Entries from October 2008 ↓

Word of Mouth is a magazine set up by former BCU student Robin Kirkham.

I had a brief read of it and it’s really quite interesting. In the absence of more information head over to the blog to keep updated.

These are my links for October 19th through October 23rd:

• 7 Portfolio Wordpress Themes - A great set of portfolio themes for Wordpress. They all cost $$'s but you get great themes.
• Graph Paper Press Wordpress Themes - A website offering a lot of free templates for wordpress. These themes are great if you're an artist wanting to show off your work
• Positron : Opensource Non-Linear Video Editing -
• LINUX MEDIA ARTS -
• HandBrake -

Looks like this is a new magazine comin’ straight outta Compton Birmingham. They’re currently accepting submissions for their blog. Here’s the details:

Send us your
1.pics(artwork/performance/gigs…mug shots too!),
2.text/bio/description,
3.links
4.contact details

to go on the debut blog-site NOW! www.debutmag.co.uk/main. Also details of your upcoming EVENTS/GIGS/SHOWS you’d like to share with the debut community - displayed in events. Even more! send us your FLYERS to and they’ll be displayed in the flyers category!

info@debutmag.co.uk

“Chipper”

My artwork is up on there

Yesterday my friend and I went down to London (thanks Chiltern) to pay a visit to the Zoo Art Fair near Old Bond Street, London.

The work on show was of a very high standard and it was great to see performance pieces as well as visual art. This piece in particular caught my attention

Something that I only comprehended after leaving was the sheer number of different galleries there, who have came from fifteen countries! London itself plays host to countless numbers of large and small private and public galleries, so I was pleasantly surprised t osee a gallery from Istanbul there!

I was a bit weary of going to this event as you don’t really get the chance to take in the artwork. It’s like you’re given five seconds to absorb what you can before someone pushes past you! I can see myself going again next year, but I’ll probably have to go twice

My friend came to visit me the other day. He walked from the train station to the Bull Ring to meet me. This is the first thing he said upon meeting me:

Birmingham makes me hate people

+1 for us :-D!