The first ever episode of Serendipity Soup - the antidote to celebrity success podcasts!

This one is with Simon Oliver, Digital Play Discovery Lead at Lego's Creative Play Lab, who talks about the highs and lows of his work in the video games industry, his love of duck-billed platypuses and why 'Jodorowsky's Dune' contains a great message for striving creatives and anyone else who needs to balance vision with practicality.

There is some discussion of depression in the last 10 minutes or so of this podcast, which I thought I should mention just in case that's not what you want to hear about right now. If you've been affected by depression, or any other mental illness, then the MIND website - Home | Mind, the mental health charity - help for mental health problems - is a good source of advice and support as is your local GP.

And finally, here are a few links to some of Simon's many esoteric references:

UK club for adult fans of Lego

Sir Ken Robinson – Do Schools Kill Creativity?

Tomato

Nathan Barley

Ngmoco

Rolando at HandCircus and Wikipedia

Okabu

Jodorowsky’s Dune

Seabeard

Huge thanks to Simon for his time, to Julian Holmes for his awesome cover artwork and to Anna Gunn for her editing super skills.

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