rubbishcorp® Creative Social Fanboy #1 Mania Of The Geek?

Following the success of CS Presents, Creative Social are launching a Fanboy series – a series of evenings where the Socials who fanatically collect culture for themselves will share what makes them passionate. Albeit art, gaming, music, squids, Ping Pong or vinyl toys, Socials will curate an evening of great speakers to deliver an inspirational and fun evening.

I’m very happy to announce that the first evening of Inspiration in London, will be curated by rubbishcorp® on Wednesday 5th October at Mother London.

Mainstream media still largely depicts video games as made by Satan for gun toting juveniles learning to kill from the comfort of their Lazyboy.

Yet recent figures clearly demonstrate that more money is now being spent on video games than on films (both cinema and disc), despite British cinema enjoying its best period in decades.

This is the clearest evidence yet that the games industry has come of age and has transformed itself from niche entertainment for teenage boys into mainstream entertainment for millions of British families.

Mania of the Geek sets out to explore the impact of this relatively over-night phenomenon on our culture and everyday lives.

Confirmed Speakers:

Stephen Curran is a British video game journalist, presenter, author, and game designer. He was an editor at Edge magazine, also writing under the name RedEye. The RedEye articles have been cited as one of “Ten unmissable examples of New Games Journalism” by Guardian Unlimited.

Curran’s published books include Game Plan: Great Designs That Changed the Face of Computer Gaming (2004), The Art of Producing Games (2005), The Complete Guide to Game Development, Art & Design (2005) and Game On: The 50 Greatest Video Games of All Time (2006); the latter three were written with David McCarthy and Simon Byron He currently presents the Resonance FM gaming radio show, One Life Left, and works as Creative Director at games studio Zoë Mode.

Pat Kane is the author of the best selling book, the Play Ethic. The Play Ethic is a manifesto for a different way of living and seeks to change the way you look at your daily life, how you interact with others, how you view the world. It is a guidebook to new, exciting – and unsettling – times. But even more than this it is a survival guide for those seeking to break the shackles of work dominated society.

He also happens to be one half of the band Hue & Cry.

I’m gonna run on a bit as is one other person, they are yet to confirm.

Tickets here.

Massive thank you to Budweiser who will be providing us with some lovely cold beer.