Posts Tagged ‘ Digbeth ’

Coach station finally to get refurb

Digbeth coach station is closing on Monday 12 November, and all coaches will arrive and depart from a temporary site “Birmingham Central Coach Station” – the former Audi car showroom over the road. Building of the new Coach Station is expected to take around two years. National Express – Digbeth Coach Station – Birmingham coach travel

Pop so many pills you’ll think pink ghosts are after you

Another, and frankly pant-wettingly exciting to us geeks, special event as part of the Plus Design Festival is the real-life Pac-Man maze. According to spong.com: “Pac-Man Plus gives you a host of amazing options. Maybe you want to be a ghost, and chase down the hero and make him eat his own head with a wibbly blip. Maybe you want to be Pac-Man, and feel the terror of having your destiny in a player’s hands. You can’t move on your own, Player 1 will tell you where to go. Pac-Man doesn’t think, he just does.” A player dressed as Pac-Man will enter the five by six metre maze where Blinky and Inky will be waiting. Pac-Man’s movements will then be directed via a one-way headset linked to another player outside the maze (the Controller), who will be watching the action top-down on a large projection screen. 1UP!

We mentioned the Type Tours before, but I couldn’t pass up a chance of a private mini-tour for myself: Ben Waddington is one of those people who wants others to appreciate their surroundings. An exiled Manc, he’s been running tours of some kind round Brum for a couple of years – I went on Ben’s tour themed around John Baskerville last year, and was impressed with his research and amiable guiding if not our city’s treatment of Baskerville’s legacy. If we must have a new library (when the current one works, no matter how you consider it looks) then it should feature some tribute – it will be on Baskerville’s old land after all. As part of the Plus International Design Festival, Ben is running his Baskerville Tour again – as well as ‘Type Tours’ of Digbeth and the city centre. A man who knows Brum well enough to give you a guided tour, as well as being a bit of a font geek? This is someone that I really should get to know, so despite my aversion to meeting strange men in pubs having contacted them over the internet, I popped out to The Old Contemptibles last week...

Soft Custard

In what I think they call a ‘soft launch’ Mr Pete Ashton Esq of Created in Birmingham fame has opened the doors ever so slightly on the new Custard Factory website: This weblog the first stage of the new Custard Factory website which, in time, will attempt to reflect and complement one of Europe’s largest concentrations of creativity online. Plans for this site are big but to get there we must take small steps, one at a time. Do join us on this journey. If it takes off in the same way as some of Pete’s other blogs I doubt he’ll ever get chance to sleep, let alone until noon. Already a whacking great improvement on what’s gone before, and I’m sure it’ll only get better.

There’s now a campaign site and online petition to help the Spotted Dog in Digbeth fight its noise abatement order:Helping keep Digbeth alive! It might not be enough to sign up – councils aren’t the greatest at listening to online polls – there are links to further information on the site and if you feel strongly enough you might take the time to write to the council yourself. (Via The Stirrer)

Page 7 of 7

« 1 … 5 6 7

Recent Comments

Archives

Posts Tagged ‘ Digbeth ’

Coach station finally to get refurb

Pop so many pills you’ll think pink ghosts are after you

Signs of the times

Soft Custard

Dog bites man

Get more Brum:

Is Brum Happy?

Birmingham's emotional wellbeing* on Thursday 17th of May 2012 09:40: 57.9 % (average)