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Created in Birmingham on Google+

Chris Unitt — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 21:41:12 +0000

For those that are into these kind of things, you can now add Created in Birmingham to your Circles on Google+.

If you’ve no idea what Google+ is then I really wouldn’t worry about it if I were you.

Incidentally, now’s probably a good time to remind you that if you want to follow the entirety of Created in Birmingham then:

createdinbirmingham.com is still the main place to get everything
You can Like the Facebook Page
You can follow the Twitter account
There’s a Delicious account where all the links for the Friday link round-ups are collected together
There’s a Created in Birmingham Tumblr too, where I tend to quickly post or reblog flyers, posters, videos and photos – it’s a more visual thing

Tweets from Artsfest

Chris Unitt — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 10:44:30 +0000

There’s loads of stuff happening at Artsfest this weekend. I pulled out a few suggestions here (with more in the comments below that post) but to get an idea of what people are up to, here’s a live Twitter search to have a look at:

Meanwhile, I’m covering what’s going on in the Dance Marquee today. You can follow all of that on the Dancing for the Games website.

Birmingham arts, culture and creative tweets for 2 June 2011

Chris Unitt — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 10:13:32 +0000

Today, every so often, I’m going to grab a smattering of tweets and pull them into the timeline below. If you refresh this page every so often you’ll see what’s been added. Or you can see it on the Storify site.

There’s a bigger point to be made behind this. It’s kinda obvious but I might write it up sooner or later.

And it’s not just that I couldn’t think what to write about today (although that too).

Go and see Constance Brown

Chris Unitt — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 08:23:49 +0000

I went to see Stan’s Cafe’s The Cleansing of Constance Brown at AE Harris on Saturday. It was superb and I’d thoroughly recommend grabbing some tickets before it closes on Saturday. Unless it’s already sold out. By rights it should’ve done that long ago.

It’s probably better to go with no expectations/preconceptions of about what you’re about to see but, in case you’d rather take someone else’s word for how it good it is:

Terry Grimley in the Birmingham Post (5 stars)
Exeunt Magazine (5 stars)
Lyn Gardner in the Guardian (4 stars)
Pete Ashton (with video trailer, but if you’re going I’d recommend not watching it)
Lots of people on Twitter

Book tickets here.

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*Alternative titles for this blog post:

Knees up Constance Brown (didn’t make sense)
Constance-ly good reviews (just rubbish)

Birmingham Twestival

Kate Spragg — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:12:54 +0000

Last night was Birmingham Twestival, a gathering of Birmingham Twitter users. The evening was a delightful mix of games, prizes and squinting at name tags, all in the name of charity. Birmingham joined over 175 countries in hosting a event to raise money and awareness for charity: water.

Photo by Lee Allen

I had a lovely time, mostly trying to spot my twitter friends from either their name tags or avatars, I even won a raffle prize – $200 of hosting vouchers! I asked the Birmingham tweeple to tweet a review:

If you need to remember the names of your new friends you made last night, a list of the attendees was posted on the blog today. Photographer Lee Allen (@photosbylee) took some great photos, you can see them on Flickr.

When I get word of how much was raised I will post it. Thanks to all the organisers for doing such a brilliant job.

Katie Parry’s Twitter-verse

Kate Spragg — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:53:12 +0000

This week Wendy Cope, one of the favourites to become the new poet laureate said that you can’t write poetry to order. Channel 4 set a challenge to prove her wrong: Write a poem ‘to lift the spirits of the nation’ in the format of a 140 character Twitter tweet.

Katie Parry aka @supercoolkp, a designer with supercool, did just that and managed to get her tweet read on air on the evening news.

Katie said:

I can’t begin to tell you how chuffed I was – I watch Channel 4 News every weeknight so to see my (Twitter) name on the screen was brilliant.

And it’s another small yet powerful example of the amazing connective potential of Twitter. How else would a graphic designer in Brum get their poem recited on the national news?

The segment is available to watch on YouTube and the best of the rest are on Channel 4 online.

