Author: Botgirl Questi
Objectification
‘Objectification’ is this week’s prompt for the Single Frame Stories Challenge. Each Saturday we offer a new…
Lulu was having second thoughts
Whiskey Monday and I launched the Single Frame Stories challenge a few weeks ago, inviting participants to create a…
Confession of Faith
Another perspective on recent discussions here on the perception of beauty, the projection of identity and the…
What Identity Is(n’t)
Finding Yourself from Botgirl Questi on Vimeo. Identity can be many things: costume, tool, vehicle, weapon, armor,…
Why I Create
Why do I create? Because I’m compelled to. The unrelenting urge has been with me as far…
One Frame Storytelling: The tortured non-artist effect
There was a thread on Twitter yesterday about art being a natural human capability rather than the…
Meditation on The Burning House Meme
The Burning House asks people: If your house was burning, what would you take with you? It’s…
My Genetic Muse
This is my Aunt Natalie with two of her five hundred dolls. In addition to being an…
When the going gets surreal . . .
“Life: Surreal and Real” is the video version of two stories I wrote for Sunday’s Relay…
Enter a 3D Virtual World in Less than a Minute
If you’re using Chrome or Firefox, this link will take you directly into my Pixels and Plastic…
If a Naked Mannequin is Shot from a Cannon in an Empty Sim is it still Art?
David W. Galenson describes two types of artists in “Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life…
Mixed Reality Video From 2008
I made this video just a few months after being born in Second Life. The special effects…
When the Fourth Wall Falls
I’ve lost count of the times I’ve demolished the fourth wall since I posted the original version…
Creative Archaeology 101
I’ve been writing songs for as far back as I can remember. My earliest childhood memories include…
Topless at Whole Foods
Project Glass is a glimpse of not-so-distant future. And so is this video clip shot with Blue…
Cherrybomb: The Band That Never Was
Some people don’t see a connection between truth and fiction. I get that. But the truth…
2011 VWBPE Keynote on Virtual Identity
This is a recording of a presentation my human counterpart and I made together at the 2011…
I Share Therefore I Am
Every single tweet we send, no matter what its overt topic, is part of an ongoing story…
No one can steal my identity (in heaven)
This is a strange little surrealist trip juxtaposing fluid avatar image deconstruction with a gospel song about…
Pictures Don’t Tell Stories
Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human characteristics to animal or non-living things, phenomena, material states and objects…
Primates in Virtual Worlds
No matter how fully-immersed humans are within a virtual world, avatars are primates at heart (and brain.)…
Transworld Syndrome
This is a strange little contemplation on virtual identity in the form of a conversation between…
What If Rod Was One Of Us (Parody song & Video)
If Rod had an alt who spent a lot of time
Inside of Second Life just hanging out
In clubs and chatting with his friends
Would he still think the same or see things different