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Made in Birmingham, Selly Oak

2008-05-19T16:51:00.001+01:00

Made in Birmingham, Selly Oak, originally uploaded by new folder.

Just been reading about Surface Unsigned threatening the excellent Created in Birmingham blog with legal action. It's difficult to follow the original article, you should be much clearer when and if you ever post-edit a blog post, particularly a highly contentious one, but reading elsewhere it's pretty clear Surface Unsigned have acted naively on this.

Invasion of Privacy in Progress

2008-05-15T17:46:00.002+01:00

Invasion of Privacy in Progress, Hope Street, Liverpool, originally uploaded by new folder.

‘Dirty tricks’ drive reveals split in Liverpool’s ruling Lib-Dem party - Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk

As Warren Bradley said yesterday, back to basics
Let's keep photography and mapping mashable

Doc Searls on flickr and panoramio. I'd like my photos to appear on google earth and google maps but I'm not going to upload them to panoramio to achieve that.
WCAG 2.0 Candidate Recommendation Released
Camera Hacks: Turn Your Point-and-Shoot into a Super-Camera

Extra software for canon cameras, doesn't cover the Ixus 960 yet..
Brooklyn Museum: Exhibitions: Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition
ManBabies.com - DAD?

This is not another story, Richard Deacon, Brindley Place, Birmingham

2008-05-07T15:21:00.001+01:00

This is not another story, Richard Deacon, Brindley Place, Birmingham, originally uploaded by new folder.

Project yourself, Slater Street, Liverpool

2008-04-28T14:39:00.001+01:00

Project yourself, Slater Street, Liverpool, originally uploaded by new folder.

The average person thinks they're more intelligent than average.

2008-04-23T11:41:00.001+01:00

The average person thinks they're more intelligent than average., originally uploaded by new folder.

No Parking, Upper Duke Street, Liverpool

2008-04-21T11:23:00.001+01:00

No Parking, Upper Duke Street, Liverpool, originally uploaded by new folder.

Clothing, Stratford Road, Birmingham

2008-04-11T10:20:00.001+01:00

Clothing, Stratford Road, Birmingham, originally uploaded by new folder.

Green Fish Cafe, Newington Street, Liverpool

2008-04-09T14:34:00.001+01:00

Green Fish Cafe, Newington Street, Liverpool, originally uploaded by new folder.

Stratford Road, Sparkhill

2008-04-07T13:38:00.001+01:00

Stratford Road, Sparkhill, originally uploaded by new folder.

Sayers, Upper Parliament Street, Liverpool

2008-04-03T09:21:00.001+01:00

Sayers, Upper Parliament Street, Liverpool, originally uploaded by new folder.

'Faraday', Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, University of Birmingham

2008-04-02T10:09:00.001+01:00

'Faraday', Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, University of Birmingham, originally uploaded by new folder.

Free range fast food from Leon, Spitalfields Market

2008-03-31T10:56:00.001+01:00

Free range fast food from Leon, Spitalfields Market, originally uploaded by new folder.

Shoot the architecture, we take away your camera.

My Fierce Festival - Birmingham

2008-03-25T13:48:00.003Z

My Fierce Festival invites website visitors to curate this year's Fierce performing arts festival in Birmingham. Vote for your favourite act in each of three categories, with reality tv style eliminations to follow over the next couple of weeks.

Ice cream van of horror:

Liverpool One to get decent street names

2008-03-25T13:40:00.001Z

Thomas Steers, originally uploaded by new folder.

Pleased to see that Liverpool One has avoided the pseudo-aspirational names typical of new city centre developments and come up with some proper street names for the new streets around Paradise Street.

Shame about the cringeworthy Bling Building..

Walking Birmingham - Vicarage Road to Hall Green

2008-03-18T14:43:00.002Z

View Larger Map.

Experiment with embedding google map of recent walk, it took a bit too long to put this together to bother with regularly. Here's the same photographs in black using simple viewer and flickr viewer.

