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Found this on teh interwebs:
We mentioned Live Brum before, but as of now it’s, er, Live.
Josh Hart has put together the site with the idea of making it as easy as possible to put events in — and getting the listings out in any way you desire. RSS feeds for dates, venues, genres, little widgets for you to pop the event on your blog or website (like the Moseley Folk one below), there’s even a very clever twitter thing coming soon I hear, or you can just browse however you like.
It’s certainly easy to use, almost everything can be clicked on to take you to more listings, or more information and Josh is willing to listen to feature requests and other ideas — as well as working hard still on his own — so it can only get better.
I’m thinking that I might like it to learn what sort of events I attend and push recommendation a little how Amazon does, but as a launch product it’s fantastic. Birmingham might just have got the events listing website it deserves.
Curl Up & Dye, Vicarage Road, Birmingham, originally uploaded by new folder.
It can’t be the best punning shop name in Brum can it? Suggestions please…
As part of The Big Picture (disclaimer - I’m working on this) there’s a competition the prize of which is to have your photo blown up and displayed on a 48 sheet billboard (that’s the really big landscape ones). Any photo added to the project on Big Picture Day (8th May, tomorrow as I write) stands a chance - and there’s a billboard for each area in the project, including Brum.
There’s also an event in Victoria Square with a load of celeb lookalikes.
Found this on teh interwebs:
In the photograph as art stakes, there are sort of two extremes: the high-concept shoot, with props make-up and lighting and the high-concept concept where the photos might not really be the whole story. The Birmingham Photographic Grid falls into the later camp:
A photographic grid aims to make a meaningful visual statement about an environment by adopting a systematic approach. What does this place really look like? What does this place feel like? These are the questions being answered by a grid photograph. The grid imposes a system that may sometimes locate the picturesque but is just as likely to find the industrial, the rugged, the new, old, boring, threatening or just ugly.
The “industrial, the rugged, the new, old, boring, threatening or just ugly” sounds like a fair description of Birmingham, and these photos are all of these things - mapped out on a grid based with the eleven route.
See if you can guess where this is (and then find it on the grid):
You can download the Beeb’s cut of Telly Savalas looks at Birmingham from YouTube (download mp4 link is on right hand side).
Found this on teh interwebs:
Found this on teh interwebs:
We’ve been stung by rumours before, but this seems to have substance (check out that empty calendar). Shutting on the 12th May — no doubt demolished to become “luxury apartments” — the Jug has a long and glorious history,
The Catapult club have announced “three farewell gigs” the final one being Misty’s on the 11th.
Angry and sad, we’ll tell more as and when we find it.
(First word, pointers.)
