Em hotep from Tizzy Canucci on Vimeo. An exercise in glitch and overlay. For me, Second Life has two main creative positions, both of which are equally valid. The first models the real world, representing it in realistic, or stylised, ways. The second goes out to achieve things that are not possible with the material […]
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 […]
Ebony Glendevon, the curator at The Zeigler at Somerton has been trying to get an exhibition out of me for a while. But with being so busy in real life, including to getting to grips with the moving image, it’s taken some time. Besides which, I have my doubts about inworld exhibitions. And I couldn’t […]
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. […]
‘If this was real life, those gulls would rise as I approached them’, I thought to myself with a feeling of disappointment, as I walked across the sands. At that moment, I’m surrounded by gulls. I’m surprised and delighted. No art or modelling process can capture everything; it’s about capturing the most important things. And […]
This post has an addendum responding to comments by Bryn Oh on her blog made during June. In response I staged an art intervention on Lobby Cam, which seemed appropriate in the circumstances. Bryn Oh opened her new exhibition on Immersiva today, Lobby Cam. I remember her once talking about how Second Life art was […]
I’m looking at ‘Sacrifice’ by Osferatus Haven, at Morpheus. It’s a set piece diorama; flickering flames, but otherwise it’s a static installation. A couple of blood-lusty creatures face each other while desperate hands reach up from the ground and corpses lie round and about. By coincidence, I’d come across a journal article1 a little earlier […]
