RT @alikichapple: Gorgeous illustrated envelopes sent by artists to their publisher: #childrensbooks #illustration #art

I suspect that as a zine person I will find this incredibly annoying, but then that's not necessarily a bad thing.

Nice collection of photos of people painted to merge into the background, including Liu Bolin who uses the technique to protest in China.

Some nice geometric animations, some rather mind-bending.

Chap hunts down and photographs plane crashes in remote places. Lovely photos.

The inspiration for my TTV grids. I saw his work in a gallery window in Bloomsbury circa 2002 and have always wanted to replicate it. Could never manage the scale he manages though.

Beautiful music generating thing based on drawing lines for balls to bounce off.

A nice Long Now-style project from Antonio Roberts and Jon Harrington which sees a frame from Antonio's film and a sentence from Jon's novel posted every day for a year. Also available on <a href="http://twitter.com/deaddeadline">Twitter</a>.

Nicky at Digbeth is Good riffs on the opening of Eastside Projects and feels pretty positive about the future.

This performance / exhibition / etc from Stan's Cafe looks to be one of the major arts events of the season with 112 tonnes of rice in a warehouse representing ever person in the world. <a href="http://stanscafe.blogspot.com/">More on their blog</a> too and I'm planning on reporting on it once it launches on September 12th.

Yes, they're environmentally catastrophic but if you promise to be good and dispose of them properly after use I think you can get away with order enough supplies to make 80 of the things for 25 Euros from this German shop. If you're not sure what I'm talking about they have videos on the order page.

The only downside is I can't think of anywhere in Birmingham to throw them. It's all brick and concrete here. Ideas?

Fantastic looking piece by Stan's Cafe that's looks to be part performance, part installation, part something else entirely consisting of 6.7 billion grains of rice, one for each person on the planet. CiB has the links and there's a neat video trailer which makes everything clear.

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"is renowned internationally as one of the most adventurous artists' groups using interactive media, creating groundbreaking new forms of performance and interactive art that mixes audiences across the internet, live performance and digital broadcasting. Led by Matt Adams, Ju Row Farr and Nick Tandavanitj, the group’s work explores interactivity and the social and political aspects of technology. It confronts a media saturated world in which popular culture rules, using performance, installation, video, mobile and online technologies to ask questions about the ideologies present in the information that envelops us."

Have heard good things about this lot. To investigate.

"The journey from sketch to almost finished study for a future painting." This is the sort of thing I encourage artists to blog about - their process. A great example to show around.

I've always had a liking for the Fluxus movement so a series of events in that spirit taking place in Birmingham warms my little heart.

A gallery and book of badly drawn penises.

He did a Heath Robinson-inspired Guinness calendar which is on display at the Old Mo pub in Balsall Heath. Can't find it online so I'll have to get some photos as it's lovely.

A blog by the artist Edward Bond. I don't like to give value judgments in these links but this is a really fantastic blog. Read it now.

is "Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery's online database. It gives you information about the objects in our collection. Every month we add more images of objects for you to look at."

D'log gathers the links for this interesting new gallery space in Digbeth.

A blog by one of the people involved in Wunderkammer. I think. It's all a bit obfuscated. ;)

"Birmingham Contemporary Music Group will perform The Partenheimer Project by composer Kevin Volans, commissioned as part of Jürgen Partenheimer's exhibition." 19/20th April, free

26 April ­ 12 July 2008

A local artist has set up her own craft courses after being made ‘homeless' by the closure of the Midlands Arts Centre.

D'log introduces us to the photography of Lara Jade, currently studying at BIAD and set for big things (not just giant birdcages!)

Opens doors on June 28.

D'log digs up some websites that "might be useful for artists starting to think about the possible public art benefits in the city centre"

Deb the gardener goes to the Tim Maguire show at the Ikon and reports at length. via D'log.

Photos from the first night of Richard Coldicott's show at Studio 4.

An exhibition of photography by Rita Fletcher with selected images from local residents showing aspects of the Hawksey, Pool Farm and Primrose Estates at the Custard Factory gallery.

The private view for Richard Coldicott's new show at Studio 4 in the Custard Factory is tonight (Weds 13th).

I need to write more about Paul's blog and show off his artwork. This link will have to suffice for now.

A review of Lash Frenzy's support slot at the Custard Factory draws parallels with performance artist Franko B. (Disclaimer - I wrote it)

Talking about her position as artist in residence at the Barber Institute and her current work on The Fates

Fused report on the postcard book and show a few of their fave ones.

D'log picks his highlights of the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery's 2008 program.

LAUNDRY is an association of artists. We make art, projects and other stuff happen. Based in the Midlands apparently. To investigate in depth.