Bristol has always been passionate about its creative scene and in a smaller city sometimes you have to fight a bit harder to protect it. I think the up side to this is it that brings a much stronger community ethos to the scene than we might otherwise have.
After a short Summer hiatus, the Digital blog from Bristol returns!
What better way to kick off our next installment of digital life from the ‘creative capital of SW England’ than to tell you about the launch of Bristol’s Creative Directors’ Network (CDN), set up by yours truly at 3Sixty and those creative types at Bristol Media (http://www.bristolmedia.co.uk/).
I must confess that until this week I’d never heard of a company called Twofour. They are a 280 person strong, £29m turnover TV and film business based in Plymouth.
Andrew Kelly runs the Bristol Cultural Development Partnership and was kind enough to give up some time to answer a few of my questions about the BCDP‘s role in nurturing creativity in Bristol.
Hats off to Justin Staple who has just launched a fantastic new website showcasing Bristol’s street artists www.bristol-street-art.co.uk
If you’ve got a spare 5 minutes I thoroughly recommend you take a look. Justin’s done a great job – the Google maps integration is a particularly nice touch.
Jo, Iwein and I, plus 897 other people crammed in to the Wills Memorial Building at the University of Bristol last night for a Bristol Festival of Ideas lecture on The Shifting Global Economy by Will Hutton—or, as he put it, “How did we get in this mess and how are we going to get out?”
Why are there a disproportionate numbers of agencies based in London?
Probably part of the answer is the same explanation as to why there were so many cotton mills in Manchester – geography. The cotton mills were near raw materials. London agencies are near to an unrivalled (in Europe) array of production resources.
Hello and welcome to this new blog from the team at 3Sixty .
Lots of people I meet know a bit about Bristol – almost everyone has a mate that’s gone to college here – and have a general sense that it’s a great place to live and play.
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