Here it is. My crowning achievement in Second Life. Paradise Lost – The Movie – Free for all.
The Night We Sang Him Home
I almost didn’t go. For days I had been carrying a quiet dread about the tribute at The Regent in Islington. Glen’s death had opened up feelings in me that I believed were behind me – one of those older, private aches that music and loss have a way of excavating. I imagined myself in […]
Crónaim é uaim // I feel him gone from me
I found out the way so many of us did – scrolling, half-distracted, until the words stopped me cold. Glen Hansard was gone. The first thing that rose in me was not a memory of a song, but the feeling of sitting in the dark of the National Theatre in Southwark, somewhere near 2014, watching […]
You Are the 2%: The Wild Math Behind Second Life’s Survivors
If you’ve been logging into Second Life for months, years, or decades, here’s a fact that might surprise you: you’re one of the rarest people on the platform. Over 65 million accounts have been created since 2003 but almost everyone who ever showed up left within the hour and never came back. Depending on how […]
How modern corporate metaverses could have used my theories from 2015 to save billions of dollars
The recent (2021) corporate rush into the “Metaverse”- where tech conglomerates, legacy fashion houses, and financial institutions blew upwards of $120 billion on barren digital blocks – has played out with a staggering, predictable irony. We watched as platforms like Meta’s Horizon Worlds and various Web3 spaces collapsed into multi-billion-dollar ghost towns. To anyone who has spent […]
A Call to Connect: Exploring Deep Questions Together in Second Life
Do you ever long for those rare, electrifying conversations that spark ideas and linger in your thoughts for days? I know I have. For years, I hosted chat salons at Basilique in Second Life, a space I co-created to bring people together for rich, meaningful dialogue. These salons became a vibrant forum for exploring fascinating […]
Returning to Second Life: The Joy and Surreal Strangeness of Coming Home
There’s a bittersweetness in returning to a world you once called home. It isn’t bound by the same rules of time and space as the one outside your screen. This holiday season, I logged back into Second Life after a year of being on and off—a year punctuated by fleeting visits, whispers of nostalgia, and […]
Paradise Lost: The Movie
Originally posted on What the Huck?:
I think it’s over a year now since the last performance of ‘Paradise Lost’ at Basilique. Put together by Canary Beck and Harvey Crabsticks, this vastly ambitious show depicted the expulsion from Eden of Adam and Eve according to Milton’s epic twelve book poem. As a piece of Second…
Paradise Lost The Movie nominated for an Avi’s Choice Award – Watch it now for free and vote
Unexpected news: I learned last night that someone nominated Paradise Lost The Movie for the Favourite Machinima Production Award category of Avi’s Choice Awards – The Art To celebrate, I’m sharing the video with everyone, right here on this blog post. No sign-in is required. Just click the image above and watch. All I ask […]
Resolving disputes in a virtual world
Disputes are inevitable. When they happen in families or at work, we manage to get past them because we often have no other choice. In virtual worlds, relationships can be more tenuous and more quickly discarded. Anonymous and more free of social constraint, people can forget to treat us with the same respect they might afford […]
My evolving view on blog comments
I’ve started to practice Aikido. That sounds impressive. At the moment, it mostly involves me having far more skilled people repeatedly throw me to the mat. Make no mistake, I love it. And, I plan to become a lot better at it. Why? Because practitioners of Aikido defend themselves without harming their opponent. Instead, they […]
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