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 user created space that encouraged creativity and content reuse. In many other games, where they were created by teams of developers, the making of machinima was contested as a breach […]
First of all thank you! The response I’ve had to my work during 2016 has been astonishing. While it’s important to find your own voice in creativity and follow your own ideas, I like to know that I am connecting with people. This year’s review is different. I have made many more machinima (videos) (on […]
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 […]
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 […]
Série Noire is the latest exhibition at Nitroglobus, and features the art of Tutsy NAvArAthnA, an artist who works more often with the moving image than the still. Nitroglobus is an expansive gallery setting, and as always, the pictures have an imposing presence and sense of scale as you walk through it. Tutsy’s artwork is […]
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 […]
The rise of in-game photography has left people asking: when is a screenshot a photograph and is it ever art? Source: The photographer subculture inside Fallout, GTA and Left 4 Dead This is a piece written by Richard Moss, after an interview with me about why I create images in Second Life. I do not […]
