Digital Birmingham http://www.createdinbirmingham.com Fri, 17 Aug 2018 17:05:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/wp-content/uploads/cropped-CiB-Google-copy-32x32.jpg Digital Birmingham http://www.createdinbirmingham.com 32 32 Kindles and comics http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/2011/05/28/kindles-and-comics/ Sat, 28 May 2011 11:27:48 +0000 http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/?p=9826 [Read more...]]]> A couple of things if you’re in the business of making things other people might like to read.

Kindle Camp – A Kindle Publishing Workshop

Digital Birmingham, The New Optimists and Birmingham City Council Web Services Team have joined together to put on a workshop to go through the process of publishing your text to the Kindle.

This looks useful and pretty thorough. It’s free and it’s on 1 June. Only four tickets left.

Comics Launch Pad

Comics Launch Pad is a new and exciting event brought to you by International Comic Shows, the organisation behind the long-running British International Comics Show.

A one-day conference aimed at professionals, aspiring professionals and those with a serious interest in the business of making comics, Launch Pad promises to be an enlightening and fascinating experience.

D’log spotted this one. It’s on 18 June and here’s their website.

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  • Sounds Of The City charity CDs | We Are Birmingham
    “Vicinity Records presents Sounds of The City – a showcase compilation series celebrating contemporary music from select cities around the globe”. With Birmingham represented by Vinny and the Curse, Tempting Rosie, Pick Your Weapon and Glatze. Proceeds go to charity and you can grab a copy from We Are Birmingham
  • Jonny Costello – Bite Down on that Gumshield Son
    “Recorded in one take on CD & vinyl, it’s a selection of tracks old and new, hard and not so hard inspired loosely by the UK and Birmingham sound of today and yesterday”
  • Art & Heritage quarterly « D’log
    “A new quarterly Midlands art magazine, Art & Heritage, produced for a consortium of Black Country and Wolverhampton museums and galleries”
  • Colourful World of Concrete
    “Concrete needn’t be grey or square or boring I’m going to attempt to show what can be done. The world can be a much brighter place even built of concrete”
  • FRAME: Whats it all about?
    “The Frame mission is to encourage, support and stimulate the growth of the creative industries of Photography and Graphics in Birmingham.” They’re going to have premises and everything. Sounds very good.
  • Emily Warner
    Just noticed this new(ish) blog from multi-disciplinary artist Emily Warner
  • Place, Space & Identity
    Fierce Earth are looking after the third incarnation of PSI. There are six commissions with budgets ranging from around £7,000 to £23,000 for a high impact, big beautiful project to put Stoke-on-Trent on the map
  • Blink Animation
    They do a lot of children’s TV animation and they’ve just moved into Birmingham from Kidderminster
  • We’ll miss you Andie
    I seem to recall this sign cropping up in Ian Francis’s ‘My Favourite Things’ talk at Ikon a couple of years ago. A sad loss.
  • Edgelands: Between the urban and the rural | Fierce Festival
    The NEC as Edgeland
  • Chief Executive, Suzie Norton, leaves Screen WM
    Good luck to Suzie in whatever she does next
  • Creative England response – Blog – Digital Birmingham
    “Birmingham City Council supported by Digital Birmingham submitted a response to the recent consultation document Creative England: A Consultation on Strategic Priorities for Film 2011/12”. And here it is
  • A penguin being tickled
    No, I have no idea what this has to do with Birmingham, art, culture or anything. But then who cares? Maybe I’ll turn this into one of those blogs about cute animals
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    Screen West Midlands are hosting City As A Platform, at Aston University Business School and Conference Centre this Thursday, 17 Feb.

    In an era of public sector cuts and greater emphasis on local engagement, what happens when a city opens out its public infrastructure, technologies, data and buildings to digital media content developers?

    The event starts at 9.30, and contemplates ‘The future for the creative industries’, with a variety of sessions and speakers throughout the day, including keynote speaker Jon Kingsbury, Director, Creative Economy Programmes at NESTA.

    Panellists will explore the contours of these emerging ‘urban operating systems’ and consider the implications for society and the built environment through sessions including:

    • Open data: the challenges and opportunities
    • Contracting: navigating the public sector procurement map
    • Make it local: developing public services
    • Library as a platform: opening up archives
    • Transport: playing the daily commute
    • Healthcare: bringing greater benefits through digital

    Panellists and speakers come from across the public and private sectors, including the Greater London Authority, Rewired State, Rattle, University of Warwick, Maverick TV, Digital Birmingham, Mudlark, Podnosh, Birmingham City University and In Cahoots.

    Limited places are available for this event. For more info, full list of speakers and to sign up, visit the Eventbrite page.

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