I was lucky enough to get a very early look at Pogus Caesar’s new Exhibition at Wolverhampton Art Gallery – some great shots and quite varied too for those of us used to his Birmingham-based work. I couldn’t find his spectacular shots of the Brum Tornado on the web, so you’ll just have to go - it’s on till the 12th of July.
Via The Big Picture (which is me too, but that’s how I found out )
Sinister looking bull in today’s (content rich for once) Birmingham Bulletin email from the Council. I don’t know whether it’s because his ears look like earrings for his horns, or just his expression - there’s a slight hint that the book he’s got is a cookbook and he’s looking at the ingredients.
is brum happy ? - Site that trawls the Brum-based interweb, and tries to work out if Birmingham is happy or not - updates daily. There's also a twitter bot to follow.
Fury over car "art" - Birmingham Mail - The car is on display outside Bournville Centre for Visual Arts as part of an exhibition devoted to the work of British author JG Ballard, who wrote the controversial novel Crash. Residents said it lowered the tone of George Cadbury's model village.
Webcast for city election results - BBC NEWS - “The Council is to hold a television-style live results service after voting finishes in the local elections on Thursday. The webcast will feature interviews and analysis hosted by former Adrian Goldberg.” Potential to be a huge balls-up - or a magnificent sucess - a must watch.
Just found out that the Radio 4 documentary about Telly Savalas’ Birmingham film (and the Portsmouth and Aberdeen ones he made) will be on Saturday at 10:30am. It should feature some clips from the screening recently held at the Library Theatre.
It’ll be on listen again for a week and I shall endeavour to put up an mp3 up (if the wondrous speechification- now a podcast, woo! - doesn’t).
As a special treat, here’s a new edit of the film showing different bits to our exclusive version:
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