So, Macworld reports that a 14-year-old has created a game that is giving Angry Birds a run for its money.  How is this possible?  By ditching the more complex objective C for Corona SDK (not the beer).  

I took a taking a gander at the overview video on the Corona site.  Now i'm no coder, but to me it appears to be a pretty simple development platform.  

So if you want to create the next bog app, for both Android and iOS, then perhaps give it a look

Childs play as they say

It's amazing what a little bit of time, and a large helping of creativity can produce. This is a nice little stop motion number created by Lina Fridman and Maira Fridman - Doce Ballet Who said you should never play with your food!

Doce Ballet from Maira Fridman on Vimeo.

Skive, the agency I work for, recently moved office and are now located next to a primary school. When the kids aren't indoors learning to read, write, paint, or whatever kids at school do nowadays, they are outside running around and making the most of playtime. Gazing out the window to the noise I pondered. Why don't we, as adults, 'play' any more? Surley there are huge benefits, for mind and profession, in playing? This made me think back to a great speech that Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO, gave at TED a few years back (yes I love TED talks) about the powerful link between creativity and play. This talk is brilliant! I love that idea that when channeled, play encourages a world of endless possibilities. When in a state of play, we are free from self-imposed barriers to sketch, prototype, test - actually create - all in the quest of good, appropriate design.