Location: Interview with FreeLife Editors

My recent musings about art and my beret left me wanting to go out and explore SL’s creative potential, without my tongue planted firmly in my cheek. This led me to Freelife, an online arts-and-culture magazine with a difference: it covers virtual events.  Imagine the edginess of our local monthly RVA, but for avatars.  Clubs, gallery openings, other happenings: this gives some sense as to what editors Sid Kwon and Josey Trautman intend for their publication.

Their magazine is available free, and the editors seek writers to cover the scene in SL. I couldn’t resist meeting Sid and Josey to get more information; Beeble Baxter joined me for part of the interview, and we covered a wide-ranging series of topics including the boring nature of most large-company efforts in SL and the need for a magazine that is not the ordinary “well, shucks, folks, ain’t this all grand” approach of many publications (including, at times, this blog).

By treating arts in-world as a real scene, Sid and Josey cross an important ontological line: much of the arts scene in SL could never be recreated on this side of the screen. Thus it has its own life and vibrancy, something that Philip Rosedale surely intended for his metaverse.

A full transcript of my interview with Sid and Josey is available.

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