I’m not going to lie, my engagement with Flickr over the past 12 months has been pretty meagre, the result … Continue reading Eleven SL photos (by me) from 2021 (a tenuous rationale for a ‘review of the year’ post which includes a few vaguely expressed ambitions for 2022).
Never mind the body count. The true crisisis the assault on our freedom to gather and consume.To shop, goddammit. To … Continue reading Season’s greetings 2021
WAARHEID: TRUTH HUNTER is an exhibition of new pictures I’ve created featuring Waarheid, the vigilante featured in STÖMOL and its … Continue reading WAARHEID: TRUTH HUNTER
Here you go: a Christmas Special of The Avatar Dining Club Mysteries. If you’re not already familiar with this podcast, … Continue reading PODCAST: The Avatar Dining Club Mysteries – Christmas Special: THE VANISHING TABLE
If you’re of a certain age in the UK then nothing quite says Christmas like a few bits of scraggly … Continue reading Huck’s 70s Office Christmas Party
Festaverse? Merryverse? Metamass? There ought to be some sort of word to describe the phenomenon that is Second Life at … Continue reading A few of my seasonal Second Life snapshots
A PINK DAWN NOVEL Hidden in plain sight in buildings spread around the world: New Morecambe, a secret city populated … Continue reading Virtual Thursday (2021) by Huckleberry Hax
Part six – the final instalment – of a six-part serialisation of the first three chapters of ‘Virtual Thursday.’ A … Continue reading Virtual Thursday excerpt part 6: Good old mid-century British manufacturing
Part five of a six-part serialisation of the first three chapters of ‘Virtual Thursday.’ What is the virtual item? Part … Continue reading Virtual Thursday excerpt part 5: No heroics
Part four of a six-part serialisation of the first three chapters of ‘Virtual Thursday.’ A new member joins the team. … Continue reading Virtual Thursday excerpt part 4: The Düsseldorf Daisy
Part three of a six-part serialisation of the first three chapters of ‘Virtual Thursday.’ Who has stolen the virtual item? … Continue reading Virtual Thursday excerpt part 3: I always knew you were the clever one.
Part two of a six-part serialisation of the first three chapters of ‘Virtual Thursday.’ Who is Thursday’s assailant? Part 1 | Part … Continue reading Virtual Thursday excerpt part 2: Well done, Jesse!
Starting today: a six-part serialisation of the first three chapters of ‘Virtual Thursday,’ my new novel, featuring the return of … Continue reading Virtual Thursday excerpt part 1: I look good in glasses
On Wednesday this week, I’ll be starting a six-part serialisation of the first few chapters of my new novel, Virtual … Continue reading Introducing the Pink Dawn series
National Novel Writing Month kicks off tomorrow. I won’t be using this month in quite the same way this year. … Continue reading Join me at Milkwood today for my annual NaNoWriMo pep talk
Later this year (late November/early December), I’ll be releasing ‘Virtual Thursday,’ my first new novel since 2017. I wrote the … Continue reading On dementia and foster care: an excerpt from my new novel.
When people talk of home computers in the 80s, the theme of such conversation is usually eight-bit computer games. For … Continue reading RIP Sir Clive Sinclair
WAARHEID will be the sequel to my 2020 movie, STÖMOL. I am currently just over a year into filming it … Continue reading Announcing WAARHEID
They say you were a harmless thing, a little bit of fun.Yet the times that I enjoyed you can be … Continue reading Ode to gacha
STÖMOL was released on 23 July 2020 in a private inworld premiere, with the Linden public showing taking place the … Continue reading STÖMOL: One year anniversary and some deleted scenes (featuring a guest appearance by Ruth).
Having seen and enjoyed STÖMOL, Sara, a music artist who is active in SL, approached me back in January to … Continue reading Epiphania – Official Music Video (filmed in Second Life)
Happy Birthday Second Life. It’s been a busy week, full of interviews and exciting events at SL18B. And then there … Continue reading This resident’s initial thoughts on how to attract more people to SL – as requested by Brad Oberwager, exec chair of linden Lab and co-leader of the mysteriously unnamed LLC that now owns it.
