CREATIVECOFFEE CLUB

At Phoenix Square Film & Digital Media Centre, Midland Street, this morning for CreativeCoffee Club. Someone asked me if blogging CreativeCoffee Club every fortnight doesn't become a wee bit like reporting the village bowls match for the local paper: isn't it just the same thing every time? "Creatives" and, erm ... coffee. Funnily enough: no. I'd say that each one of these sessions has its own character, depending on who turns up and what they have to bring with them. It's unpredictable enough to have stayed interesting and stimulating for the better part of four years for me now.

I thought that this time, I'd get those attending to say, in three words or less, the kind of creative work in which they're involved. The list is, for the most part, generic and some of them had more than one person working in that field, of course.

• copywriting
• creative business support
• digital game narratives
• fashion design
• homeopathy
• logo design
• network weaving
• photography
• print design
• print management
• web design

I chat with some of the photographers here today about our interest in having a portfolio of images for the Council of Faiths in our Silver Jubilee year. It's  project that would certainly be of interest to some talented people - whenever we get around to ,making these sort of decisions.

We have more than two dozen attendees today all in. Somehow, it's always hard to get a photo that makes it look like there's any decent number at all. No matter how I try and compose it, from whichever angle I shoot it, the place always looks half-empty. I wonder if that says something about the general environment of Phoenix Square itself. I think it might have something to do with the height of the ceiling; nothing scientific to back up that idea, but a lot of people agree.

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