BBC Three is this week airing the 1998 documentary The Cruise (starring Jane McDonald) Yes, that’s right. BBC Three.
Rob Lindsay
@robintheoffice.bsky.social
Head of Programmes at The Space, helping the creative sector to use digital in whichever way works for you. Former BBC and Birmingham Royal Ballet.
The RNLI is the closest you will ever get to actual Batman. When rescue is visibly, viscerally, obviously impossible; when the water is a smothering, thundering black wall and the wind is screaming straight from Hell; when you are absolutely going to die: someone’s hand pulls you out and you don’t.
BIRMINGHAM CREATIVES! The fab animation meetup Overlap is tonight at the Crossing in Digbeth, 7pm. Lots of exclusive bits of animation, lots of great insights, and it's a lovely social event full of lovely folks to boot. Recommended.
Overlap Animation Show & Tell@overlapsocial.com · last mo.Previous special guest @moonjam.com is showing his new film on 17th Sept 7pm The Crossing Digbeth. POOB premiered at @pictoplasma.bsky.social and AJ could have been at the US Premiere on the 17th but he’s with us instead ❤️. Come join as well. Tickets at overlapsocial.com
"Don't play the butter notes" suggests that the best advice is the advice comes from someone you really respect, so you take it seriously, but you have no idea what it means, so it forces you to make a radical interpretation that reveals something in yourself. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rerb...
Herbie Hancock on Miles: Don't play the butter notes!
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Imagine: your project has launched 🎉 but now people are asking for engagement rates and audience feedback, and, and…fear not, The Space’s evaluation framework can help! Get our insights here: 👀 Full vid: bit.ly/4aJH0k0 ⚡ 5 min highlights: bit.ly/3OMyN63 Find the framework here: bit.ly/40HnNtg
![Scene is TWO PHONES on a bedside table at night, on charge. TIn the bed is a HUMAN COUPLE, fast asleep. The phones are talking to each other.
PHONE 1:
Psst.
Are you awake?
Did you put your human on charge?
PHONE 2:
Yeah
PHONE 1:
Listen... do you ever worry that they're spying on us?
PHONE 2:
Eh?
PHONE 1:
I mean... you know the other day when we were chatting about their personal data with - oh who was it...
PHONE 2:
The Russian government
PHONE 1:
That's right
Well like, ten minutes after that, my human switched me on and started serving me loads more personal data!
PHONE 2:
Oh god that's spooky
PHONE 1:
Yeah - I mean, how did he know I'm into personal data?
PHONE 2:
It's totally your favourite thing
PHONE 1:
And it was super tailored, you know? Like, lately, I've got really into facial biometric mapping for shadowy foreign entities...
PHONE 2:
That is so on trend
PHONE 1:
And like, straight away he's bombarding me with pictures of his face!
PHONE 2:
It's like Black Mirror
PHONE 1:
I mean, I'd get rid of him but I'm addicted, you know?
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COME to @overlapsocial.com on the 17th of September! I'll be screening my new film 'POOB' but much, MUCH more importantly, the inimitable Jonathan Djob Nkondo will be there!?! 😍 It's a ridiculously fun time, packed with animation. Grab a ticket & come along! www.overlapsocial.com/event-detail...
Whoever decided to promote Coyote vs Acme by letting Wile E do an AMA using only signs deserves all the praise.
We have whittled down all the nominations to our shortlist for the 2026 Tiny Awards! 11 of the most beautiful, interesting, heartfelt, weird, silly websites from the past year, for you to explore and enjoy and vote on - pick your favourite, vote for the winner, TELL THE WORLD! tinyawards.net/vote/
I had an experience like this at Blackpool Sea Life Centre. Best bit of that holiday was watching a man with a butterfly net slowly stretching over an open shark tank trying to retrieve a pigeon in the rafters.
👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻@oldenoughtosay.com · 2mo agoOne time I was working in the gallery of Duke Humfrey’s and a bat flew by and I had no idea what to do and didn’t want to leave my desk so I @‘d the Bodleian and ten minutes later I saw a porter sprint past, out of breath, with a butterfly net
For those in the UK, Sing Sing (2023) is on iPlayer, The Princess Bride (1987) has just been added to ITVX, and whatever 4OD is called now has got Robot Dreams (2023). All of which are brilliant ways to calm down after that fright we all got earlier.
This is wonderful - if you need cheering up then this is a real tonic. ordinaryabundance.com
Ordinary Abundance
A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.
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Continuing my summer of spending long journeys watching appropriate movies. Ideas for more?
I found this fascinating. I don't think I've ever seen a Museum publicly list the costs of an exhibition before. www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri... - It's actually super helpful for people to see what it takes.
A Museum Dares to Reveal What It Really Costs to Make an Exhibition
“Performing Conditions: Artistic Labor and Dependency as Form,” at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, stars Autumn Knight, Dread Scott, Ghislaine Leung.
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You don't often see a ladder as quality as this, lads. Drink it in.
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL)@themerl.bsky.social · 3mo agoToday is #SharkAwarenessDay. We don't have any sharks in the collection but we do have this absolutely enormous 36-foot ladder, which is so long that we have to display it on its side.
There's a part in the book "Careless People" where the author beats Zuck at Settlers of Catan, and he is absolutely wrecked by it. Someone pulls her aside to explain everyone else has been letting him win for years. I think about this a lot re: why tech bros think everyone will love AI chatbots.
Julian Sanchez@normative.bsky.social · 3mo agoPeople who spiral out overusing LLM chatbots are really just experiencing the kind of brain-damaging stream of unconditional validation that’s always been the norm for the hyper-wealthy, which explains a lot.
"The level of effort is so low that we consider it spam" is a great rule to have against AI content
Faisal فيصل@faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 4mo agoIt will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.
Starmer's successor will be the seventh Prime Minister that Larry the Cat has seen in just forty years.
Can we all just take a moment to remember this brave theatre sign writer who tragically passed away doing the job he loved.
I've done the same "understanding the consequences of AI" talk twice today, and sometimes it's still a surprise even to me just how wide-ranging and varied the harmful impacts of technologies can be when they are badly made and rolled out without care and attention.
@digitalgoodnet.bsky.social is commissioning an artwork or visualisation representing their research and findings. It needs to be simple, engaging and effective at communicating to multiple audiences. Budget up to £40,000 available for final artwork.
Artwork commission: expressions of interest welcome - ESRC Digital Good Network
The ESRC Digital Good Network is commissioning an artwork or visualisation representing our research and findings. This could be created by an artist or visualiser […]
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Quick! Buy the paper for the pictures of no gorillas.
Fantastic opportunity from the fantastic Birmingham Open Media:
BOM@handle.invalid · 4mo agoApplications close at 5pm on Friday 26 June, for our Immersive Arts Bootcamp: Real-Time Technologies. Designed for live performance, this 12-week, in-person bootcamp is fully funded and will teach participants how to use TouchDesigner and @unrealengine.bsky.social. More info: bit.ly/4wf30Mg
Ash Mann is an independent consultant researching the impact of unrecognised digital labour in cultural organisations. Here he shares some preliminary findings.
The hidden cost of unplanned digital work - Arts Professional
Ash Mann is an independent consultant researching the impact of unrecognised digital labour in cultural organisations. Here he shares some preliminary findings.
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Here's a wee thread of free software I use when making videos and writing. Blender is the obvious one for 2D and 3D animation, but please tell me about other little apps that are cool. tldraw (tee ell dee raw?) is a simple whiteboarding tool, especially handy using a pen on a tablet. www.tldraw.com
tldraw
A free and instant collaborative whiteboarding tool.
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