Dancing about architecture
Some must-see TV tonight (and every night this week) with the first of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, this year on the topic of a ‘Hi-tech Trek - the Quest for the Perfect Computer’. They’ll be presented by Prof Chris Bishop, Chief Research Scientist at Microsoft Research.
The schedule of programmes is:
Monday 29 December at 7.15pm [...]
This afternoon I was Trig - one of the ugly sisters in Twitpanto, a production of Cinderella played out over Twitter. My co-stars were mainly Birmingham-based twitterers, along with a few of minor Twitter slebs.
Jon Bounds, a social media consultant, was responsible for the idea, script, direction… pretty much everything in fact, and a fine [...]
Earlier this afternoon I took part in a national public art project called Britglyph.
Markers have been laid out across a map of England and Scotland making the shape of a chronometer. People are asked to go to the place of one of those markers and lay a stone, thereby building “a geoglyph which spans all [...]
Created in Birmingham Awards have been mooted in the past, with the recent mini-fuss over the Creative City Awards churning up support for the idea along with some good suggestions.
I’ve never been keen on attaching CiB’s name to any awards. If things change when I move on then that’s cool and I’d support that, just [...]
My reading of newspapers is almost entirely informed (to the extent that I’m aware of it) by a single chapter from Marr’s ‘My Trade’. Well, along with the excellent Ben Goldacre’s writings.
By the way, to the person that has my copy of the book - I know it was a while ago now, but can [...]
As I said in this interview with Localmouth, I put my involvement in CiB down to being in the right place at the right time and count my lucky stars for that.
When Pete introduced me to the CiB readers he said that he’d lost interest in running the site to some extent and that the [...]
As previously advertised, on Friday I made my way down to The O2 to have a nose about. I was there to check out the filming of a new advert highlighting all the goodly things available at the venue (priority ticket booking, access to private areas, etc) if you’re on the O2 network.
I gather that [...]
I had an email in the week about a little gig/party that someone was going to be hosting at their house - part of the (mobile phone sponsored) Unlit tour that has been making it’s way around the country for the past month. It sounded interesting so last night, after some Arstfest-related fun, I popped [...]
The other weekend I went to the UK launch of Mother India 21st Century Remix at The Drum and was more than a little impressed.
Mother India, Oscar-nominated for Best Foreign Language Film in 1957, follows the story of Radha who endures poverty, the death of her child, the destruction of her village and the dishonour [...]
This talk took place on 15 May and was organised by Creative Republic. I sat at the back of the room typing away and these are my unexpurgated notes in all their glory…