More than Just a Girl

In early September, Hybrid Ansar threw down the gauntlet by challenging webloggers to oversize their female and, it also turns out, their male shapes.   As I mentioned in an earlier post (“Muscling in on Identity”), this meme and Botgirl’s post on changes of identity through time caused me to feel the impact of FL cultural messages — [...]

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“Muscling” in on Identity

I’ve been inworld for nearly 3 years (hard to believe), and for the first time,  I felt the issue of “virtual or avatar identity” make its presence known.  The timing of  Botgirl’s latest, always thought-provoking weblog entry is fairly ironic with its revisit to the topic of identity but with a twist:  changes in identity through time.   Some of [...]

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Doll Face by Andrew Huang

 I just came across the “Doll Face” short film (from a posting in Facebook), which I understand went viral on YouTube in 2008.  I hadn’t seen Andrew Huang’s work before.   ”Doll Face” is a powerfully compelling and hauntingly thought-provoking exploration of virtual identity well worth revisiting or seeing for the first time.  
The short film plays with the [...]

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