every once in a while, one comes across an installation in Second Life which enervates you, inspires you, and gets your mind going on all sorts of generative tangents.
it's very late in my time-zone now, but even if i had hours, i wouldn't be able to do justice to what a team from Oxford have done, in their interpretation of historical narratives of the Great War.
if you're new to Second Life and have time to visit only one place in depth, you could do far far worse than visiting the First World War Poetry Digital Archive.
it's a long name for what is truly a game-changing experience for fictive worlds, oral history, multisensory new media and theorizations on projective identity.
my grateful thanks to Skanda Broek (that's him in full garb below) and CSteph Submariner, for their warm welcome the minute i rezzed in the region.
the both of you are a tremendous credit to your research team and institution. thank you :-)
Additional reading:
- dulce et decorum est, pro patria mori (1917)
[9 December 2011 update: i am now assuming the tremendous privilege of tier responsibilities for the installation :-) ]
