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?
Making the video Artistic ideas always have inspiration from somewhere, but sometimes the inspiration is more simple and direct than others. In this case, it… Read More »White, grey and indigo
‘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’
This post about Falling Between Worlds has been long in the making. I have been doing a full write-up of my thought processes and the… Read More »Behind ‘Falling Between Worlds’
‘A good interpretation of anything – a poem, a person, a history, a ritual, an institution, a society – takes us into the heart of… Read More »Speak softly, let your voice carry
When a prominent film director takes an interest in a minor film form, he’s going to be noticed. And so it was when Peter Greenaway… Read More »What’s in a frame?
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… Read More »Your Likes of 2016
I write a post about gender fairly regularly1 and as there’s some interesting new research around, I thought I’d return to the subject. But first… Read More »Gender swapping – comfortable in your virtual body?
Insilico is closing. I’d long wanted to make a machinima there but I couldn’t get an idea that didn’t seem clichéd. I felt the need… Read More »Curiosity, Dystopia and Insilico
This time I thought I’d talk a bit about the process of putting together a machinima, using the example of my latest, Symphony for a… Read More »Making a Symphony for a Lost King