Playtime! @ London Games Festival

I spoke at a great event about a fortnight ago, a fringe conference at the London Games Festival called Playtime!, organised by an old friend from the mid-nineties, Tim Wright. I was slowly meandering towards writing up the non-scripted presentation I gave there - but I recieved a welcome e-mail this morning from Mark McGuinness (a poet and creative-industries coach), who blogged my presentation, and then pointed me towards two other write-ups (here and here).

One outcome I'm tickled by is a new blog inspired by my presentation, called Spirituality of Play, started by the factual editor for digital at Channel Four. As this blog has itemised over the years - see this thread - there's a lot to say about the subject. I pass on Gwen Gordon's essay on Play: The Movement of Love which is a great (and contentious) starting point to this area. 

Incidentally, the picture at the top is of Tim in his spacesuit at Playtime! , beginning his new web-literature project Playing Golf on The Moon With David Bowie. Like his moving project on the loss of his home town (and the death of his father) In Search of Oldton, it's a fully-playful example of Web 2.0 at its most humane and intriguing.

A resonant and memorable day.

Update: I've just been sent my Flickr picture from the event. Indeed I am, as my correspondant suggests, as happy as a sandboy.