Random posts that don’t fit anywhere else.
Wanting to quickly get the Plus Festival experience quickly surmised I wandered around with my camcorder for 10 minutes. Hopefully you can get an idea of what it’s like, allowing for my amateurish skills in this medium. Gotta start somewhere though. I understand more video content should be coming online soon.
I’ve been sent a load of photos from the Binary Oppositions Launch and, since I’ve always wanted to run some kind of Hello-style Society page, I figured they might as well go on the blog. Post People watch out! I’m not going to try and do witty captions though. There’s a lot of them so … [Read more…]
I occasionally get emails from people looking for work experience and today had one from a parent looking for somewhere for their 15 year old to go for a week. She’s specifically looking for graphics / design / art / illustration businesses but it occured to me that there should be some sort of system … [Read more…]
Update: Here’s the Pacman Plus site. In Stef’s Plus prelude post he mentions games of real life Pac-Man will be taking place throughout the festival in a specially built maze. Here’s the skinny: The game will see one person taking the role of the iconic, ball-shaped hero as he is guided around by Player One. … [Read more…]
BIAD, the Birmingham Institute for Art and Design at UCE BCU, has a new website. There are a couple of nice things about this. The most obvious is the extensive gallery of graduates’ work which serves to show off the grads and their alma mata, though links to their sites would make it really useful. … [Read more…]
On Friday the Department for Culture Media and Sport announced with great fanfare an extra £50 million of funding for the Arts Council by 2011. The organisation’s funding will rise from £417 million this year to £467 million in 2010\11, a real-terms increase year-on-year of 1.1 per cent (or 12 per cent in cash terms … [Read more…]
Brilliantly Birmingham, the international jewellery festival, takes place across the region from November 22nd to January 13th attracting attention from across the globe. Part of the festival is FLUX, a curated exhibition and selling event in the Jewellery Quarter for designer makers. Participation in FLUX is by open submission and panel selection. Submission details are … [Read more…]
Here’s a nice history lesson for the weekend. Stuart Lee talks about and to Ted Chippington who he considers the alternative father of alternative comedy. While Ted’s from Birmingham he doesn’t live here anymore but he did do a gig at Atticus the other day as part of the Comedy Festival. The Atticus blog says … [Read more…]