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What Goes Round

By ⋅ October 17, 2009 ⋅ 4 comments

So, Britain’s best-selling red-top is back in the blue camp again. I can’t say I was particularly surprised when The Sun’s 12 year love-in with New Labour came to an end the other week. Maybe it’s because my political conscience first rolled off the production line during the 1980s, but I’ve always struggled to think [...]

By ⋅ November 23, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

Nick Horner’s article in last week’s Great Barr Observer about the virtual reconstruction of Kingstanding’s former Odeon cinema will be of interest to those odd critters like me who have a weakness for magnificent old cinema buildings. I don’t know what the technical term for this is, but I suppose you could call us necrocinephiles. [...]

The Virtual Cinema

By ⋅ October 28, 2008 ⋅ One comment

Following on from something I posted fairly recently – and blathered on at great length about at last night’s Brum Bloggers Meet – King’s Visualisation Lab at King’s College London seem to be working on a virtual reality reconstruction of Birmingham’s magnificent Kingstanding Odeon. This, of course, would be a VR simulation of its glory [...]

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