Heard and Not Seen is an arts project, led by Sandra Hall and Mitra Memarzia with Friction Arts. The project aims to create a unique, safe space for people to meet and ask questions with each other, of each other; particularly about faith, religion and spirituality. The exhibition takes the form of a series of … [Read more…]
I obviously had too much time on my hands back in August because I volunteered to run a 48-hour film competition. From humble origins Film Dash (as I called it) it gathered pace, got bundled into Hello Digital and culminated in 11 films being produced over a single weekend with one being shown at the … [Read more…]
Starting 1 November and continuing every Saturday until Christmas, Moor Street Markets will set up in the foyer area of Moor Street Station. The emphasis will be on handmade, small gift items. Here’s the flyer and some blurb: Originally started in Summer 2006 by designers Claire and Kelly, the Moor Street Station Markets won the station … [Read more…]
I wasn’t sure whether or not to play this one straight, but then I came across this on the flyer: Classy. Anyway, I’m breaking my current ‘must be online to get a mention on CiB rule’ to copy & paste this from the email I’ve been passed: The orchestra will perform on a regular basis … [Read more…]
Tom from Substrakt tried a simple little exercise the other day: Inspired by the My Day Yesterday group on Flickr, I decided to have a go at condensing my Friday into a single 90 seconds movie My Day (Friday) from deplorableword on Vimeo.
Copied over wholesale from the Hello Digital blog (cos I’m not writing this twice): The East Birmingham & North Solihull Regeneration Zone (ebns Ltd), supported by Advantage West Midlands, have been investing in the development of Digbeth and Eastside as a Learning and Leisure Quarter and a centre for the creative industries, particularly the digital … [Read more…]
The Visualisation Lab at King’s College London plan to create a “unique, interactive, virtual reality, Cinema History database” The objective of this first phase was to reconstruct the Kingstanding Odeon, Birmingham, whose 1935 opening represents a key moment in the evolution of purpose-built cinemas More info here. Via Tom Lennon
If CiB posts have been a little light over the past few days (and they have) then it’s been because I was doing a blogging/social reporting job for Hello Digital and the associated conference, Hello World. As a result there’s plenty of stuff (reports from conference sessions, short interviews with speakers, photos and a liveblog) … [Read more…]