I started this piece of writing two years ago when I decided to complete revamp an avatar. I didn’t really have the time to make those changes, but I felt a compulsion for change, which I thought was about to rework wider ideas of my identity. I’d been thinking about the ideas around this for […]
Tag: Second Life
Steampunk at Babbage
Dark and industrial in a steampunk way, New Babbage is an impressive area covering ten sims. It is certainly atmospheric, with towers, bridges, canals and railways half concealed in the gloom. Steampunk is a view of what Victorian England might have become, extrapolating old types of technology forward in time. It has been criticised for […]
Rights grabbing and the official Second Life Flickr group
Or why I won’t submit to the Official Second Life group on Flickr. 2015 update: The conditions on joining the group have been changed since writing this post and are reasonable and fair now. You may remember that Instagram fell flat on its face about a year ago for changing its terms of service. Uploading […]
Quiet solitude at the Looking Glass
It’s good to get tempted into doing something which is a bit different from the usual. Snowy landscapes are the thing of the moment; they are only around for a couple of months, so it’s a question of catching it while it’s there. I think the quality of snowscapes, and trees in particular, is better […]