Kerry Katona, Crazy in Love

2008-03-18T11:53:00.002Z

Kerry Katona, Crazy in Love, Catharine Street, originally uploaded by new folder.

"She is so appalled at how she and Mark have come across that she wants to stop filming"

- Faust attempts to renegotiate.

SXSWi podcasts and the wisdom of twittering crowds

2008-03-17T16:57:00.003Z

SXSW Mark Zuckerberg Keynote - Dancing Erupts, originally uploaded by b_d_solis. (CC) Brian Solis, www.briansolis.com, bub.blicio.us.

Good to see the South by Southwest interactive audio trickling through online. As jealous as I am of everyone from the Midlands who went over (and I am very jealous!), I often think that a conference packed with the likes of these above is the last place on earth I'd want to spend time. Listening to the keynote interview with Mark Zuckerberg they're interrupting, it seems a perfectly reasonable and relatively interesting interview from an interviewer who clearly knows her subject very well.

Richard Wilson on Turning the Place Over

2008-03-17T16:02:00.001Z

Richard Wilson on Turning the Place Over

It's great to see Liverpool Biennial starting to put interesting content online this year through their Youtube channel and Flickr account

Really interesting interview, including Wilson's thoughts on the use of mobile phones, digital photography and the internet as a gallery space.

I've always found 'Turning the Place Over' disappointing but that might well be because I had a preconceived idea of what it would be, I'd probably feel diffently if I just came across it one day.

Bluecoat Arts Centre re-opening, Liverpool

2008-03-17T15:44:00.001Z

queens, originally uploaded by THE MORONIC INFERNO.

Wasn't in Liverpool this weekend for the re-opening of the Bluecoat Arts Centre, but who needs to be when you've got the Moronic Inferno documenting it?

Rui Guerra at Mello Mello

2008-03-17T15:36:00.001Z

, originally uploaded by rui guerra.

Photographer Rui Guerra's collection of portraits taken recently at Mello Mello in Liverpool (including this portrait of Gregory Scott-Gurner of The Art Organisation).

Birmingham architecture and the B1G idea

2008-03-17T15:04:00.002Z

Selfridges, Birmingham, originally uploaded by new folder.

Architecture in Birmingham, an episode from the B1G idea podcast. Think I'd prefer it without the background music though (having said that though it is funny when they do things like add a car horn after the mention of traffic problems).

Call in sick, London Fields

2008-03-11T09:06:00.001Z

Call in sick, London Fields, originally uploaded by new folder.

There is a real energy in the studio

2008-03-05T14:44:00.002Z

Can't find a way to embed the video, but here's the official transcript of the terrible new Cadbury's Flake advert.

We're in Maida Vale studios.

We see Joss Stone. She doesn't know we're watching, but we can see she is recording her next hit single with her band. There is a real energy in the studio.

We see Joss taking a break in recording and she finds a Flake bar on the side. Half jokingly, she starts singing a tune that is more famous than her - the Flake jingle.

Only the crumbliest, flakiest chocolate…

Her singing is so effortless and pure it makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. As she finishes she unwraps the Flake, has a bite, and smiles to herself.

She then goes back to work.

Liverpool Cathedral at sunrise from Hope Street

2008-03-05T12:51:00.001Z

Liverpool Cathedral at sunrise from Hope Street, originally uploaded by new folder.

Walking to work in the light again.

Police in London launch photography crackdown

2008-03-05T11:47:00.002Z

Secured by sleepy migrant workers on minimum wage, Banksy, originally uploaded by new folder.

Two conflicting stories this morning, D'log reporting (last paragraph) an MP urging the 'Home Secretary to issue a response following a spate of clashes between police and photographers taking pictures in public places'.

Then Boing Boing has news of the Metropolitan Police's latest campaign, urging the public to report 'odd' photographers to their apparently 'experienced' officers.