Standing on the big

One (of many) kewl things in Second Life is print media can be enlarged so it’s bigger than an SUV. Witness my wife and I, standing atop a copy of the July 2008 issue of The BEST of SL, for which I was interviewed by Cherie Parker and photographed by Keiko Morigi.

Get the magazine inworld, I’m on the cover. I talked at length, so I’m sure it was a challenge to transcribe my run-on sentences which are allergic to punctuation… thanks for enduring, Cherie, and good news, everybody! Thanx to Cherie Parker and Fricker Fraker, there’s an audio recording.

Torley interview in The Best of SL Magazine

It was a very fun time! Cherie exuded passion and did her research (OMG). I smiled when she referenced the Torley Council, as I’ve had lacking experiences with people claiming to be interested in me and Second Life and didn’t even do basic fact-checking. Those suck.

One of the best parts of this interview was when avatar-friends began teleporting in to listen and hang out; it was surreal and delightful to sit at the table while this all transpired. It reminded me of the spontaneous, social nature of SL.

My interview is seguewayed by Cherie’s Forward Thinking and begins on page #106, with lots of related pictures. The emag interface is somewhat difficult to navigate and I couldn’t find a way to select-by-article, so try this:

  • Click the cover.
  • Click the “Goto” button on the touch dialog that appears in the upper-right.
  • Type “106” in open chat.

(I wish inworld textures loaded as fast as images in a web browser, too!)