Huckleberry Hax's Blog, page 20
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 […]
December 4, 2018
70s Office Christmas party: 7 Dec @ 3pm SLT
Few things capture the forced joviality, drunkenly uninhibited behaviour and subsequent shame, guilt, regret and outright anger at the season than an office party. It’s time to bring this festive tradition kicking and screaming into Second Life, complete with a 70s retro flavour. To kick off the Christmas Party season, whilst you’re all still in […]
November 9, 2018
Collabor88 fashion bloggers: here’s a 1970s set for you
I’m a big fan of the 70s aesthetic. Over the years, I’ve been developing my building, The Nancy Redgrave Building, into something of a shrine to this look. Accordingly, I get rather excited about events like the latest Collabor88, ‘Flashback to the 70s’ (although I really wish we might start seeing some menswear at events like […]
October 30, 2018
NaNoWriMo 2018 kicks off: workshop
Yes, it’s here again. National Novel Writing Month begins the day after tomorrow. Once again, I’ll be doing a workshop on the annual activity of banging out a 50,000 word novel during the month of November. It takes place tomorrow at 3pm SLT and here is the blurb. Huck’s Cube of NaNo Hosted by Huckleberry […]
October 14, 2018
Beware of nostalgia: you weren’t the same person back then
In an explosion of red and orange sparkles, I was visited last night by my fourteen-year-old self. He appeared right in the middle of the living room. “Holy cow,” he told me, his eyes open wide, “just look at all this stuff you have. “That thing on the wall is a television? “That black, plastic […]
October 10, 2018
Old friend, reformatted
One of the depressingly large number of items on my book management ‘to do’ list is to create a new version of my 2011 poetry compilation, ‘Old friend, learn to look behind you in the coffee queue.’ Created in my Times New Roman days, it needed an overhaul. That item, at least, now has a […]
October 6, 2018
Born-again bachelor
Born-again bachelor, quite the surprise; his new boots and waistcoat a labelled disguise. He gives his account of a decade of lies; a one year old script; a one year old script in its hundredth reprise. Born-again bachelor, free as a bird. Single and working, (so get out the word). He followed her car: to […]
September 1, 2018
Eggshell
The door bursts open and a new guy appears, ushers me into the workshop and hands me a sweat-coated phone, (one of those new, retro Nokias, I can’t help but notice). I put it to my ear. “Hello?” A distant man starts telling me in broken English about some special liquid he’s absolutely certain will […]
July 15, 2018
‘Bicycles’ at DiXmiX gallery
One of my photographs – ‘Bike’ – has been included in the latest DiXmiX group exhibition. ‘Bicycles‘ also features bike-inspired photos from Calypso Applewhyte, Ornella Batriani, Skippy Beresford, Bliss Bookham, Jimmy Boots, A.DeLauren, Mareea Farrasco, Carisa Franizzi, Gaus, Kimeu Korg, Loverdag, Mich Michabo, Key Monk, Tutsy Navarathna, Mr Noboby, Randonee Noel, Karen Oliven, Anu Papp, Melusina Parkin, Megan […]
June 15, 2018
‘No North’ exhibition @ DiXmiX gallery
In the final three minutes the sun still casts shadows, right up to the moment the button gets clicked. Close your eyes and you will miss its passing, a burning light that breaks apart pixels. And the imprint of a mind enters into memory; another fading story, doomed to distortion until no-one remains to tell […]
