Citizensheep. "Michael Grimes lives in Birmingham (UK). This is his blog about anything that he fancies."

I keep adding and changing things on this blog, and the theme really can’t cope with it any more. I need a new one. However, I’m not going to introduce a cleaner one in the interim so you’ll all just have to put up with strange footers and sidebars for a bit longer.

My skepticism has been assuaged considerably since this was originally posted, but it would be wrong of me to alter the post so I haven’t; and besides, the arguments are still worth having. I want to endorse the idea of ‘digital mentors‘ [link updated], really I do; but the more I think about it the [...]

At three o’clock this morning I finished a frantic flurry of blog posts and Twitter tweets, and tried to sleep. Instead I began to panic. When this happens – and it happens a lot these days – I feel that I’m on an irreversible and rapid ascent to the peak of my sanity, at which [...]

One last quick post about this bloomin’ photography space before I go to sleep. I was chatting to a bloke at Tuesday’s Birmingham bloggers meet who seemed to be suggesting that the university is opening up a photography gallery in Eastside (I think he even said Curzon Street Station). If this is true, should we: [...]

The frame below displays the most recent post about Birmingham’s Image Central project, gathered from the web. (It can appear a little temperamental; if it claims there is nothing to display try again later.) Or view the whole lot here. {“pipe_id”:”4e75c53a755aa8c2853e0677854597a4″,”_btype”:”list”,”height”:”600px”}

As yet there is no central blog or website, and even when there is I suspect there will be various people blogging in different places. In an attempt to make my contributions as easy to find as possible I have: started tagging/labeling/categorising all my relevant posts with both brumphotospace and brumimagecentral (I’m adding ‘brum’ to [...]

This calendar is for the campaign for a dedicated photography space in Birmingham, now probably called the ‘Image Central’ project. Thanks to Rob for the calendar. At some point I’ll put it in a more findable location on this blog, but it’ll do here for now.

There’s a move afoot to campaign for a dedicated photography gallery in Birmingham. I’ve agreed to do some initial research into how best to set up an organisation to raise funds for such a campaign A quick look at the Charity Commission website suggests that we don’t need to register as a charity if our [...]

I went to a meeting this evening about setting up a lobbying group for a dedicated photography gallery in Birmingham. As a result I prgmised to do a couple of things, forgetting that my broadband is down. Doh. So I’m writing this VERY SLOWLY on my phone, with very low signal. Oh well. There were [...]

If case you think there’s something wrong with this blog but can’t put your finger on it, don’t panic. I’ve made a few small cosmetic alterations, including the background colour and a less subtle picture of sheep. Granted, it does look slightly odd when the sidebar is longer than the middle; I’ll probably put the [...]