Huckleberry Hax's Blog, page 19
April 6, 2019
The Gallery Opening
It’s no secret that my ‘Avatar Dining Club’ series is a tribute to Isaac Asmiov’s ‘Black Widowers’ short stories, a collection of no fewer than 66 short stories written by the SF Grand Master between 1971 and 1991. I like the idea that his stories about a group of monthly diners were inspired by his real […]
February 22, 2019
The missed appointment
A new Avatar Dining Club mystery. — A light dusting of snow covered the path on my walk from the car park to the eighth meeting of the Avatar Dining Club at L’Albero Verde. These monthly meetings had become a social highlight for me, but on this occasion I was not especially looking forward to […]
January 12, 2019
flat
the absence of time the absence of self the absence of feeling I know what to say I know how to look I know what pictures they have in their head all I have to do is say that they are normal all I have to do is say what they think they cannot say […]
December 31, 2018
Thirteen amazing photos of 2018 by some of my favourite SL photographers
It’s that time of year when I please a small handful of SL photographers and cheese off the rest of them, an increasingly self-destructive strategy as more and more of the SL community take to the Flickrweb to show off their virtual photography skills. But hey. I love amazing SL photography and I love poring […]
December 30, 2018
Ten great pictures of the Nancy Redgrave Building in 2018
It’s been a busy year at the Nancy Redgrave Building. As more and more stuff celebrating the 70s has come onto the marketplace I’ve been able to push its development forward at quite a pace. Also, more and more people are stopping by to take pictures there. This makes me happy. Here are a few […]
December 29, 2018
Five favourite pictures of mine from 2018 that didn’t make the top ten (but I like them anyway)
On Thursday, I published my ten highest rated pictures on Flickr of 2018. Here are a few more pictures from the year – personal favourites – which didn’t quite make that list. Click the pictures to visit the corresponding page on Flickr. Queen Anne’s Lace (April) Taken at North a few days before its closure, […]
December 27, 2018
My top ten SL photos (by me) of 2018
It’s that time over the year when bloggers and YouTubers the world over start churning out recycled content from the last twelve months, a) because it’s healthy to reflect and b) because there’s only so much original thinking you can do when you’re stuffed full of turkey and mince pies. 2018 was a good year […]
December 25, 2018
The Vanishing Table
As a Christmas treat, here’s a new Avatar Dining Club story. – – For the seventh meeting of the Avatar Dining Club – our Christmas meal – there was no avoiding it any longer: it was finally my turn to bring a guest. Whilst the rule established over the previous five meetings was that these […]
December 24, 2018
Season’s greetings 2018
another log on the fire another tin for the shed the newsreader drones on on Drones a sudden silence as Snowflaiks fall and shops empty a last White Christmas a blanket thrown over the land we stare blindly into the void no longer caring what May come when we March 29 into the thaw. […]
December 22, 2018
The Christmas Eve party: story of a picture.
Last year, I created for Christmas a moving greetings card video that showed off some of SL’s finest wintry places. This year, I thought I’d try something a little different. I was very drawn, in my childhood, to cutaway pictures showing simultaneously the goings on in every room of a building. I decided I wanted […]