In just over a month it will be a year since the release of my sci-fi machinima, STÖMOL. Since a … Continue reading Visit STÖMOL: The Exhibition at SL18B
A brand new Avatar Dining Club story. Mary-Anne Middlemarch, ordinarily the quietest member of the Avatar Dining Club, seemed positively … Continue reading The Leaked Secret: An Avatar Dining Club Mystery
A PINK DAWN NOVEL Thirty years after his girlfriend persuaded him to get a brain scan with her, Jason Harlan … Continue reading Thank You For Afterlifing With Us (2021) by Huckleberry Hax
If you’ve been following my blog, you might know that I decided just over a year ago to give my … Continue reading Thank You For Afterlifing With Us – Come to the launch party and get a free copy
I’ve participated (in a very small way) in ‘Ed. Colonia,’ the latest installation at The GBTH Project. This is a … Continue reading Ed. Colonia
Some of you will be aware that the acting roles in STÖMOL went to people in my friendship circle in … Continue reading Casting call for a new, feature-length machinima project
Episode six of The Avatar Dining Club Mysteries. Each episode is an audio recording of me reading one of my … Continue reading PODCAST: The Avatar Dining Club Mysteries – Episode 6: SOME FATAL CROSSPOSTS
Episode five of The Avatar Dining Club Mysteries. Each episode is an audio recording of me reading one of my … Continue reading PODCAST: The Avatar Dining Club Mysteries – Episode 5: IS SHE A HE?
I was interviewed on Monday evening at Fantasy Faire 2021 by Saffia Widdershins. It was a wide-ranging conversation which I … Continue reading Interview with Saffia Widdershins
Episode four of The Avatar Dining Club Mysteries. Each episode is an audio recording of me reading one of my … Continue reading PODCAST: The Avatar Dining Club Mysteries – Episode 4: BOT OR NOT?
The 2021 Fantasy Faire opened yesterday, a visually stunning 21 region event that showcases some of the best design in … Continue reading Fantasy Faire events
Episode three of The Avatar Dining Club Mysteries. Each episode is an audio recording of me reading one of my … Continue reading PODCAST: The Avatar Dining Club Mysteries – Episode 3: TWO PLACES AT ONCE
Episode two of The Avatar Dining Club Mysteries. Each episode is an audio recording of me reading one of my … Continue reading PODCAST: The Avatar Dining Club Mysteries – Episode 2: THE IMPOSSIBLE SNAPSHOTS
Here’s a new thing (for me): a podcast. Today sees the release of the first episode of season one of … Continue reading PODCAST: The Avatar Dining Club Mysteries – Episode 1: ALT OUT
The Eighth (and final) part of the abridged version of ‘Thank You For Afterlifing With Us’ (see here for details). Part one … Continue reading Think of something wonderful. Part 8 of ‘Thank You For Afterlifing With Us.’
The seventh (and penultimate) part of my abridged version of ‘Thank You For Afterlifing With Us’ (see here for details). Part one … Continue reading So much for guilt. Part 7 of ‘Thank You For Afterlifing With Us.’
At the end of part six of this series, I said I’d write one more entry, “which will be something … Continue reading Huck’s guide to making machinima in Second Life part seven: respecting copyright
Remember offices? They were these big buildings that we used to work in. Sort of like houses, but larger. In … Continue reading HHAX 70s office cubicles
New Year parties? Never liked them all that much, if I’m honest. All that standing around waiting for an arbitrary … Continue reading Yet another New Year party invite
This is, I have come somewhat reluctantly to admit, one of my favourite blog activities of the year: choosing a … Continue reading Some amazing SL images of 2020
It’s that time of year again when content creators reflect on the year that has passed as we enter into … Continue reading My top ten SL photos (by me) of 2020, and some other end-of-year stuff.
