Dave Piper is a Birmingham based photographer, who works mainly in fashion and portraiture photography. Though they may have been given a glamorous finish, you might recognise something familiar about these two photos, they’re taken from a shoot he did at the Hare & Hounds pub in Kings Heath. Having also recently shot his first … [Read more…]
From time to time a disgruntled promoter will write something accusing the people of Birmingham of being an apathetic bunch who’d rather stay at home than go out and have a good time. See this post from a year ago for an example. James Cook has joined this cohort with a post titled ‘Why the … [Read more…]
Design Space is a programme supported by the Birmingham City Council and the European Regional Development Fund that gives a select group of emerging jewellery artists free studio space and business classes for one year: in exchange, the participants must commit to work at least 30 hours a week developing their own design led business. … [Read more…]
A few weeks back we put a call out for guest posts. The response was really very decent, so we’ve decided that, other than some link and job round-ups, over the next few weeks we’re pretty much going to hand the site over to our esteemed guests with a post (roughly) every other day. Please … [Read more…]
The new site and programme is up for this year’s Flatpack Festival (23-27 March). Hoorah! I’ve had a brief skim through and, as with previous years, would recommend ignoring the titles (which tend to leave me going ‘Eh? Never heard of it’) and read through the descriptions (which tend to leave me going ‘nice, I … [Read more…]
‘Doing it the hard way: Setting up an Animation Studio Outside the Capital‘ is the follow-up to Animation Forum WM and BSeen‘s last event back in January. The event is taking place tomorrow, 1 March, at The Studio, and is being presented bu Niel Bushnell, who runs award-winning Newcastle-based animation and VFX studio Qurios. Niel … [Read more…]
On 3 March, two films by Creative Leap artists will be screened from 5.30pm – 7pm at Ward End Library. The Door by Benjamin Pinnock – a live action and animation drama short set in Erdington and Aston shown through the eyes of a lead character who discovers he has the ability to alter time. … [Read more…]
I’ve just been noseying around the Red Bull-sponsored Street Art View. It’s a little like the Google Art Project thing that launched a few weeks back, only it takes a collaborative approach to building a map of street art that can be seen on Google’s Street View. There’s not a lot in Birmingham (yet?), but … [Read more…]