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Keep calm & candy on “Staff at CyberCandy in good spirits, love what they’ve painted on the boards from #BirminghamRiots aftermath” /via @lauracreaven (via http://yfrog.com/h0tw0smoj) from Brumblr, the scrapbook of Brum web ephemera:

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Freecode Hexagon, Hexagon Theatre, MAC 19th Aug 7pm Realtime, generative Audio Visual performance presented in the MAC’s best kept secret – a gem of 1960s architecture – the HEXAGON theatre, originally the Cannon Hill Puppet Theatre. Featuring stunning work from the most experienced and freshest face, alike:SCREE are DJ Sir Real (www.myspace.com/djsirreal) from the House of God and VJ Catweasel (www.colour-burst.com) who does visuals for artists like Stevie Wonder. Modulate (www.modulate.org.uk/) are an AV collective who grew out of electronic ambient pioneers Higher Intelligence Agency.FREECODE are an AV collective of tweakers featuring:Chromatouch (www.chromatouch.wordpress.com),Minuek (www.myspace.com/minuek),Laternist (www.laternist.posterous.com) Hellocatfood (www.hellocatfood.com) Node based programming artists have risen to the fore over the last few years as graphical programming becomes more accesible and capable of harnessing computer functions more easily. Support networks like ‘hackspaces’ and festivals like the Maker Faire mean that girls and boys alike have been sharing knowledge and indeed creating their own canon in digital art. The upshot of this tweakery is that people can make the most unique of digital creations from a fundamental level, no longer limited to what a piece of software has in it’s palette of filters and effects, you can now make your own software patches fairly simply…...

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‘Debtocracy’: Birmingham Co-operative Film Society Presents: ‘Debtocracy’ A compelling film about Greek’s financial crisis makes the case that the entire euro system was rotten from the start 74 min. Cert 15 7pm, Thursday 11th August (Doors open at 6.30pm) Midlands Co-operative Member Relations Centre Birmingham & Midlands Institute, Margaret St, Birmingham, B3 3BS Tickets: £2.50 (members) / £4.50 (non-members) (Membership costs £10 a year for individuals – first film free) All Welcome! from Brumblr, the scrapbook of Brum web ephemera:

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From ATVLand in Colour This 5 x 45 minute documentary tells the story of the affectionately known ‘ATVLand’ – the ATV Centre in Birmingham, from its beginnings to its ultimate closure in 1997 and beyond, celebrating some of the great programmes that came from the studios throughout its working life. The DVD includes a mix of rare archive footage, much of which has not been seen since broadcast, and interviews with those who worked at the centre including Jim Bowen, Barbara Bradbury, Reg Harcourt, Peter Harris, Diana Mather, Wendy Nelson, Jane Rossington, Debbie Shore, Chris Tarrant, Shaw Taylor, Gary Terzza, Bob Warman and Jo Wheeler PART ONE begins with a brief history of midlands broadcaster Associated Television (ATV) and its studio base in Aston, with anecdotes on some of the programmes produced there from those who were involved. The story then follows changes in the ITV system, leaving ATV in need of new premises for the age of colour broadcasting leading to the eventual opening of ATV Centre in 1970. PARTS TWO and THREE tell the story of the ATV Centre in operation throughout the 1970s, remembered by those who were involved and concentrating on the types of programmes...

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“I maintain that Felt are by far the best band to ever come out of Birmingham.” – Tim Burgess On Loving Lawrence & Felt, “Birmingham’s Best Band” from Brumblr, the scrapbook of Brum web ephemera:

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“culturally aware Birmingham locals (yep, they do exist …).” – Want to be het up about something of the day: Cine-files: The Electric, Birmingham | Film | guardian.co.uk from Brumblr, the scrapbook of Brum web ephemera:

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Hell comes to Birmingham Tom Lennon tells us about Captain Midlands: “if Birmingham-based cinemagoers want a superhero they can really identify with then they’ll have to look elsewhere. Luckily, an ideal candidate already exists. His name? Captain Midlands. Yes, that sprawling and overpopulated metafictional monstrosity that is the Marvel Comics Universe actually contains a patriotic, shield-slinging, living legend of World War II who is also a Brummie. If the likes of Captains America and Britain are (in the language of the aviation industry) national flag-carriers, then Captain Midlands is  a hyperlocal hero.” (more at This is Captain Midlands | Tom Lennon’s Blog) from Brumblr, the scrapbook of Brum web ephemera:

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Albion goalie beaten from the other box in US friendly: Earthquakes goalkeeper David Bingham’s unbelievable goal vs. West Brom (by sanjoseearthquakes) from Brumblr, the scrapbook of Brum web ephemera:

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The Flyover Show 4 from Brumblr, the scrapbook of Brum web ephemera:

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