The AK-1RA Sports by Detect Surface in outer space … this is what may happen if you are too daring in “↑Second Life“ (SL) … you will be catapulted into limbo, then into oblivion. I am proud to be able to state, that I am a testpilot with D&D Creative Labs in the (SLurl:) ↑City of Abaddon. I was on a stunt-test-drive with the brandnew bike, visualized by ↑Detect Surface and scripted by acid Zenith. Suddenly I hit a glitch in the matrix and was blown out into non-space. … Continue reading →

  Those are the moments I enjoy fieldwork online to the max. To the left is ↑Detect Surface, creator-god of (SLurl:) ↑Abaddon. He wears something peculiar—Detect: “very first sculptie armour in SL baby :P” Acid and me independently voiced that involuntarily it worked out as a perfect homage to the original Doom-guy. To the right is Yours Truly, wearing work-in-progress, the prototype-head of a full android, somewhat Terminator-style … things to come … and my body is made as skinny as possible, in order to make it fit seamlessly into the android later on. Our conversation in the very moment … Continue reading →

  … and I missed it. On 02 August 2007 the godfather of cyberpunk, ↑William Gibson, publicly read from his freshly published, latest novel “Spook Country”—read live in “↑Second Life“ (SL). The event was ↑staged by Penguin, and on YouTube there are several documentations of it. To my eye the best one is “↑William Gibson enters Cyberspace“ by Munich’s very own musician, composer, and audio producer ↑Bernhard “draxtordespres” Drax. Then there are “↑Gibson reads from Spook Country in SL “, “↑Answers from William Gibson in cyberspace“, and “↑Answers from William Gibson in cyberspace part II“—documentations in the strict sense of … Continue reading →