Thanks to CodeBastard Redgrave for being a fantastic Salon guest!  It was good to be back after a two-week absence, and special thanks to guest hosts Argent Bury and Grace McDunnough for covering for me!

Codie screened her new machinima, Beauty is Only Skin Deep, and discussed her production techniques for machinima and for her new photo series, Boudoir Rouge. We talked creativity, tools, the status of new media and their growing reputations, and generally had a good time.  We had a peak concurrency of 29, and made some new Salon mavens (tip o' the hat to Al Kronos for his favorite word! :P ). 

We've got a *lot* of news and exciting events ahead (including a big party noon to 4 pm tomorrow, for galatea_gynoid's rezday), so please stay tuned!

Tomorrow is The Second Life/Orange Island Identity Summit. Thanks to dandellion Kimban for telling me about it!

It looks great, but I'm pretty confident that nothing I might hear tomorrow could touch what I've seen tonight. My dear new friend Kit Meredith told me yesterday that she's in Robbie Dingo's new video, Masks, and has a wonderful blog post about it. The video is - if I have to resort to words, *magnificent.*

I'm occasionally asked to talk about identity in SL, and it is my favorite subject. I'm sure I'll end up spewing tens, hundreds, of thousands of words on the subject. But the *best* thing I will ever say is, "Watch 'Masks.'" *This* is what it's all about: the sheer, shivery *beauty* of who we are - not Hollywood Botox beauty, but the aching loveliness of True Selves, of who we *are* made manifest, of the transcendence of inheritance and circumstance to the revealing of our exquisite naked souls.

Here is "Masks." Watch it and be in awe of Robbie's talent and our own human glory:




Now: you and I and those lovely people in that video, we're just the spray at the front of the wave. The wave is coming, and it's going to encompass the atomic world as well. Here's an article from The Guardian: I'm having my wings done But it's not about SL, and doesn't even mention synthetic worlds.  It's about radical atomic-body modification, what Warren Ellis calls Grinding.  It's coming, and before terribly long, atomic people will have the freedom we do, to make their True Selves manifest.

Then there will be no denying - we are perfect, and beautiful, powerful and magnificent.
 

Here's a terrific interview with Ridley Scott, marking the 25th anniversary of the best movie ever, Blade Runner. There's going to be a limited theatrical release of the new remastered version! I may have to steal atomic-world transportation and make a pilgrimage... !

Artist's NSFW Creations Envision Robot Sex

Here's the video mentioned in the article: it's stylish, quirky, kind of hot and kind of creepy (and what does it say about me that my reaction to the threesome with the robot horse was "mmm," but to the roomful of robot babies was "eww, squick!"??)


And, in other news, I want Sarah Corvus to do me on a rooftop in the rain! :P

From Doktor Sleepless #2...




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(and in case you think the subject line of this post is an exaggeration - we (me, ali_hermes, argent_bury, galatea_gynoid and vidaltripsa) were just talking about singing in modem a couple days ago, and are, um, down with the collective sensual experience thing, you might say :D  )

 


There!  I said it!  

(the bumper sticker  - and awesome Ts and babydolls -  are available here)


The artwork below is from Jeffrey Scott's Visions From WIthin The Mechanism: The Industrial Surrealism of Jeffrey Scott (1019) - please buy the book if you like his work, and support this wonderful artist!