Written in Concrete
Pete’s photos from Ben Waddington’s Written in Concrete tour as part of the Still Walking festival last weekend. Onna map.
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Photos from Moseley Folk 2011
The Moseley Folk Festival was its usual mix of good music and great atmosphere. There are already bundles of photos from the weekend up on Flickr. Stanthefan and katchooo have been impressively prolific but this one’s from Adrian and Sarah: And this one’s by Leodensian: That’ll be Hannah from Boat To Row playing her last … [Read more…]
Behind the scenes at BMAG
While looking for something completely different the other day, I stumbled across a set of photos on BMAG’s Flickr account called ‘Behind the Scenes at BMAG‘. Very interesting it was too – fashion shoots, roof works (with views across the city) and the conservation studio. Here’s the slideshow:
CiB links for 18 March 2011
We Are Birmingham team up with Bullring for a very exciting public art project | We Are Birmingham Tom Tebby, Carl Booth, Matt Murtagh and James Thompson are doing something to cover the hoardings while the Spiceal Street development goes on ‘type-writing’ Symposium – good, long, comprehensive write-up of the event from Rachel Marsden, who was … [Read more…]
Jade Sukiya
Jade Sukiya is a photographer with an eye for a striking image or two. Here’s her intro: I was born in the mid-eighties to two admirably creative people. Years later that inevitable reality struck as having both my brother and I forced them to get ‘real’ jobs and lead a fairly restricted existence. My story … [Read more…]
Kids in Museums
The lovely folks at London based charity Kids in Museums are looking for a volunteer to launch and maintain its Flickr site. Kids in Museums came about when in 2003 Guardian writer Dea Birkett’s young son was thrown out of the Royal Academy for being too noisy, Kids in Museums now leads in promoting family-friendly … [Read more…]
No business like snow business…
Today’s snow has ensured the UK has come to a standstill once again, but it does makes any landscape look incredibly beautiful. Here are some of the eighty odd photographs added to Flickr since the snow started floating down onto Birmingham last night. Black horse on a white platform by abrinsky B29 snow by pindec … [Read more…]
January Flickrmeet
Birmingham Flickrers met for a photo-taking wander around the Jewellery Quarter yesterday and the photos are starting to go up online. Here’s the slideshow: New people are always welcome so if you’re interested in going along then join the Birmingham Flickrmeet group. The next Flickrmeet will be on Sunday 8 Feb (location tbc).