"playmakers, a 35 minute documentary, is the culmination of a six month project following the progress of Hide&Seek; game designers Alex Fleetwood and Holly Gramazio through the development of a new game. The documentary was filmed over the first 6 months of 2009 and premiered at the Sheffield Documentary festival. Playmakers will be available to download and view on the 5th of May 2010.

Over the last 50 years play has become an increasingly private activity. Now it is bursting back onto our streets. playmakers explores the emerging area of pervasive games it examines the implications of reclaiming play into the public domain and shows the possibilities offered by new technologies.

Playmakers investigates four main themes:

Part 1: Play…

Part 2: Public space…

Part 3: Technology…

Part 4: Theatre/art…"

[See also: http://playmakers.org.uk/ ]

"I rapped with reformed archaeologist Bradley L. Garrett regarding his recent visual ethnographic fieldwork about urban exploration. Here’s what we talked about, all images are his."

"A documentary film by Kaspar Astrup Schröder about movement in urban space.

"From a 1977 film called Gizmo, some urban tumbling from the 1930s that strongly resembles the contemporary sport of parkour."

"A teaser for an upcoming documentary, MY PLAYGROUND by Kaspar Astrup Schröder. It is a film about movement, tricking, freerunning and parkour in the urban space."

"Yes, countless other games have let you run and jump in 3-D. But Mirror's Edge is revolutionary because of the amazing immediacy that comes from its first-person point of view. That simple change makes it feel like you aren't simply steering around an agile little Mario-type character -- it feels like you're actually performing the parkour, barely catching hold of a ledge and avoiding a 900-foot drop." Counterpoint at: http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/11/third-opinion-t.html

"Why does this game get its hooks into my brain so effectively? Why does it feel so much more visceral? I think it's because Mirror's Edge is the first game to hack your proprioception. That's a fancy word for your body's sense of its own physicality — its "map" of itself. Proprioception is how you know where your various body parts are — and what they're doing — even when you're not looking at them. It's why you can pass a baseball from one hand to another behind your back; it's how you can climb stairs without looking down at your feet....Mirror's Edge...does something very subtle, but very radical. It lets you see other parts of your body in motion.

"highlight for me was the fact that I spent so much time running, chasing, parkouring around the Royal Hall Ballroom & the Southbank streets of London that I felt as physically exhausted at the end of each night as if I’d hiked 20 kilometers in the moun

"Although I have great faith in the hackers & makers of this world, I do not think things need to be made harder for them than they already are. You can all (partly) influence the future shape of mobile technologies. I have one simple request: Please make

"Sweep aside all the plot junk and you are left with the potential for an exciting new simulation of the city as an elaborate playground. What immediately caught my attention about these preliminary screenshots is manner in which architectural elements are demarcated. As per her training in "the art of displacement" Faith possess an innate ability for reading the geometry of her surroundings and this translates into a playing field where the objects, surfaces and assemblies that comprise the city are colour coded according to accessibility. When considered in this manner, the city becomes a giant text and, fittingly, play revolves around spatial problem solving and wayfinding rather than trigger finger virtuosity."

[Link rot, so Wayback: http://web.archive.org/web/20110520160203/http://serialconsign.com/node/192 ]

"So what happens when “parkour” is paired with le football?"

"1. The Decline of the City, the Rise of the City 2. The End of Privacy 3. The Return of Big Computing 4. Systems not Sites 5. Goodbye, Bilbao 6. The Bust 7. The iPhone"

"To create the piece, called Point A → B, the OpenEnded guys set up a jungle-gym studio environment, wrapped the traceurs in motion-capture sensor suits, and set them loose to kong-roll, gap-jump, and tic-tac their way around the space. Infrared cameras

"What are the near future possibilities of mixing and blending first life props, actions, movements, proximity relationships, time (especially time factors) into the core of what counts as the user interface?"

"This is a scheme called “Urban Freeflow” by Ben Stuart, of Nottingham University that’s featured in Blueprint magazine this month."

[Now at: http://magicalnihilism.com/2007/08/25/fortress-of-amplitude/ ]

"A Freerunning documentary featuring Sebastien Foucan and UrbanFreeFlow team, filmed at multiple stunning locations all over Britain."

"Parkour (sometimes abbreviated to PK) or l'art du déplacement (English: the art of displacement) is a physical activity of French origin, the aim of which is to move from point A to point B as efficiently and quickly as possible, using principally the a

"Initially, the term free running was used interchangeably with parkour. However, as free runners became interested in aesthetics as well as useful movement, the two became different disciplines."

"this is the translated version of a documentary of david belle and the history of parkour"

"David Belle invented parkour in France. It has spread mainly by videos on the Internet, and has been embraced in Europe and the United States by thrill-seekers and martial-arts adepts."

"PAWA video of the rules and general idea of parkour."

"Las caminatas a la deriva forman parte de un viaje a través de las ideas que fundamentan la psicogeografía, pasando por el dadaísmo, surrealismo y situacionismo, llegando a su moderna implementación y el surgimiento de los exploradores urbanos. Ideas

Proper Education may become the anthem for the environmental movement

"At last Eric Prydz follows up the massive 'Call On Me' with the amazing pink floyd sampling 'Proper Education'. "