Archive for September, 2007

Okay then, nominations are now open for the 2007 Brummie of the Year award. Last year Jason Furnell narrowly beat Danny Reddington to the top spot, and the year before Babu wiped the floor with all comers. Just add your suggestions here in the comments to this post and we’ll consider all suggestions. Nominations...
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Birmingham Bertie on YouTube, and on MySpace too. Thanks, I think, Bostin.
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We mentioned that Big Screen Birmingham were to set up a YouTube Group for easy submitting. Well they have: From November 2007, Big Screen Birmingham will be situated in Victoria Square. Over the last three years it’s home has been next door in Chamberlain Square, and it has played host to over 800 short...
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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } 9am : 24 Hours in Birmingham, originally uploaded by thornj. This shot of your fave caf’ at 9am is part of James Thornett’s 24 Hours in Birmingham photo project.
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Famous for having its own ‘who’s what’ on the weekends Moseley isn’t having one, Martin Mullaney reveals plans for Kings Heath’s market square – on his blog and on youTube: I have to say it’s another Mullaney YouTube classic, they’re definately getting more confident – I loved the walk up intro, and tittered along...
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It’s that time of next year again, when in a flagrant attempt to pay for all the incidental costs of B:iNS we unleash the Birmingham:It’s Not Shit Calendar on the suspecting public. It is, we’ve seen calendars in the shops. As always it features 13 shots of real Brum, with no spin and only...
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As part of the Plus International Design Festival, Central Library font geek extraordinare and local history expert Ben Waddington will be running a series of design walks around the city centre focusing on different aspects of type and fontage. One is his tour of places related to John Baskerville, which I went on in...
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Just stumbled across this on the interweb, someone is putting chapters of their Grandfather’s life story (as written by him) online. It looks as if it was written for publication, but never made it – such a joy of the net, never mind the “long tail” in years gone by you’d never of been...
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B:CEN has started a YouTube Channel. Podnosh has the full story.
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