The end of SL’s Age of Innocence

In many ways, the age of innocence in Second Life has long been over. With scams and controversies hitting the banking and stocks exchanges sector, with griefing, and with other kinds of scams, it looks like SL is starting to become our FL or RL. But nothing like this sort of news to really confirm that cold,...

Eshi’s Lotuses achieves visual Nirvana

Eshi Otawara (Monday 21 July 2008) from ZoeConnolly on Vimeo. There are some things you really cannot create in the physical universe but in an alternate reality where the mind and heart has a playground, uninterrupted by prejudices, limitations, and disability..:) Yesterday, Eshi Otawara did a magnificent, nirvana-inducing, beautiful replica of lotuses in Second Life....

Thoughts on other people’s post

Here is a revealing reflection on the changes of social norms in SL from someone who was inworld before I was. In retrospect, when I first came in, I could still feel the community spirit in SL, there was still a slight sense of Utopia in SL, where one must respect an avatar's right not...