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Written by Nicky Getgood on Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 ( Start discussion )
Tags: Digbethisgood, dlog, hellodigital, helloworld, links, millenniumpoint, plus+, PlusInternationalDesignFestival, stereographic, thinktank, toblog, typetartcards
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Written by Nicky Getgood on Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 ( Start discussion )
Tags: bigcatgroup, cabe, chrisunitt, clareedwards, createdinbirmingham, digbethcoachstation, Digbethisgood, eastsideblog, eastsidelocks, filmdash, GeoffThompson, gigbeth, hellodigital, helloworld, JustinEdgar, links, millenniumpoint, rdeloyde, SammHaillay, StephenSpencer, thinktank, toblog, youtube
- Digbeth Coach Station the Progress so Far in 2008 – A YouTube video by R Deloyde of what looks like a dank and desolate building site with the soundtrack of a car alarm. This feast for the eyes unfortunately can’t be embedded – is the filmmaker worried every site will want one?
- Not long til Gigbeth – So Created in Birmingham’s done a useful Gigbeth links post, which features an interview with organiser Clare Edwards. Today’s the last day to get hold of those early bird tickets, so hurry. Meanwhile Big Cat Kenny posts about the new headliners announced for Gigbeth Fabio and Kano.
- CABE slams Eastside Locks masterplan – “In the absence of a concept, the design lacks rigour and is a weak response to [the] valuable assets of the canal and the park…Overall, the masterplan misses many vital opportunities to make this a meaningful place and requires a fundamental rethink.” Oo-er.
- Hello World – Big Cat Kenny posts about the conference running alongside the Hello Digital festival, and also Film Dash this weekend.
- Screen WM cover the Digishorts at Hello Digital on Saturday 25th October 3.30pm, Millennium Point – Birmingham Animator Stephen Spencer will start the event, followed by Geoff Thompson, Justin Edgar and Samm Haillay.
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Written by Nicky Getgood on Friday, October 10th, 2008 ( Start discussion )
Tags: bigcatgroup, birminghamcitycouncil, chrisunitt, createdinbirmingham, creativecityawards, custardfactory, designerart, Digbethisgood, fazeleystreet, fazeleystudios, helloworld, KoganechoBazaar, links, ltdedition, millenniumpoint, nikkipugh, plus+, PlusInternationalDesignFestival, ruthgreendesign, shymousedesign, thinktank, toblog
Search for the stars – A Birmingham City Council-backed ‘Birmingham’s Got Talent’ competition. It’s part of the Creative City Awards and finalists will have the chance to perform at the 2008 Creative City Awards ceremony on Nov 29 at the ICC. Auditions will be held at the Custard Factory at the end of October.
Big Cat Group originally marketed this as an X Factor style contest but after the feedback this received on Created in Birmingham they decided it was the ‘wrong approach’ and changed tack to……another Simon Cowell-fronted, bad, reality telly contest. And sent the press release out with this simply gorgeous picture of Councillor Neville Summerfield. Really went back to the drawing board and thought outside the box there, then.
Other, less maddening, news is:
- Plus Design venue – I do so love being right. The confirmed venue for Plus International Design Expo 5-8 November is Fazeley Studios.
- Koganecho Bazaar and Digbeth – A fantastic article by Nikki Pugh about Koganecho Bazaar in Japan and how it ‘resonates strongly with various conversations going on here regarding the regeneration of Digbeth’.
- Hello World – Created in Birmingham post the programme of the Hello World international digital media conference at Millennium Point 23-24 October.
- Artists at Ltd Edition – I missed the last Ltd Edition art sale at the Custard Factory, but Chris Unitt made it and discovered Designer Art, Shy Mouse Design and the gorgeous Ruth Green Design.
- Ticket shop a coming – To the Custard Factory, for events at the Custard Factory, which makes sense.
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Written by Nicky Getgood on Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 ( Start discussion )
Tags: artmoney, birminghameveningmail, birminghamitsnotshit, commonplaceleeds, Digbethisgood, freespacebrum, gigbeth, inspiraculum, irishclub, irishquarter, johntighe, jonbounds, links, melindaschwakhofer, MichalMakarewicz, millenniumpoint, myspace, spaghettigazeti, spotteddog, stpatricksfestival, thinktank, toblog
- Last Round! – Melinda Schwakhofer bought a round of drinks with Art Money during her visit here, which got landlord John Tighe into the Birmingham Evening Mail for being the first Birmingham business to accept it as payment. I’m holding the cameraman’s flash for that picture. I’ve a great face for blogging.
- IN BIRMINGHAM FREESPACEBRUM PRESENTS – The Common Place in Leeds ‘was recently attacked by authority, its entertainment and alcohol licence revoked in order to damage it financially. In solidarity, Birmingham’s autonomous social centres collective present an evening of radical films on the evening of Tuesday 14th October at The Spotted Dog pub Alcester/Warwick St.’
- Birmingham St Patrick’s Festival History project to present a copy of ‘A great day: celebrating St Patrick’s Day in Birmingham ’ to Birmingham community libraries – The presentation will be made on Friday 10th October at 9am at Erdington Library. ‘ The book is a record of the voices of ordinary people in Birmingham , telling their stories, which could easily be disregarded or forgotten. In the course of the research for the project, the Festival discovered that Birmingham held the 1st St Patrick’s Day Parade in England on Sunday 16th March 1952.’ To help with this year’s St Patrick’s Day festival attend the public consultation meeting next Thurs 16th Oct at The Irish Club at 8pm.
- Gigbeth Myspace marathon – Just like last year Birmingham it’s Not Shit do a Gigbeth Myspace trawl, ‘having a quick shuftee at the myspace page of every act that was listed, listening to what we found and “reviewing” the bands based on only that. Quickly — no second goes, no in-depth research.’
