Monthly Archives: February 2007

make it a date

a big B:iNS ‘shout out’ (ahem) again to Created in Birmingham – the blog that keeps you up to date with anything ‘creative’ in Brum. this might be a feature they’ve had for a while, but i’ve only just stumbled upon it – for those of you that use Google Calendar to rule your lives, just go here, click a button and all the exhibitons events and that are added to your calendar. best of all, the CIB goblins do all the updating, so you don’t have to! you may end up never in the house again of course, but that’s at your own risk

monster, mache

now booking: walking tours of John Baskerville’s Brum. a walking tour of Birmingham City Centre, taking in locations, buildings, artefacts & monuments associated with the celebrated Mr. John Baskerville – printer, type founder, japanner, gravestone carver & atheist. Find out about his contribution to printing and discover an often overlooked slice of Birmingham’s history. Japaning, btw, turns out to be paper mache.

JB Birmingham Street Atlas : Originally uploaded by bounder. Roads, like music, crystallize memories. Here are some roads that make me remember. Why not make your own ‘street atlas’? See it in all it’s glory here I’m not saying why, or where they are – you can guess if you like. They are all in Brum tho’, I had to make a cut off somewhere and it might leave room for a follow-up that isn’t just Brum. It was actually quite an emotional experience in a couple of places (not to mention dangerous when standing in the midlle of the Pershore Rd to get ‘just the right angle’). See it as a flickr set. It’d be great if people made their own and we eventually got a shot of every road in Birmingham!

BBC WM – What’s your favourite greasy spoon?

Radio WM’s breakfast show are trying to find Brum’s best cafe. Phil Upton is sending a reporter out all week and then there’s yet another ‘pop idol’ type vote. Round here, leaving out Mr EGG (which surely qualifies for it’s own national yolk-based award), our favourite is “The Knife & Fork” on the Bristol Road. Also know as the Titanic Cafe: Photo by Matt Murtagh

Phalic logo award : Originally uploaded by bounder. Western Union Money Trasnfer have been trying to engage the local Sikhs with this poster i think – unfortunate coin-pile-character-turban interface tho. One for b3ta‘s phalic logo awards… birminghamitsnotshit.co.uk

panto horse grand national ’06 vids

having filmed our very own bounder romp home in a spectacular booby-prize-winning last place on horsey brummieoftheyear in 2005′s Pantomime Horse Grand National; we only went and forgot (doh) to film B:iNS rep for the 2006 race, Mick riding Airbiscuit, who left the competition standing and actually won the race (yay!). our 2005 vid: luckily, today we discovered that chrishamsandwich was up to job and has a couple of vids on youtube. chrishamsandwich’s 2006 vids: go airbiscuit!!!

digital birmingham – all naughts, no ones

if you popped along to digital birmingham‘s marquee in Victoria Square (to celebrate their first birthday)- as did my other half’s parents – you may well have been impressed with ‘our new digital age’ and all it can do. Visitors got to play with their Wii (hem hem) and find out a little more about podcasting, amongst other techno-marvels. No doubt you’d have come home drenched in leaflets, for all sorts of services and about a wide variety of subjects. Good. I’m glad someone’s trying to open up a few minds. Not good, however, is one particular leaflet “The Guide to Broadband at Home” (published by digital birmingham themselves). It’s littered with advice that is at best dumbed down (its definition of downloading is almost a perfect definition of streaming, for example) and at worst woefully out of date and inaccurate. If you had no idea to start with, you’d be even more confused. Some examples: (from the glossary) “Netscape Navigator. Software. One of the most popular browsers for accessing the world wide web”. not since about 1990 it hasn’t been. There’s no mention of IE, let alone Firefox, if you were trying to access the web you’d be...

aw shoot, and i was in work

Mass pillow fight up by Brasso, in the Bull Ring, this Tuesday gone. via Brum Blog

birmingham – madonna or whore?

Again to reference Pete Ashton, who has put together something very well thought out about the recent national media coverage of Birmingham. For those who just want to read this post then quickly forget about the whole thing, let me recap; when directly questioned 48% of surveyed people think manchester is britain’s second city (40% brum, 12% obviously couldn’t give a fig) we’re the rudest city in the country – according to a survey run to in some was promote a very low ranking supermarket (lower even than Safebury’s in my estimation anyway) the interior designer fella that people assume is gay, but actually isn’t did a Holiday report on us and recommended us as a weekend break Pete is very dismissive of all the journalistic work that has gone into the coverage all this, very rightly in the case of the rudeness survey, and seems to pretty much be saying “what’s the point?”. I’m sure he’ll correct me if I’m wrong. I was asked by News 24 and Kerrang! Radio to comment on the second city and rudeness debates respectively – judge for yourself whether asking me constitutes lazy journalism – and in a way i feel a...

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Monthly Archives: February 2007

make it a date

monster, mache

My Birmingham ‘Street Atlas’

BBC WM – What’s your favourite greasy spoon?

Phallic logo award

panto horse grand national ’06 vids

digital birmingham – all naughts, no ones

aw shoot, and i was in work

birmingham – madonna or whore?

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