Story Games in Birmingham? Step forward!

I've been trying to find people into story games in Birmingham (UK) for some time. Seems like their a rare breed or their hiding really well. Any of you out there please add a comment to this post and let the rest of us know.

Concrete Cow

It's Concrete Cow in a few hours. Its a gaming convention in Milton Keynes with a track history of indie and story games, so I'm looking forward to playing something cool.

DIY Lighting

I'd been intending to buckle down and learn to use a flash by following the assignments on the Strobist site. But now that he's started a new series of articles called Lighting 102 it seems like its now or never. So I'm all excited and I've bought the book he's going to complement the course with - Light: Science and Magic: An Introduction to Photographic Lighting.

One of the things the Strobist site has encouraged is a DIY attitude and a try it and see approach. So I'm going to post links to any DIY stuff I see for my own benefit in the future.

Theres a number of DIY Lighting suggestions and some plans in the DPReview Lighting Technique Forum including this thread on DIY Lighting Kit.

A similar design here at DIY-Reflector-Diffuser.

Birmingham Music Festivals

While stumbling round the web trying to find out if Birmingham's The Courtesy Group still gig I stumbled onto a post listing hods of mini-festivals in and around Brum this summer. It reminds me; I should take advantage of not being dead at the moment and get out and do stuff. Probably.