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• 10.14.09
  Creative Destruction: Deleting Avatar Accounts in Virtual Worlds Art and Exploration, Identity and Expression, Second Life | (17)

  Are virtual worlds like company towns you cannot leave? What's the price of just deleting your account and starting over? Have we become so interconnected that we can't just pull the plug and start over? There's nothing wrong with being part of a culture, or even a support group, which is often what it feels like Second Life actually is: a bunch of people with this sense that all of this MEANS something and is GOING somewhere but we're all king of wavering between absolute faith and certainty and dark despair and a suspicion that maybe we're living some kind of ...

  Tagged: art, identity, NPIRL, Second Life, Virtual worlds
  
• 03.06.09
  This is What Virtual Worlds Feel Like (to Me) Applications and Tools, Art and Exploration, Identity and Expression | (1)

  Bettina Tizzy, Goddess of the Grid, seeker of the impossibilities and, through them, the possibilities for spirit, art, and the future of virtual worlds brings us the following video, pointed out to HER by Tezcatlipoca Bisiani. She titles the post "This is What Second Life Should Be (and sometimes is)." And she's right. Regardless of whether it is or not, it's certainly how it FEELS to me: a place where, through raw acts of imagination, the worlds that are being built are home to our expressions of self. (And beyond that, it's actually a pretty stunning lesson in how stuff gets "built". ...

  Tagged: art, NPIRL, Second Life, video, Virtual worlds
  
• 05.08.08
  Rezzable, Rezzable Let Down Your Hair Art and Exploration, Second Life | (3)

  I remember early days in Second Life and discovering Svarga and feeling, wow, this is POSSIBLE, there's more to all this than misaligned prims and clubs, there are artists, and realms of possibility, and sure, even a little ecosystem, emergent environments, flowers that grow and bees that pollinate and I wonder what ELSE is possible. Fast-forward a bit and I found myself waiting, along with all the other dot-watchers and for the arrival of the swarms that would come via CSI New York, and while the Electric Sheep folk claim that it was a success, there was a feeling of anticipation ...

  Tagged: NPIRL, rezzable, Second Life, starax, svarga
  
• 04.18.08
  The Garden of NPIRL Delights: Completion, May 14, Tear Down June 23 Art and Exploration, Events, Second Life | (1)

  As usual, Bettina inspires over at Not Possible In Real Life, and this time has a canvas 4 sims wide. Donated by Rezzable, Bettina is sending the call out to her NPIRLers and others to join together into one creative force. The idea behind the Garden of NPIRL Delights is a build festival, where the takeoff point is Hieronymus Bosch's visions of humanity. Bettina and Rezzable want users to create their own version of Bosch's Garden in a communal space in SL, using four sims to illustrate the Underworld, Earth and Paradise: "If you were to journey into heaven or hell, ...

  Tagged: Bettina Tizzy, content creation, garden of npirl delights, NPIRL, rezzable
  

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