Read more…]