BIRMINGHAM CULTURE #1. ARTICULATE ABOUT ART

WHATS ON YOUR MIND

WHATS ON YOUR MIND

Open and close. Rub away the sleep and realise that your in a strange city, with just your mind to take you forward.

Purpleblooz

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Open and close. Rub away the sleep and realise that your in a strange city, with just your mind to take you forward.

Purpleblooz

Birminghamcity culture iswhat we are tryingto show you in our ownstyles and personalitys in this

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The word on the street.Since i came to Bir-mingham, the area that i have to visit is Dig-beth. I was intruiged and interested in ex-ploring this art fuelled area. As i explored the area with mass amounts of character, i came across many things that had me constantly stopping.

I then ran into a lo-cal skateboarder that i questions and quizzed about the city of Bir-mingham...simply be-cause i am new to the city and i want as much knowledge about the city as i can get. Differ-ent peoples views and opinions on the city

certainly gives me a greater feel for the different cultures to expect from the vari-ous interesting parts of Brum city.

Meet Ben.

Hi Ben.Ben kindly let me photography him and ask him a few questions after that. Per-sonally, if I were him I woulda said no and rolled away on my four cool skate-board wheels...whilst standing on the board.

What’s cool about Digbeth? Digbeth is cool because it’s a shitty area with a lot of small businesses investing in it. The rainbow clubs have slowly fi lled a street, clubs and bars keep opening and rein-vesting, loads of music studios, galleries and Zen (in your photos) emanating awe-some.

Are there any other cool places like Digbeth? Nah, Digbeth is pretty unique. There are no other places in Birmingham I can think of from the top of my head where the art culture is so open and welcome to the public, but at the same time have its own community within which really appreciates and respects the area.

Is Birmingham a good city for art? There are so many insular micro scenes scattered everywhere it’s hard to know what’s going on and what’s going to be good.

What do you like the most about Birmingham? Word doesn’t move so fast here but when you do stumble on something it’s usually pretty different from everything else going on apart from the obligatory dubstep.

Cheers man.

When I was in Digbeth, I met Ben...

Getting to grips with things

Getting to grips with this all.

The surroundings in Birmingham are not what I am fa-miliar with, but the industrial his-tory is interest-ing and intriguing to me. With what seems to an ever changing cityscape, living with the old-er buildings is cer-tainly aesthetically challenging to look at.

But that is what is cool about it all, the cur-rent and the old, the contemporary mixed with the past.The culture within Bir-mingham is diverse, with many different areas crawling with different ethnici-ties, unique cul-tural goods (food, antiques and ob-jects) and inter-esting art de-pending where you look.

“All I’m going to say

is...Birmingham should be the fi rst city. The capi-

tal should be here.” ...I don’t know how I

feel about this com-ment, but it did

make me think.