Reboot

When this little blog began it was used exclusively academically to report on and to promote my 4th year New Media final project named Playspace. What started out as an art project that I was doing because I needed a university degree has been firmly planted in my mind for over a year and now seems to be the thing I feel most passionately about and that links all of my other thoughts and interests together. What has happened is that I have discovered that Play is my calling. Some people are passionate about music others about business but it seems like for Craig Herbert my life's work is going to be Play.

So on that note I would like to announce (mostly to myself) that Playspace the blog is officially reopened.

However since the project of the same name is over and done with the blog will be switching directions, or rebooting as the current vernacular trends seem to indicate. So we will from now on be focusing on the decidedly abstract notion of Play. To clarify this decision, because Play is a very broad and well represented field on the Internet, here at Playspace the focus will not be on video games, board games, sports or Internet and new media social media trends (although they will likely be discussed) but on how and why we as human beings incorporate play into our lives. It will be heavy on personal theory and might not jive with the way you experience the world but I do hope you will come away happy. There will be links to others discussing play around the Internet as well as those engaging in it, there will be personal experiences, and there will be critical analysis.

Thank you for reading and I hope you come back.
-Craig