BAApp: Walking Architecture is a searchable archive of buildings and tours from across Birmingham including historic, contemporary or conceptual architecture. It’s an iPhone app built by Substrakt for the Birmingham Architectural Association in collaboration with RIBA West Midlands and the Birmingham & Five Counties Architectural Association. It should arrive in the iTunes store any day now. If you … [Read more…]
Last year I announced Jobplot as a new creative jobs board for the West Midlands. The site’s now been rethought and redesigned. It now has: Talent profiles – if you’re a freelancer or run a company working in the creative sector (arts/culture/architecture/film/design/new media) then get yourself a free profile so people can find you and … [Read more…]
Tomorrow afternoon at Zellig (the new Custard Factory bit – that name’s still not sitting right with me) there’s an event for creative freelancers called Know Your Place. Those who are well tuned in to this sort of thing will know that a similar thing ran at Fazeley Studios a few months back (I even … [Read more…]
Such Tweet Sorrow launched the other day; a retelling of Romeo & Juliet via Twitter. Telling stories via Twitter isn’t a new thing particularly, but the size and scope of this effort is what sets it apart. The RSC are behind this after all, and from what I gather rehearsals and workshops for this have … [Read more…]
Creatives are invited to comment on the Big City Plan Following the cancellation of the Big City Plan workshop, Creative Republic have rescheduled the event for 6pm on Wednesday 11th February. The format remains the same with the event featuring a presentation on the Big City Plan with a discussion afterwards that will be written … [Read more…]
RSS. Feeds. Horrible, nasty words that scare normal folk and have them running from the internet to take refuge with their library cards. They’re not that tricky though. I’ve been keeping track of hundreds of websites to find stuff to post here. Visiting them all daily would have taken too long and cost me my … [Read more…]
trying to arrange a british tumblr meetup Substrakt’s Tom Martin would like to organise a British tumblr meet-up. If you work for any sort of digital agency in the city/region then it’d be worth getting in touch and lending him a hand Screen WM Acronym Glossary (SAG) Might be of use to someone (this is … [Read more…]
The Music Network want your music listings info Email your Tour Dates, Record release information, flyers, posters, and the rest to info(at)birminghammusicnetwork.com (take particular note of HOW they want your info – help them to help you) Substrakt They’ve redesigned their website and it looks lovely New Zealand / Birmingham Artist Residency Birmingham and U.K … [Read more…]