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 — [...]
Archive for the ‘Identity’ Category
More than Just a Girl
Posted in Identity, meme, tagged Culture, Identity, meme, psychology, second life on September 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »
“Muscling” in on Identity
Posted in Identity, meme, tagged Identity, meme, second life on September 16, 2009 | 10 Comments »
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 [...]
Doll Face by Andrew Huang
Posted in Art, Identity, video, tagged Andrew Huang's Doll Face, Identity on September 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]




