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Archive for October, 2014
The ultimate selfie
29 Oct 2014 at 19:05
David Haden
Creative industries, Mapping, Techie
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The perfect storm
Pushing the super-accurate period of the UK Met Office weather forecast from 12 to 24 hours is set to save billions of pounds by 2020. The Mail reports savings of “£200bn by 2020”, which seems to be mis-reporting. The BBC seems to more realistically suggest a saving to the nation of £2bn from Sept 2015 […]
Creating Creative Cities
27 Oct 2014 at 22:05
David Haden
Birmingham, Creative industries, Regeneration, Stoke-on-Trent
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A City Growth Commissioner is on the RSA blog today musing on “Creating Creative Cities: How the City Growth Commission report can unlock innovation and entrepreneurship across the UK”. It comes on top of a small avalanche of reports from the Commission, and thus the article’s key suggestions on creativity seem a little underwhelming when […]
MontyMarch
MontyMarch: A Tribute to Richard Griffiths. Electric Cinema, Birmingham, 28th March 2015. Booking now. It’d be nice if they also showed clips from the Sherlock Holmes film Pursuit to Algiers (1945), in which the villain Gregor (Rex Evans) is an obvious template for Uncle Monty.
International Ocean Film Festival
25 Oct 2014 at 06:33
David Haden
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International Ocean Film Festival, Birmingham UK. 30th October 2014.
Distinctly Black Country
Distinctly Black Country, a landscape history network “for understanding yesterday’s landscape today”.
Wadsworth’s “The Black Country” (1920)
18 Oct 2014 at 09:00
David Haden
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Here’s my partial PDF assembly, from eBay pictures, of the Vorticist artist Edward Wadsworth’s book “The Black Country” (1920). Introduction by Arnold Bennett, 20 black & white plates. Works originally made in 1919. wadsworth_black_country_1920.pdf
Joseph Cornell in London
The first Joseph Cornell show in thirty years, coming to London 4th July – 27th September 2015. Booking now, and probably quite likely to sell out fairly quickly.
Magnum Photos Symposium
Magnum Photos Symposium, Saturday 22nd November 2014 at the Library of Birmingham… “designed to inspire, guide and advise emerging photographers [and is] aimed at photographers who are currently working on a long term, personal photographic project.” Tickets are competitive… “Applicants will be chosen on the strength of submitted proposals and the perceived benefit to the […]
Black Country Echoes
On now: Black Country Echoes, a multi-venue festival at venues across the Black Country and into Wolverhampton. Includes a Symposium: the Black Country Landscape in Literature. Black Country woodcut by Edward Wadsworth.