Links for 18th October

Chris Unitt — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:29:21 +0000

shameless self promotion (for a good cause) Â« graphiquillan
Please go and vote for Shona’s beautiful design. It’s so quick to do and you’ll be supporting Birmingham’s creativeness. Please. Go on
4Talent Central Film Weekender
As part of the Hello Digital festival the local 4Talent folk have put together some film events at the Electric Cinema. On Friday there are 5 films from the annual Horrorfest competition. Saturday sees Pixar’s Michal Makarewicz introducing WALL-E (in high def). Sunday returns to horror with 28 Days Later, followed by a debate on the future of digital film
YouTube – ArtsFest2008’s Channel
ArtsFest has a YouTube channel for the 2008 events
Punch – News – MOBO 2008 nomination for Punch!!!
Ammo from Punch was nominated for a BeMOBO award which honours an individual or organisation making a difference in the community. He was pipped to the post by Ricky McCalla in the end but a round of applause is due nonetheless
Twitter / punchrecords
Punch have joined Twitter, by the way
Big Cat Group on Hello Digital
Big Cat give an overview of the events happening next weekend (Thurs – Sun) at Hello Digital
Digbeth is Good- Sunday Xpress this Sunday at the Adam & Eve
Promising not only “singers, poets, comedians, strange music-makers and rattlesnakes” but “free roast potatoes and good cheer” too. Sounds splendid
Animation Forum WM – Eight Eyed Sea Bass in Profile
Interesting interview with Paul and Dom from Eight Eyed Sea Bass. Covering topics like the London/regions divide, funding/support for animators and current/future projects. Having seen it, I can also confirm that they have a “bloody nice studio”
Dâ€™log – 10th Birmingham Tolkien Fest
Pencil in 16-17 May 09 if the thought of a Tolkein Fest makes you go weak at the knees. If not, don’t

Companies and such on Twitter

Chris Unitt — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:03:50 +0000

Back in April Pete did a round-up of Birmingham creatives on Twitter.Â There have been many additions since then, including accounts registered in the names of various local companies, festivals, etc who are using the (free!) service in all sorts of ways.

Not all of them are being used all year round or even updated all that regularly, but you never know when someone’s going to pick up an account and start using it again.

Here are the ones I’m aware of, in no particular order:

Film Dash
PLUS Design
Stan’s Cafe – Of All The People In All The World
Nikki Pugh’s Ludogeography
Aquaplane (a local band)
Hello Digital
Project X Presents
Birmingham Eastside
Type
Robot v Dinosaur
Light House Media Centre
Created in Birmingham
Sutton Art Festival
4Talent
Ash10
MyTurf (online volunteering network)
Custard Factory
BCU Media
Things Guide
Ironman Records
Smile
Birmingham Jazz Festival
Fierce Festival
Likemind
Gigbeth
Creative Networks
Network Musician

I also have my suspicions that the person behind The Day Today (occasionally coughing out lines from the show) is a prominent fellow in the city’s media.Â There’s only circumstantial evidence so far, but I’m on their case.

If you’ve come across any others to add to the list then please shout em up in the comments.

Smile on Baskerville

Chris Unitt — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:52:10 +0000

This is a lovely example of how to use that free online stuff (call it blogging, Twittering, social media if you like) to drum up interest in your work.

Twitter is a micro-blogging service.Â Smile is a creative consultancy.Â Smile don’t have a blog as such but they have a Twitter account and a Smile website.Â They’re working on the Baskerville Project (as is Alex Hughes, whose well-timed post has just dropped into my RSS reader) and they’ve put some beautiful photos on their site and Twitterered to tell interested folk like me that they’re there.

I don’t quite know what they’re doing but I’m really interested in seeing the finished product now.

More photos on the Smile website.

The CiB Calendar and Twitter

Chris Unitt — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:12:38 +0000

I’ve added a couple of things to Created in Birmingham that you might not have noticed, especially if you don’t tend to visit the site itself because of the genius that is RSS.

Calendar/Listings

On the listings page (there’s a link below the title of the blog too) I’ve embedded a calendar from my own GCal account.

I use that calendar to keep track of the various events covered on CiB, plus a few added extras.Â If you use Google Calendar (and possibly several others, like iCal and maybe Outlook) then you can subscribe to the CiB calendar too.

The listings page also pulls in a feed from Live Brum showing the day’s events.

CiB on Twitter

There’s a Created in Birmingham Twitter account too at http://twitter.com/createdinbrum.Â I tend to use this to flag up events that are happening nearer the time, kinda like a reminder service.

Before the non-Twitterers among you switch off, these work as free SMS updates too.Â Just send:

follow + createdinbrum

to 07624 801423 and you’ll get those CiB updates as free text messages.Â Pretty groovy, no?