21 January 2008 - 11:00The Big Picture

The Big Picture - BE IN IT

Since leaving the BBC at the start of the month I’ve been working on an incredibly interesting project that is trying to build a huge photo album of the West Midlands* in 2008 - The Big Picture.

The Big Picture is a project for Arts Council West Midlands, being run by Audiences Central (who have employed me), and is in a very modern way based heavily on Flickr to hold and organise all the photos we’re gathering. The site - inthebigpicture.co.uk - has been put together by 3Form, and is doing a lot of clever stuff with the API, it can be used completely as a front end for Flickr and includes some smashing geotagging features.

It launches today, so go and have a look for yourself.

I’m working as Online Editor, which so far has included a lot of copywriting and decisions about how people might use the site, but I’m hoping to be able to work more off-site after launch as we’ve got some fun stuff planned for Facebook and other social media sites - and also in the real world too.

For launch week we’re out and about across the region - Wolverhampton today, ending in Brum on Friday afternoon, full details on the site - do drop by and say hello if you’re around.

*The West Midlands in this case includes Stoke, Staffordshire, Shropshire, Hereford and Worcester, Coventry and Warwickshire as well as the more traditional Birmingham and The Black Country.

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  1. Birmingham Conservation Trust Blog » Are you in the BIG PICTURE? says;
    21 Jan 2008 - 20:40

    [...] just want to mention a couple of individuals working on the Big Picture. Jon Bounds has been helping to keep this website going for almost two years now (thank you Jon). Stef [...]

  2. Created in Birmingham » The Big Picture says;
    22 Jan 2008 - 0:47

    [...] behind it have blogged: Jon Bounds is the Online Editor (Jon is also Mr BiNS) Stef Lewandowski built the website out of twigs and rubber bands. Share [...]

  3. DigiKev » The BIG Picture says;
    22 Jan 2008 - 15:49

    […]Stefan Lewandowski and Jon Bounds have launched In The Big Picture today. I was very lucky to get a sneak preview at The Birmingham Bloggers Meetup a week or so a go.[…]

  4. Podnosh Blog : High Fibre Podcasting » Archive » The Big Pictures “big picture” says;
    24 Jan 2008 - 18:17

    [...] I’m doing some work for Audiences Central and one of the key people behind the project, Jon Bounds, also works closely with me on this site, Upyerbrum and others projects. I’ve also recently [...]

  5. The Big Picture 2008 « Inversion Layer says;
    03 Feb 2008 - 12:16

    [...] it are well known in the Birmingham blogging/arts community, for example the online editor is Jon Bounds (from Birmingham: It’s Not Shit) and the site was built by Stef Lewandowski (who also runs [...]

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