Author Archives: stef

Hello World

23rd
Oct. × ’08
By stef

Today is the first day of Birmingham’s Hello World conference being held at Millennium Point.
There’s two days of a handful of great speakers coming as part of the Hello Digital festival including the story of _that_ gorilla advert and Flickr’s director of community.
BTW: Here’s some info on why I suggested the name - yes I [...]

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Making a music video in 5 hours for Film Dash

18th
Oct. × ’08
By stef

Xela - Ut Nos Vivicaret (edit) from aeioux on Vimeo.
This is a music video I made today for the track Ut Nos Vivicaret taken from Xela’s forthcoming album In Bocca Al Lupo, on our label Type.
Best viewed using the Full Screen option at the bottom right of the player, and use headphones instead of [...]

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Jubilee Debt Campaign, Birmingham

16th
Oct. × ’08
By stef

Introducing a new blog for the Jubilee Debt Campaign in Birmingham.
Last night for Blog Action Day, some of the Birmingham bloggers got together to run a social media surgery, where not for profit organisations could get free advice and help with blogging and web tools for promoting what they do.
It was a big success, and [...]

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Blog Action Day in Birmingham

14th
Oct. × ’08
By stef

Blog Action Day 2008 Poverty from Blog Action Day on Vimeo.
Blog Action Day is happening for the second time this year, and is an attempt to bring together bloggers from around the world to discuss a shared issue.
This year’s theme is Poverty.
From this year’s ‘about’ page:

Global issues like poverty are extremely complex. There is no [...]

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A Creative Director for Birmingham?

10th
Sep. × ’08
By stef

Last night we ran the second in Creative Republic’s events around a creative response to the Big City Plan based around defining a “Fantasy brief for a Creative Director for Birmingham”.
Unfortunately, our planned speaker (the designer Michael Wolff) was ill and unable to attend. We were warned that might be the case the day before, [...]

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