By stef
Today is the launch of The Big Picture.
It’s a project aimed at making the biggest photot ‘album’ the West Midlands has ever seen, and if that brings together over 100,000 images then they will be made into a World Record-breaking photo montage.
It’s an Arts Council project being run by Audiences Central, with some big support [...]
By stef
I was interviewed a couple of weeks ago for a piece that Broadcast magazine have written on the state of the digital media scene in Birmingham, and it’s been published today.
Titled “Digital Leader“, it’s a good, comprehensive write-up with quotes from a bunch of the people working in digital media in the city including Character [...]
By stef
(Pictured - Nick Booth and Jon Bounds)
Thursday night saw the first ever Birmingham Bloggers Meetup happen at the Kitchen Garden Cafe in Kings Heath. I made it down for the first hour or so, and it was a small, cosy event in nice surroundings. More photos here.
It was nice to see a few new as [...]
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By stef
I’ve been getting rid of lots of old computer equipment this week. You know the kind of thing - old bits and bobs that “might come in useful” or computers that “were really good when I got them two years ago and were really expensive but now are worth less than nothing”, like:
‘Old’ CTR (Cathode [...]
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By stef
Another in my series about Birmingham’s Big City Plan.
Photo by Pete Ashton
I’ve been working as a designer for a fair few years now and along the way I’ve learnt a few things about the things that make projects successful and, on the flipside, the things that can kill a perfectly good idea. You could break [...]
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