Random posts that don’t fit anywhere else.
Creative Republic (who fund this blog) are organising a series of events over the next few months, the first of which focuses on the West Midlands Cultural Olympiad which is a four year celebration of culture and creativity that will be launched over the weekend of 26 September as part of the plans for the … [Read more…]
I went along to the Animation Forum West Midlands event, Shorts On Walls, on Monday which was most enjoyable. The organisers were certainly pleased with how things went and have said so on their pleasingly blog-ish news page. Also on that page is the evening’s screening schedule with links to the animators’ profiles. I understand … [Read more…]
You’ll have to excuse some slightly hectic posting this week and next while I get my head round 300ish new RSS feeds and an inbox stuffed with interesting (and hopefully not yet out of date) emails. I’ll also introduce myself properly later but for now, here’s a round-up: “aCtiVe arts is a steering group, made … [Read more…]
News to me here is that the Moselely Folk Festival is a three day event this year, starting at 3pm on the Friday. Other than that it looks to be the usual mix of old school folkie classics, nu-folk (or whatever) and quirky stuff. Nice! Here’s the lineup and tickets are on sale with a … [Read more…]
On Saturday semi-serious (i think) art group Digital Is Dangerous will be hosting a debate on digital technology’s role in the creative process. Conformed speakers include Robin Giorno, Jonathan Green, Keir Williams and artist and researcher for Wolverhampton uni Robert Grose (cant find a website sorry). Event starts at 3pm and goes on till 5pm … [Read more…]
Here’s the “outline design” for the new BIAD campus in Eastside, as revealed on Simon Howes’ Eastside blog. Millennium Point is in the foreground and the red blob is Curzon St Station. Simon also has a top down map which pleasingly shows how much open space they’re planning to leave, which is nice as I … [Read more…]
A number of you have been contacting me over this appearing on Google: In short, nothing to worry about, it’s all in hand, just waiting for Google to process the site before removing the warning. In long, we were running WordPress 2.2 which was vulnerable to hacking and someone hacked it. Nothing major, just a … [Read more…]
Birmingham invaded by alien soft toys using Twitter. And that’s just the start…