bcu a three hour walking tour of Brum, thinking about art, design and creativity in the city I took two groups of our BA students around Birmingham this week. Our mission: to find where the creative industries hang out, and to think about how design lives and breathes in the real world. We spent three hours and covered a lot of ground. Unfortunately we didn’t get
food Jon’s 5-bean chilli 💡Update, Feb 2025: obviously I didn't realise in 2008 that I needed to start this post with a 3,000 autobiographical essay. No wonder I never got a blog to book publishing deal, eh? Since I wrote this I became a vegetarian. My go to chilli these days
10 rules of broadband ⚠️Not being aware of these rules means that a 5 minute job will take you 7 hours. 1. When offering to help family members set up broadband, don’t assume that the previous owner of their new house had a normal telephone set up. 2. Consider the fact that they
What my mate Gary did on his holiday: created a media storm by photographing his own children in a park Met up with my mate Gary the other day and he told me he’s had an eventful summer. He’s been on TV, and in the national press, plus around the world on the interwebs for taking this picture of his own kids: He used a zoom lens so
I think this kind of sums up what we do in the treehouse all day 🙋Explainer: 'The Treehouse' was a nickname given to the BCU School of Media research office, which was starting to get established in 2008, and hired me as a temp in June 2008. I didn't leave for a decade. (Feb 2025) Found this completely randomly (here: http:
