Recent Comments
Blogs I Follow
Monthly Archives: December 2013
Can Lab Rats Even Read? Second Life and Academic Publication
There are many vexations in Second Life. Bots, lag, avatars loaded with too many burdensome attachments, and griefers, to name just a few. Among such everyday annoyances, at least for some residents, are students and researchers. It’s probably true that … Continue reading
My Hovercraft Is Full of Avatars
A key appeal of Second Life for me has always been the opportunity to meet new people from far-off places. If Second Life can be seen as a sort of the 3D social media platform (and there are, of course, … Continue reading
“Hope Tinged with Fear”: Pho Vinternatt’s “Dreams” (Review)
I love Second Life art; the visual arts are the form for which, I believe, the virtual world platform is best suited, and most easily adapted to produce some really innovative new approaches. I have no formal, and relatively little … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged art, Dream, Dreams, Pho Vinternatt, Second Life, virtual art, Virtual reality, Virtual world
Leave a comment
Spies Also Only Dream
“Do you know what love is? I’ll tell you: it is whatever you can still betray.” (John le Carré, The Looking Glass War, 1965) Watching the response within Second Life to the revelation that the NSA, GCHQ, and possibly other agencies, have been “spying” … Continue reading
Magic Casements and Blurry Mirrors
Forlorn! the very word is like a bell To toil me back from thee to my sole self! Adieu! the fancy cannot cheat so well As she is fam’d to do, deceiving elf. Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades Past … Continue reading
Through a Glass, Darkly 