Bare Face Challenge?
On Flickr, there is a an SLBareFaceChallenge going on for Second Life avatars. At first I dismissed the idea of a bare face challenge, but… Read More »Bare Face Challenge?
Virtual Life & Identity
Flames Tear the Soul
Supernova Digital Animation Festival announced this year their ‘kicker line’ (to use a poetry term) would be ‘World on Fire’. In my usual way, I… Read More »Flames Tear the Soul
Art, borrowing, and science
CapCat Ragu‘s exhibition, Isolation, at Ribong Gallery in Second Life, is the subject of this post. However, it’s prompted a lot of thought about how… Read More »Art, borrowing, and science
The Uncanny Valley of video conferencing
There is talk about video conferencing replacing meetings and educational lectures in universities. I think this makes too many assumptions, especially as things stand. Being… Read More »The Uncanny Valley of video conferencing
Time Spent Together
I wondered about this video… it’s so much more ordinary seeming than usual. Does it fit on Vimeo? Flickr maybe, as that’s more about personal… Read More »Time Spent Together
A Fox’s Tale
Over the past few years I’ve had the pleasure of talking with Erik Mondrian about virtual worlds many times. We both have a passion for… Read More »A Fox’s Tale
Cleaning up the Streets
I wouldn’t call myself controversial. I don’t go out of my way to offend people, though in my typically British way, I’ll have a quiet… Read More »Cleaning up the Streets
Process and Property
This term I have been teaching for the first time, and there were two things that I wanted to get across. One is the immense… Read More »Process and Property
Are the limits on machinima relevant today?
Linden Lab has long granted licenses to Second Life residents for the taking of snapshots and machinima, reflecting how Second Life was established as a… Read More »Are the limits on machinima relevant today?
VR spaces and ‘being yourself’
‘Be yourself in VR’: but you’re never alone in the new Facebook Spaces Facebook clearly would not want you to be anything else, as their… Read More »VR spaces and ‘being yourself’