Altitude (noun): the vertical elevation of an object above a surface […], the angular elevation of a celestial object […], vertical distance or extent, position at a height, […] a high level (as of quality or feeling). (Merriam-Webster, 2019, Altitude) Altitude is not only a club for alt music, but also a place for an […]
Read More A place where you can get visually (and musically) highDeath in Second Life is a particular experience: in many cases, it may result in great fun. One of the great advantages of SL for that matter is that avatars can always be brought back to life. In my early days in the virtual world, I used to enjoy jumping from the sky and seeing […]
Read More 6 curious ways to die in Second LifeIn silico is an expression that refers to computer-based simulations of biological processes, in contrast with processes in situ (in the places where they normally occur), in vivo (in live organisms) and in vitro (in closed and controlled laboratory environments, such as test tubes). In Second Life, it was the inspiration for the name one […]
Read More An ‘in silico’ experiment that faces the challenge of being viableI realized a couple of weeks ago that I hadn’t visited cyberpunk sims in Second Life for a while and, since the theme fascinates me, I decided to go checking them. I noticed, then, that though it has been out there for some years, I had never been to Mesa 5 before, and its structure […]
Read More From Blade Runner to Alphaville in a virtual cyberpunk cityDisaster and tragedies in the atomic world have been a recurrent theme in the sims of Second Life. From war to ecological crises, we have repeatedly seen some devastating scenarios in SL referring to calamities that happened in real life. Since earlier this year, the worst nuclear power plant accident in history, the Chernobyl catastrophe, […]
Read More The poetics of a nuclear catastropheThe motorcycle culture has penetrated the world of scientific fiction and has proved to fit very well in certain subgenres of it. Particularly, when I think of sci-fi and motorcycles, post apocalyptic and cyberpunk stories come to my mind – and I’m sure that other kinds of narratives under the sci-fi umbrella have incorporated bikers, […]
Read More A biker in a post apocalyptic worldTableau is a post-apocalyptic sim in SL – but a very particular, funky one. The story it tells, which can be found on a sign on the top of a mesa that rises lonely in its landscape, explains what I mean: it seems that the desert resulted from the war between fashionistas and blingtards in […]
Read More The funky end of the world as we know itThis post was written to the sound of “Sign 0”, by Chouchou – and, while you read the following lines, you can hear it in the embedded player I placed here: Whenever I feel sad, I go to Chouchou and find peace there. When I want to be completely taken by beauty, I go to […]
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Second Sighting 