Archive for August, 2008

Say Hello

29 August 2008
By Jon Bounds
Say Hello

Mere seconds after making a snide remark about there being no info about the Birmingham Digital Festival, the blog goes live (in fact it was transitioning from some test server as I wrote, but I couldn’t be bothered to change it). So yay for information, boo for my laziness! Hello Digital is, they say,...
Read more »

Tags: , ,
Posted in what's on | View Comments

Be Birmingham site goes 2.0, in a way

29 August 2008
By Jon Bounds

Be Birmingham is what used to be called Birmingham Strategic Partnership — that’s a sort of talking shop between things like the police and the council, which everyone is invited to contribute to. They’ve revamped their website to include a forum, as well as blogs from their “community champions” – who take “various views...
Read more »

Tags: , , , ,
Posted in internet, politics | View Comments

A Chubby Brown tribute act, and pencil drawings of Dad’s Army

29 August 2008
By Jon Bounds
A Chubby Brown tribute act, and pencil drawings of Dad’s Army

A day after we found out the line-up for the Book Festival, and as we continue to find out very little about Artsfest and nothing at all about the “digital festival“, the bill for the Birmingham Comedy Festival is live. Personal highlights include Mark Steel, Richard Herring (although I’m pretty sure their tours would...
Read more »

Tags: , , , , , ,
Posted in what's on | View Comments

It’s all Self, Self, Self with the Birmingham Book Festival

28 August 2008
By Jon Bounds

The charming Russ L, points us to the line-up of this years Birmingham Book festival via a post on the BiNS talk boards. There’s the usual opening quiz, David Lodge, Mark Thomas and the godlike Will Self amongst others. Full programme is now on the site.
Read more »

Tags: , , , , ,
Posted in art, what's on | View Comments

Don’t fail, whale

27 August 2008
By Jon Bounds

I meant to mention this ages ago, but I forgot and I’ve only just remembered now it’s nearly finished: “From 12 – 30 August, Ikon is running a tailor shop in the old Salvation Army charity shop, 3 New Street, Erdington.  Led by creative facilitator Jess Worley and local members of the Erdington Arts...
Read more »

Tags: , , , , ,
Posted in some blogs | View Comments

If they build it, they will come

26 August 2008
By Jon Bounds

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery have just come into some money, £300,000, and they’re going to use it to create a gallery showing Birmingham’s history from medieval times to the present day. I’m sure we used to have something a bit like this (a local history room anyway). But anyway — apart from getting...
Read more »

Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,
Posted in fun, history | View Comments

Dr Alice Jones dropped from roof of Symphony Hall

26 August 2008
By Jon Bounds

TV quack Dr Alice Jones is to be dropped 100ft from the ceiling of the concert hall to demonstrate how white blood cells react to sudden changes in the body induced by shock and fear – they could have just subjected her to some of the acts at Supersonic and saved the winching equpiment....
Read more »

Tags: ,
Posted in links | View Comments

Open Days are here again

25 August 2008
By Jon Bounds

Heritage Open Days are a set of tours or special openings of buildings around the country for four days every September. This year’s itinerary is now out and there are six pages of search results local to Birmingham (can’t create a permalink you’ll have to go to the search page and use “Birmingham” as...
Read more »

Tags: , , , , , , ,
Posted in architecture, what's on | View Comments

The Big Picture – West Midlands – World Record Photo Mosaic

23 August 2008
By Jon Bounds

That's it, The Big Picture has officially got the World Record for the largest photo mosaic! You can explore it here online and it looks fantastic.
Read more »

Tags: , , , ,
Posted in links | View Comments

@onBirmingham – Breaking Brum News on Twitter


 Subscribe by RSS
Follow BirminghamiNS on Twitter



 
BiNS is mostly by Jon Bounds, a Birmingham based social web consultant, producer and writer. You can hire him to work on your stuff, or follow him on twitter. There's also the odd bit of stuff from Danny Smith.

Feel free to send us anything you're interested in - or think we might be.
If you've got gigs to promote, best to chuck them on the talk board.

BiNS Flickr Group

A photo on Flickr
A photo on Flickr
A photo on Flickr