Hello World

Today is the first day of Birmingham’s Hello World conference being held at Millennium Point.
There’s two days of a handful of great speakers coming as part of the Hello Digital festival including the story of _that_ gorilla advert and Flickr’s director of community.
BTW: Here’s some info on why I suggested the name - yes I [...]

Making a music video in 5 hours for Film Dash

Xela - Ut Nos Vivicaret (edit) from aeioux on Vimeo.
This is a music video I made today for the track Ut Nos Vivicaret taken from Xela’s forthcoming album In Bocca Al Lupo, on our label Type.
Best viewed using the Full Screen option at the bottom right of the player, and use headphones instead of [...]

Jubilee Debt Campaign, Birmingham

Introducing a new blog for the Jubilee Debt Campaign in Birmingham.
Last night for Blog Action Day, some of the Birmingham bloggers got together to run a social media surgery, where not for profit organisations could get free advice and help with blogging and web tools for promoting what they do.
It was a big success, and [...]

Blog Action Day in Birmingham

Blog Action Day 2008 Poverty from Blog Action Day on Vimeo.
Blog Action Day is happening for the second time this year, and is an attempt to bring together bloggers from around the world to discuss a shared issue.
This year’s theme is Poverty.
From this year’s ‘about’ page:

Global issues like poverty are extremely complex. There is no [...]

Clore begins

This last fortnight I was away on the first two week residential/retreat as part of my Clore fellowship. I thought that the start of my being a Clore fellow would be a blog-powered experience. It turns out that I’ve been so overloaded by what was an amazing and thought-provoking experience that I haven’t published a [...]