At the end of the last week, an idea came together for another machinima, this time located in Furillen in Second Life. A bleak, open sim, it’s based on a real life place – an island off the northeast coast of Sweden, where a limestone factory was turned into a hotel. Furillen has been recreated […]
In the flush of youth, mortality seems so far away, irrelevant even. Technology is like that too. We dig into programs seeing what they will do for us now, without really thinking what they might be like in a dozen years time. If that future was imaginable, it would probably have already been in the […]
I was watching an interesting video recently about a new game that’s now just been released, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, made by The Chinese Room. Dan Pinchbeck, the Creative Director, and Jessica Curry, the Studio Head/Composer, talk in the video below about how players ‘discover story’ through finding electrical devices to interact with in […]
In cyberculture no one is middle-aged, which means that no one can be young either. I’m returning to this quote1 from 1999 to discuss life, age, and ageing, to follow on from ageing and death in the previous post. On the surface, this statement appears to remain true in Second Life; there are few avatars […]
Baby’s Ear is the latest creation from Neva Crystall. There are now only two days left to enjoy it before the fortnight window closes. I took the photos about 10 days ago, but real life has been so hectic. It is, in many ways, characteristic Neva. Cool, subdued colours, where land meets the sea. There’s […]
This is my contribution to the ‘What Second Life Means to Me’ video project being run for the virtual world’s 12th birthday celebrations. I was not sure about doing this project, but several things came together. It seems appropriate that this should be my 100th blog post. This will be my third video this year. […]
There’s been a few of musings about what Second Life means to residents recently in response to Xiola Linden’s video share request, and Huckleberry Hax has done a particularly good video about his feelings. Also featuring in the video is Canary Beck, who has just announced her 400th blog post (congratulations!). As it happened, I saw […]
