I’m late in responding to this, and I’m not particularly sure that my opinion is all that important … but here it is. “Huh.”
Archive for June, 2010
SL7B and Entitlement
It’s not often that you will find me actually agreeing with the likes of Prokofy Neva on a subject. On the subject of “censorship” at SL7B, we do agree – well, at least up to the point where he wanders off into another rambling rant about communism. SL7B is, at its core, a public-relations event. [...]
Frantic is the New Calm
As pen-in-hand as I’ve been lately, I didn’t want you to think that I had necessarily fallen into writer’s slump yet again. The truth is that this past week in RL has been exceptionally chaotic, and has left me little time for anything other than putting out fires and vacuuming up flood waters – figuratively [...]
Life as Art, Life as Indulgence
(The text below is my Artist Statement for “MonoKroma” – the exhibit that my partner Ella and I have been collaborating on for SL7B.) “Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.” – Maya Angelou Seven years ago, visionaries envisioned a world [...]
Black Thursday and the Culture of Relevance
I attended Codie Redgrave’s memorial installation at Rouge last night. Botgirl said it so perfectly – you could not explain to anyone outside of our unique culture how a screenful of mostly-gray attendees attempting to walk through a molasses-murk of server lag to stand amongst row upon row of identical, digitally-engraved tombstones could tug at [...]
Codie’s Linden Memorial
Codie’s Linden Memorial What awaits us? Visit Rouge (170, 71, 28) Posted from mobile.
A Very Positive Note!
To those who have been concerned about my physical well-being, I am happy to report to you that I am doing much better. Well, that’s a bit of an understatement. I am feeling better in the past few days than I have in the past two years. Fingers crossed that this will continue!
Marx Goes Off on a Lazy, Pseudo-Journalistic Hack
Second Life™ has now been a part of our global internet for seven years. It began in June 2003, and promised a new way for people to create, communicate and interact together – and for hundreds of thousands of people, it has delivered and continues to deliver on that promise. Corporations entered, hoping to exploit [...]
Congratulations to OMGYayYoureNotSion!
Congratulations to The Tech Virtual Museum Workshop for winning the 2010 Linden Prize! Now we can stop talking about the damned chickens. Again. (No, seriously.)