Monthly Archives: March 2009

Robert Vaughn to live in the Rotunda? The Man from B.R.U.M.C.L.E

Something to do with Hustle supposedly coming to Brum to film, he said: "my wife said 'you've got to find out where I'm going to live!' So tonight after the signings I'm going down to the Rotunda in the Bullring, which is apparently the best place for apartment-type living."

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Virtual Brum

A good bit of work from Matt Murtagh with Google Street View: StreetViewBrum from Matt Murtagh on Vimeo. I’ve also found something funny.

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Join the 4am photo walk in city this Saturday!

Join the 4am photo walk in city this Saturday!

UPDATE: I have got another photo permission from Birmingham Wholesale Markets! It will certainly be one of the busiest, if not the busiest, areas of the city centre at 4am. It’s a hive of activity with tons of photo opportunities!   So, here is the plan.   4am meet at the bronze bull, walk to New Street station, then head to the Wholesale Market. After 5am we can all go for a well deserved breakfast and a nice cup of tea!     As part of the 4am Project I’m organising a 4am photo walk through Birmingham city centre on Sat 4th April at……4am!   It’s a great opportunity to take a unique tour of the city at an often unseen time. Part of the tour will include Birmingham New Street station who have kindly given their permission for the ’4am-ers’ to take pictures.   The meeting point is the big brass bull outside the Bullring shopping centre at 4am. Please be on time, and don’t forget your camera!   We shall be joined by Birmingham: It’s Not Shit host Mr Jon Bounds who will be interviewing willing participants for his and Julia Gilbert’s radio show, The Big Paws, on...

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That's £4,400 please… for a Masters degree in Facebook

Predictable outrage from the papers about Birmingham City University's new MA in Social Media, BCU is at the forefront of working with and in online media and it would be remiss if they were not studying this stuff in depth.

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The Big Paws Listen Again 28/03/09

The Big Paws Listen Again 28/03/09

Tear yourself away from your Bangkok fireman and listen to this week’s Big Paws (it’s sorta like Radio BiNS):

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Moseley Folk Line-Up

Includes Jethro Tull, St Etienne, Beth Orton, Bert Jansch and Adrian Edmonson(!)…

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Aston Manor Road Transport Museum facing eviction

The museum housing Birmingham’s historic collection of bygone buses and trams has been cast in to doubt after city leaders axed funding.

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Birmingham Circus features animals

Holloway Circus that is, where two escaped pet rabbits are living.

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You Can Plan Lozells, but not without effort

You Can Plan Lozells, but not without effort

From the comprehensive Life in Lozells blog I’ve just found out about a housing consultation — with some exciting computery features. First up, there’s a website —vision-lozells.org … Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! … which does very little but point you to the exciting You Can Plan Lozells “computer programme” (sic) – “a bespoke 3D virtual environment which allows you to view the proposals interactively in 3D. This software has a number of special innovation (sic) created for the Vision Lozells project “. Now, I believe far more can be achieved by letting people talk to each other (a la the Big City Talk project) rather that flashy gizmos that people need to learn, but still — Virtual Lozells, that’s going to be exciting, and at least they’re trying something different. But,  it’ll be PC only I think, as a mac user I’ll not be able plan Lozells — wait, there’s a mac version (yay!). So I dowload, install, agreed to the bizarre Terms and Conditions (no screenshots, not sharing etc.) watched as I trusted Birmingham City Council to install something on my computer, launched and: Oh. No contact details on the website, nor any readme.txt file with the installer....

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