Santa, My parents have assured me of your ongoing existenceso I’m asking that this year you try to keep a … Continue reading Season’s greetings 2020
Hope is a four letter word that we learned as children meant our dreams just might be heard. That the … Continue reading Hope is a four letter word (2020 revision)
The sixth part of my abridged version of ‘Thank You For Afterlifing With Us’ (see here for details). Part one can be … Continue reading I’d rather gag on a witchetty grub in front of a few million viewers than have fifty years of nothing to fill my time. Part 6 of ‘Thank You For Afterlifing With Us.’
The fifth part of my abridged version of ‘Thank You For Afterlifing With Us’ (see here for details). Part one can be … Continue reading There is no door, darling. Part 5 of ‘Thank You For Afterlifing With Us.’
Come listen to me speak at Milkwood on Saturday 31 October, 1pm SLT (you can also pick up some freebies … Continue reading How to be a NaNoWriMo ‘Panster’ – my 2020 NaNo talk + some free stuff!
In part five of this series I looked at working with other people, which is hard. This time, I’m looking … Continue reading Huck’s guide to making machinima in Second Life part six: filming (and recording) speech
I’ve been thinking about Second Life communication. Again. Text communication in Second Life is a minefield. I’ve spoken to you … Continue reading The Vanished IM. Something needs to be done about it.
The fourth part of my abridged version of ‘Thank You For Afterlifing With Us’ (see here for details). Part one can be … Continue reading It’s not my fault if reality is a constant disappointment to me. Part 4 of ‘Thank You For Afterlifing With Us.’
The third part of my abridged version of ‘Thank You For Afterlifing With Us’ (see here for details). Part one can be … Continue reading There is a prison in Pink Dawn and you are one of its occupants. Part 3 of ‘Thank You For Afterlifing With Us.’
Friday night was the concluding night of the 2020 SUPERNOVA Digital Film Festival, and to see it out a live … Continue reading STÖMOL takes second place at SUPERNOVA film festival
SUPERNOVA 2020: World On Fire had its launch party on Saturday and the film festival is now well and truly … Continue reading SUPERNOVA Digital Animation Festival gets underway
In part four of this series I looked at some of the technical uses that alts – alternative accounts, running … Continue reading Huck’s guide to making machinima in Second Life part five: working with other people
In my long short story, The Man Who Dated his RL Boss (Without her Knowing it), protagonist Nicholas Harding, who … Continue reading On SL vacations
Yesterday afternoon I spent a very pleasant hour talking to Ivar Zeile, Founder and Creative Director of the SUPERNOVA Digital … Continue reading Interview with Ivar Zeile about STÖMOL
Erik Mondrian, one of the winners of the New World Notes competition for a free ticket to the inworld private … Continue reading STÖMOL accepted for SUPERNOVA Digital Film Festival
What does every mid-century office in Second Life need? A decent photocopier, that’s what. Search the marketplace and all you’ll … Continue reading HHAX 923 Copier
Just a couple of little nice things. First, in response to a request, I’ve put the STÖMOL movie poster up … Continue reading A couple more STÖMOL things
There’s one last thing for me to do on my STÖMOL tick list: publish a web page with the movie … Continue reading STÖMOL
Ok folks, we’re almost there. Enough with all the promotion. It’s time to actually release STÖMOL. Here’s how you’ll be … Continue reading STÖMOL: Where and how to watch it
In case you haven’t yet seen it, below is today’s episode of Lab Gab, which was entirely focused on STÖMOL. … Continue reading Lab Gab Episode 30 – STÖMOL
I know. This is taking things too far. I’ve crossed the line. I have. But look: I don’t know if … Continue reading More merch madness: STÖMOL trading cards
UPDATE: The link for the live show is now up: click here. STÖMOL Assistant Director Caitlin Tobias and I will … Continue reading STÖMOL to be featured on LabGab
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