- Animation Galore at Hello Digital festival – Michal Makarewicz, award-winning animator on Pixar features such as The Incredibles, Cars, Ratatouille and Wall-E will be ‘in conversation’ on 24th October as part of Birmingham’s Hello Digital Festival. The free event takes place at 3.45pm at Think Space at Millennium Point.
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Written by Nicky Getgood on Wednesday, October 1st, 2008 ( One response )
Tags: acedanceandmusic, baskerville, custardfactory, Digbethisgood, expressandstar, hello digital, jeremyhunt, links, marvelcomic, michaelheseltine, millenniumpoint, nickclark, plus+, silversurfer, substrakt, thinktank, toblog
Pinch, punch, first of the month….
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Written by Nicky Getgood on Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 ( Start discussion )
Tags: BirminghamMusicNetwork, birminghampost, chrisunitt, createdinbirmingham, CreativeNetworks, Custard Factory, Digbethisgood, digbetholympics, Fazeley Studios, Fierce Festival, Flickr, gigbeth, johnmostyn, leekern, links, Midge Diabolik, millenniumpoint, monkeytennis, Nicole Blackman, Pete Ashton, thinktank, toblog
- You sing it, we’ll hum it – John Mostyn hums along to the German national anthem at the Digbeth Olympics. He promises video footage soon. In the meantime, you’ll have to make do with my crap photos.
- Gigbeth 2008 line-up announced – Birmingham Post – Geek rockers, hip hop legends and dance music pensioners all in the one festival.
- Birmingham Music Network and Creative Networks – Two meetings in Millennium Point Thurs 28 Sept. The Birmingham branch of Musicians Union pig out on chocolate 4-6pm and afterwards Creative Networks learn ‘How to break into TV and the battle to retain your filmmaking integrity thereafter’ from Lee Kern, of fake TV production company Monkey Tennis.
- Stay Away From Lonely Places – The Custard Factory blog is back again, reminding us what those gleaming white Fazeley Studios used to look like by linking to Nicole Blackman’s narrated tour of the ‘Custard Factory Quarter’ from last year’s Fierce Festival.
- Custard Factory Flickr Roundup – this is what happens when you search Flickr for ‘Custard Factory’. Liking Midge Diabolik’s picture of a gangly Pippi Longstocking. Who is it that’s pasting these paper people to the walls of Digbeth? I love them. Can I get one for my flat?
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Written by Nicky Getgood on Thursday, September 18th, 2008 ( Start discussion )
Tags: ashtedlock, astonjunction, custardfactory, Digbethisgood, dlog, grandunioncanal, hellodigital, helloworld, irishclub, irishquarter, links, millenniumpoint, narrowboatDebdale, screenwm, spaghettigazeti, StPatrick, thinktank, toblog, typhoobasin, warwickbar, ’sFestival
- Narrowboat Debdale: September Cruise – Day Four – Holidaymaker Adam takes his narrowboat Debdale through Digbeth, chugging along the Grand Union canal, through Warwick Bar, and a quick spin into Typhoo Basin. Then through the Curzon and Ashted tunnel to the Ashted locks and Aston Junction. I got flashed at in the Curzon tunnel whilst cycling through it the other week. Ring my bell.
- Spaghetti Gazetti: Birmingham St Patrick’s Festival – Get involved in Digbeth’s biggest festival by going along to the community consultation on 16th October 2008 8.00pm – 9.30pm in the Irish Club, High Street, Digbeth.
- Hello Digital/Hello World – Discover the future at The Midlands’ first digital festival Hello Digital in Millennium Point 23-26 October, with accompanying conference Hello World.
- New custard mix – D’log gives his thoughts on the new Custard Factory website, and the creative industry’s uphill struggle against the credit crunch.
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Written by Nicky Getgood on Saturday, August 30th, 2008 ( Start discussion )
Tags: 7inchcinema, alcyona, bigpicture, custardfactory, Digbethisgood, emerica, grandunioncanal, ikoneastside, inspiraculum, lenlye, links, melindaschwakhofer, millenniumpoint, nickbooth, ramblersassociation, steflewandowski, thinktank, toblog, tusalava
What a lot I found waiting for me in my in my Googlereader after a week in the wilderness! Here’s my picks:
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Written by Nicky Getgood on Saturday, August 16th, 2008 ( One response )
Tags: brumbloggers, dark knight, imax, Millennium Point, thinktank, twitter
Right now I’m in my dressing gown at the tail-end of a ludicrously lazy day, thinking about getting dressed and out of the house to make it on time for the evening screening of The Dark Knight at The Imax Cinema in Millennium Point. I felt I had to book myself a ticket after all the Twitter posts about watching it on the huge screen. If you live and blog in Birmingham, it seems you simply must go and watch the latest Batman film at The Imax and tweeting about it is compulsory:
First off comes the moaning about The Imax’s crap website:
This makes booking tickets hard to do:
I can vouch for this. Booking my ticket online took several attempts and their ‘ticket hotline’ had no-one to answer it. But once tickets were booked excited anticipation followed:
High spirits have often been dampened by bloody great big queues at The Imax:
The screenings have been sold out, which caused nostalgia in some:
So I’d really better get dressed and get there early to avoid front-row seating and a sore neck:
45 minutes early, to be precise, which means I haven’t got that long:
Because the cinema really will be rammed:
Which has often meant that although people have enjoyed the film:
They haven’t always enjoyed the venue:
I really hope it’s worth the effort of getting dressed and Heath’s last stand is indeed, lush:
Watch my twitter account to see how I enjoyed it!
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