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January 31, 2016
Field of dreams
Field of dreams, by Iska, is one of those sublime regions where you just can’t stop taking photos. I spent a little time there yesterday, following a link from Ziki Questi’s blog (so often the starting point for my excursions into new SL places); today, I found my way back there to reflect on […]
January 30, 2016
Boxed
Why are people still selling stuff in boxes? Why, for the love of all that’s holy, are people still selling stuff in boxes? Why? What is the reason for this? There has to be a reason, right? No-one would go to the trouble of spending hours and hours and hours, painstakingly creating new content, taking the […]
Shooting
I’ve been out this week taking pictures for a new publication (actually, one of those many things on the ‘to do’ list that I keep on meaning to finish). Kate Bergdorf and I shot the front cover photo a couple of nights ago, but there are still quite a few more images to create for […]
January 24, 2016
What will Sansar look like?
Believe it or not, it’s already over a year and a half since Linden announced it was building a successor to Second Life. June 2016 will mark two years since we learned about the project which would go on to be rebranded ‘Sansar’. During that time, we’ve seen a few dropped hints here and there […]
January 23, 2016
The Second Life® Dictionary of Virtual Experience: Chat
It’s been a while since the last installment in my dictionary of new words and terms for all those experiences we’ve had in the virtual world but just don’t have the nomenclature for referring to them. Fret not: the project continues. Read on for all those words that have been missing from your life about […]
January 19, 2016
New covers for the AFK series
It’s coming up for a year now since the release of AFK, in Pursuit of Avengement, the fourth book in the AFK series. The cover of the novel featured the brilliant typography work of Canary Beck, making it for me the most visually striking out of all of my book covers. From the moment I saw it, […]
January 16, 2016
Ziggy Cardboard
And so it begins. It begins with the sale of the Oculus Rift and the death of David Bowie. Frankly, January 2016 is starting to feel surreal. The Rift is that crack in the wall where the light of that which approaches shines through. Meanwhile, big chunks of plaster are falling away and the ground is […]
January 9, 2016
And so it begins…
The streets are empty. The air is still. The morning sun starts sliding over the rooftops. The sound of a single pair of boots marching over cobblestones punctuates the utter emptiness. Major Roberts comes to attention in front of his commanding officer, who is sitting outside a café. “General,” he reports, “we’ve just had word […]
January 4, 2016
Fading Mask
The new exhibition at Berg by Nordan Art includes this fabulous, sim-sized installation by Haveit Neox. ‘Fading Mask’ consists of a central structure in an infinite golden sea and surrounded … Continue reading Fading Mask
January 3, 2016
Following the new Firestorm route into SL
Much has been written about the ‘first hour experience’ of Second Life and how to make it more accessible to new users. There seems to be a common consensus amongst … Continue reading Following the new Firestorm route into SL
