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 have two reasons for posting this: It amused me that the site talks up ‘free entry to the splendid Birmingham Artsfest’ when entry is free anyway It’s good to see Birmingham being talked about as a destination for an arty getaway There’s a few other items bundled into the package that might make it … [Read more…]
Twitpanto – 23 December at 2pm Featuring: Paul Groves as Cinderella Nicky Getgood as Prince Charming With special guests: Tom Watson MP (West Brom) as Baron Tweetup Jemima Kiss (Guardian tech correspondent) as Baroness Tweetup, the wicked stepmother I’m going to be one of the ugly sisters. Follow @twitpanto on Twitter or check this Twitter … [Read more…]
BBC NEWS | Magazine | The sit-down comic An interview with Birmingham’s Laura Howells – the Beano’s first ever regular female artist (hat tip to Andy Mabbett) John Garghan, exhibition in the new year The guy who takes the fasinating photos of torched cars. He’s getting ready for an exhibition at the Solihull Arts Complex … [Read more…]
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…]
To promote their Robin Hood panto, the Hippodrome have commissioned a flash game where you have to fire arrows at the Sherrif of Nottingham’s sneaky baddies (while not shooting the goodies). As Fiona at Audiences Central says, it’s a bit of fun “and people like to interact with something, rather than just having a marketing … [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…]