Created in Birmingham

For those that are into these kind of things, you can now add Created in Birmingham to your Circles on Google+.

If you’ve no idea what Google+ is then I really wouldn’t worry about it if I were you.

Incidentally, now’s probably a good time to remind you that if you want to follow the entirety of Created in Birmingham then:

• createdinbirmingham.com is still the main place to get everything
• You can Like the Facebook Page
• You can follow the Twitter account
• There’s a Delicious account where all the links for the Friday link round-ups are collected together
• There’s a Created in Birmingham Tumblr too, where I tend to quickly post or reblog flyers, posters, videos and photos – it’s a more visual thing

New for 2011, Created in Birmingham is now tumbling away. This is our attempt to start up some form of flyer wall, to try and feature all the things we don’t have time to write a full post about.

We’ll be posting flyers, videos, and general Tumblr friendly bits and pieces we come across, in handy bite size chunks.

You can find and follow us at createdinbrum.tumblr.com

Mark Wilkinson is an artist and illustrator working predominantly with paper collages and marker pen. Here’s one of his slightly surreal graphic works, which I particularly like:

You can see more of his collage work on his Tumblr.

Jade Sukiya is a photographer with an eye for a striking image or two. Here’s her intro:

I was born in the mid-eighties to two admirably creative people. Years later that inevitable reality struck as having both my brother and I forced them to get ‘real’ jobs and lead a fairly restricted existence. My story begins at this point, although I can’t recall a thing up until the age of about four and even that’s a little hazy, sometimes I think I made my memories up…

More of Jade’s images like the one below, and many other completely different ones, can be found on her Myspace page and her Flickr account. She’s also got a tumblr with bits and pieces of her favourite stuff in it to check out too.

• trying to arrange a british tumblr meetup
  Substrakt’s Tom Martin would like to organise a British tumblr meet-up. If you work for any sort of digital agency in the city/region then it’d be worth getting in touch and lending him a hand
• Screen WM Acronym Glossary (SAG)
  Might be of use to someone (this is Google’s HTML version – a PDF is available). I found this while searching for info about the AWM SIS COG, in case you were wondering
• Nu Wave Interactive
  Nu Wave Interactive is animator, illustrator and graphic designer Matthew Field
• magicmedia
  magicmedia is the blog and website for Steve Chapman, a Birmingham UK-based creative media consultant
• BASS Festival 2008 on Vimeo
  Footage from the BASS Festival 2008
• Audio: Darcy Lange Round Table
  “On Tuesday 2 December Ikon hosted a round table discussion which considered Darcy Lange’s work both in isolation and in wider socio-geographical contexts; his fractious relationship with the art world and the influence upon his life and work of the Flamenco tradition of the Andalusian gypsies”. More good multimedia stuff from the Ikon Gallery. (Ikon peeps – any chance of whacking these into iTunes as an Ikon podcast?)
• CMYKern » Fluid
  Quick profile of some of Fluid’s lovely work
• Sarah Loves…
  Sarah Allen (who works with the likes of the Fierce Festival, British Glass Biennale, Events With Sparkle and others) has started a blog covering her design, architectural and cultural loves. And shoes. There will be shoes.
• YouTube – PsychedelicPsynema’s Channel
  Speakeasy cinema people Outer Sight have a YouTube channel for collecting together event promos, trailers, previously screened shorts and other stuff. Their next event is on 6 Dec
• transitions – artist action research
  Alicja Rogalska ran the art/public transport survey a mentioned a few weeks back. She’s emailed to say “I have set up a project blog to share information, data, images, etc. collected during my research”