SLivers of Joy

So much of my time in SL has a “serious” element to it. Friends complain to one another about their boyfriends, jobs, and woes. Some are working to sustain their in-world businesses and need time to work, or feedback on a prototype gown or ceiling. We discuss the deleterious effects of the rise of evil [...]

“Beautiful” Avatars

0100101110101101.org recently published a list of Second Life’s 13 most beautiful avatars and the press release circulated throughout the blogosphere. Curious, I went to look at the list, and what I found disappointed me; not only were the selected avatars not among the best I had seen, but worse, they were hardly better than average.

How [...]

SL Machinima, or Half-Animated PowerPoint Slides

Note: This is cross-posted from my personal blog, diary of a tagalong.
I am a huge fan of machinima and obviously enamored of Second Life. But I am not at all a fan of SL machinima. The truth is, just about all of it that I have seen is weak. Worse, it is all weak in [...]

Guest Blogger: An Introduction

Luth has kindly invited me to post occasionally on her blog as a guest blogger. As some of you know, Luth is a dear friend of mine, and we both share a passion for improving the arts in Second Life. By “arts” I mean its fashion, builds, machinima, art communities, stories, and so on. [...]