This week and next there’ll be a new contributor on CiB. Ahmed Ahmed won B-Hive 2011′s Digital category and so, lucky guy that he is, he’s now doing a placement with me at Made Media. Ahmed’s also the guy behind the Dine Birmingham blog, in case you’ve come across that.
I thought looking after this site would be a useful experience for him, so I’m handing over the reins for a bit. Please say hello, comment on his posts and generally make him feel welcome.
Fused have produced a new Area Student Guide and a guide to Chinatown.
The Moseley Folk Festival was its usual mix of good music and great atmosphere. There are already bundles of photos from the weekend up on Flickr. Stanthefan and katchooo have been impressively prolific but this one’s from Adrian and Sarah:
And this one’s by Leodensian:
That’ll be Hannah from Boat To Row playing her last show with the band. A good gig to go out on.
икониOk, so the new thing from Polarbear isn’t being performed in Birmingham yet but hopefully it will at some point:
OLD ME is me speaking directly, warts and all about what happens when you’ve figured out what you want and where your inspiration comes from. What happens when the life you have created is a million miles from the one you grew up with? What happens when someone goes from being a single boy in Birmingham working on a building site sleeping at his moms house, to a full time artist living with his pregnant partner in the big city of London in the space of 6 months?
Birmingham Loves Photographers is still a very enjoyable blog. Which is a relief – I quite often get excited about a new face on the online scene, only for them to fizzle out after a couple of weeks (often when it turns out it was just a student’s university project).
Anyway, BLP is worth a subscribe/follow. They’ve been doing a good run of interviews with various photographers, have just released the results of the first round of their Portrait Project and they’ve also flagged up the Library of Birmingham Self-Portrait:
During the autumn of 2011, seven photographic sessions will take place in a range of locations – in the city centre and in community libraries across Birmingham, at which citizens will be invited to take self-portraits in a studio setting, using a shutter release and a plain backdrop. Participants will be given a copy of their photo to take away. The resulting images will be used in a digital installation in the new Library of Birmingham, with potential for a future publication project.
It has it’s own website at Self Portrait Birmingham but there’s no information there about this just yet, although BLP mention an event at Ward End Library on Saturday 1st October from 10.00am-4.00pm.
See also the Birmingham’s People project from a couple of years back.
Something to get involved in if you live over Kings Norton, Longbridge, Weoley Castle or Northfield way. Here are some links:
