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 [...]

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.

This year we are pleased to be featured in British Design 2010 in the Design for New Media Category. It was hard to know what to put in it really, so much on screen stuff loses it’s impact when limited to the 2 dimensions of static print, unlike designs that are designed specifically with print [...]

This week I’ve been fiddling with the company website. I decided to simplify a bit and make it a bit cleaner. It’s very easy to get bored of your own site’s design ever so often, and usually I stress over it for weeks. This time we kept it simple, asked a few people to have [...]

My plan is to get people collaborating on stories online, with multiple branches from one initial chapter…
For 5 years now I have been writing collaborative fiction with two good friends of mine. We’ve stuck rigidly to one per year, around 1000 words per ‘chapter’ and a two week turnaround on each and every chapter. It [...]

Myself and Gavin have spent most of today in Hockley, outside the Big Peg filming the opening of the new Farmers’ market called 24 carrots.
Similar and including many of the stalls from Moseley farmers’ market such items on show and for sale include:
- Hand made jams and chutneys
- Home made tarts
- Fresh bread
- Olives and [...]

Good news this week as we finally sold our house. Problem is the buyers are expecting a baby so need to move in sharpish, so we’re now on a manic house hunt mission to find and secure our next home. 7 viewings this weekend, off we go!

Where we’d be without the Internet I do not [...]

I’ve stitched together 3 photos to create a panoramic image of the whole wall from the ‘My Dad’s on Twitter..’ event last week. The main image is shown below, and available to download as a large image from the link, then there are some smaller, close-up shots and below a few key points raised on [...]

A first post from Jon from last night’s event is available here: http://masocialmedia.com/?p=18 . I think he’s summed up my initial thoughts of the event process excellently.
My first thoughts are shown below:
Jon, I agree whole heartedly. We ran this event with a format not knowing quite what would happen, whether the audiences both in the [...]

Thanks for everyone involved in last night’s ‘My Dad’s On Twitter…’ event. Especially to our four speakers, Marc Reeves, Dave Harte, Jon Hickman and Jaki Booth.  There will be plenty of feedback and shared thoughts shortly. The illustrated wall is going to be left up for the next week or so and we will be [...]

The event invite is ready now for thursday 11th June:
http://www.fazeleydigital.com/?p=8