If you like the kitsch accessories by Tatty Devine, then you should probably take a looksie at Me and Zena. Zena McKeown’s story is a familiar one. After graduating from Edinburgh College of Art with a BA in Visual Communication, she moved to London (in her own words) “shouting things about unicorns, gold and love”. But unlike the mass of drones that let their childlike whimsies become quashed by ‘real life’ and ‘responsibility’, Zena put her ideas into action. CONTINUE READING THIS POST >

Capsule the brains behind Supersonic Festival are curators, promoters and fans of the finest music, revealing the otherwise indescribable connections between contemporary music and art, crafting extraordinary events for adventurous audiences. Now in it’s 7th year, the event will once again take place at the Custard Factory in the heart of Digbeth utilising a number of spaces for music, art, film and cake. CONTINUE READING THIS POST >

There is a new level of corridor shooter game and that is Damnation: a multiplayer game that allows you to experience ducking, diving, leaping and shooting through four different, action-packed and vertically twister multiplayer modes: Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, King of the Hill and Capture the Flag. Up to eight people can take part in this game, meaning attacks from any direction, with the map taking full advantage of the scale and height of the game’s vertically themed levels. CONTINUE READING THIS POST >

The heat has been flirting with us and the summer clothes are out from the back of the wardrobe for another UK summer so it only seems right to assess what we can get away with. For the creative among us a little customisation can always bring last year’s clothes up-to-season but for the less talented how about trying your hand at some customised flip-flops?

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Considering himself to be more a curator of this exhibition than claiming the art as his own, Turner prize winner Jeremy Deller advertised in music paper Melody Maker for material related to the Welsh band Manic Street Preachers back in 1997. What he ended up with is the exhibition, “The Uses of Literacy” filled with paintings, collages, drawings, books, poetry and paraphernalia all by fans of the band. This exhibition reverses the role of public and artist by showing the work of amateurs on the walls of the all knowing galleries. CONTINUE READING THIS POST >