A handy new Google CSE search engine for all national and local newspapers in the UK. Though setting up RSS keyword alerts for Google News is probably a lot less work, if you’re regularly tracking a set of topics.
Archive for August, 2015
Search across all national and local newspapers in the UK
31 Aug 2015 at 12:14
David Haden
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BBC: stormy outlook
Looks like I won’t be enjoying the elegant design of the BBC’s per-day / 5-day weather forecast for much longer. The BBC is set to swop the Met Office data feed for either a Dutch or a New Zealand weather company, according to The Economist. Oh well. What’ll be needed then, come the Autumn, is […]
Extreme Land Rovers
A survey of some of the most extreme types of Land Rover to come out of Birmingham.
GRAFT
To accompany my JURN search tool I’ve made a quick way to search across all the world’s repositories. Repositories are the special Web servers that universities, museums and archives etc, use to house all their digital goodies — such as online collections, full-text papers and book chapters, and similar Open Access treats. The new search […]
L.S. Lowry and Arthur Berry: observers of urban life
20 Aug 2015 at 12:51
David Haden
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The major show L.S. Lowry and Arthur Berry: observers of urban life premieres at the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent, until 10th January 2015 (£5).
Edward Robert Hughes
Enchanted Dreams: The Pre-Raphaelite Art of Edward Robert Hughes is a major show in Birmingham city centre’s Gas Hall, from 17th October 2015 (£7). Picture: Edward Robert Hughes, “Oh, what’s that in the hollow, so pale, I quake to follow?”.
Fifty-three Stages of the Eastern Sea Road
20 Aug 2015 at 12:16
David Haden
Artist(s), Birmingham, Mapping
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The prints of Hiroshige’s Fifty-three Stages of the Tōkaidō [Eastern Sea Road]” (1832, pub. 1833) are on show in Wolverhampton until 21st November 2015.
Workshop Birmingham
Workshop Birmingham wants to “create substantial new facilities” for contemporary arts / crafts production in Birmingham.
Latte artist-of-the-day, delivered by robots
17 Aug 2015 at 12:52
David Haden
Creative industries, Robotics, Zeitgeist
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It seems that the robot coffee-froth-art baristas are on their way, though not quite yet in kitchens on the High St. Once the bots are proven in the chain coffee shops and have a central database of latte art designs to choose from, could chains then have a curated “artist of the day”? With the […]
Drone Races
17 Aug 2015 at 10:33
David Haden
Entertainment, Gaming, Mapping, Techie, Zeitgeist
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The new, underground sport of first-person drone racing. Don’t forget to take the air-sickness tablets, guys…
The insect hotel of Uttoxeter
14 Aug 2015 at 11:42
David Haden
Artist(s), Regeneration, Stoke-on-Trent
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A super new ‘insect hotel’ is due to open very soon at Uttoxeter in North Staffordshire. A very nice bit of garden/architectural/eco design.
Manchester accent map
Greater Manchester accent map. Interesting, but possibly somewhat of a summer silly season item — the sample size is 62 ‘non-experts’, the map looks like something made by undergraduates for a student magazine, and the local press’s description of the methodology seems suspiciously vague… “Participants were given a blank map of the area of Greater […]
Evil in the Shining Light
04 Aug 2015 at 09:22
David Haden
Artist(s), Birmingham, Entertainment
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This looks like a possibly interesting art show: Evil in the Shining Light: art inspired by the works of J.R.R. Tolkien… It follows the excellent Walsall Art Gallery show on Tolkien and the Black Country which happened last summer.