Created in Birmingham

• Police Bastard – Keep an active mind
  A Film By Iron Man Records, Birmingham, England (58mins)
• YouTube – Aerosolarabic feedthepoor mural
  Video showing the painting of the mural in Sparkhill that Aldi wanted removed
• Digbeth Is Good – Vika Verb’s Flying Graffiti
  Nicky Getgood was also surprised by the flying items around the Custard Factory and has more pics
• Clusta: We’ve won a Graphis Gold Award
  Congrats to Clusta. They’ve won an award for their website designings.
• Why is Art and Culture used to stimulate redevelopment?
  Simon from the Birmingham Eastside blog has been asked some questions related to the above on his blog. Suggestions for answers are welcome.

Walking round to grab some food at Rootys earlier, I was surprised to see this floating about:

I’ve tried to find some infomation about it but, other than rumours of a flyer (no pun intended) knocking about, the sole font of knowledge is Pete Ashton’s post from the other week on the Custard Factory blog.  From that I learn that it’s an installation by artist Vika Verb:

a challenging reminder of where we are and how we got here – is in the form of poetry inspired graffitti which will float above the Custard Factory in Birmingham. It is the first of a series of similar installations at the Custard Factory.

and it’ll be properly unveiled at 5pm today.

I assume that’s what it is anyway – what are the odds of their being two big inflatables floating round the Custard Factory today?