Virtual House Destruction, Created in a State of Distraction by L1Aura Loire

While shooting machinima footage in Second Life for a video piece on virtual consumption, something happened! I was using an alt, KinoEye, on one computer to "film" L1Aura on the other. As usual, too many things were going on!!

Yes, I will "lock" from now on, and think it was locked and I returned it--was clicking around with user interface off :)

Thanks to Solo Mornington for coming over after to sit in the non-house.

The piece I was filming is a response to my essay from last year in The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research, which has a machinima component, available here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpZa0Kt3kxo . The essay, "Having But Not Holding: Consumerism & Commodification in Second Life" is available here: https://journals.tdl.org/jvwr/article/view/355/265 . When the new piece, which rethinks some of the conclusions I reached a year ago, is out, I will post the link.

Some of the paintings you see displayed on L1's walls are by my friend, the Chinese artist Qin Feng: http://www.qinfeng-art.com/

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• virtual worlds
• Second Life
• SL
• virtual subjectivity
• virtual goods
• commodification
• home
• techno
• L1Aura
• machinima

[penumbracarter]

I bet Solo did it :)

[scotstyle]

OMG!! you deleted your house!!!!