Created in Birmingham

Here’s a nice folksie video made by Chris Keenan, a.k.a Prime Objective, for Birmingham based band Goodnight Lenin. Their debut single ‘Crook In The Creek’ is having a release do at Hare & Hounds on 6 August.

Goodnight Lenin – Crook In The Creek from Prime Objective on Vimeo.

And here’s the video for ‘She Says’ by Curio Flame and Miles ‘M.I’ Davis on Blemish Records and filmed on Colmore Row by the looks of things:

• Prime Objective Blog :: Victor Man Documentary
  For the Ikon’s latest show Chris Keenan spent a few days “filming the installation down at Ikon and discussing Victor’s work with curator Nigel Prince. The edited video is now live on the Ikon site to aid a greater understanding of the work” I like this sort of stuff
• Folk Monthly from the Traditional Arts Team
  I didn’t know about this. “It covers folk and related events across the Midlands, featuring adverts for clubs, festivals, sessions, bands etc, central diary pages, articles, news and reviews” and costs £12 for 11 issues a year
• Artfall – Birmingham University Exhibition
  “Members of Birmingham Print Makers have put up an exhibition in Staff House at the University of Birmingham which runs until December 23rd”
• début
  début was going to be a paid-to-submit-content magazine. I’m not sure if that’s still happening but for now at least it’s in a blog format. There’s plenty being posted up too. Definitely worth checking regularly

• Brummie of the Year 2008 – Nominations open
  BiNS are asking for your suggestions. The early frontrunner seems to be the (semi-anonymous) TWMDriver
• D’log – Flogging Brum
  “An overseas student recounts his first-time experience of visiting Birmingham”. There’s a 2nd post too. BMAG fares well, Think Tank less so.
• How to promote your night/gig/event online | Chris Unitt
  My notes from a short talk I did last week. This might be of use to someone. It’s not quite comprehensive and all suggestions for improvements would be welcome
• Quiet time
  BiNS provides an update on the previously mentioned ‘The Eye of the Storm’ project. “One hundred and fifty people from around Brum (including Clare Short) were interviewed to discover each’s individual attempts to “manage the stresses of modern living and find calm within the storm”.” The outdoor installation part will be in Birmingham next year
• Exhibition Now Open! | Heard And Not Seen
  The exhibition launched last week and the show runs daily (including Sundays) until the 28th of November. Looks like an interesting one this
• Digbeth is Good – Blank canvas once more
  Nicky spots a wall that’s ripe for a mural
• Prime Objective Blog :: Special People Screening
  Chris “shot stills for a feature film called Special People” back in March. The film is now touring and coming to the Electric Cinema on 24 Nov
• Eye blog » Type, tart cards, T-shirts and crosses
  The piece on the Plus+ International Design Festival I wrote for Eye Magazine’s blog
• CMYKern – Giveaway
  James collected some stuff from Clusta, 4Talent and BIAD at Plus+ the other day
• Art and public transport – commuter survey
  “part of Transitions – my action research commissioned by Longhouse (www.longhouse.com.uk) that concerns the possibilities for creating and disseminating art in a public transport context” Please do it if you’ve got a sec

Dom from Tak (on tunes) and Chris from Prime Objective (on visuals) have both blogged about their involvement in Culture Jam 2 at The Rainbow on Saturday 14 Nov (tagline – bridging the gap between cultures through art and music.

Chris says:

some of the best Lithuanian hip hop acts in attendance, such as 3 times Lithuanian DMC champion DJ Mamania and the Baltic States acclaimed beatboxer Def One

Here’s the flyer:

Mark at Surely has posted up the new promo for The Destroyers – the riotous, Birmingham-based, 15 piece genre-botherers – on the Surely blog:

Directed by John Humphreys and shot by Prime Chris in the late hours of a friday night in May, the merry band bring the dawn in atop a multi story with city views.

And here it is:

The Destroyers will be playing the Moseley Folk Festival at the end of August, which I really must grab a ticket for.

Chris Keenan, aka Prime Objective, was one of four artists (along with Jo Naden, Eryka Isaak and Matthew Robinson) to be commissioned by a large, local confectioners to produce artwork for the company’s new ‘Bournville Place’ offices.

Chris posed purple objects – bikes, balloons, bunting, drumkits and so on – around the (reassuringly clean-looking) factory.

With thanks to Surely (who have more pics).