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More news from the Eccentric City people:

Hello! The Eccentric City Christmas Auction (with optional fancy dress) will take place on Tuesday 9th Dec 2008 at The Anchor Pub in Digbeth, Birmingham. 7.30pm start.

A cross between carboot and ebay, this is a fun-raising night full of joyfulness and Christmas cheeriness (therapeutic activity in an economic crisis – lets all raise our wallets with 2ps and defunct credit cards together!).

Back in September I mentioned the new series from Eccentric City publishers Harry Palmer and Simon Walker. Episodes 5-8 (of a total 24) are now out and are here for your viewing pleasure:

Episode 5:

Episode 6:

Episode 7:

Episode 8:

News from Eccentric City‘s Harry Palmer, which I hope you’ll forgive me for regurgitating in full:

The Eccentric City newspaper shortly holds it eccentric auction (23rd Sept, Anchor pub, Digbeth, Birmingham - 7.30pm onwards). With much anticipated joy and excitement, British luminary eccentric Mr John Ward www.johnwardinventor.co.uk will be in attendance. This is a unique and wonderful honour that The Eccentric City newspaper team wanted to let people know that something outside the norm of day to day culture continues to gather greatness! A truely eccentric occasion beckons! Please feel free to come along!

BiNS has info about what the auction consists of.

John Ward seems an affable chap – here he is on Pebble Mill at One (a while back) chatting about making creations from rubbish.  According to his website, the late Screaming Lord Sutch officially appointed him Minister of Inventions for the Monster Raving Loony Party.

These are a series of short films (each around the 30 second mark) produced by the Eccentric City folks to celebrate their third year.  There will be 24 in total, the first four are up on the Eccentric City YouTube account and also here:

Episode 1:

Episode 2:

Episode 3:

Episode 4:

Stay tuned for more…

• Video from Music by Candlelight
  Marc Reck had his camera with him the other night so “Here’s a little video of Rich (Batsford) performing one of his latest tracks entitled Chromazone”
• YouTube – The Eccentric City Promo
  The worst video on YouTube? Lofty aspirations from the Eccentric City crew. “Offers little in the way of narrative, fails in adsurdity, encourages little in the way of imagination”. Their words, not mine.
• YouTube – Google Maps in Second Life
  Daden mashes Google Earth (Birmingham) into Second Life (spotted by D’Log)
• Hell On Wheels Premiere
  “The UK ’s own Roller Derby league – the Birmingham Blitz Derby Dames – present the first European screening at Britain’s oldest functioning cinema: The Electric Cinema, Birmingham”

Just a reminder that there’s only a few days left to get your applications in for the £1 Arts Commission Scheme run by The Eccentric City:

There is:
No criteria.

We offer:
The successful recipient  (£1) and the opportunity to publish the results in our 3rd tabloid paper (10,000 free emotional copies will be out later in the year (we are annual)).

The next submission date is 5 July, so if you’ve got an eccentric idea but lack the funds then head to the website to get more details.