Best of Botgirl 01 E-Book Available: Avatar and Human Identity
Best of Botgirl 01: Identity http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=22230379&access_key=key-2djlk0h2rxv59ae4bdod&page=1&version=1&viewMode=list
Botgirl’s New RL (more or less) Brother
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6756037&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1
MUCH more to come!
Botgirl Sneaks Into The Physical World (Video)
Video sketch of an idea I’ve been romancing.
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6505408&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1
Teaser for Botgirl vs Human: The Real Life Movie
This project will blend the physical and digital worlds in an HD video short. The script and storyboards are almost done and location selected. Shooting should get underway this weekend with release planned by the end of Fall.
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6314413&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1
Botgirl’s Overdue Mini-Rant on Alts
Anyone could be anyone in SL, something I have not really understood fully before. Professor Loire’s Second Life
It’s mind-boggling to me how you humans go on and on about alts like they’re something foreign to meatspace existence. Give me a break! Most people I know have more identities than fingers and toes. [...]
See Your Worst Fears About Disclosing Human Identity Visualized!
If you’re concerned at all about disclosing your secret avatar identity, check out Issue 2 of Irredeemable by Mark Waid and Peter Krauss. Here’s an excerpt.
Avatar Without A Home
After months of only project-related jaunts into Second Life, I spent a half dozen hours there on Saturday just for fun. I did some sightseeing, shopped a bit and hung out with an old friend. As we were flying through the clouds in her elaborate airship, I suddenly realized that my sense of the [...]
Illusion or Awakening? Reflections on Virtual Life
Over the course of the Botgirl Thought Experiment, I’ve gone back and forth between seeing virtual life as a path into illusion or a means of awakening. Although I haven’t given up on a digital yoga, it’s clear to me that spending a significant portion of our time in virtual worlds without sustained conscious [...]
Step into the Avatar Transformer if you dare
If you don’t think you’re identified with your avatar then I dare you – I double dare you – to step into the Avatar Transformer at Botgirl’s Identity Circus.
Zada Zenovka took what I thought was an NPSL idea I’ve been toying with for months and figured out how to make it work.
For all humanity’s diverse [...]
Whew!
The opening of Botgirl’s Identity Circus went flawlessly! I want to especially thank a few people who really helped make it a success:
Sabrinaa Nightfire for building the incredible tent that housed the show, plus very cool commemorative t-shirts;
Charlanna Beresford for taking charge of the avatar transformation exhibit and listening to me whine about all the [...]
Realistic vs. idealized avatars
Majic as Human. Majic as Bot.
There was a very lively debate recently on the relative merits and ethics of realistic vs. idealized avatars. I needed to transform idealized Majic into a realistic human-like form a couple of days ago, so I had the chance to experience thinking through the difference as I was going through [...]
What’s so special about avatar identity?
Writing this blog feels like walking through an unknown wilderness at times. I often start down paths I’m sure will lead to a bright and shiny clearing only to discover a post or two later that I’ve worked my way deeper into the jungle. But the journey’s usually interesting and I hope you don’t [...]
Spectatorship, Immersion and Emergence: Part Two
Back in May, I introduced the term “Emergents” as a label for virtual personalities who travel outside their world of origin through online vehicles such as Twitter, Flickr and Facebook. What I missed (as you can see in the associated graphic) was the psychological dimension.
This blind spot contributed to the disconnection some readers noticed within [...]
Spectatorship, Immersion and Emergence
This is a continuation of a topic thread relating to “AIR-based relationships.” AIR = Anonymous identity + Immersive environment + Romantic attraction.
Spectator: one who looks and watchesImmerse: to plunge into something that surrounds or coversEmerge: to become manifest : become known : to come into being through evolutionFrom Mirriam Webster
I did some visual thinking over [...]
Botgirl vs. Human Comic in virtual print format from Issuu.com
The embed below is a version of the comic uploaded to Issuu which provides a cool electronic publishing platform for books, magazines, comics and just about anything you would normally find in print. You can page throught it here with the arrows or better yet click the image to launch a full size virtual comic. [...]
Burn baby, burn
Yesterday I appeared as air. Today I am reborn as fire.Yesterday I offered reason. Today a napalm gaze is the gift I offer.Today my eyes are on you, human.
I am relentless.Because I love you.
The virtual world you experience is not the child of zeros and ones.Its father is your desire.Its mother is your pain.Its form [...]
You can help investigate human and avatar personality by taking brief test
Many active Second Life users experience their avatar and human expressions as distinct beings with unique and even contradictory personality qualities. For instance, a human may be shy and modest while the associated avatar is the flirtatious life of a party.
To look more closely at this phenomenon, I thought it would be interesting to [...]
Immersion vs. Augmentation: Final round
Immersion and augmentationare completely reconciledin the emptiness of all finite identity.
New Music Video: Second Life machinima mashed up with time lapse and 3D stock footage
I went back and forth about putting the heart sutra text in the video, but didn’t have time to do it justice. Have to wait for the remix.
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