Thank you to everyone who nominated their favourite creative ventures in Birmingham over the last 2 months. The nominations period is closed now, but we have a fine haul of 117 nominations and to date over 3200 votes. The voting will remain open for another month while we compile the content for the book and [...]
Today I’m pleased to launch a new Creative Republic project for the summer. The project - titled Invisible City - has been designed as a championing of Creative and cultural achievements in Birmingham with the goal to promote these projects, people and events to new and wider audiences, breaking out of the many existing networks [...]
Simple. Every day of the world cup to cook something based on the cuisine of one or more of the countries playing http://worldcupfood.wordpress.com
It was my Dad’s 60th birthday a couple of week’s ago so me and Gavin (brother) set about finding some old footage on Youtube from the year he was born and cut it together with some modern footage and some clips of us just larking about to create this spoof newsreel from 1950. We had [...]
The following trailer is for the finished movie made from the www.itsourmovie.com project. Due to be released in selected cinemas and on DVD shortly.
Since taking over as Chairman of Creative Republic I have been working on identifying the purpose and goals for the organisation in 2010. Along with the building of a new team and a few other initiatives is the main project concept for summer 2010. I have outlined the initial conversation starter below that the team [...]
Saturday 29th May 2010: Birmingham Book Festival Spring Thing: A Festival in Day - Carol Ann Duffy (Poet Laureate), Helen Dunmore (novelist and winner of the 2010 National Poetry Competition), Stuart Maconie (travel writer and broadcaster), Jo Bell (poet and performer), Jenn Ashworth (novelist, blogger), Aifric Campbell (novelist), Samantha Harvey (novelist) and Amanda Smyth (novelist) [...]
Last friday’s macro photo shoot of watch parts went fairly well. Using just the compact Canon Powershot G9 and some nice lighting set up by Media Dog we were able to get some fairly close up shots of the tiny watch parts for use on a website we are currently working on.
I know I’ve posted similar videos before, but I came across this one from a friend and since it refers directly to web design, and something I’ve heard a thousand times before, I thought it best to share this. Not directed at anyone in particular, unless you know who you are. Nuff said. Shorter than [...]
The ACRE project is a collaboration between 13 leading European research centres, set out to identify what features make a city a centre for creative and knowledge-based industries.
I’ve been very happy to have been involved in this project for the past four years and look forward to what final outcomes will come out of it.
Not [...]
If you know me pretty well you’ll already be familiar with the fact that every year myself and two good friends collaborate on a story together. They’re by no means literary masterpieces but they serve an entertaining purpose, for us at least. It began six years ago when we decided to try writing a book [...]
Simply because I promised to upload this picture for my mum, and that I think it’s great too. But that’s cos I’m a proud Dad of course.