| This piece, made for the PBS TV series Frontline's Digital Nation web project, explores friendships made in the virtual world of Second Life. It tells a story about how friendships can span time zones and great distances, as the people (who are by themselves at their computers) experience a closeness while their "avatars," or representations of themselves in the virtual world, are together in Second Life. It combines "machinima," or digital video captured in a 3-d environment or game, with actual world footage to show how people who spend time in virtual worlds toggle, or shift between, the two realities, modes of interaction, and perspectives. Dresses by Lady Thera and Eshi Otawara. Pancake outfit by Juls Rosca. For more info about the ideas behind TOGGLE: www.tricksterproductions.com cc Creative Commons Copyright Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 creativecommons.org |
