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HHAX 70s kitchen

Here you go: a proper 70s aspirational kitchen. You probably never actually saw one of these in your own youth because you had a 60s kitchen that decayed gracefully through the 70s since no-one had any money to upgrade it. Then the 80s came along and your parents got something in stained pine or – […]

Second Life photography: fuel for the raging fires of narcissism or a revolution in artistic self-expression?

  Was it mere coincidence that Linden announced the opening of its brand new Second Life Instagram account just a couple of days after the announcement that Flickr had been sold to SmugMug? Whilst the new owner of Flickr would appear to be a reasonably safe pair of hands from all the reassuring statements thus […]

concrete

I’m ok with people laughing at my fondness for straight lines and right-angled corners set in concrete designs. I acknowledge that these buildings haven’t stood the test of time and in forty years of rainfall have gone grey with streaks of grime but look beyond the stains and see how once upon a future a […]

1k Flickr followers

Yesterday, I finally reached 1,000 followers on my Flickr stream. It’s a milestone that’s taken me about four years to reach. Although I opened my Flickr account in 2010 and posted images to it on and off in the years that followed, it wasn’t really until May 2014 that I started getting into SL image […]

chasm

it will make not a bit of difference but one day you too will see this the boy staring at the chasm wondering how it can be real the first time all the more shocking that introduction to subtraction the impossible disentanglement a future suddenly hollowed-out an empty, tasteless shell one day you will reach […]

The HHAX Nightingale

Inspired (as always) by mid-century, post-war design, the HHAX Nightingale is my lowest land impact building so far. Weighing in at a mere 15 prims, this partial-mesh build will fit with room to spare in your new 1024 plot (thanks for the extra land, Linden Lab!) and features high-quality materials, perfectly aligned textures and opening […]

Some fatal crossposts

I needed a piece of short transitional fiction to cleanse my palette from AFK stuff. So I wrote a new story for The Avatar Dining Club. Enjoy! – – As predicted, the sixth meeting of the Avatar Dining Club spent a not inconsiderable amount of time attending to the matter of the virtual world divorce of […]

AFK, All of it: print versions

The vast majority of my book sales are the Kindle ebook versions, which is completely understandable: they’re very cheap and instantly available. I often produce paperback versions – if only so that I can order one for myself for my bookshelf, but these sell very few copies. I’m fine with that. For AFK, All of […]

Launch party snapshots

A huge thank you to everyone who attended my launch party last night for ‘AFK, All of it.’ The StoshChuckles bar at the Nancy Redgrave Building was satisfyingly full of friends dancing to a phenomenal 80s set by DJ Lake. I also did a live reading in voice from chapter 7 of ‘AFK, in pursuit […]

AFK, All of it (2018) by Huckleberry Hax

ALL 5 NOVELS OF THE AFK SERIES TOGETHER IN ONE VOLUME: AFK AFK, AGAIN AFK, INDEFINITELY AFK, INPURSUIT OF AVENGEMENT AFK, AWAITING “Crisply written and immediately engaging.” (Wagner James Au) “The best series I have read in a long time.” (Amazon review) “Impressively insightful musings about virtual worlds and what we do in them and why.” […]